Releases:1.0:Notes

About Camino 1.0 Release Candidate 1

Thank you for downloading Camino 1.0 Release Candidate 1. This is not the final version of Camino 1.0. It is a high-quality pre-release that demonstrates what we expect to release as Camino 1.0 shortly.

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 compatibility with web pages.

The features listed below are just some of the many that have been implemented 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 0.8.4.

Features in Camino 1.0

Below is a list of the major changes in Camino 1.0. A full list is available on our website.

• General
  • Camino is now a universal binary, allowing it to run natively on both the PPC- and Intel-based Macs.
  • Back and forward performance has been greatly improved by keeping the full page in memory.
  • Added a Fill Form menu option and toolbar item which uses your personal Address Book card to automatically fill forms on the current webpage.
  • Ad-blocking is now built-in, but turned off by default.
  • The Camino menu now has a "Reset Camino..." menu item, which will erase your browsing history, empty the cache, clear downloads, clear all cookies, clear all site permissions, and remove all remembered user names and passwords.
  • The Camino menu now has an "Empty Cache..." menu item.
  • An optional warning is shown when closing windows or quitting with multiple tabs open.
  • Camino now has certificate management capabilities.
    • It is now possible to trust a new Certificate Authority, and create certificates.
    • You can view the set of certificates that Camino ships with, and any that you have downloaded, in the Certificates window accessible from the Security preferences panel.
  • Camino now has support for "document.designMode" (inline HTML editing, also known as Midas), SVG, the canvas tag, and MathML.
  • The about:config preference editor is now mostly functional.

• Bookmarks and History
  • Bookmark and history management has been greatly improved.
    • Live searching
    • Bookmark and history arranging
  • The Go menu now displays a global history, showing sites you visited in any window ordered by date.
  • Spotlight will now index and open Camino bookmarks.
  • Custom favorite icons are now shown for Bookmarks, History, and local files.

• Tabbed browsing
  • The Tab Bar was rewritten from scratch, allowing more tabs in a window (with an overflow menu), a close button on each tab, and the ability to show the tab bar when a single tab is open.
  • Double-clicking on an empty space in the tab bar creates a new tab.
  • Command-enter in the URL bar or search field will now open a new tab or new window depending on preferences.

• Downloading
  • Camino now saves the list of downloads between sessions.
  • Downloads can be paused and resumed.

• Web Content
  • Web page access keys are now supported.
  • Images are drawn and tiled using Core Graphics now, for improved performance.
  • XML files are now shown in a more sensical manner when viewed in Camino.
  • Camino now uses version 1.8 of Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine, which contains thousands of bug fixes that also benefit Camino. Some of the major ones are:
    • Gecko's DHTML performance improvements.
    • Gecko now supports the overflow-y and overflow-x properties.
    • Improved pop-up blocking.
    • The XML parser has been updated.

• Plugins
  • Camino now ships with the Java Embedding Plugin (http://javaplugin.sourceforge.net/), which provides support for Java 1.4 (Java 5.0 on Mac OS X 10.4).

• Preferences
  • Third-party preference panels, written in Cocoa, Applescript or Python are now supported. These can be installed by placing them into the (~)/Library/Application Support/Camino/PreferencePanels folder.
  • Camino now has a preference to limit image animations.
  • The cookie and cookie exceptions lists are now searchable.
  • Camino now uses the language information in the System Preferences | International panel to send data on what languages you understand to websites (HTTP accept-language header). This can be overridden by the "camino.accept_languages" hidden preference.
  • Proxy Auto-Config (PAC) settings are now read from System Preferences.

Known Issues

• 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 2.0.1 or higher, from http://www.flip4mac.com/. Version 2.0.1 displays some WMP content off-center in Camino; this will be fixed in the next maintenance release of the F4M plugin.

• Due to a combination of redraw issues in Gecko, typing in form fields can be slow when Flash or animated images are present. Turning off animations can improve performance in some cases.

• Shockwave Director content displays at the wrong location in the browser window when hardwre rendering is enabled; switch the plugin to software rendering to solve this.

• Due to a bug in Mac OS X 10.2.x and 10.3.x, Norwegian users of the Camino Multilingual edition will need to manually select their desired user interface language and manually set their 'accept-language' string. To make Camino Multilingual run in Nynorsk or Bokmål, select Camino Multilingual in the Finder and choose "Get Info" from the File menu. In the resulting window, click the triangle next to "Languages:" and uncheck every language except the one desired as Camino's UI language.
  
  

  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.