Website:Documentation Changes for 1.5

Instead of having to go through all of cb.o/support and finding what needs to be changed (ugh), this page will be an on-going list of changes that need to be made due to checkins since 1.0.

Hidden Prefs

• camino.viewsource_in_tab View source in tab (defaults to false, aka window)
• browser.backspace_action
• browser.download.progressDnldDialog.bringToFront // bring download window to the front when each download starts
  • default is true; set to false to only focus the first time opened

• set camino.enable_tabjumpback to false to disable jumpback

• Remove "always use fonts" (has a GUI now)

• The profile directory can now be customized with the environment variable CAMINO_PROFILE_DIR set to a custom path.
  • This also makes it possible to run more than one Camino instance, as long as they're running from different profiles.
  • Example:

export CAMINO_PROFILE_DIR=~/Documents/MyTestProfile
open Camino.app

• Forcing "all" cookies to expire on quit/make "all" cookies session cookies

  "Session cookies" are automatically discarded when you quit the browser. To force cookies to expire on quit, set the network.cookie.lifetimePolicy pref to 2. Note that this will NOT expire any cookies you have already accepted, nor will it change the policy applied to sites in your Exceptions List. Setting this pref will also prevent you from being asked each time a site wants to set a cookie.
  
  user_pref("network.cookie.lifetimePolicy", 2);

• Single-window mode tweaking:

replace existing pseudo-swm prefs

// Force new windows into tabs
// (Firefox 1.0+ builds have a UI for this pref in the Options dialog)
user_pref("browser.link.open_newwindow", 3);
// Make the above pref apply only to targeted links, not window.open
user_pref("browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction", 1);

Those values need to be 1 and 0, respectively, to make all "new" window types open in the *same/original* window and to apply to all window.open calls; there's also some flexibility in the latter to only apply to window.open calls that don't specify size, etc..

IMO browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction should be set to 2 (divert only if no size/foo called) by default when SWM is set to reuse or new tab and people who object wildly (like me) can set it to 0 (divert all window.open) manually vai about:config or user.js.

Annoyances

• Popup blocker now invades the content area
• SWM (point to hidden prefs for tweaking) (or should this be in Tabs?)

Bookmarks

• New ways to change the folder used as the Dock menu (kinda)

Privacy & Security

• Session cookies (new option in the "ask" sheet, in new "Policy" option, "Allow for Session", in the Exceptions List.
  • These cookies will be deleted when you quit Camino
  • If you chose "remember" and "allow for session", cookies from the site will be automatically allowed each time you visit and automatically deleted each time you quit Camino
  • To force all new cookies to be session cookies (without asking at all; disables all forms of asking, but respects pre-existing white/blacklists and set cookies), see the Hidden Prefs

  See, this is too complicated to explain already :P

Search

• Search field is resizable, collapseable (but always on right of location bar)

Downloading

• Trash button
• Options to remove successful downloads automatically (when completed, on quit, manually)

Keyboard Shortcuts

• Cmd-1..Cmd-9 to load the Nth bookmark or tab group from the Bookmark Bar
• Cmd-Opt-R for Reload All Tabs, Cmd-Shift-R for Force Reload Page, Cmd-Shift-Opt-R for Force Reload All Tabs
• Cmd-Opt-M to Minimize All windows
• Opt-Zoom to Zoom All windows
• Cmd-Opt-W to Close All Windows

We need to document a number of our other "hidden" shortcuts, too, e.g., Cmd-Return in the Location Bar to open current URL in new tab, Opt-Return to download/save (which is it?) current URL, etc.

Tabbed Browsing

• Single-Window mode: links that would otherwise open new windows can be diverted into new tabs
  • xref the open bugs and the tweaking bit in Hidden Prefs above
• Jumpback: when opening a new foreground tab via cmd-click, via single-window mode, or "Open in New Tab" context menu item, Camino returns to the original tab when closing the new tab (as long as the user has not otherwise changed tabs).
  • xref the hidden pref?
• Bookmarking a tab group now suggests a name that includes the number of tabs

General/FAQ

• How do I remove a word I accidentally added to the spell-checker

  This is really an OS issue, but people will ask us :-(

  • Mac OS X Hints provides the solution, in a comment titled "the better answer"

    Editorial note: this is another reason we need that UI hooked up...

• The system spell-checker doesn't support my language; how do I use spellcheck?

  This is also really an OS issue, but people are already asking us, or filing bugs to make us switch to myspell :-(

  • The same way you use spellcheck in any other Mac OS X: you install a plugin to the Mac OS X spelling system that provides a dictionary for your language! cocoAspell supports dictionaries for 74 languages; for Hebrew speakers, Hebrew Spelling Service plugs Hspell into the system spell-checker.
• How do I fill out forms?
• Feature the FAQ more prominently in Support home for 1.1
  • Possibly even make cb.o/support the FAQ, and put the documentation elsewhere
    • If we do that, then add a new header below Troubleshooting listing all the main Docs pages (so people scrolling down rather than looking to the right still find the detailed documentation)
• Trim the existing FAQ
  1. Get rid of "Is Camino Free" and "Why Use Camino" (combine anything relevant into "What is Camino")
  2. Get rid of "What happened to Chimera"
  3. Get rid of "Is Cm more secure than IE"