Releases:1.0:Notes Complete

The new format for our Release Notes for Camino 0.9. (contains all patches landed by 09-June-2005)

Camino 0.9 brings you a heavily updated version of the only native OS X browser using the Mozilla gecko render engine. We made great improvements in render accuracy and speed, bookmarks and history management, preference, plugin supports and many other areas.

Due to changes in our feature set we can no longer support OS X 10.1, we advise people still using OS X 10.1 to download Camino 0.8.4.

Remove this on the real release notes. Bugs and features that are under development and will eventually land.

• Camino now comes packaged with the Java embedding plugin which solves almost all of Camino's previous Java issues. OS X 10.2+ is required.
• Camino now uses a disk image with embedded compression instead of a compressed (.gz) disk image.
• Due to popular request we have added confirmation when.
  • Closing a window containing multiple tabs.
  • Quiting Camino with multiple windows and/or tabs open.
• Cocoa rewrite of inline drag and drop.
  • Fixes an issue where multiple copies of bookmarks would be created when only one was actually dragged, Apple bug in Carbon.
  • No more outlines of texts and images instead we now show the actual image or text (?).
  • Dragged links now look pretty (?).
• We now package Camino in a disk image using embedded compression.
• Back and Forward is now instantanious, or at least highly optimized, due to changes made in gecko's DOM.

Highlights:

• This version contains a wide variety of optimizations, memory usage improvements, leak fixes and performance improvements for page rendering and scrolling, as well as numerous crash fixes.
• Camino is the only high end browser that brings support for Mac OS X 10.2, 10.3 and 10.4 straight out of the box.
• Event message handling rewritten to improve app responsiveness:
  • No more frame skipping in DHTML animations or flash adds.
  • Rarely see "beach balls of death".
  • CPU usage on pages with multiple plugin objects has been vastly improved.
  • In general the UI stays much more responsive when viewing CPU-intensive content.
• We now use Quartz to draw all images on websites.
• Startup time has been improved by more than 25%.
• Added a Fill Form menu and toolbar item which uses your personal Address Book card to automatically fill forms on the current webpage.
• Rewrote the Tab Bar from scratch:
  • Allows more than 16 tabs in one window.
  • Add an overflow widget when there are too many tabs (as known from regular toolbars).
  • Tabs are now left-aligned.
  • Each tab now has a "close" widget.
  • The tab look is now themeable (though no extra themes are provided).
  • The tab bar can be set to always be visible, even with only one tab open.
  • Re-arranged the tab contextual menu to be more logical.
• Command-enter in the url bar or search field will now open a new tab or new window depending on preferences.
• Every bookmark menu folder now has an "Open in Tabs" item.
• The Camino menu now has a "Reset Camino..." menu item.
  • Browser Reset 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.
• Security status is now displayed in the url bar.
• (ctrl)+shift+home/end now selects from beginning or end of webpage.
• Support for CSS3 cursors.
• Camino now supports Midas, an inline, rich text editor.
• We added smart mailto: links context menu support:
  • Copy Address
  • Add to Address Book, if the address isn't already in Address Book.
  • Show in Address Book, if the address is already in Address Book.
• The Go menu now displays full history by day.
  • We show the last 15 visited websites.
  • We show site icons for history items.
  • We now have a "Clear History" item at the bottom of the Go menu.
• We greatly improved History and Bookmark management.
• The Help menu now contains an Installed Plugins item which opens about:plugins.
• The bookmarks manager now behaves like a webpage, no longer taking over the window and hiding opened tabs. This will allow you to:
  • Open the bookmarks manager in a new tab or a window.
  • Open the bookmarks manager in the current active tab or window.
  • Create a bookmark of the bookmarks manager and add that to your bookmarks bar for quick access.
  • Set the bookmarks manager as your homepage by using "about:bookmarks" as the url.
• Added Spotlight support for search through bookmarks.
• Favicons linked using a LINK element are now correctly displayed, instead of always looking for the root favicon.
  • When a webpage fails to load we now show a warning icon rather than the site icon which was cached on a previous visit.
• On Mac OS X 10.4 Camino now uses the unified title-/toolbar on its windows.
• Added add blocking option in the WebFeatures preference panel which uses userContent.css.
• Camino now has XML Pretty-Print.
• 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:
  • Gecko's DHTML performance has had some major improvements.
  • Mozilla now supports the overflow-y and overflow-x properties.
  • Mozilla's pop-up blocker has been greatly improved.
  • Resizing of large images to fit the browser window has been improved, now restoring larger-sized image centered on the click location.
  • Mozilla now supports unprompted NTLM authentication (NTLM is an authentication protocol used in Microsoft networks).
  • The XML parser has been updated.
  • Command + Up & Down now works the same as Page Up & Down.
  • Background tabs can no longer set the status bar.

