03.31.09

Camino 2009 Week 12-13

Posted in Camino at 2:26 am by Smokey

Has it been two weeks since the last Camino update? How time flies when you’re driving a release.

First, a reminder that applications for this year’s Google Summer of Code are due this Friday. Camino sample project ideas are here, with more information here and here. We look forward to your applications!

  • Stuart Morgan again handled a large portion of the review/superreview queue over the last couple of weeks. When he wasn’t reviewing patches, Stuart also fixed some issues with our default browser lookup code (particularly on factory-fresh systems where the default browser isn’t set in certain places) and vetted Summer of Code project suggestions.
  • Sean Murphy finished his work on abstracting the transient bar code this week, which enables him to add a new transient bar to support the coming anti-phishing feature. Also, for any Git aficionados, Sean documented the process he uses to manage his Camino development with Git.
  • Christopher Henderson posted several new or revised patches, including UTF-8 URL display in the Bookmarks Manager, the “Allow Flash From This Site” context menu item, and AppleScript support for getting the text or source of web pages. He also fixed a regression in the display of the bookmark bar on Mac OS X 10.4
  • Ilya Sherman fixed a regression that caused new downloads sometimes to appear at the top of the Downloads window, and he also posted a patch for more cleanup of our downloading code.
  • Chris Lawson has been on crash prevention patrol recently, finding and fixing places where Camino might crash if Gecko objects disappeared unexpectedly. He also added support for localization of the folder name used when saving a web page as “HTML Complete.”
  • Most of my Camino time over the past two weeks has been spent on the forthcoming Camino 1.6.7 security and stability release, checking in patches, working on release notes, and joining in on the general Mozilla fun of zero-day exploits popping up in the middle of the release process. (As a result of all this fun, I got to do my first-ever respin. :P ) I also worked on some test scripts for Christopher Henderson’s new AppleScript features and finished the patch for the latest omnibus ad-blocking bug. In my spare time, I began writing a password migration utility and ran into some fun endian-related Apple bugs, so I now owe Apple a pair of rdar:// bugs instead of having a working utility. :P On the other hand, I didn’t have Sam’s job, so for that I should be thankful.

That’s it for now. Look for Camino 1.6.7 very soon, and we’ll be looking for your Summer of Code applications!

2 Comments »

  1. User Grav­atarMehmet said,

    03.31.09 at 8:03 pm

    Hi Smokey,

    hope you are fine.

    Camino is really great !!!! I like it, since I use it the first time. Respect to the complete Camino-Team !!!!!

    What will the future bring? Or is it top secret ;-)
    Gecko 1.9.1 or directly 1.9.2? Hope, pixelscrolling, the awesome Bar and something like NoScript will come in the future, too ;-)

    Greetings from Germany,

    Bye
    Mehmet

  2. User Grav­atarSmokey said,

    04.01.09 at 4:55 pm

    Mehmet: We’re glad you’re enjoying Camino!

    We plan for future releases each year at our annual meeting (usually around WWDC), so we don’t have any firm plans yet for post-Camino 2. A more powerful location bar is one of the things we have listed for a potential Summer of Code project this year, though.

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