Releases:Release Notes 1.6

These are the “running” or incremental release notes for Camino 1.6 (✈), i.e., the interesting bug-fixes since the last major release (e.g., 1.0) or milestone (e.g., Camino 1.1 Alpha 2). The actual release notes for major releases, milestones, or security releases can be found on the corresponding Releases:Ver:Notes page, e.g., Releases:1.1b: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 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).

These running release notes (and the milestone release notes that are developed from them) form the "complete" changelog on the website; the release notes for the final 1.6 release are a summary or short-form and can be found at Releases:1.6:Notes.

These notes are for checkins after the release of Camino 1.5.

General

• 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.
• Camino now includes a reference to Firefox in the user-agent string sent to web servers.
• 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.
• Greatly enhanced AppleScript support, including access to tabs and bookmarks.
• Camino now supports custom toolbar items written in AppleScript.
• Large download lists and corrupt site icons will no longer cause Camino to stop loading pages or opening windows.

Downloading

• When Camino is set to open downloaded files, the application that opens the file will now come to the front.

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.

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 now 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.

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.

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.