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| | There are several pages that track "major" changes on the FF2.0<!-- and FF3.0--> branch<!--es-->. These could be very handy for when we want to create our release notes. [http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/releases/2.0a3.html What's new in Bon Echo Alpha 3 (for Firefox 2)]<!-- [http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/releases/trunk-for-firefox-3.html What's new on the trunk for Firefox 3]-->. | | There are several pages that track "major" changes on the FF2.0<!-- and FF3.0--> branch<!--es-->. These could be very handy for when we want to create our release notes. [http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/releases/2.0a3.html What's new in Bon Echo Alpha 3 (for Firefox 2)]<!-- [http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/releases/trunk-for-firefox-3.html What's new on the trunk for Firefox 3]-->. |
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| | + | Release Notes for Camino 1.1a1 are at [[Releases:1.1a1:Notes]]. These notes are for checkins after the release of Camino 1.1a1 |
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| | == General == | | == General == |
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| − | * Camino displays an error dialogue at launch on Mac OS X 10.2.x, since Camino 1.1 requires Mac OS X 10.3 or newer.
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| − | * Adding a folder in the Bookmarks Manager no longer causes Camino to beep.
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| − | * Writing Spotlight metadata files for Bonjour bookmarks could generate thousands of files on networks with many Bonjour hosts. Camino now disables metadata writing for Bonjour bookmarks.
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| − | * Camino now handles <tt>.ftploc</tt> files.
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| − | * The “View Image” context menu item now uses the tabbed browsing preference semantics.
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| − | * Local SVG files can now be selected in the Open File dialog.
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| − | * “Copy Address” on <tt>mailto:</tt> links with multiple addresses now captures all addresses.
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| − | * The “Send Link” menu item now sends URLs in angle brackets.
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| − | * Single-click in search fields now only enters a caret instead of selecting any existing text.
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| − | * Added a “Search” item to the context menu, which searches for the selected text using the default search engine.
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| − | * Option-return or Option-enter in the location bar now downloads the entered url.
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| − | * Camino can now be used with a custom profile location specified at runtime, enabling “portable Camino” or running Camino from a memory stick.
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| − | * The Top Ten List now ignores all about: URIs.
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| − | * Fixed some cases, most notably when loading the home page, where the location bar would remain focused after loading a page.
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| − | * Plain-text URLs can now be loaded by dragging to the tab bar.
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| − | * Third-party mice that emulate cmd-click will now properly send cmd-click to bookmark items in menus.
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| − | * The page proxy (site icon) can now be dragged to Mail.app under Mac OS X 10.4.
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| − | * Improved address auto-completion performance by approximately 40%.
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| − | * Fixed an issue where the entire tab bar was redrawing aggressively.
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| − | * Better handling of location and <tt>.url</tt> files with upper-case extensions.
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| − | * The “Open URL in Camino” service now accepts bookmark keywords.
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| | ==Bookmarks== | | ==Bookmarks== |
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| − | * Command-1 through Command-9 are now shortcuts for opening the first 9 bookmarks or tab groups in the Bookmark Bar.
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| − | * Dragging of bookmarks into the Address Book collection of the Bookmarks Manager is now disabled.
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| − | * Keywords on bookmark folders can now be edited in the outline view.
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| − | * “Copy Locations to Clipboard” in the Bookmarks view now works when folders are selected.
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| − | * Bookmark keyword searches now properly encode ampersand and other characters.
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| − | * The search field now gets initial focus when opening the Bookmarks Manager, for quick searching.
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| − | * Improved the tabbing cycle in bookmarks and history.
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| − | * Renamed the the left pane in the Bookmarks Manager from ‘Groups’ to ‘Collections’.
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| − | * Double-clicking on a tab group in Bookmarks Manager now opens the bookmarks.
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| − | * It is now possible to delete a bookmark folder that is being used as the Dock menu.
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| − | * It is now possible to un-check the “Dock Menu” check box in the information panel for a folder that is being used as the Dock menu.
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| − | * The default title for new tab groups now includes the number of tabs.
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| − | * The “Bookmark Current Page…” menu item and the “Bookmark Page” toolbar button always bookmark the current page.
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| − | * The “Show/Hide All Bookmarks” menu item and toolbar button now act as a toggle in all situations.
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| − | * Bookmarks loaded via keywords can now create pop-ups if necessary (e.g., BugMeNot)
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| − | * The “Bookmark Current Page…” sheet now pre-selects the Bookmarks Bar collection by default.
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| − | * Importing bookmarks now shows a progress dialog during the import and is significantly faster.
