Releases:2.0a1:Notes

About Camino® 2.0 Alpha 1

Camino 2.0 Alpha 1 is the first preview release of a significant upgrade to the venerable Mac OS X browser using Mozilla.org’s Gecko HTML rendering engine. Notable improvements include tab overview, full content zoom, a complete keyboard loop in the browser window, and a “Recently Closed Pages” menu.

Note that Camino 2.0 Alpha 1 is in the “alpha” stage, which means it is still under active development. We feel that it is usable on a day-to-day basis and a large improvement over Camino 1.6, but you may still experience issues and some functionality may not work entirely as intended. The goal of this early release is to demonstrate the team’s progress and to allow users to report problems early in the development cycle.

Camino 2.0 Alpha 1 shares the same code base as Firefox 3.0, both being based on version 1.9.0 of Gecko, and thus shares many of the security fixes and Gecko improvements that are in that version of Firefox.

Camino 2.0 Alpha 1 is available for Mac OS X 10.4 and later.

Features in Camino 2.0 Alpha 1

The following changes and improvements have been made since the Camino 1.6 release.

General

• Camino 2.0 Alpha 1 requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
• Uses version 1.9 of the Mozilla Gecko rendering engine, which includes a new graphics architecture based on Quartz and delivers improved compatibility with popular plug-ins and improved support for fonts and languages.
• Upgraded to version 1.5b6 of the Sparkle software update framework.
• The History menu now contains a sub-menu listing the last 20 closed web pages.

Bookmarks

• Added a page translation bookmarklet to default bookmarks.
• Dropping a bookmark on a collection no longer switches the active collection.
• The Bookmark Bar now accepts more drags as valid URLs by stripping control characters where necessary.
• It is now possible to drag plain-text javascript:// URLs, such as bookmarklets, to the Bookmark Bar.
• The importer for HTML bookmark files has been completely rewritten and supports more HTML bookmark formats.
• The new HTML bookmark importer includes better support for bookmark attributes and for exported Firefox 3 bookmarks.

Preferences

• Changes to the font preferences now apply automatically.
• Changes to the Home Page field in the General preference pane now apply without switching panes or closing the Preferences window.

Privacy & Security

• Camino now displays error pages for secure web pages using invalid or untrusted certificates.
• Camino now supports adding exceptions to allow access to secure web pages whose certificates are invalid or untrusted.

Tabs

• The Tab Overview feature displays a grid of thumbnails of the tabs in the current window.
• Tab titles are now accessible to VoiceOver.
• The tab bar is now keyboard accessible.
• The Command-T keyboard shortcut is now always enabled and will create a new tab in the frontmost browser window.

User Interface

• Control characters are now converted to spaces when pasting into the toolbar search field.
• Camino now intelligently strips control characters or converts them to spaces when pasting text into the location bar.
• Items in autocomplete lists no longer become editable on Mac OS X 10.5.
• Icons in the location bar no longer show the text cursor when mousing over them.
• The location bar autocomplete list now displays the site icon for each web page.
• Directory listings on local disks and FTP sites have a more pleasing appearance.
• Clicking on a bookmarklet no longer changes the URL in the location bar.
• Site icons in the location bar are now updated in more cases when changing tabs.
• The blocked pop-up notification bar is now keyboard accessible.
• It is now possible to tab into and out of the Find bar.
• The browser window now has a complete keyboard loop.
• The “Last Visited” column in the History is no longer editable.

Web Page Interaction

• Web page form controls now better respect author styling.
• Camino now has support for making the entire content of a web page bigger or smaller.
• Improved ad-blocking.

Known Issues

• Camino now requires Shockwave Player 11 or newer.
• Delete no longer functions as a keyboard shortcut for Back.
• Scrollbars appear active at all times.
• If “Ask me before accepting each cookie” is checked, Camino will display a cookie dialog for each cookie request from a web page.
• Version 2.2 of the Flip4Mac (F4M) plug-in for displaying Windows Media content causes major rendering issues in Camino. The Flip4Mac team has fixed this problem in version 2.2.1.11 of the plug-in.
• After visiting enough pages with Flash content while browsing, Camino may stop functioning correctly. Quitting and re-launching Camino will resolve the problem. This behavior is caused by a bug in the Flash plug-in and is fixed in version 10.0 of the plug-in.
• Some versions of the third-party add-on 1Password are not compatible with Camino 1.6.x. These versions can cause Camino to crash on launch, hang when importing bookmarks, and hang when pasting into the location bar. Disabling 1Password’s integration with Camino will stop these problems; users should contact 1Password support for more information.