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== Features in Camino 1.0 ==
 
== Features in Camino 1.0 ==
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The list shown below lists only a fraction of all the changes in this major release. The full list of changes can be viewed here.
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Below is a list of the major changes in Camino 1.0. A full list is available on our website.
  
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* Camino is now build as a universal binary, allowing it to run natively on both the PPC and the Intel Macs.
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* Camino is now a universal binary, allowing it to run natively on both the PPC- and Intel-based Macs.
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* Back/Forward performance has been greatly improved by keeping the full page in memory.
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* Back and forward performance has been greatly improved by keeping the full page in memory.
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* Added a Fill Form menu and toolbar item which uses your personal Address Book card to automatically fill forms on the current webpage.
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* Added a Fill Form menu option and toolbar item which uses your personal Address Book card to automatically fill forms on the current webpage.
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* Ad-blocking is now included.
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* 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 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.
 
* The Camino menu now has an "Empty Cache..." menu item.
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* Security status is now displayed in the location bar.
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* An optional warning is shown when closing windows or quitting with multiple tabs open.
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* The context menu for mailto: links has some new items for interacting with the Address Book.
 
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* Now show an optional warning when closing windows or quitting with multiple tabs open.
 
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* The Help menu now contains an Installed Plugins item which opens about:plugins.
 
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* The about:config preference editor is now included.
 
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* Favicons linked using a LINK element are now correctly displayed, instead of always looking for the root favicon.
 
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* For network and site-related errors, Camino now shows error pages instead of dialogs.
 
 
* Camino now has certificate management capabilities.
 
* Camino now has certificate management capabilities.
 
** It is now possible to trust a new Certificate Authority, and create certificates.
 
** 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.
 
** 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.
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* On first launch Camino will ask if you wish to set it as the default browser (which can be turned off).
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* Camino now has support for "document.designMode" (inline HTML editing, also known as Midas), SVG, the canvas tag, and MathML.
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* Camino now has support for "document.designMode" (inline HTML editing), Midas, SVG and <canvas>.
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* The about:config preference editor is now included.
  
 
* Bookmarks and History
 
* Bookmarks and History
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** Every bookmark menu folder now has an "Open in Tabs" item.
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** Bookmark and history management has been greatly improved.
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** We greatly improved History and Bookmark management.
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*** Live searching
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*** Life type searching
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*** Bookmark and history arranging
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*** Sorting of bookmarks and history items
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** The Go menu now displays a global history, showing sites you visited in any window ordered by date.
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** The bookmarks manager now behaves like a webpage, no longer taking over the window and hiding opened tabs. This will allow you to:
 
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*** Open the bookmarks manager in a new tab or a window.
 
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*** Open the bookmarks manager in the current active tab or window.
 
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*** Create a bookmark of the bookmarks manager and add that to your bookmarks bar for quick access.
 
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*** Set the bookmarks manager as your homepage by using "about:bookmarks" as the url.
 
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** The Go menu now displays sites you visited in any window, grouped by date, and allows you to clear the history.
 
 
** Spotlight will now index and open Camino bookmarks.
 
** Spotlight will now index and open Camino bookmarks.
 
** Custom favorite icons are now shown for Bookmarks, History, and local files.
 
** Custom favorite icons are now shown for Bookmarks, History, and local files.
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* Tabbed browsing
 
* 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.
 
** 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.
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** Double-clicking on tab bar background now creates a new foreground tab.
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** 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.  
 
** Command-enter in the URL bar or search field will now open a new tab or new window depending on preferences.  
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** Added a "Reload all Tabs" contextual menu item.
 
  
 
* Downloading
 
* Downloading
 
** Camino now saves the list of downloads between sessions.  
 
** Camino now saves the list of downloads between sessions.  
 
** Downloads can be paused and resumed.
 
** Downloads can be paused and resumed.
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** Double clicking an item in the download manager now opens the file.
 
  
 
* Web Content
 
* Web Content
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** Web page access keys now work correctly.
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** Web page access keys are now supported.
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** Images are drawn and tiled using Core Graphics now, for performance and bug fixes.
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** Images are drawn and tiled using Core Graphics now, for improved performance.
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** XML files are now pretty-printed when viewed in Camino.
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** XML files are now shown in a more sensical manner when viewed in Camino.
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** CSS3 cursors are supported now.
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** 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:
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** Camino now uses the Mozilla 1.8 engine, which in itself contains thousands of bug fixes that also benefit Camino. Some of the bigger and more important are:
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*** Gecko's DHTML performance improvements.
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*** Gecko's DHTML performance has had some major improvements.
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*** Gecko now supports the overflow-y and overflow-x properties.
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*** Mozilla now supports the overflow-y and overflow-x properties.
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*** Improved pop-up blocking.
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*** Mozilla's pop-up blocker has been greatly improved.
 
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*** Resizing of large images to fit the browser window has been improved, now restoring larger-sized image centered on the click location.
 
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*** Mozilla now supports unprompted NTLM authentication (NTLM is an authentication protocol used in Microsoft networks).
 
 
*** The XML parser has been updated.
 
*** The XML parser has been updated.
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*** Command + Up & Down now works the same as Page Home & End.
 
  
 
* Plugins
 
* Plugins
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** 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). This fixes many Java issues.
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** 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
 
* Preferences
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** Now support for 3d party preference panels, written in Cocoa, Applescript or Python. These can be installed by placing them into the (~)/Library/Application Support/Camino/PreferencePanels folders.
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** 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.
 
** Camino now has a preference to limit image animations.
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** Can now search in the cookie and cookie exceptions site lists.
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** The cookie and cookie exceptions lists are now searchable.
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** Now use 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.
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** 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.
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** We now read Proxy Auto-Config (PAC) settings from the System Preferences .
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** Proxy Auto-Config (PAC) settings are now read from System Preferences.

Revision as of 13:49, 2 February 2006

About Camino 1.0

After one year of hard work by over a dozen devoted volunteers, the Camino Project is proud to give you Camino 1.0. This latest version fixes hundreds of bugs and implements countless features giving an improved an experience to all users.

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 better compatibility of 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.

  • 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 included.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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