camino 1.6 alpha 1

[clevin]

http://preview.caminobrowser.org/
whats new

General

* Camino now checks for new releases automatically.
* Enhanced AppleScript support.
* When changing Chinese, Japanese, or Korean font preferences, the “Advanced” sheet will now set the font correctly.
* Alerts and prompts that appear while Camino is hidden will now display properly when un-hiding Camino.
* Camino will no longer claim to support the gopher protocol.
* Large download lists and corrupt site icons no longer cause Camino to stop loading pages or opening windows.
* Camino will now purge expired site icons from the site icon cache when quitting.
* Camino now includes a reference to Firefox in the user-agent string sent to web servers. This improves compatibility with websites that incorrectly check for Firefox instead of Gecko.
* The Camino application icon now contains a 512x512 pixel version for better integration with Mac OS X 10.5.

Downloading

* When Camino is set to open downloaded files, the application that opens the file will now come to the front.
* Items in the Downloads window can now be dragged to move them to new locations or open them in applications.

Localization

* Dates in the History window are displayed according to the user’s locale.

Preferences

* Camino now remembers the most recently selected preference pane across restarts.
* The action menu in the “Show Cookies” sheet now contains items to add sites to the exceptions list.
* Camino can now set the default browser or feed reader in cases where no application had already been set as the default.

Privacy & Security

* The Keychain will no longer repeatedly prompt for access if access has been granted recently.
* Camino will no longer fill disabled password fields.
* Camino will upgrade old Keychain entries saved by versions of Camino prior to 1.5 the first time the entry is used instead of the first time the entry is changed.
* Camino now stores Internationalized Domain Names using Punycode when saving passwords in the Keychain.
* The sheets for changing or remembering passwords no longer prevent pages from loading.

Tabs

* The tab bar is now scrollable. When more tabs are open than can be displayed in the tab bar, right and left scroll arrows appear.
* The tab overflow menu has been replaced by a menu displaying all open tabs in the current window.
* The mouse scroll wheel will scroll the tab bar.
* Option-clicking on the tab scroll buttons scrolls a window’s width of tabs.
* Camino now honors the browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground hidden preference to load tabs created by links that would open new windows in the background.
* When an alert causes tab focus to change, closing the alert will return focus to the original tab.
* When a page is loading, a progress spinner displays in place of the site icon on the tab.

User Interface

* The search fields in the toolbar and the Privacy preference pane are now proper NSSearchFields.
* It is no longer possible to tab to the toolbar search field when the field is collapsed.
* The status bar now has a dark grey, rounded appearance on Mac OS X 10.5.
* “New Tab” and “Open File…” are now disabled when a View Source window is active.

Web Page Interaction

* Improved ad-blocking.
* Pressing the spacebar when a <select> is focused will now display its pop-up menu.
* The onbeforeunload event now fires when closing tabs or windows.
* When viewing the source of a frame, Camino now uses cached data instead of requesting the frame again.
* When a web page focuses a minimized window, Camino now properly restores the window from the Dock.
* Upgraded “Block flash animations” to use Flashblock 1.5.4.1.

personal comments (always negative... ):
1. still no full-page zoom as in firefox 3(and opera, of course), kinda disappointing
2. still no drag-n-arrange tabs, again, kinda disappointing
3. url bar functions are still weak, folks, take some lessens from firefox! since you guys are brothers.

 

[iJawn108]

I like the new way finder is displayed much handier then a pop up window.

 

[DerChef]

As I have said before Camino WORKS with onspeed Firefox NEVER has which makes me think Firefox is exactly what it is an ugly port as opposed to a properly written Mac application that actually works the core of OS rather than sits on it. So maybe brotherly love should extend both ways

In fact if Mozilla does not sort these memory leaks and memory holes soon Firefox on my PC could be heading closer to the door.

(Also pity they would not ditch Gecko and use something a little more in keeping with the 21st century)

 

[clevin]

As I have said before Camino WORKS with onspeed Firefox NEVER has which makes me think Firefox is exactly what it is an ugly port as opposed to a properly written Mac application that actually works the core of OS rather than sits on it. So maybe brotherly love should extend both ways

In fact if Mozilla does not sort these memory leaks and memory holes soon Firefox on my PC could be heading closer to the door.

(Also pity they would not ditch Gecko and use something a little more in keeping with the 21st century)

firefox 3.0 for mac is written in cocoa.

and firefox isn't doing any worse than any other mac browsers, as far as memory leak is concerned.

gecko is good, what else engine can you expect in 21st century? webkit? bogged down with apple, presto? isn't even open. we all know trident is out of date. and never even mention about icab.

 

[djejrejk]

I have used Safari 3 since leopard came out, this will probably continue, however Camino looks great! I really don't like the Firefox 3 UI.. the proto interface is nice. I probably won't use is when its released.

 

[DerChef]

firefox 3.0 for mac is written in cocoa.

and firefox isn't doing any worse than any other mac browsers, as far as memory leak is concerned.

gecko is good, what else engine can you expect in 21st century? webkit? bogged down with apple, presto? isn't even open. we all know trident is out of date. and never even mention about icab.

Well if it works with my web accelerator I will give it a clap

open??? who ****ing cares there is only one open source bit of software I ever use on the Mac and that is VLC. I have Camino installed but rarely use it.

Try using Gecko based browsers on a dial up connection for any length of time and you will not have fun. I would almost like to pay your air ticket to demonstrate.

 

[clevin]

Try using Gecko based browsers on a dial up connection for any length of time and you will not have fun. I would almost like to pay your air ticket to demonstrate.

please do i need to get away during xmas anyway, and flight ticket is so ridiculous for that time span....

yes. for 56k..... as I understand, all so called web accelerators are operating as a proxy, they simply compact the picture quality before sending to your computer? is that right?

for that purpose, did you try alter the pipeline settings in firefox and remove the initial delay? which may drastically speed up firefox, up to 8X.

there is nothing about gecko that decide the speed. its all about how you want it to work. gecko does offer a great deal of options.

 

[iBunny]

Is this 1.6 Alpha Faster than the latest and greatest official release of Camino?

I always found Camino to be faster than any other browser for the Mac; however, I always went back to Safari.... I dunno why?