Difference between revisions of "Releases:Release Notes 2.1"

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==Web Page Interaction==
 
==Web Page Interaction==
 
* Camino now prevents loading of certain insecure or incompatible versions of common plug-ins.
 
* Camino now prevents loading of certain insecure or incompatible versions of common plug-ins.
* “Block Flash animations” is now enabled by default on PowerPC Macs.
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* “Block Flash animations” is now enabled by default on PowerPC Macs because there is no secure version of Flash available for PowerPC Macs.
 
* Camino no longer includes a Java plug-in; users who need Java should use the Java Plug-In 2 included with Java on Mac OS X or install the Java Embedding Plugin, depending on Mac OS X version.
 
* Camino no longer includes a Java plug-in; users who need Java should use the Java Plug-In 2 included with Java on Mac OS X or install the Java Embedding Plugin, depending on Mac OS X version.
 
* It is possible to override parts of Camino’s ad-blocking by adding appropriate CSS rules to the <tt>user_ad_blocking.css</tt> file located in the profile’s <tt>chrome</tt> folder.
 
* It is possible to override parts of Camino’s ad-blocking by adding appropriate CSS rules to the <tt>user_ad_blocking.css</tt> file located in the profile’s <tt>chrome</tt> folder.

Revision as of 00:03, 19 July 2011

These are the “running” or incremental release notes for Camino 2.1 (𝌙), i.e., the interesting bug-fixes since the last major release (e.g., 1.5) or milestone (e.g., Camino 1.6 Alpha 1). The actual release notes for major releases, milestones, or security releases can be found on the corresponding Releases:Ver:Notes page, e.g., Releases:1.6b1:Notes.

(Note that not all checkins are considered interesting; in particular, fixes for regressions that only occur between milestones, code cleanup, or build changes are not included in release notes.)
There are several pages that track "major" changes on the trunk. These could be useful when we create our final release notes. Firefox 3.6 for developers.

These running release notes (and the milestone release notes that are developed from them) form the "complete" changelog on the website (1.0, 1.5); the release notes for the final 2.0 release are a summary or short-form and can be found at Releases:2.0:Notes.

Release Notes for Camino 2.1a1 are at Releases:2.1a1:Notes.

These notes are for checkins after the release of Camino 2.1a1.

General

  • Prevent saving as “HTML Complete” from failing when users include a forward slash in the filename.
  • It is now possible to change the extension of a file being saved.
  • Find-as-You-Type will no longer select composed characters that are typed in Midas frames when autostart is on.
  • Camino now supports opening .filelocs from the Open dialog and via drag-and-drop to tabs and the tab bar.
  • When another application asks Camino to open a URL, Camino will no longer will try to open URLs with protocols it is not able to handle.
  • Camino will now load plug-ins from the profile’s “Internet Plug-Ins” folder.
  • Some simple Gecko extensions (e.g., “Do Not Track“) now work with Camino.
  • Full-screen Netflix streaming no longer crashes Camino.

Bookmarks & History

  • Camino now replaces control characters in bookmark titles when creating bookmarks by dragging to the Bookmarks Bar.
  • Improved the compatibility of HTML bookmark export files.
  • It is now possible to drag a plain-text bookmark shortcut URL to the Bookmarks Bar to create a new bookmark shortcut.
  • The History view no longer shows empty History folders after the last non-empty folder.
  • The most common bookmark import sources are now listed first in the Import Bookmarks pop-up menu.

Downloading

Localization

  • It is now possible to localize certain Gecko .dtd files and previously-unlocalizable .properties files.

Preferences

  • The “Enable Java” preference in the Web Features pane is disabled if no Java plug-in is installed on a user’s Mac.

Privacy & Security

Tabs

  • Links from other applications now default to opening new tabs.
  • Standalone SVG files once again display in Tab Overview.

User Interface

  • Autocomplete results are now displayed as a single list, using an improved ranking algorithm.
  • Improved the speed of autocomplete when refining an existing query.
  • Capital letters in search terms no longer cause autocomplete to return no results.
  • Using the keyboard to select items in the autocomplete window works properly again when the hidden inline autocomplete preference is enabled.
  • Improved keyboard navigation in the location bar and the autocomplete window.

Web Page Interaction

  • Camino now prevents loading of certain insecure or incompatible versions of common plug-ins.
  • “Block Flash animations” is now enabled by default on PowerPC Macs because there is no secure version of Flash available for PowerPC Macs.
  • Camino no longer includes a Java plug-in; users who need Java should use the Java Plug-In 2 included with Java on Mac OS X or install the Java Embedding Plugin, depending on Mac OS X version.
  • It is possible to override parts of Camino’s ad-blocking by adding appropriate CSS rules to the user_ad_blocking.css file located in the profile’s chrome folder.
  • Upgraded the “Block Flash animations” code to use Flashblock 1.5.14.
  • Improved ad-blocking.

Known Issues

merge from Releases:2.1a1:Notes if needed