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.
• Camino now includes the ability to pass feeds to web-based feed readers.
• Restored the “bounds” property to Camino’s AppleScript dictionary.
• The appearance of the Bookmark Bar and the Find Bar now more closely match the appearance of secondary toolbars on Mac OS X 10.5.
• Camino will now show a warning on the first launch of a new release if it detects any third-party add-ons previously known to cause problems.
• Moving a bookmark to a folder with AppleScript no longer causes Camino to delete the folder.

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.
• The preference to prevent pages from moving, changing, or resizing windows has been enabled by default.

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.
• When storing a password in the Keychain, Camino now includes the account name in the name of the Keychain item.

Tabs

• The icon for the menu that displays a list of all open tabs now looks active when it is available.
• The animated progress spinners on loading tabs have been replaced by a static icon that appears when the tab is still loading.

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.
• Camino no longer rediscovers already-installed search plug-ins that have been renamed.
• The toolbar search field’s menu now contains an item that links to a list of search engine plug-ins.
• The “Search the Web…” sheet now supports auto-detection of search engine plug-ins.
• The Find Bar’s close button is now in the tab chain.
• The Find Bar is now specific to the active tab and now closes automatically when moving to a new page.
• Pressing Return in the Find Bar’s search field no longer causes the field to lose focus.
• The “Quit” button is no longer the default button in the sheet that appears when trying to quit Camino with downloads in progress.
• Swapped the keyboard shortcuts for “Fill Form” and “Search the Web…” so that the latter would be Command-Option-F as specified in the revised Human Interface Guidelines.

Web Page Interaction

• Context menus for text fields now include an item that allows selective enabling or disabling of spell-checking.
• On Mac OS X 10.5, the context menus for text fields now include a sub-menu that allows changing the active dictionary.
• When adding letters to an existing search term, the new Find bar will no longer jump to the next match.
• Improved ad-blocking.