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| − | * Added “Bookmark Current Tabs as Tab Group…” menu item with the shortcut of Command-Option-K.
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| − | * Menu separators in the Bookmarks Manager now have the appearance of menu separators.
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| | ==Downloading== | | ==Downloading== |
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| − | * Added an optional “Trash” button to the Downloads window toolbar, which moves the selected download to the Trash.
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| − | * The Command-period key combination now cancels downloads when the Downloads window has focus.
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| − | * Added new options for removing successful downloads automatically (when the download has completed, when quitting Camino, or manually) from the download history list.
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| − | * The “Download Completed” message now reports the actual file size even if the size was unknown while downloading.
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| − | * The Downloads window is now always brought to the front when a download starts.
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| − | ** browser.download.progressDnldDialog.bringToFront (true/false) to alter behaviour.
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| − | * The Command-Shift-D keyboard shortcut now opens the Downloads window when it is closed, focuses the Downloads window when it is not the active window, and closes the Downloads window when it is the active window.
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| − | * Optimized performance of the “Clean Up” option in the Downloads window.
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| | ==Localization== | | ==Localization== |
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| | ==Preferences== | | ==Preferences== |
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| − | * Polished the layout and terminology in each preference pane and simplified the Tabs preferences.
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| − | * Camino now has an option in the Appearance preference pane to make all websites always use your font choices.<!--
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| − | ** browser.display.use_document_fonts is the pref used to enable/disable. No one cares what the pref is since it’s not hidden. I know it’s just for documentation!-->
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| − | * Added options to control whether tabbing inside a web page selects text fields, other form elements, links, or some combination of the three.
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| − | * “Auto-fill passwords in web forms” in Privacy preference pane is now validated and enabled or disabled properly.
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| − | * Camino now has an option in the Privacy preference pane to allow the user to choose personal certificates when required.
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| − | * The toolbar items for each preference pane now displays a tooltip. <!-- Here, or UI? -->
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| − | * Certain checkboxes in the preferences will receive the mixed state look when the applicable preference has been mapped to a different value manually. <!-- Here, or UI? -->
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| − | * Fixed a problem where “Don’t show this warning again” checkboxes didn’t work in certain situations.
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| − | * Camino now blocks pop-up windows by default.
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| | ==Privacy & Security== | | ==Privacy & Security== |
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| − | * The cookie exceptions list and cookie notification sheet now have options for session cookies.
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| − | * The blocked pop-up notification now appears underneath the toolbars.
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| − | * Unblocking a blocked pop-up now shows the blocked pop-up in addition to adding the site to the exceptions list.
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| − | * It is now possible to exclude Camino‘s Bookmarks from Spotlight indexing by adding <tt>~/Library/Caches/Metadata/Camino</tt> to the list in the Privacy tab of the Spotlight preference pane in the System Preferences.
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| − | * “Reset Camino” now properly resets minimized windows.
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| | ==Tabs== | | ==Tabs== |
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| − | * Added tab jumpback: when creating a new foreground tab via cmd-click, forcing links that would open new windows into new tabs instead, or the “Open in New Tab” context menu item, Camino will remember the launching tab such that when the new tab is closed, Camino will jump back to the launching tab if the user has not manually changed tabs. <!-- beltzner describes this thusly: “When the user clicks a link which opens a new tab *with focus*, if the user does not subsequently switch tabs, then close tab should return to parent.” dunno if that’s better or not-->
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| − | ** set camino.enable_tabjumpback (true/false) to alter behavior.
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| − | * Added a preference to force links that would open new windows to open in new tabs instead (“Single Window Mode”).
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| − | * The empty space on the tab bar now has a context menu.
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| − | * View Source now opens in a new window regardless of tabbed browsing preferences.
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| − | ** set camino.viewsource_in_tab (true/false) to alter behavior.
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| − | * Added a “Reload All Tabs” item in the tab context menu (when option is held down).
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| − | * Blank tabs opened by downloads are now closed automatically. <!-- this is a gecko change, but it’s a significant user-facing app behavior worth listing here-->
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| − | * Hovering over a tab widget once again displays a tooltip with the page’s title.<!-- removed for Camino 0.7 to stop crashes -->
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| | ==User Interface== | | ==User Interface== |
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| − | * The toolbar search field is now resizable and can be collapsed (hidden).
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| − | * All toolbar button and menu item validation has been audited. The changes include:
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| − | ** The Stop and Reload toolbar buttons now properly update their state at all times. <!--this one should probably make the real list -->
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| − | ** The Reload toolbar button now remains enabled while pages are loading.
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| − | ** The toolbar buttons for “Close Tab,” “Trash,” and “Clean Up” are now disabled when Camino is not in the foreground.