General bug fixes:

• Camino also contains a wide variety of interface changes that help Aqua Human Interface Guidelines compliance and improve useability.
• Cached items now saved in ~/Library/Cache/Camino.
• File related changes:
  • The "Open File..." window has been changed to a sheet.
  • Allow users to open multiple items using the "Open File..." menu item.
  • Non-ascii local file names are now properly displayed in the Save As dialog.
  • Added several extra file extensions to our Dock icon drag and drop support.
  • Added support for the legacy .URL Internet Explorer bookmark file.
  • One can now open .webloc and .url files by dragging them to the dock icon or opening them with the Open menu.
  • Dragging a local file onto a tab now doesn't give an error message and fails.
• Webpage interaction related changes:
  • Allow the use of the Escape key to stop pageloading.
  • Use the username field closest to the password field, not the first field encountered.
  • Using the backspace key in embedded content (plugins, java applets, etc) no longer sends you back a page in history.
  • Disabled form elements now have aqua appearance.
  • In Japanese and Chinese form input area, a caret now moves using the left and right keys in a form input area.
  • Added support for <optgroup> within a <select> pop-up.
  • Password and username autofill now properly works in frames and iframes.
  • Enlarging page text with non-English keyboards can now be correctly done using "Command +".
  • We now use the MozID for Google searches.
  • Improved multi-line tooltip support for webpages.
• Fix issue where two default fonts were missing on new install.
• Fix an issue on OS X 10.2 where Camino would use manual prebinding.
• Users can now put a SearchURLList.plist in their profile folder which will not be removed when upgrading.
• Fixed an issue where a bookmarked javascript with pop-up was blocked while it shouldn't have.
• No longer displays an ampersand sign ("&") in the button text of warning dialogs.
• Fixed a case where the url bar would show a subframe url.
• When showing autocomplete results into the url bar, we now skip the protocol when trying to figure out where the match is.
• Send Link and Find Previous menu items are now "dimmed" when no window is opened.
• We no longer fire an onchange event when selecting the same option that is already selected in a menu.
• Changed the "Send Link" main menu item to "Email Page Location" for clarity.
• The link contextual menu now has a "Send This Link..." option.
• Explicitly open the home page when selecting Go->Home so as to override "load home page in new windows" preference.
• Keyboard shortcuts available to show or hide the bookmark bar and toolbar.
• Fixes issue where tabs did not change properly to reflect a "new" tab set.
• Pages loaded in a tab in the background now correctly scroll to an anchor.
• Fixed some cases where a page and tab title would say "Loading..." even when the page was done loading already.
• Fixed a case where scrolling during pageloading could cause a crash.
• The status bar divider line has returned on all OS versions.
• Ensure the Search dialog text field has focus after a find.
• We did a status bar cleanup.
  • Removed the "Document: Done" notification from the status bar.
  • Removed the globe and lock icon from the statusbar.

Bookmark bug fixes and features:

• You can now drag and drop bookmarks between Camino and Safari.
• One can now make separators in any folder except the "smart" folders.
• We have removed the "Broken Bookmark" detection feature.
• The green plus cursor is shown when a bookmark is copied using Alt and mouse drag and drop.
• We now have improved quick searching for history and bookmarks.
• The edit menu (except cut) now works for bookmarks.
• Bookmark bar related.
  • Dragged bookmarks can now be dropped between two folders on the bookmarks bar.
  • A dragged bookmark can now be dropped back in its old position without sending it to the end of the bookmarks bar list.
  • Fixes an issue where it was too easy to accidentally drag Toolbar Bookmark folders on the web view.
  • Fixes repaint issues when rearranging bookmarks and resizing the browser window.
• Import related.
  • Added ability to import Opera bookmarks.
  • Added ability to import OmniWeb 5 bookmarks.
  • Improved Firefox importing.
  • Fixes a nested folder import bug with Firefox by disabling whitespace skipping.
  • Now checks for new location of the Firefox profile directory in addition to the old one.
  • Allows Mozilla bookmark separators to be imported.
  • We solved an instance where it wasn't possible to import Safari Bookmarks.
• History related.
  • History was made much faster.
  • You can now search in history.
  • History is now sorted by date labeled folders.
  • We now have column sorting for History to find things easier.
  • Fixed a crash when deleting quicksearch results items in history.
  • Fixed an issue where the history list wasn't updated if one clear all entries in preferences.
  • Cmd-click of history items now opens in new window.
  • We now remember the history panel state.
• When creating a tab group we now use the title of the front most tab instead of the first tab.
• Fixed an issue where creating a bookmark of a tab could create one for the first tab.
• Fixed an issue where the user specified name for a new bookmark wasn't used.
• You can now bookmark a page that doesn't have a <title>.
• Use the link text instead of the url for the bookmark title when dragging a link into the bookmark manager.
• Fixed a case where dragging a site icon from a page without a title would crash Camino.
• Now always create bookmarks at the end of a bookmarks folder.
• Fixes an issue where the main bookmark view does not update when it should.
• Fixes an issue where "Number of Visits" didn't update live in bookmark info Status tab.
• Camino no longer tries to open bookmark separators as bookmarks when opening bookmark folders.
• Now disables view source while you are in the Bookmarks manager.
• Fixed an issue where creating new tabs would get progressively slower with the new about:bookmarks implementation.
• When creating a bookmark when in the bookmark manager we use the previous webpage.
• The "Show/Hide All Bookmarks" menu item is now properly enabled and disabled when tabs are closes, and windows change layer.
• We now save our bookmarks file in two stages in case the write fails in some cases.
• One can now use the return key in the bookmark info description field to start a new line.

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