New Security and Stability Update for the Camino Web Browser

WebKnowHow
Thursday, June 22, 2006; 04:52 AM

Camino 1.0, a heavily-updated version of the only native Mac OS X browser using Mozilla’s Gecko rendering engine, has been upgraded to v.1.0.2

The Camino logo.

Camino 1.0.2 is a security and stability update for Camino 1.0 users; all users are recommended to upgrade. The versions above 1.0 do not run on Mac OS X 10.1. Users still running Mac OS X 10.1 should continue to use Camino 0.8.5.

In Camino 1.0.2, the following changes and improvements since version 1.0.1 have been made:

• Fixed several critical security issues, including those fixed in version 1.8.0.4 of the Mozilla Gecko rendering engine.
• Fixed an issue in Camino 1.0.1 where proxy auto-config (PAC) files were ignored.
• Fixed an issue where Camino’s bookmark metadata could not be added to the list of locations Spotlight is prevented from searching.
• Fixed an issue where using Camino on a network with many Bonjour hosts could significantly degrade performance.
• Fixed an issue where Camino would ignore the “Link from other application” tabbed browsing preference in certain cases.
• Fixed an issue where Camino displayed some search fields on Apple.com incorrectly.

In Camino 1.0.1, the following changes and improvements since version 1.0 have been made:

• Fixed several critical security issues, including those fixed in version 1.8.0.3 of the Mozilla Gecko rendering engine.
• Upgraded the bundled Java Embedding Plugin (http://javaplugin.sf.net) to version 0.9.5+d
• Improved ad-blocking, especially of German ads
• Enabled the opening of local SVG files
• Fixed an issue where Camino on Intel-based Macs was unable to read Keychain entries stored by Camino on PowerPC-based Macs.