Releases:2.0:Notes

About Camino® 2

After nearly a year of hard work by devoted volunteers, the Camino Project is proud to give you Camino 2.0. This latest version includes many bug fixes and new features, providing all users with an improved browsing experience. This release displays web pages with Gecko 1.9, the same rendering engine used by the popular Firefox 3 web browser, and thus shares many of the security fixes and Gecko improvements that are in that version of Firefox.

The features listed below are just some of the many changes in Camino 2.0.

Due to changes in the feature set, Camino 2.0 requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher. XXX We advise users still running Mac OS X 10.3.0-10.3.8 to upgrade to Mac OS X 10.3.9.

Features in Camino 2

The following are the major changes and improvements made since the Camino 1.6 release. A full list is available on our website.

• Improved tabbed browsing
  • The Tab Overview feature displays a grid of thumbnails of the tabs in the current window.
  • Tabs can be rearranged by dragging and dropping.

• New security features
  • Camino now supports the Google Safe Browsing service to provide warnings about potentially malicious websites.
  • Camino now displays error pages for secure web pages using invalid or untrusted certificates.

• Full content zoom
  • Camino now has support for making the entire content of a web page bigger or smaller.

• Download notifications
  • If Growl is installed, Camino will generate notifications when downloads begin and finish.
  • On Mac OS X 10.5 and higher, Camino will bounce the downloads folder in the Dock when a download finishes.

• Enhanced annoyance blocking
  • Camino 2.0 includes a new exceptions list to allow disabling “Block Flash animations” on a per-site basis and an “Allow Flash From This Site” context menu item to ease adding sites to the exceptions list.

• Recently closed pages
  • The History menu now contains a sub-menu listing the last 20 closed web pages.

• Improved support for Full Keyboard Access
  • Camino now has better support for Full Keyboard Access in the the browser window. XXX When Full Keyboard Access is enabled, tabbing now moves correctly through the entire browser window.

• Enhanced AppleScript capabilities
  • AppleScripts can now obtain the HTML source or text of an entire web page or of a selection.
  • Added AppleScript support for setting the active tab in each browser window.

• New crash reporter
  • Camino includes a new crash reporting system based on Google Breakpad which works on both PowerPC and Intel Macintoshes.

• Web content
  • Camino now uses version 1.9.0 of Mozilla’s Gecko rendering engine, which contains thousands of bug fixes, better web plug-in compatibility and performance, enhanced support for web standards, and new technologies like JavaScript 1.8.

Known Issues

For information about other issues or problems, please visit our Help page.

• If “Ask me before accepting each cookie” is checked, Camino will display a cookie dialog for each cookie request from a web page.
• Scroll bars will appear active even when the window is not active.
• Incompatible third-party software:
  • Shockwave Player 10 and older will not display Shockwave content in Camino 2; to display Shockwave content, install Shockwave Player 11 or newer.
  • Versions of the Flip4Mac (F4M) plug-in older than version 2.2.1.11 contained a bug that caused major rendering issues in Camino. To display Windows Media content without experiencing this bug, upgrade to Flip4Mac version 2.2.3.7 or later.
  • Older versions of the Adobe Flash plug-in had a bug that could cause Camino to stop functioning correctly after visiting enough pages with Flash content while browsing. This behavior is fixed in version 10.0 of the Flash plug-in.
  • Some versions of the third-party add-on 1Password are not compatible with Camino. These versions can cause Camino to crash on launch, hang when importing bookmarks, and hang when pasting into the location bar. Make sure that you are running the latest version of 1Password, and if you continue to experience issues, disable 1Password’s integration with Camino and contact 1Password support.