Download Mozilla Camino 0.8

The Mozilla.org development team has released a new version of Mozilla Camino. The version number of this browser for the MacOS X platform has arrived at 0.8. Cocoa is used for the user interface and the Gecko engine is used to render pages. In addition, the program has tabbed browsing, a popup blocker and a Google search field. The release notes look like this:

The following changes and improvements have been made since the Chimera 0.7 release. The list of improvements and bug-fixes are too numerous to name individually.

Highlights:

• A new look and icon set (a graphite set will be made available shortly)
• Upgraded Gecko HTML rendering engine to 1.7final from 1.0, yielding performance and web page rendering enhancements, as well as a large number of bug fixes
• A more compact download manager UI
• Entirely rewritten bookmark system, capable of importing Safari, IE, and Mozilla bookmarks, with Rendezvous and Address Book integration and multi-level undo support
• “Top Ten” bookmark collection, based on your ten most-visited sites
• Searchable bookmarks
• Google Search field in toolbar
• Ability to manage individual cookies, sorting and editing cookie allow/deny lists
• Ability to unblock popups on a per-site basis (popup white-listing)
• User profile migrated to ~/Library/Application Support/Camino
• Incremental, type-ahead find in the content area
• Automatic size-to-fit for image images larger than the viewable content area
• Hundreds of smaller improvements and bug-fixes to the user interface

Since the 0.8beta release, we have added the following:

• Click-hold session history menus on the Back and Forward buttons
• XSLT support
• Startup speed improvements with a large bookmark set
• Security fixes for Mac OS X protocol exploit
• Tabbing from URL field to Google Search field works correctly
• Improved bookmark importing
• “View Frame Source” correctly displays the frame’s html instead of that of the frame set
• New keyboard shortcuts for switching tabs that work better with non-US keyboards
• More bug fixes and general enhancements to the UI and Gecko rendering engine