Mozilla.org’s Camino Team Releases Camino 2.0.3 Browser

5931 After over a year of hard work by devoted volunteers, the Camino Project gives Mac OS X users Camino 2. This latest version of the Mac-only Web browser includes many bug fixes and new features, providing users with an improved browsing experience. This release displays web pages with Gecko 1.9, the same rendering engine used by the popular Firefox 3 web browser, and thus shares many of the security fixes and Gecko improvements that are in that version of Firefox

Camino 2.0.3 is now available. This version contains brand new features as well as important stability and security fixes. All users of Mac OS X 10.4 or later are recommended to upgrade. Camino 2.0.3 is also available in a multilingual version. For more information, checkout the Website', features page, or release notes.


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New in version 2.0.3:

Camino 2.0.3 is a stability and security update for Camino 2.0.x. All users are urged to upgrade. Camino 2.0.3 contains the following improvements over version 2.0.2:

  • Upgraded to version 1.9.0.19 of the Mozilla Gecko rendering engine, which includes several critical security and stability fixes.

  • Prevented possible crashes when closing several tabs in succession.

  • Bookmarks found in Spotlight searches will once again open in Camino.

  • Bookmark import will no longer try to import old Firefox bookmarks.

  • html files from profiles used by Firefox 3 and later.

  • Camino no longer exports Spotlight metadata for menu spacers.

  • "Reset Camino" will now always clear the "Recently Closed Pages" menu.

  • The context menu in about:config is now functional.

  • Insecure cookies will no longer be shown as secure in the list of cookies.

  • Prevented possible crashes when software update fails to download information about available updates.

  • Improved ad-blocking.



Camino 2.0.2 contains the following improvements over version 2.0.1:

  • Upgraded to version 1.9.0.18 of the Mozilla Gecko rendering engine, which includes several critical security and stability fixes.

  • Command-Arrow key combinations can again be reassigned as shortcuts for other menu items.

  • Google's Safe Browsing information pages will now appear in Norwegian for users of the Norwegian localization.

  • The Bookmark Bar colors will again appear correctly on displays with a gamma other than 1.8.

  • Upgraded the "Block flash animations" code to use Flashblock 1.5.12.

  • Improved ad-blocking.



Features in Camino 2

Improved tabbed browsing

The Tab Overview feature displays a grid of thumbnails of the tabs in the current window.

Tabs can be rearranged by dragging and dropping.

Command-click now defaults to opening links in new tabs instead of new windows.

New security features

Camino now supports the Google Safe Browsing service to provide warnings about many potentially malicious websites.

Camino now displays error pages for secure web pages using invalid or untrusted certificates.

Full content zoom

Camino now has support for making the entire contents of a web page bigger or smaller.

Download notifications

If Growl is installed, Camino will generate notifications when downloads begin and finish.

On Mac OS X 10.5 and higher, Camino will bounce the downloads folder in the Dock when a download finishes.

Recently closed pages

The History menu now contains a sub-menu listing the last 20 closed web pages.

Improved support for Full Keyboard Access
When Full Keyboard Access is enabled, tabbing now moves correctly through the entire browser window.

Enhanced annoyance blocking

Camino now includes an exceptions list to allow disabling Block Flash animations on a per-site basis and an Allow Flash From This Site contextual menu item to ease adding sites to the exceptions list.

New AppleScript capabilities

AppleScripts can now obtain the HTML source or text of an entire web page or of a selection.

Added AppleScript support for setting the active tab in each browser window.

Web content support
Camino now uses version 1.9.0 of Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine, which contains thousands of bug fixes, better web plug-in compatibility and performance, enhanced support for web standards, and new technologies like JavaScript 1.8.

System Requirements:
Camino 2.0.2 is available for Mac OS X 10.4 and later. The developers advise users running Mac OS X 10.3.9 to download Camino 1.6.10.

Camino is freeware

For more information, visit:
http://caminobrowser.org/
and
http://caminobrowser.org/releases/2.0/



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