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The following changes and improvements have been made since the Camino 1.5 release. | The following changes and improvements have been made since the Camino 1.5 release. | ||
| + | == General == | ||
| + | * Camino now checks for new releases automatically. | ||
| + | * Greatly enhanced AppleScript support, including access to tabs and bookmarks. <!-- might want to list this under tabs, bookmarks, and wherever else, when all parts land --> | ||
| + | * Camino now supports custom toolbar items written in AppleScript. | ||
| + | * When changing Chinese, Japanese, or Korean font preferences, using the “Advanced” sheet will now set the font correctly. | ||
| + | * Camino can now open files with the Mac type code “TEXT” from the “Open File…” dialog. | ||
| + | * Alerts and prompts that appear while Camino is hidden will now display properly when un-hiding Camino. | ||
| + | * Camino will no longer claim to support the <tt>gopher</tt> protocol. | ||
| + | * Large download lists and corrupt site icons will no longer cause Camino to stop loading pages or opening windows. <!-- ok? --> | ||
| + | * Camino will now purge expired site icons from the site icon cache when quitting. | ||
| + | * Camino now includes a reference to Firefox in the user-agent string sent to web servers. | ||
| + | * The Camino application icon now contains a 512x512 pixel version for better integration with Mac OS X 10.5. | ||
| + | ==Bookmarks== | ||
| + | |||
| + | ==Downloading== | ||
| + | * When Camino is set to open downloaded files, the application that opens the file will now come to the front. <!-- eh --> | ||
| + | * It is now possible to drag downloaded files from the Downloads window. <!-- and do stuff? --> | ||
| + | |||
| + | ==Localization== | ||
| + | * The date formats in History now display properly according to the user’s locale. | ||
| + | |||
| + | ==Preferences== | ||
| + | * Camino now remembers the last-selected preference pane across restarts. <!--eh--> | ||
| + | * The Action menu in the “Show Cookies” sheet now contains items to add sites to the exceptions list. <!-- it's really "add to whitelist" not just add --> | ||
| + | * Camino can now set the default browser or feed reader in cases where no application had already been set as the default. <!-- tense is iffy --> | ||
| + | |||
| + | ==Privacy & Security== | ||
| + | * The Keychain will no longer prompt repeatedly for access if access has been granted recently. <!-- needs help --> | ||
| + | * Camino will no longer fill disabled password forms. | ||
| + | * Camino will upgrade old Keychain entries saved by versions of Camino prior to 1.5 the first time the entry is used instead of the first time the entry is changed. | ||
| + | * Camino now stores Internationalized Domain Names using Punycode when saving passwords in the Keychain. | ||
| + | * Camino no longer prevents a page from loading when the sheets for remembering or changing passwords are showing. <!-- this needs work, work, work --> | ||
| + | |||
| + | ==Tabs== | ||
| + | * The tab bar is now scrollable; when there are more tabs open than can be displayed in the tab bar, right and left scroll arrows appear. | ||
| + | * The tab overflow menu has been replaced by a menu displaying all open tabs in the current window, with separators delineating visible tabs and those off-screen on the left or right. | ||
| + | * The mouse scroll wheel will scroll the tab bar. | ||
| + | * Option-clicking on the tab scroll buttons scroll a window’s width of tabs. | ||
| + | * Camino now honors the hidden preference to load tabs created by “Links that would open new windows” in the background. | ||
| + | * When another tab is focused to display an alert, closing the alert will return focus to the original tab. | ||
| + | * When a page is loading, a progress spinner displays in place of the site icon on the tab. | ||
| + | |||
| + | ==User Interface== | ||
| + | * The search fields in the toolbar and the Privacy preference pane are now proper NSSearchFields. | ||
| + | * It is no longer possible to tab into the toolbar search field when the field is collapsed. | ||
| + | * The toolbar progress spinner now has an inactive state. <!--erm--> | ||
| + | * The status bar now takes on the dark grey, rounded appearance on Mac OS X 10.5. | ||
| + | * “New Tab” and “Open File…” are now disabled when the View Source window is active. | ||
| + | |||
| + | ==Web Page Interaction== | ||
| + | * Improved ad-blocking. | ||
| + | * Pressing the spacebar when a <tt><select></tt> is focused will now pop up the <tt><select></tt>’s menu. | ||
| + | * The <tt>onbeforeunload</tt> event now fires when closing tabs or windows. | ||
| + | * When viewing the source of a frame, Camino now uses the cached data instead of requesting the frame again. | ||
| + | * When JavaScript code wants to focus a minimized window, Camino now properly restores the window from the Dock. <!-- ok? --> | ||
| + | * Upgraded the “Block flash animations” code to use Flashblock 1.5.4.1. | ||
=Known Issues in Camino 1.6 Alpha 1= | =Known Issues in Camino 1.6 Alpha 1= | ||
Revision as of 21:39, 5 December 2007
Contents
About Camino 1.6 Alpha 1
Camino 1.6 Alpha 1 is an updated version of the only native Mac OS X browser using Mozilla.org’s Gecko HTML rendering engine. Notable improvements include enhanced tabbed browsing (“tab scrolling”), software update, enhanced and AppleScript support.
