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=About Camino® 1.6=
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After nearly a year of hard work by devoted volunteers, the Camino Project is proud to give you Camino 1.6. This latest version includes many bug fixes and new features, providing all users with an improved browsing experience. Like Camino 1.5, this release displays web pages with Gecko 1.8.1, the same rendering engine used by the popular Firefox 2 web browser, and thus shares many of the security fixes and Gecko improvements that are in that version of Firefox.
  
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=About Camino® 1.5=
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The features listed below are just some of the many changes in Camino 1.6.
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After over a year of hard work by devoted volunteers, the Camino Project is proud to give you Camino 1.5. This latest version fixes hundreds of bugs and implements many new features, providing all users with an improved browsing experience.
 
  
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Camino 1.5 brings you a heavily updated version of the only native Mac OS X browser using Mozilla’s Gecko rendering engine. This release displays web pages with Gecko 1.8.1, the same rendering engine used by the popular Firefox 2 web browser. Gecko 1.8.1 includes thousands of bug fixes over the version used by Camino 1.0, providing users even better web page compatibility.
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Due to changes in the feature set, Camino 1.6 <!--no longer supports-->requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 or higher. We advise users still running Mac OS X 10.3.0-10.3.8 to upgrade to Mac OS X 10.3.9.
  
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The features listed below are just some of the many changes in Camino 1.5.
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=Features in Camino 1.6=
  
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Due to changes in the feature set, Camino 1.5 no longer supports Mac OS X 10.2. We advise users still running Mac OS X 10.2 to download [http://www.caminobrowser.org/download/releases/1.0.4/ Camino 1.0.4] ([http://www.caminobrowser.org/releases/1.0.4.php release notes]).
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The following are the major changes and improvements made since the Camino 1.5 release. A full list is available on our [http://caminobrowser.org/releases/1.6/complete.php website].
  
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=Features in Camino 1.5=
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* '''Automatic software updates'''
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** Camino now checks for new releases automatically.
  
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The following are the major changes and improvements made since the Camino 1.0 release. A full list is available on our [http://www.caminobrowser.org/releases/1.5-complete.php website].
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* '''Improved tabbed browsing'''<!--Scrollable tab bar-->
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** When more tabs are open than can be displayed in the tab bar, arrows appear at the right and left edges to allow scrolling the bar. As part of this change, the tab overflow menu has been replaced by a menu displaying all open tabs in the current window.
  
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* '''Spelling'''
 
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** Spell-checking using the Mac OS X spelling dictionaries is now enabled in web page text fields.
 
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* '''Feed detection'''
 
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** When a web page offers an Atom or RSS feed, Camino will display an icon in the location bar, and clicking the icon will pass the feed to the system’s default feed reading application.
 
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* '''Session restore'''
 
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** Camino can remember which pages were open when quitting <!--a browsing session -->and restore them the next time it opens.
 
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** After a browsing session has terminated unexpectedly, Camino will offer to restore the pages which were open previously.
 
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* '''Improved tabbed browsing'''
 
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** Single-window mode: There is a new option to force links that would open new windows to open in new tabs instead.
 
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** Tab jumpback: Camino now supports returning to the original tab after viewing a page in a new tab.
 
 
* '''Keychain compatibility'''
 
* '''Keychain compatibility'''
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** Camino can now share Keychain entries with Safari.
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** Camino can now store information in the Keychain for multiple accounts at the same site.
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** Keychain entries saved by Camino are now saved in a way that allows other applications to read them.
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* '''Pop-up blocking'''
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* '''Improved toolbar search'''
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** The pop-up blocking notification is now more visible.
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** The search field in the toolbar now includes a simple editor that allows deleting, renaming, and reordering search engines.  
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** The new pop-up notification offers more powerful controls for managing pop-ups.
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** Camino now supports [http://opensearch.org/ OpenSearch] search engine plug-ins. New search engines can be added to the toolbar’s search field by automatic discovery or by web pages that provide links to OpenSearch plug-ins.
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* '''Enhanced plug-in control'''
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** Camino 1.5 includes the ability to disable all plug-ins.
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* '''Streamlined Find interface'''
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** Flashblock: The new “Block Flash animations” option prevents Flash from starting until the user clicks the play icon.
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** The Find panel has been replaced by a Find toolbar that appears near the bottom of the browser window.
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* '''Window zooming'''
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** The Zoom command now resizes the window to fit the current page’s content instead of making the window full-screen.
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* '''Enhanced AppleScript capabilities'''
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* '''Downloading'''
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** AppleScripts can now refer to individual tabs and windows.
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** A new optional toolbar icon in the Downloads window allows users to move downloaded files to the Trash.
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** It is now possible to add, open, and delete bookmarks via AppleScript.
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** Items in the Downloads window can now be automatically removed upon completion or when quitting Camino.
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** Camino now supports [http://wiki.caminobrowser.org/Development:Camino_AppleScript_Guide custom toolbar items] written in AppleScript.
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* '''Searching'''
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** The search field in the toolbar is now resizable.
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* '''Additional feed reader options'''
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** The context menu for selected text in web pages now includes a “Search” item.
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** Camino can now pass feeds to certain web-based feed readers.
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* '''Cookie management'''
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** Camino now includes an option to accept cookies only for the current session.
 
