Releases:1.0:Notes

About Camino 1.0

Camino 1.0 Release Candidate 1 brings you a heavily updated version of the only native Mac OS X browser using Mozilla.org's Gecko HTML rendering engine. We made great improvements, adding new features, improving existing features, and fixing many bugs and performance issues.

Note that this version of Camino 1.0 Release Candidate 1 is close to its final shipping state. It is usable on a day-to-day basis and a large improvement over Camino 0.8.4, but you may still experience bugs, or features that are not complete. The goal of this early release is to demonstrate progress, and for people to report issues early on in the development cycle so that they can be addressed.

Camino 1.0 Release Candidate 1 shares the same code base with Firefox 1.5 (it's based on the Mozilla 1.8 CVS branch), so shares many of the security fixes and Gecko improvements that are in that version of Firefox.

Due to changes in the feature set, Camino no longer supports Mac OS X 10.1. We advise people still using OS X 10.1 to stay with Camino 0.8.4.

Changes in 1.0 Final

• Features
  • Back/Forward performance has been greatly improved by keeping the full page in memory.
  • Added a Fill Form menu and toolbar item which uses your personal Address Book card to automatically fill forms on the current webpage.
  • Command-enter in the URL bar or search field will now open a new tab or new window depending on preferences.
  • The Camino menu now has a "Reset Camino..." menu item, which will erase your browsing history, empty the cache, clear downloads, clear all cookies, clear all site permissions, and remove all remembered user names and passwords.
  • The Camino menu now has an "Empty Cache..." menu item.
  • Security status is now displayed in the location bar.
  • Camino now supports "document.designMode" (inline HTML editing).
  • The context menu for mailto: links has some new items for interacting with the Address Book.
  • The Help menu now contains an Installed Plugins item which opens about:plugins.
  • Favicons linked using a LINK element are now correctly displayed, instead of always looking for the root favicon.
  • On Mac OS X 10.4 Camino now uses the unified title-/toolbar on its windows.
  • For network and site-related errors, Camino now shows error pages instead of dialogs.

• Bookmarks and History
  • Every bookmark menu folder now has an "Open in Tabs" item.
  • We greatly improved History and Bookmark management.
  • The bookmarks manager now behaves like a webpage, no longer taking over the window and hiding opened tabs. This will allow you to:
    • Open the bookmarks manager in a new tab or a window.
    • Open the bookmarks manager in the current active tab or window.
    • Create a bookmark of the bookmarks manager and add that to your bookmarks bar for quick access.
    • Set the bookmarks manager as your homepage by using "about:bookmarks" as the url.
  • The Go menu now displays sites you visited in any window, grouped by date, and allows you to clear the history.
  • Spotlight will now index and open Camino bookmarks.

• Tabbed browsing
  • The Tab Bar was rewritten from scratch, allowing more tabs in a window (with an overflow menu), a close button on each tab, and the ability to show the tab bar when a single tab is open.

• Web Content
  • Web page access keys now work correctly.
  • Images are drawn and tiled using Core Graphics now, for performance and bug fixes.
  • XML files are now pretty-printed when viewed in Camino.
  • CSS3 cursors are supported now.
  • Camino now uses the Mozilla 1.8 engine, which in itself contains thousands of bug fixes that also benefit Camino. Some of the bigger and more important are:
    • Gecko's DHTML performance has had some major improvements.
    • Mozilla now supports the overflow-y and overflow-x properties.
    • Mozilla's pop-up blocker has been greatly improved.
    • Resizing of large images to fit the browser window has been improved, now restoring larger-sized image centered on the click location.
    • Mozilla now supports unprompted NTLM authentication (NTLM is an authentication protocol used in Microsoft networks).
    • The XML parser has been updated.
    • Command + Up & Down now works the same as Page Home & End.