Releases:Release Notes 1.5

General

There are several pages that track "major" changes on the FF2.0 branch. These could be very handy for when we want to create our release notes. What's new in Bon Echo Alpha 3 (for Firefox 2).

• 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.
• Adding a folder in the Bookmarks Manager no longer causes Camino to beep.
• 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.
• Camino now handles .ftploc files.
• The "View Image" context menu item now uses the tabbed browsing preference semantics.
• Local SVG files can now be selected in the Open File dialog.
• Ad-blocking has been further improved.
• "Copy Address" on mailto: links with multiple addresses now captures all addresses.
• The "Send Link" menu item now sends URLs in angle brackets.
• The Esc key can now be used to cancel operations in the content area when the page is not loading (e.g., FAYT, certain advanced bookmarklets).
• Single-click in search fields now only enters a caret instead of selecting any existing text.
• The toolbar search field is now resizable and can be collapsed (hidden).
• Added a "Search" item to the context menu, which searches for the selected text using the default search engine.
• Option-return or Option-enter in the location bar now downloads the entered url.
• Camino can now be used with a custom profile location specified at runtime, enabling “portable Camino” or running Camino from a memory stick.

Bookmarks

• Cmd-1 through Cmd-9 are now shortcuts for the first 9 items in the Bookmark Bar.
• Dragging of bookmarks into the Address Book collection of the Bookmarks Manager is now disabled.
• Keywords on bookmark folders can now be edited in the outline view.
• “Copy Locations to Clipboard” in the Bookmarks view now works when folders are selected.
• Bookmark keyword searches now properly encode ampersand and other characters.
• The search field now gets initial focus when opening the Bookmarks Manager, for quick searching.
• Improved the tabbing cycle in bookmarks/history.
• Renamed the the left pane in the Bookmarks Manager from ‘Groups’ to ‘Collections’.
• Double-clicking on a tab group in Bookmarks Manager now opens the bookmarks.

Downloading

• The Command-period key combination now cancels downloads when the Downloads window has focus.
• Added new options for removing successful downloads automatically (when the download has completed, when quitting Camino, or manually) from the download history list.
• The “Download Completed” message now reports the actual file size even if the size was unknown while downloading.
• The downloads window is now always brought to the front when a download starts.
  • browser.download.progressDnldDialog.bringToFront (true/false) to alter behaviour.

Preferences

• Camino now has an option in the Appearance preference pane to make all websites always use your font choices.
• Polished the layout and terminology in each preference pane
• Added an option to control tabbing navigation between form elements and web page links.

Privacy & Security

• Cookie exceptions list and sheet now have options for session cookies.
• The blocked pop-up notification now appears underneath the toolbars.
• Unblocking a blocked pop-up now shows the blocked pop-up in addition to adding the site to the exceptions list.
• It is now possible to exclude Camino‘s Bookmarks from Spotlight indexing by adding ~/Library/Caches/Metadata/Camino to the list in the Privacy tab of the Spotlight preference pane in the System Preferences.
• “Reset Camino” now properly resets minimized windows.

Tabs

• Tab jumpback: when creating a new foreground tab via cmd-click or single-window mode, Camino will remember the launching tab such that when the new tab is closed, we'll jump back to the launching tab if the user has not manually changed tabs
• Added a preference to force links that would open new windows to open in new tabs instead (“Single Window Mode”).
• Close buttons on tabs now give mouse hover feedback.
• The empty space on the tab bar now has a context menu.
• View Source now opens in a new window regardless of tabbed browsing preferences.
  • camino.viewsource_in_tab (true/false) to alter behaviour.
• Reload All Tabs item in the tab context menu

User Interface

• View-source is now disabled when viewing a window or tab that contains binary content, such as an image or a Quicktime movie.
• The Stop and Reload toolbar buttons now properly update their state at all times.
• Tooltips for items in the Downloads window are now restored on after restarting Camino
• The site icon of the about:blank page is no longer drag-able.
• Menu separators in the Bookmark Bar are no longer focusable.
• Command-click on a bookmark in the Bookmark Bar now respects the shift key toggle.
• Camino now respects the Mozilla preference for setting the backspace key behaviour.
  • browser.backspace_action to alter behaviour http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.backspace_action
• Holding down Opt when selecting certain menu items now makes the menu text change to include "All" and acts on all windows or tabs (also works with keyboard shortcuts) ***FIXME***
• The window menu zoom-all item now zooms the downloads window even when it is not visible.
• The initial focus on the Keychains "initial and update" sheet are now set correctly.
• "Auto fill password in web forms" in Privacy prefpane is now properly enabled or disabled when the prefpane opens.

Web Page Interaction

• Camino now has built-in spell-checking in web page <textarea>s and uses the Mac OS X system dictionaries.