Releases:Release Notes 2.1

These are the “running” or incremental release notes for Camino 2.1 (𝌙), i.e., the interesting bug-fixes since the last major release (e.g., 1.5) or milestone (e.g., Camino 1.6 Alpha 1). The actual release notes for major releases, milestones, or security releases can be found on the corresponding Releases:Ver:Notes page, e.g., Releases:1.6b1:Notes.

(Note that not all checkins are considered interesting; in particular, fixes for regressions that only occur between milestones, code cleanup, or build changes are not included in release notes.)

There are several pages that track "major" changes on the trunk. These could be useful when we create our final release notes. What's new on the trunk for Firefox 3.

These running release notes (and the milestone release notes that are developed from them) form the "complete" changelog on the website (1.0, 1.5); the release notes for the final 2.0 release are a summary or short-form and can be found at Releases:2.0:Notes.

Release Notes for Camino 2.1a1 are at Releases:2.1a1:Notes).

These notes are for checkins after the release of Camino 2.0.

General

• Uses version 1.9.2 of the Mozilla Gecko rendering engine.
  • Enhanced support for web standards.
  • Improved JavaScript performance.
• New “Work Offline” and “Go Online” items in the Camino menu allow Camino to enter offline mode and provide a more useful experience when no network connection is available.
• Camino now uses SQLite-based history storage instead of the old Mork-based history storage.
• Camino will now speculatively look up DNS entries for linked content on web pages.

Bookmarks & History

• Autocomplete in the location bar now searches bookmarks in addition to .
• It is now possible to match titles in addition to URLs in autocomplete.
• Site icons for Bookmarks and History will now display properly the first time they are loaded during a browsing session.

Downloading

• Downloaded files that do not have a content-length header will no longer appear as canceled downloads after restarting Camino.
• The Downloads window now uses the correct selection colors instead of text highlight colors.

Localization

• Google’s Safe Browsing information pages will now appear in Norwegian for users of the Norwegian localization.
• The “Import” button on the Open panel for selecting a bookmarks file to import is now localizable.
• The certificate error page is now localizable.
• The size units in Downloads window messages are now localizable.

Preferences

• Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) will display correctly in sheets requesting permission to set cookies.

Tabs

• Switched to “name” from “title” as the AppleScript property for the page title in order to be more compatible with other browsers.

User Interface

• The design of the autocomplete window looks more like the one in Safari 4.
• The Escape key now cancels the warning sheet shown when opening a feed in an external application for the first time.
• The History toolbar item and Show History menu item are now disabled when History is showing.
• Disabled additional menu items and toolbar buttons when error pages and browser diagnostic pages are showing.
• Additional items in the History and Bookmarks menus are now only enabled when appropriate.
• Command-Arrow key combinations can again be reassigned as shortcuts for other menu items.
• The Bookmark Bar colors will again appear correctly on displays with a gamma other than 1.8.
• On Mac OS X 10.5 and above, double-clicking on the splitter between the location bar and search field will collapse or expand the search field.
• The warning displayed when closing when closing multiple windows will also report the number of tabs in the windows.
• “Page Info” and “Bookmark Info” have been renamed “Show Page Info” and “Show Bookmark Info” to adhere to Mac OS X command-naming conventions.
• Updated the appearance of error pages, directory listings, and browser diagnostic pages.
• Switched to a friendlier, more informative certificate error page.
• The “Search” context menu item will now use a new tab or window for the search results.
• Polished the appearance of many toolbar icons.
• Added UTF-16 to the “Text Encoding” sub-menu.
• The location bar and web search field now have accessibility descriptions.
• The status bar can now be hidden by choosing “Hide Status Bar” in View menu.
• The extension portion of a suggested filename will no longer be selected in Save dialogs.
• The Dock menu will now display a bookmark’s URL if the bookmark has no title.

Web Page Interaction

• Core window and tab management keyboard shortcuts are now protected from being stolen by web pages.
• Upgraded the “Block flash animations” code to use Flashblock 1.5.13.
• Modernized the “click-to-play” icons used by the “Block flash animations” feature.
• Improved ad-blocking.

Known Issues

• Camino no longer uses a “missing plug-in” service.
• Find-As-You-Type support is currently missing.
• The pinch gesture to zoom web pages currently does not work if invoked over the web page.