Nice link for the Camino. But at least Chimera made me think of one of my favourite cars...to be found at http://www.tvr.co.uk/intro.html, you need to work a bit but look under virtual showroom and you'll see a variant spelling of the name... vroom, vroom, beep, beep...Perhaps Cerbera would be a good name...

Anyway enough cars, this is about web browsers;-)

Nick

That's a problem with names they can mean anything in any language, what can be good in one can be really bad in the other, that's life, deal with it.

When I think about "Camino", I just remember those cheap Honda motorcycles that were popular among european teens in the early 90ies...

See it here : http://student.iu.hio.no/~s97936/moped/

These were often "tuned" with custom exhaust tubes or any other cheesy stuff but they always made an awful lot of noise...

That's why i think it's terrible name for a browser :)

Exactly the same for me. (Thanks Xavier I was looking for a picture of an Honda Camino.)

This really worst than an El Camino!

Terrible name.

Camino is an Ugly name.
Chimæra was nice.

I second Cerbera - Only because I used to have one!

Perhaps Tuscan or Tamora!

Alas - they are definitely going with Camino (ugh!)

sure, he SAID no suggestions, but what did he expect? telling everyone NOT to and then providing them with a comment link just below...

i bet the turnout was better (proportionately, out of his readership) than an election. with the number of faithful users of that browser, you can't expect not to get feedback when posting an article like that. people just want to help!

camino is a strange name for it, and i keep thinking of the car when i hear it. which is probably not the best thing.

also, with all this idle time before the 0.7 release waiting on a name, have they been able to develop it further? or is it in the same state as it originally was if the delay hadn't occured? basically, have they used the time constructively, or is it not that simple.

<scream in pain? Camino? You are kidding me, right?

You have GOT to be kidding me!

11. 'If you don't have anything nice to say, you just say nothing' - Bambi

wait a minute here! apple has a browser named safari and you're picking on camino? perspective people, perspective. camino means path which is very fitting for a browser name. besides, its a kick ass browser ... who cares about the name. most will still call it chimera or navigator anyway. safari, on the other hand ...

I've already suggested it elsewhere, but I thought it would amusing (although silly) to call the thing:

Tabula Aqua

I like Camino- it reminds me of the Russian (and other languages, I'm told) word Kamin, meaning fireplace.

I always liked 'Chimera' because it reflected what the browser really was: an unlikely conglomeration of numerous parts. I wonder if ChimerIcon and ChimeraKnight will be renamed.
As for me, I'll call it 'that browser that used to whip the llama's ass, before Safari came out.' ;)

Just for the record that picture is for a Chevelle not an El Camino. Also for the record I used to have a SS 396 Chevelle that would blow everything else off the road. I went on a road trip across the country and beat anyone tht wanted to run in a stock SS 396 Chevelle. The El Camino has the same capabilities. It is /was an awesome car.

Weird. When I think of Camino, I always think of this.

http://www.starwars.com/databank/character/taunwe/index.html

What is up with all the people dissin' on El Caminos? I had a GMC Caballero (their version of Chevy's El Camino) with a 350 V8 in it and I consistently whooped on any Honda (or otherwise) driver that cared to test their skills against me. Right now I'm driving an Acura Integra and I miss the days of putting the pedal to the floor in my '78 Diablo ;)

"Camino" is a great name, in my opinion. What in God's name is a "Chimera" anyway? Sounds like some little fuzzy animal that bites your ankles when you're visiting Central America.

I don't think it's necessary to bag on Chimera. Camino is a respectable name and Chimera is a respectable browser and a good example of why Mozilla needs to pare way down and concetrate on nothing more than a browser. However, Camino is going to be slightly late as Safari is proving to be a very adept and well-implemented piece of software.

I am so confused! The link displayed the image of a 1969 Yenko Chevelle. Let's see, from the factory, the car had up to a 425 hp 427 cubic inch V8 powerplant. These things weren't just "fast", they were "I'm squashed back into the seat under several G's of acceleration" fast.
Now, if we were talking "Chevette", then I could understand ;

Maybe if *someone* did their research before naming Chimera there wouldn't be this problem now. ;-)

I find Camino a funny name....in italian it means "fireplace", but it could be even be "walk" in spanish (in italian to mean "walk" it would be "Cammino").
Yes isn't a speedy name, but well Safari..... :) And Camino is more funny... :) in my imagination i see "Camino" like a big and a bit stupid metal giant, with a a big heart, friend of the childs.... well i smoke too much tonight :))

this is a joke... right? Camino?

oh Lord. Marketing people you are not.

Hyatt, whatever you say your weblog groupies will follow you. Nice way of giving the competing product negative press :).

I'm half kidding.

Camino was the planet of the cloners in Attack of the Clones. So I guess the creators of Chimera consider themselves to be cloners...?

At least people will know how to spell *and* pronounce Camino.

Camino?

Doesn't anyone watch 'Attack of the Clones'??? Yeah, I know, it's not worth watching, but weren't the clones made on Planet 'Camino'.

Better make sure that Lucasfilm doesn't sue over that.

Besides, the name sucks... Go for something Greek, or Latin, or Classical...

Harry

People, the planet in StarWars:EPII was "Kamino", with a K. "Camino", with a C, is spanish for path. While this name doesn't stoke me either (my vote was for Voyager, or Gemini - which would have still represented the "duality" of the project), it is important to just pick one and move on.

Actually, 'el camino', can be roughly translated as 'the road', which is fitting, for the car and the browser.

http://www.redwoodcity.org/commun/projects/medians/Before1.jpg

lovely...

'Safari' isn't much better than Camino...when I think of a Safari I think of shooting large animals in a Third World country.

I think Chimera should have changed to 'Chevette'--now there was a real piece of crap car. I drove one in high school, it wouldn't do 55 off a cliff. The highlight was one day the rear-view mirror just fell the hell off while I was driving. Buy Japanese, that's the moral to my rambling...

It's obvious NONE of you are Ween fans. Don't you remember the song El Camino???

'El Camino - she's always fast, never slow.'

it's on God Ween Satan. Go get it if you can find it.

Camino is good!

In danish it also means fireplace (Kamin), so keep the browser hot!

(I'm still using OS X 10.1.5)

Camino reminds me too much of "El Camino Real" near where I live. On that road it takes way too long to get where you're going because you pass by all of these useless stores along the way. While I do actually understand spanish and know that it's just another word, it still will feel like a bad name whenever I use it.

In italian "camino" means exactly "chimney" but also "fireplace".
"Cammino" with two "m" means "path".

P.S.: In my english dictionary the word CHIMNEY comes right after the word CHIMERA. By the way the next is CHIMP! :-)

I like "Camino". I guess it all depends on how you make your way (which is what the word means). For me, it does suggest speed ;-)

The Camino is actually also that Pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela, in Spain. It's a long walk. Maybe that's why they called it Camino. And indeed, everyone will finally know how to pronounce it's name. With Chimera took me a few months to figure out it's pronounciation!

I just named my 80GB Firewire hard drive "Chimera". I dare any lawyer to come hassle me about it.

*takes out baseball bat*

...And just why was the name changed anyhow?????

Come on, don't just talk about it why??

Can anyone help? Looking for info on when,where and who named the Chevy El Camino. Also, where dose the name come from and what does it mean?

Any help would be appreciated--------$