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Annoyance blocking
Camino 1 includes the ability to block or disable common “features” of web pages that many people find annoying, including pop-up windows, JavaScript window manipulation, and banner advertising.

Blocking pop-up windows
Camino 1 enables you to block annoying pop-up windows that interrupt your web browsing. Camino 1 will ask you if you wish to enable this feature the first time it detects a pop-up window. To enable this feature manually, choose Preferences… from the Camino 1 application menu and open the Web Features preference pane. Click the check-box next to Block pop-up windows to prevent pages from displaying pop-up windows.

Camino 1 Blocking Popups

Camino 1 also includes an exceptions list for pop-up windows; you can use this list to allow certain sites to display pop-ups. Click on the Edit Exceptions List… button to add a site to the list.

When Camino 1 blocks a pop-up window, a little “exclamation point” icon will appear on the left side of the status bar. If you click on the icon, it displays a menu with options to add the current site to the exceptions list or to open the Web Features preference pane to configure pop-up blocking.

Blocking web advertising
Camino 1 can also hide many banner ads and other forms of web advertising from web pages. To enable this feature, choose Preferences… from the Camino 1 application menu and open the Web Features preference pane. Click the check-box next to Block web advertising. Due to the way some sites are designed, this feature may break the layout of some web pages. If a page looks broken and you have this feature enabled, simply open the Web Features preference pane, un-check the box next to Block web advertising, and then reload the web page. If Camino 1’s web advertising blocker was the cause of the problem, the page should now appear as the author intended. When you are done visiting that site, simply re-enable the feature and Camino 1 will once again block most ads.

Stopping animated images
Camino 1 includes the ability to make animated images only play one time instead of displaying the animation continually. To enable this feature, click the check-box next to Play animated images only once in the Content Control section of Camino 1’s Web Features preference pane.

Disabling JavaScript
JavaScript is a programming language that allows websites to dynamically generate web content, interact with the user, and manipulate browser windows and their contents. Camino 1 provides you the ability to disable only common JavaScript annoyances or the completely disable JavaScript. To prevent web pages from changing, moving, or resizing windows, simply check the box for this preference in the Web Features pane of Camino 1’s preferences. If you wish to disable JavaScript entirely, remove the check mark from the box for Enable JavaScript in the Content Control section of that preference pane. Be aware that disabling JavaScript may break many websites; if a website does not work correctly, simply check the box and reload the page to try again with JavaScript enabled.

Disabling Java applets
Java is a technology used to deliver small applications (“applets”) to users via web pages; these applets can perform many functions, such as offering a “live chat“ with a company’s technical support staff or uploading pictures to a website. If you wish to disable support for Java in Camino 1, remove the check mark from the box for Enable Java in the Content Control section of Camino 1’s Web Features preference pane.

Advanced Features
Like other browsers based on the Gecko rendering engine, Camino 1 also supports many advanced features which can be used to disable common annoyances on web pages.

Customizing the appearance of websites

For example, authors of web pages sometimes make color or font size choices that make it hard for users to read those pages. While you could adjust the font size through Camino 1’s preferences or using the items in the View menu, doing so repeatedly may be annoying. You can also hide additional web advertising that Camino 1’s own blocker does not catch.

Simply create a plain-text file called userContent.css in the chrome folder of your user profile (~/Library/Application Support/Camino) and add CSS rules to customize the appearance of websites. For more information on userContent.css, including sample rules, see mozilla.org’s Customizing Mozilla page.

Blocking scripts

Camino 1 also supports the use of hostperm.1 to block scripts (as well as images and certain other forms of web content). To block items, quit Camino 1 and open the hostperm.1 file in your profile folder using TextEdit or another a text editor. Add items using the format given in the documentation of the “permissions” syntax; note that the blank space between each column is actually a tab. After you finish adding rules, save the file and restart Camino 1.

Below is a sample set of rules you can add to hostperm.1 to supplement Camino 1’s built-in ad-blocking.

host	image	2		adserver.com
host	image	2		clickserve.cc-dt.com
host	image	2		contnet.4u.com
host	image	2		coremetrics.com
host	image	2		doubleclick.net

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