Camino 1.6.11 Released!

Posted on Monday, March 15, 2010 at 1:00pm PDT by Samuel Sidler

Today the Camino Project is releasing Camino 1.6.11, the final security and stability release of the Camino 1.6.x series. This release is designed only for our users on Mac OS X 10.3.9; users of Mac OS X 10.4 or higher should use Camino 2.0.2 instead. Since Camino 2 no longer supports Mac OS X 10.3.9, Camino 1.6.11 is the final release for our users on 10.3. We wish you well, and we hope to see you again when you next upgrade your OS or get a new Mac.

Camino 1.6.11 is available in the following languages:

• Catalan
• Chinese (Simplified)
• Czech
• Dutch
• English (US)
• French
• German
• Italian
• Japanese
• Norwegian (Bokmål)
• Polish
• Portuguese (Brazillian)
• Russian
• Slovenian
• Spanish (Castellano)
• Swedish

As always, you can download Camino 1.6.11 in English (or the multilingual version) from our website, and existing Camino 1.6.x users on Mac OS X 10.3.9 will receive this release via software update.

 

Camino 2.0.2 Released!

Posted on Tuesday, February 23, 2010 at 1:00pm PST by Samuel Sidler

We’ve just released Camino 2.0.2, a maintenance release which contains various security and stability updates to Camino 2.0.x. All users are urged to update.

In addition, Camino 2.0.2 is available in the following languages:

• Chinese (Simplified)
• Danish
• Dutch
• English (US)
• French
• German
• Italian
• Japanese
• Norwegian (Bokmål)
• Polish
• Russian
• Slovenian
• Spanish (Castellano)
• Swedish
• Turkish

As always, you can download Camino 2.0.2 in English (or the multilingual version) from our website, and existing Camino users will receive this release via software update.

 

Camino is an About.com Best Independent Browser Finalist!

Posted on Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 1:00pm PST by Smokey Ardisson

About.com has just released the list of finalists in the 2010 About.com Reader’s Choice Awards, and Camino is one of the five finalists in the “Best Independent Browser” category. We’re excited to be recognized, especially as the sole Mac-only browser in the category.

Voting runs through February 24, so if you’re a Camino fan, you can vote on this page. (You can access all the About.com Reader’s Choice Awards categories here and vote for your favorite sites and programs in other categories.)

 

Camino 2.0.1 Released!

Posted on Friday, December 4, 2009 at 1:00pm PST by Samuel Sidler

We’ve just released Camino 2.0.1, a maintenance release which contains various security and stability updates to Camino 2.0. All users are urged to update.

In addition, Camino 2.0.1 is available in the following languages:

• Chinese (Simplified)
• Danish
• Dutch
• English (US)
• French
• German
• Italian
• Japanese
• Norwegian (Bokmål)
• Polish
• Russian
• Slovenian
• Spanish (Castellano)
• Swedish
• Turkish

As always, you can download Camino 2.0.1 in English (or the multilingual version) from our website, and existing Camino users will receive this release via software update.

 

Help make a great Mac browser!

Posted on Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 3:15pm PST by Smokey Ardisson

In the days since the release of Camino 2, we’ve been thrilled by the positive response it has received. We love making a great Mac web browser, and we’re very happy that you like to use it. One of the most common criticisms we’ve heard is one we often make of ourselves: we don’t move fast enough. Part of this is our reputation for the high bar of quality we set for releases, but most of this is due to available manpower. We’re a small, all-volunteer, open source project, not some skunkworks arm of a major corporation.

Clearing up persistent misconceptions about Camino

Contrary to what you may have read in some misinformed news coverage of the Camino 2 release, Camino is not a project of “the same people who make Firefox.” Camino is an all-volunteer project, and while the Mozilla Foundation generously serves as the legal organization representing the Camino Project and provides ancillary support services (build machines, version control and bug tracking systems, and release mirrors), as the Foundation does for other “community projects,” that’s where the connection begins and ends. No one is earning a salary to work on Camino, there are no Mozilla Foundation or Corporation employees whose job descriptions include caring for Camino, and, incidentally, Camino is in no way “draining resources from Firefox.” Camino does usually benefit from work Mozilla Corporation employees do on the Gecko rendering engine, but that’s only an added bonus all around; the Mozilla Corporation employees are doing that work to make Firefox better.

