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This seems to have hit the Camino community rather hard...Personally, I think that the change will be for the better, though it'll be a lot of hard work to change the core like this.

Bugger, Camino's my main browser at work at home - it's fast, light and speedy on my modest PowerPC Macs. Whilst it has lagged behind Firefox for features and Gecko security releases, it's still my preferred browser as it feels more like a Mac app to me - more so than Firefox and Safari. It would be a shame if it disappeared or got all bloated and slow (which I find Safari 5 is on PowerPC Macs), but hopefully it's not the WebKit part of the browser that slows it down - just the implementation of it or the feature-bloat in the browser itself. Camino doesn't have all the bells and whistles of Firefox and other browsers, but in many ways that's its best "feature" - and why it feels so snappy and responsive. I just hope that philosophy continues.

Hmmm.... bit of a dumb move on Mozilla's part.

The champion trophy of open-source effectively kills off an ally by being less accessible than WebKit.