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| − | * Tooltips for the “Back” and “Forward” toolbar buttons show the title and URL of the page they go to.
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| − | * Tooltips for items in the Downloads window are now restored after restarting Camino.
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| − | * It is no longer possible to drag the site icon of the about:blank page.
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| − | * Menu separators in the Bookmark Bar are no longer focusable.
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| − | * Menu separators in the Bookmark Bar no longer show <Menu Separator> when being dragged.
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| − | * Command-click on a bookmark in the Bookmark Bar now respects the shift key toggle.
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| − | * The “View Page Source” menu item now respects the shift key toggle.
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| − | * Camino now partially respects the Mozilla preference for setting the backspace key behavior.
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| − | ** browser.backspace_action to alter behavior http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.backspace_action
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| − | * Holding down modifier keys while menus are open now reveals several alternate menu items:
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| − | ** “Close All Windows” (when option is held)
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| − | ** “Force Reload” (when shift is held)
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| − | ** “Reload All Tabs” (when option is held)
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| − | ** “Force Reload All Tabs” (when option and shift are held)
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| − | ** “Minimize All” (when option is held)
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| − | ** “Zoom All” (when option is held)
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| − | ** “Bookmark Current Page” (without an intermediate dialog, when shift is held)
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| − | ** “Bookmark Current Tabs as Tab Group” (without an intermediate dialog, when shift is held)
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| − | ** “Open in New Tabs/Open in New Windows” (in Bookmarks menus, when command is held)
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| − | * Overhauled menu item locations and titles:
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| − | ** Renamed the “Go” menu to “History”.
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| − | ** Moved the “Camino Feedback” menu item to the Camino menu.
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| − | ** Moved the “Search The Web” menu item to the File menu and renamed it to “Search the Web…”
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| − | ** Moved the “Get Info” menu item to the View menu and renamed it to “Page Info” or “Bookmark Info,” depending on whether the Bookmarks Manager is showing.
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| − | ** Moved the “Show History” menu item to the History menu.
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| − | ** Renamed “Add Page to Bookmarks…” menu item to “Bookmark Current Page…” and changed the keyboard shortcut from Cmd-D to Cmd-K (keeping Cmd-D for legacy purposes).
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| − | ** Moved the “Local Network Services” sub-menu to the Bookmarks menu, and renamed it to “Bonjour”.
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| − | ** Renamed the “About Local Network Services” menu item to “About Bonjour”.
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| − | * The initial focus is now set correctly in the sheets related to storing passwords in the Keychain.
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| − | * The “Never Save” button in the Keychain sheet can be selected using Command-N
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| − | * The escape key can now be used to cancel operations in the content area when the page is not loading (e.g., FAYT, certain advanced bookmarklets).
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| − | * The escape key will now close the Preferences window.
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| − | * Camino now remembers the state of the toolbar in the Preferences window across launches.
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| − | * Close buttons on tabs and on the pop-up blocker bar now give mouse hover feedback.
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| − | * The browser window’s toolbar is now icon-only by default.
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| − | * Clicking on the lock icon in the location bar now pops up the menu to allow showing page info or the certificate information for the site.
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| − | * The down arrow now triggers the auto-complete drop-down if the cursor is already at the end of the Location bar.
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| − | * Added a menu item to make web page text return to the default font size after the user has increased or decreased the size.
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| − | * Command-+ now behaves the same as Command-= in all cases.
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| − | * The toolbar icon that opens and closes the Bookmarks Manager now changes to reflect the state of the Bookmarks Manager.
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| − | * Hovering over the site icon, lock, or feed icon in the location bar will now show the pointing (arrow) cursor in most cases.
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| − | * Polished the user interface in the Bookmark Info panel.
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| − | * Fixed an issue where dragging site icons from tabs to the Location bar wouldn’t work if focus was outside the Location bar.
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| − | * Updated the network error pages and the about:config warning to fit in better with the overall appearance of Camino and Mac OS X.
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| − | * Bookmark menu folders’ titles now indicate their intended actions—opening in new tabs or tabs in a new window—when the Command key is held down. <!-- “Open in New Tabs” or “Open in Tabs in New Window” when the Command key is down--><!-- better? -->
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| | ==Web Page Interaction== | | ==Web Page Interaction== |
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| − | * Camino now has built-in spell-checking in web page <tt><textarea></tt>s and uses the Mac OS X system dictionaries.
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| − | * Ad-blocking has been further improved.
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| − | * Camino now detects web feeds (RSS/Atom) on web pages and offers to pass the feeds to your default feed reader.
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