How you can help

The Camino Project is made up of a small, diverse group of volunteers who work on Camino on nights, weekends, and other bits of spare time. Our developers range from pilots to students and software developers. Unlike browsers produced by companies with dozens of full-time employes assigned to develop, test, and release the product, Camino has less than one full-time person worth of developer time, spread out over approximately five people. Because we’re a small team, everyone has a chance to make an impact, and having more people can make a noticeable difference in our progress. How can you help your favorite browser?

• If you know some Cocoa and Objective-C, there are plenty of opportunities to help out without having to go near C++ or Gecko/XPCOM. You don’t have to be an Objective-C rockstar, either; we can help take Objective-C beginners and turn them into developers with 100 bugfixes in a year. We have a development section on our wiki with overviews, build instructions, and other helpful information, and you can also talk with us on IRC.
• If you also know C++ and aren’t afraid to get your hands a bit dirty with Mozilla’s XPCOM, we have some bigger projects that require some plumbing in Gecko and our embedding layer. (If you like working at even lower levels, there are also some bugs in the Breakpad crash reporting library we’d like fixed.)
• If you’re bilingual or a polyglot, our localization teams are always looking for new members to help out existing teams and to localize Camino into new languages.
• Even if you just consider yourself a “normal user,” there are things you can do to help, too. Stop by the Camino forum on mozillaZine and see if you can help answer questions; maybe you’re a web developer and can look into why a website might be acting strangely for another user. Tell your friends about Camino; we also have a number of badges you can display on your website, blog, or profile page.
• If we didn’t mention your skillset and you want to help out, let us know; there’s likely something you can do, too.

In short, there are opportunities for just about everyone to contribute to help make Camino even better. You don’t have to produce 100 patches to make a difference, either; every bit of code contributed is one more feature for Camino users to enjoy (or one less bug to annoy them). Thank you again for being Camino users; we appreciate your support, and we hope some of you will consider helping make Camino an ever better Mac browser.

 

Update on Camino 2 crashes

Posted on Sunday, November 21, 2009 at 3:15pm PST by Smokey Ardisson

Since Camino 2 was released on Wednesday afternoon, we’ve been analyzing the early crash reports, looking for patterns and filing bugs. Since this is the first time since the release of Camino 0.8 that all Camino users have been able to report crashes automatically, we weren’t quite sure what to expect. Besides the usual plug-in crashes (especially Flash Player), we’ve identified some common crashes that we can either help alleviate already or crashes where we’d like more information from those of you who are, unfortunately, experiencing them.

Crashes on startup

Most frustrating are the crashes that occur on startup because, if they are persistent crashes, they prevent you from using Camino at all (and they also prevent you from using the about:crashes feature to learn more about your crashes). Early indications are that there are three common startup crashes: one caused by corrupt fonts on Mac OS X 10.6, one caused by internet plug-ins, and one that seems related to color management.

Corrupt fonts

The good news is that the most common of these startup crashes, a crash in MacOSFontEntry::GetFontID caused by corrupt fonts on Mac OS X 10.6, is already fixed in Camino 2.0.1pre nightly builds. If you’re using Mac OS X 10.6 and crashing on startup, this is probably the crash you’re seeing, and using the nightly build of what will very soon become Camino 2.0.1 should fix the crashes. We also recommend that you use Font Book to validate your fonts and remove any corrupt ones (as well as to check for duplicate fonts), since corrupt and duplicate fonts can cause problems for other applications and the system.

Internet Plug-ins

A second common startup crash is a crash in dlopen related to detecting installed plug-ins. If you have plug-ins installed other than the common QuickTime Plugin.plugin, Flash Player.plugin, and the JavaPluginCocoa.bundle, try removing the other plug-ins from Internet Plug-Ins folder inside the Library folder in your user’s Home folder and in the Internet Plug-Ins folder inside the Library folder at the root of your hard disk. If Camino launches successfully, you can quit Camino, add plug-ins back one by one, and relaunch Camino until you find the plug-in that is triggering the crash. When you figure out which plug-in is causing the crash, please let us know, either by posting in the forum or by filing a bug, so that we can try to stop the crash in the future.

