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.

Release Notes for Camino 1.6a1 are at Camino 1.6a1.

These notes are for checkins after the release of Camino 1.6a1.

General

• If Camino is not the default browser, it now prompts the user to set it as the default only on the second and subsequent launches.
• The About window now displays the version of Gecko in addition to the Camino version and build ID.

Bookmarks

• When deleting a bookmark while it appears in a list of search results, the bookmark will now be removed from the results list.
• The list of default bookmarks created with a fresh installation of Camino has been extensively revised.
• Bookmarks created without visiting a page now have a “Last Visited” date of “Never.”
• Resetting Camino now clears the “Last Visited” date on bookmarks.

Downloading

• Camino provides enhanced information about downloaded files to the Mac OS X 10.5 Quarantine system.
• Camino sets the “Where From” metadata attribute on downloaded files on Mac OS X 10.4 and above.

Preferences

• It is no longer possible to accidentally hide the toolbar in the Preferences window.
• Cookies, cookie exceptions, and keychain exclusions are now grouped by site when sorting.
• It is now possible to select an entry for a particular server in the cookies exceptions list and make that exception apply to all related servers.
• Improved the accessibility of preference panes by setting first responders and key loops more correctly.
• Removed the user interface for setting cursive and fantasy font preferences and added the ability to set monospaced font preferences in the “Advanced” sheet.

Privacy & Security

• The list of sites for which Camino never saves passwords can now be edited in the Privacy preference pane.

Tabs

• Progress spinners from loading tabs no longer bleed through to other tabs.

User Interface

• Added Command-D as a keyboard shortcut for “Don’t Save“ and restored the Command-N shortcut for “Never Save for this Website” in the “Save this password in your Keychain?” sheet.
• The Find panel has been replaced by a Find toolbar that appears near the bottom of the browser window.
• Changed the tab order and button with initial focus in alerts to match expected practice.
• It is no longer possible to undo changes in the location bar after navigating to another page.
• Clicking in the autocomplete drop-down no longer causes focus to remain in the location bar after navigating to a new page.
• Opening the “Bookmark Current Page…” sheet in multiple windows no longer causes the sheets to confuse the bookmarks they are adding.
• Fixed the tab order in the “Bookmark Current Page…” sheet.
• Camino now closes any open menus when sheets or dialogs appear.
• The search field in the toolbar now has a simple editor that allows deleting, renaming, or re-ordering search engines.
• Camino now supports discovering OpenSearch search engine plug-ins on web pages and adding the engines to the search field on the toolbar.

Web Page Interaction

• Improved ad-blocking.
• Upgraded the “Block flash animations” code to use Flashblock 1.5.5.
• It is no longer possible to cut or copy the contents of password fields.