 
* '''User interface polish'''
 
* '''User interface polish'''
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** Camino 1.5 includes a major reorganization of menus and keyboard shortcuts. The preference panes have been redesigned.
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** Camino 1.6 includes a number of new toolbar icons and interface enhancements to fit more closely with the visual style of Mac OS X 10.5.
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* '''Web content'''
 
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** Camino now uses version 1.8.1 of Mozilla’s Gecko rendering engine, which contains thousands of bug fixes and support for new technologies like JavaScript 1.7.
 
  
 
=Known Issues=
 
=Known Issues=
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For information about other issues or problems, please visit our [http://www.caminobrowser.org/help/ Help page].
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For information about other issues or problems, please visit our [http://caminobrowser.org/help/ Help page].
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* Some users have experienced a situation where pages would appear not to load after clicking on a link. In this case, resizing the browser window may allow the page to display properly.
 
  
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* Microsoft’s Windows Media Player (WMP) plugin causes major rendering issues in Camino. Since Microsoft has discontinued WMP on Mac OS X, Camino no longer supports the use of the WMP plugin; instead, all users should download the free Flip4Mac (F4M) plugin, version 2.1 or higher, from http://www.flip4mac.com/. Version 2.1 causes pages containing WMP content to become white when scrolled in Camino; there is currently no ETA for a fixed version of the F4M plugin.
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* Version 2.2 of the Flip4Mac (F4M) plug-in for displaying Windows Media content causes major rendering issues in Camino. The Flip4Mac team will fix this problem in a future release of the plug-in.
  
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* Camino erroneously claims that the default Japanese and Traditional Chinese fonts are “missing” when they are actually installed; this is due to a mismatch between Carbon and Cocoa font names. Changing these fonts using the Camino user interface will result in incorrect fonts being chosen and will cause some characters to fail to display. Users should either keep the default fonts or change the font preferences in the preferences file manually, ensuring the Carbon versions of the font names are used.
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* After visiting enough pages with Flash content while browsing, Camino may stop functioning correctly.  Quitting and re-launching Camino will resolve the problem.  This behavior is caused by a bug in the Flash plug-in, which will be fixed in a future Flash plug-in release.

Latest revision as of 17:24, 6 April 2008

About Camino® 1.6

After nearly a year of hard work by devoted volunteers, the Camino Project is proud to give you Camino 1.6. This latest version includes many bug fixes and new features, providing all users with an improved browsing experience. Like Camino 1.5, this release displays web pages with Gecko 1.8.1, the same rendering engine used by the popular Firefox 2 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 1.6.

Due to changes in the feature set, Camino 1.6 requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 or higher. 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 1.6

The following are the major changes and improvements made since the Camino 1.5 release. A full list is available on our website.

  • Automatic software updates
    • Camino now checks for new releases automatically.
  • Improved tabbed browsing
    • When more tabs are open than can be displayed in the tab bar, arrows appear at the right and left edges to allow scrolling the bar. As part of this change, the tab overflow menu has been replaced by a menu displaying all open tabs in the current window.
  • Keychain compatibility
    • Camino can now store information in the Keychain for multiple accounts at the same site.
  • Improved toolbar search
    • The search field in the toolbar now includes a simple editor that allows deleting, renaming, and reordering search engines.
    • Camino now supports OpenSearch search engine plug-ins. New search engines can be added to the toolbar’s search field by automatic discovery or by web pages that provide links to OpenSearch plug-ins.
  • Streamlined Find interface
    • The Find panel has been replaced by a Find toolbar that appears near the bottom of the browser window.
  • Enhanced AppleScript capabilities
    • AppleScripts can now refer to individual tabs and windows.
    • It is now possible to add, open, and delete bookmarks via AppleScript.
    • Camino now supports custom toolbar items written in AppleScript.
  • Additional feed reader options
    • Camino can now pass feeds to certain web-based feed readers.
  • User interface polish
    • Camino 1.6 includes a number of new toolbar icons and interface enhancements to fit more closely with the visual style of Mac OS X 10.5.

Known Issues

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

  • Version 2.2 of the Flip4Mac (F4M) plug-in for displaying Windows Media content causes major rendering issues in Camino. The Flip4Mac team will fix this problem in a future release of the plug-in.
  • After visiting enough pages with Flash content while browsing, Camino may stop functioning correctly. Quitting and re-launching Camino will resolve the problem. This behavior is caused by a bug in the Flash plug-in, which will be fixed in a future Flash plug-in release.
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