Color Management

The final common startup crash is in gfxPlatform::GetCMSOutputProfile, which is code related to the (off-by-default) color management feature. If you have enabled the color management hidden preference and are crashing on startup, try launching Camino with a fresh profile using the Troubleshoot Camino utility. If Camino launches successfully, you can remove the color management preference from the prefs.js (and possibly user.js, if it exists) file in your Camino profile (the Camino inside the Application Support folder inside the Library folder in your user’s Home folder). At this time we don’t know much about this crash, so if you are experiencing it, please let us know so that we can obtain more information and try to stop the crash in the future.

Crashes customizing the toolbar

If you crash when trying to customize the toolbar, make sure that you do not have the third-party 1Password software installed. 1Password does not currently support Camino 2, and all current versions of the 1Password software are incompatible with Camino 2. If you have 1Password installed and crash when customizing the toolbar, you should uninstall 1Password’s Camino integration and contact 1Password support.

Crashes with Google Desktop installed

Google Desktop’s Camino integration is a common way of triggering a crash in Gecko’s code for drawing form controls. If you have Google Desktop installed and frequently crash randomly while browsing, visit about:crashes to look up the crash reports you have sent. If the “signature” in one or more of your crash reports contains nsNativeThemeCocoa::DrawPushButton, you are experiencing this crash, and you should uncheck “Web History” in the “Indexing” tab of Google Desktop’s preferences.

If you’re having trouble figuring out why you are crashing (for instance, if you are crashing at startup and don’t know whether your crashes are the ones described above), stop by the Camino forum on mozillaZine and ask for help. In addition, if you are experiencing persistent crashes, please let us know, either by posting in the forum or by filing a bug. If we’ve already learned about your crash, there’s a good chance that we can point you to a version of Camino containing a fix for the crash or at least supply a work-around in the interim. If we haven’t heard of your crash before, letting us know about it is the first step to making it go away. As always, thank you for using Camino.

 

Camino 2 Released!

Posted on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 2:00pm PST by Samuel Sidler

After over a year of hard work, the Camino Project is proud announce Camino 2.0, a major new update to the Camino web browser.

Camino 2.0 includes a number of new features and enhancements, including rearranging tabs by drag-and-drop, a new Tab Overview feature, phishing and malware protection, full content zoom, Growl notifications for downloads, improved support for Full Keyboard Access in the browser window, and displays web content using Mozilla’s Gecko 1.9 rendering engine. For a list of features in Camino, visit our features page. Also, see the release notes for more detailed information about changes in Camino 2.0.

Camino 2.0 is available today in 14 languages:

• Chinese (Simplified)
• Danish
• Dutch
• English (US)
• French
• German
• Italian
• Japanese
• Norwegian (Bokmål)
• Russian
• Slovenian
• Spanish (Castellano)
• Swedish
• Turkish

One other language, Polish, is expected to be available in the near future.

As always, you can download Camino 2.0 in English (or the multilingual version) from our website, and existing Camino users will receive this release via software update. Camino 2.0 is available for users of Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

 

Camino 1.6.10 Released!

Posted on Tuesday, September 29, 2009 at 2:00pm PDT by Samuel Sidler

We’ve just released Camino 1.6.10, a maintenance release which contains various security and stability updates to Camino 1.6.x. All users are urged to update.

In addition, Camino 1.6.10 is available in the following languages:

• Catalan
• Chinese (Simplified)
• Czech
• Dutch
• English (US)
• French
• German
• Italian
• Japanese
• Norwegian (Bokmål)
• Polish
• Portuguese (Brazillian)
• Russian
• Slovenian
• Spanish (Castellano)
• Swedish

Download Camino 1.6.10 in English or its multilingual version now.

 

Camino 2.0 Beta 4 Released!

Posted on Friday, September 18, 2009 at 11:45am PDT by Samuel Sidler

After months of hard work following the release of Camino 1.6, the Camino Project is proud to announce the fifth preview release of Camino 2.

Camino 2.0 Beta 4 contains several notable improvements, including phishing and malware protection, enhanced AppleScript capabilities, a new crash reporting system that works on all Macs, Growl notifications for completed downloads, support for rearranging tabs by drag and drop, the ability to disable “Block Flash animation” on a per-site basis, tab overview, full content zoom, better support for Full Keyboard Access in the browser window, and a “Recently Closed Pages” menu. Camino 2.0 Beta 4 also has all of the improvements in version 1.9.0 of Mozilla’s Gecko rendering engine, leading to better performance with popular plug-ins and enhanced support for web standards.

For more information and to download, please visit our preview site.