Releases:1.5:Notes:Web

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After over a year of hard work by devoted volunteers, the Camino Project is proud to give you Camino 1.0. This latest version fixes hundreds of bugs and implements many new features, providing all users with an improved browsing experience.

Camino 1.0 brings you a heavily-updated version of the only native Mac OS X browser using Mozilla’s Gecko rendering engine. Thousands of bugs were fixed in Gecko 1.8, providing users with improved web page compatibility.

The features listed below are just some of the many in Camino 1.0.

Note: Due to major changes in Camino, Mac OS X 10.1 is no longer supported. Users still running Mac OS X 10.1 should continue to use Camino 0.8.5.

We want to know what you think! Be sure to contact us and let us know what you think.

What's New in Camino 1.1

Camino 1.1 brings a heavily updated version of the only native Mac OS X browser using Mozilla.org's Gecko HTML rendering engine (version 1.8.1), the same rendering engine used by the popular Firefox 2 web browser.

Here's what's new in Camino 1.0:

• Universal Binary - Camino is now a universal binary, allowing it to run natively on both PowerPC- and Intel-based Macs.
• New Tab Bar Appearance - The new tab bar appearance allows for easier usability.
• Download Manager Pause/Resume - The download manager now supports pause and resume and has been highly optimized and revised for better performance.
• Annoyance Blocking - With built-in ad- and pop-up blocking, Camino now allows you to ignore the things you hate most.
• Certificate Support - The addition of certificate support yields better security.
• Java Embedding Plugin - JEP improves Java performance immensely.
• Form Fill from Address Book - Form fill from Address Book makes filling in those pesky web forms much easier.
• History Searching - Finding past web pages is even easier with history searching built-in to the History Manager.
• Support for More Web Standards - Thanks to the Gecko rendering engine, Camino now supports SVG, the <canvas> tag, and JavaScript 1.6, as well as improved CSS 2 and CSS 3 support.

See the complete release notes for a list of all changes from 1.0.5 to 1.1.

Downloading and Installing

System Requirements

Camino now requires Mac OS X 10.3 (users of 10.2 can download Camino 1.0.5 (English or Multilingual). In addition, a minimum of 30 MB of free hard drive space and 128 MB of RAM is required.

Downloading Camino

You can download Camino from the main project page.

Installing Camino

Installing Camino is as simple as copying the app to your Applications folder. Instructions can be found on the disk image.

Known Issues in Camino 1.1

• Some users have reported losing their bookmarks when Camino’s bookmarks backup file becomes corrupted. Users are advised to make regular copies of their bookmarks.

• Some users have experienced a situation where pages would appear not to load after clicking on a link. In this case, resizing the browser window may allow the page to display properly.

• RealPlayer version 10.1.0 (v400), released in May 2006, causes Camino to crash when viewing any Real content. Real has released RealPlayer 10.1.0 (v412) to address this issue. Users should re-download RealPlayer and verify (using the application’s About window) that it is version 412 before launching Camino.

• Microsoft’s Windows Media Player (WMP) plugin causes major rendering issues in Camino. Since Microsoft has discontinued WMP on Mac OS X, Camino no longer supports the use of the WMP plugin; instead, all users should download the free Flip4Mac (F4M) plugin, version 2.1 or higher, from http://www.flip4mac.com/. Version 2.1 causes pages containing WMP content to become white when scrolled in Camino; there is currently no ETA for a fixed version of the F4M plugin.

• Due to a bug in Mac OS X 10.3.x, Norwegian users of Camino will need to manually set their 'accept-language' string. To set the accept-language string, add the string user_pref("camino.accept_languages", "nb,nn,no,en"); to your user.js file, where the languages are listed in the order in which you’d prefer them if a server can send content in multiple languages. (In this example, you want Bokmål first, then Nynorsk, then generic Norwegian, then English if none of the other three languages are available.) You may now launch Camino.
  Apple fixed this bug in Mac OS X 10.4, so no work-arounds are necessary.

• Camino erroneously claims that the default Japanese and Traditional Chinese fonts are “missing” when they are actually installed; this is due to a mismatch between Carbon and Cocoa font names. Changing these fonts using the Camino user interface will result in incorrect fonts being chosen and will cause some characters to fail to display. Users should either keep the default fonts or change the font preferences manually, ensuring the Carbon versions of the font names are used.