The Camino project has released the second beta version of Camino 1.6, the Mozilla-based native Mac OS X browser. Beta 1 didn’t live long to go public due to a crashing bug which made necessary a quick Beta 2.

Beta 2 has some notable improvements over Alpha 1, released back in December:

• When saving a web page as a PDF from the Print dialog, Camino suggests the page’s title as the filename.
• Deleted bookmarks will be removed from bookmark search result lists.
• The list of default bookmarks created with a fresh installation of Camino has been extensively revised.
• Bookmarks created without visiting a page now have a “Last Visited” date of “Never.”
• Camino provides the Mac OS X 10.5 Quarantine system with enhanced information about downloaded files.
• On Mac OS X 10.4 and above, Camino sets the “Where From” metadata attribute on downloaded files.
• It is no longer possible to accidentally hide the toolbar in the Preferences window.
• Cookies, cookie exceptions, and keychain exclusions are now grouped by site when sorting.
• It is now possible to select an entry for a particular server in the cookies exceptions list and make that exception apply to other servers at the same site.
• Improved the accessibility of preference panes by ensuring proper tab key behavior when Full Keyboard Access is enabled.
• The list of sites for which Camino never saves passwords can now be edited in the Privacy preference pane.
• Resetting Camino now clears the “Last Visited” date on bookmarks.
• It is no longer possible to cut or copy the contents of password fields.
• The Find panel has been replaced by a Find toolbar that appears near the bottom of the browser window.
• The search field in the toolbar now includes a simple editor that allows deleting, renaming, or reordering search engines.
• Camino now supports OpenSearch search engine plug-ins. New search engines can be added to the toolbar’s search field by automatic discovery, or by web pages that provide links to OpenSearch plug-ins.
• The initially-focused button and tab order in alerts and other dialogs now follow the expected behavior.
• Upgraded the “Block Flash animations” code to use Flashblock 1.5.5.
• Camino now hides the cursor when using the Page Up and Page Down keys.

For a more comprehensive list, see the complete release notes.

Camino 1.6 Alpha users can update to Beta 2 selecting Check for Updates… in the Camino menu. Otherwise, you can get Camino 1.6 Beta 2 from the preview site. Keep in mind “it may be unstable and not suitable for day-to-day use”.