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., 1.5) 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 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 (1.0, 1.5); 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 1.6b2 are at Releases:1.6b2:Notes (Release Notes for Camino 1.6b1 are at Releases:1.6b1:Notes and notes for Camino 1.6a1 are at Releases:1.6a1:Notes).

These notes are for checkins after the release of Camino 1.6b2.

General

• Camino now requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 or higher.
• Camino no longer takes a long time to relaunch after software update on Mac OS X 10.5.
• Camino now displays more dates in accordance with the settings in the System Preferences.

Preferences

• New windows now open in the foreground instead of following the “Open in the background” preference in the Tabs preference pane.
• The Web Features preference pane has been reorganized and simplified.

Privacy & Security

• Camino can now store information in the Keychain for multiple accounts at the same site and can use information for multiple accounts stored by other browsers.

User Interface

• Activating Camino by clicking on the Dock icon when a modal dialog is showing will no longer create a new window.
• The search engine editor now includes an option to reset the list of search engines to the default set.
• The Find Bar’s close button is now in the tab chain.
• The “Quit” button is no longer the default button in the sheet that appears when trying to quit Camino with downloads in progress.

Web Page Interaction

• When adding letters to an existing search term, the new Find bar will no longer jump to the next match.
• Improved ad-blocking.