Note that Camino 1.6 Alpha 1 is in the “alpha” stage, which means it is still under active development. We feel that it is usable on a day-to-day basis and a large improvement over Camino 1.5, but you may still experience issues and some functionality may not work entirely as intended. The goal of this early release is to demonstrate the team’s progress and to allow users to report problems early in the development cycle.
Camino 1.6 Alpha 1 shares the same code base as Camino 1.5 and Firefox 2.0, both being based on version 1.8.1 of Gecko, and thus shares many of the security fixes and Gecko improvements that are in that version of Firefox.
Camino 1.6 Alpha 1 is available for Mac OS X 10.3 and later.
Features in Camino 1.6 Alpha 1
The following changes and improvements have been made since the Camino 1.5 release.
General
- Camino now checks for new releases automatically.
- Greatly enhanced AppleScript support, including access to tabs and bookmarks.
- Camino now supports custom toolbar items written in AppleScript.
- When changing Chinese, Japanese, or Korean font preferences, using the “Advanced” sheet will now set the font correctly.
- Camino can now open files with the Mac type code “TEXT” from the “Open File…” dialog.
- Alerts and prompts that appear while Camino is hidden will now display properly when un-hiding Camino.
- Camino will no longer claim to support the gopher protocol.
- Large download lists and corrupt site icons will no longer cause Camino to stop loading pages or opening windows.
- Camino will now purge expired site icons from the site icon cache when quitting.
- Camino now includes a reference to Firefox in the user-agent string sent to web servers.
- The Camino application icon now contains a 512x512 pixel version for better integration with Mac OS X 10.5.
Bookmarks
Downloading
- When Camino is set to open downloaded files, the application that opens the file will now come to the front.
- It is now possible to drag downloaded files from the Downloads window.
Localization
- The date formats in History now display properly according to the user’s locale.
Preferences
- Camino now remembers the last-selected preference pane across restarts.
- The Action menu in the “Show Cookies” sheet now contains items to add sites to the exceptions list.
- Camino can now set the default browser or feed reader in cases where no application had already been set as the default.
Privacy & Security
- The Keychain will no longer prompt repeatedly for access if access has been granted recently.
- Camino will no longer fill disabled password forms.
- Camino will upgrade old Keychain entries saved by versions of Camino prior to 1.5 the first time the entry is used instead of the first time the entry is changed.
- Camino now stores Internationalized Domain Names using Punycode when saving passwords in the Keychain.
- Camino no longer prevents a page from loading when the sheets for remembering or changing passwords are showing.
Tabs
- The tab bar is now scrollable; when there are more tabs open than can be displayed in the tab bar, right and left scroll arrows appear.
- The tab overflow menu has been replaced by a menu displaying all open tabs in the current window, with separators delineating visible tabs and those off-screen on the left or right.
- The mouse scroll wheel will scroll the tab bar.
- Option-clicking on the tab scroll buttons scroll a window’s width of tabs.
- Camino now honors the hidden preference to load tabs created by “Links that would open new windows” in the background.
- When another tab is focused to display an alert, closing the alert will return focus to the original tab.
- When a page is loading, a progress spinner displays in place of the site icon on the tab.
User Interface
- The search fields in the toolbar and the Privacy preference pane are now proper NSSearchFields.
- It is no longer possible to tab into the toolbar search field when the field is collapsed.
- The toolbar progress spinner now has an inactive state.
- The status bar now takes on the dark grey, rounded appearance on Mac OS X 10.5.
- “New Tab” and “Open File…” are now disabled when the View Source window is active.
Web Page Interaction
- Improved ad-blocking.
- Pressing the spacebar when a <select> is focused will now pop up the <select>’s menu.
- The onbeforeunload event now fires when closing tabs or windows.
- When viewing the source of a frame, Camino now uses the cached data instead of requesting the frame again.
- When JavaScript code wants to focus a minimized window, Camino now properly restores the window from the Dock.
- Upgraded the “Block flash animations” code to use Flashblock 1.5.4.1.
