ilo 0.1.9

ilo 0.1.9

Agents can do much more in your browser, and every step that reaches outside the page asks you first: an agent's download waits for your OK, and so does any change it sends to its tab's site. Site search, a Blank Window, Battery Saver, a Library for private windows, and Little ilo from Windows' taskbar and Linux's launcher are new. It stays on Chromium 156.0.8078.79. On the Mac, and on Windows when installed with the installer, ilo updates itself to it. Flatpak copies update through Flatpak. What changed, with more detail: https://ilobrowser.com/changelog#0.1.9

What's new

Browsing

• Site search: type a site's name in the command bar and press Tab to search it there. 19 sites are built in, each in its own colour.
• A Blank Window (⌃⌘N on the Mac) holds tabs that aren't kept or shown anywhere else.
• A private window has a Library of its own, with its own downloads.
• An archived tab opens as a preview first: ⌘W closes it and leaves it archived, ⌘↩ brings it back. ⌘-click still restores it at once.
• Resting on a closed folder previews its tabs, newest first, with their ages.
• Reorder Spaces by dragging a dot in the Space switcher, or a Library card by its handle.
• A split view can have its own name and icon. Drag one onto the favorites to keep it as a single favorite.
• ⇧⌘-drag on a page captures the rectangle you drag, at once.
• ⌘Z puts back a page or search you removed from history.
• Right-click the reload button to reload, hard reload, or clear the site's data and reload.
• Edit › AutoFill opens the autofill dropdown at the focused field.
• The Mini Player opens at the top right, stays where you leave it, and takes you back to its tab.
• Battery Saver turns on below 20 %, with Turn Off. A leaf shows while it's on, and a page it froze says so.
• Calls connect directly without telling a page your local address. Settings › Privacy › Relay calls sends every call through a relay.
• Settings has page zoom, Ask where to save, notification prompts, and Archive after: Never. Little ilo can be turned off in Settings › Features.
• Settings › Sync says when it last synced and what stops it, and can delete the account.
• Little ilo opens from Windows' taskbar (a jump-list task and a tray icon) and from Linux's launcher (New Little ilo Window). Linux's launcher and Windows' jump list also open a new window or a private one.
• On Windows, Alt pressed alone shows the hidden sidebar.
• Administrators can set policies: on Linux in /etc/ilo/policies (the Flatpak reads its extension point), on Windows in SOFTWARE\Policies\ilo.

Agents

• An agent's download asks you first, and nothing reaches your disk until you allow it.
• Agents can send requests to their tab's own site, and every change asks you first.
• Agents choose options in selects and dropdowns by their text, scroll inside panels and frames, and hear when nothing moved.
• Agents wait for the element and for the page to settle before they act, and an agent acting on a page that's still loading is told so.
• Agents make and manage split views in their own Space, and pin, unpin and remove their own tabs. Your pins stay yours.
• Tabs an agent's page opens stay in the agent's Space, and the agent hears of them.
• Library › Agents keeps your agents' finished tasks for 30 days, and deletes them with the history of their time.
• An agent's tabs are no longer synced to your other devices.
• An agent's close never shows a dialog, and tab ids never repeat across launches.
• An agent's screenshot of a tab out of sight answers instead of hanging.

What's fixed

All platforms

• On the Mac and Linux, sites keep you signed in after a restart, an update or an unloaded tab.
• A launch's first page waits for the ad blocker, so it never shows ads.
• Clicking a site's notification brings up the tab that sent it.
• A page asking for a device shows ilo's chooser in its question card.
• A tab in a call is never unloaded.
• A tab a DevTools client opens lands in your window.
• In Little ilo, a page's sign-in pop-up opens as its own window over it, and its size no longer becomes the size of the next Little ilo window.
• Deleting a profile with no Space removes its favorites too, and says how many first.
• Deleting a Space after the last window has closed no longer crashes.
• Delete in Clear browsing data, with history ticked, no longer crashes.
• The command bar's picks forget deleted history, and stay in each profile's own folder.
• A new tab's address no longer lingers after Chromium stops showing it.
• A Space's change reaches a device added soon after.
• A page that fails to load reads in Light appearance.
• Settings' grey text is easier to read, and its rows have more room.
• A tab's hover-card picture is taken after a tab switch instead of during it.
• An idle browser no longer wakes every minute or two for measurements nothing uses.

Mac

• The window's sidebar shows at once at launch, even when the Dock or menu bar changed size since you quit.

Windows

• Windows maximized when you quit come back maximized.
• A page fills its window again after moving to a display of another scale.

Linux

• A shortcut pressed right after answering one of ilo's dialogs is no longer lost, and a key typed as a dialog closes reaches the page.
• On Wayland, a link from another app brings ilo's window forward.
• On Wayland, leaving full screen lays the page out once, at the right size, and a window gets its own size back after a page's full screen.

Get it

• macOS: Macs with Apple silicon. Download ilo-mac-arm64.dmg.
• Windows 10 and 11, x64: download ilo-windows-x64-setup.exe. It isn't signed yet, so Windows may warn before running it. winget (winget install ilo.ilo) and the Microsoft Store follow once each accepts ilo.
• Linux: Flatpak, from flatpak.ilobrowser.com. Run flatpak install --user https://github.com/MartinPTielemans/ilo/releases/latest/download/ilo.flatpakref

SHA256SUMS lists each file's checksum.

Known gaps

• Windows: Japanese input is tested in pages and the address bar. One case is still open: text typed right after Ctrl+L, while the page is still answering the shortcut, is composed in the page instead of the address bar.
• Windows: sites can still sign you out after a restart or an update (#1998).
• On Wayland, ilo can occasionally crash while a window is closing (#1999).

The Mac build needs macOS 15 (Sequoia) or later, on Apple silicon.

ilo 0.1.8

ilo 0.1.8

A click in an agent's page takes it over, and an agent's tabs open muted. Keys typed fast after a dialog closes, or after Ctrl+F on Windows, land where you meant them. It stays on Chromium 156.0.8078.79. On the Mac, and on Windows when installed with the installer, ilo updates itself to it. Flatpak copies update through Flatpak. What changed, with more detail: https://ilobrowser.com/changelog#0.1.8

What's new

• A click in the page an agent works in takes it over, and the click goes on to the page. The strip under it then reads "You're driving", with Hand Back. ⌘↩ still takes over and hands back.
• An agent's tabs open muted. A crossed speaker shows on its tile and its strip while it plays, and a click there unmutes it. Open, which moves a finished task's page to your Space, unmutes it.

What's fixed

Mac and Windows

• A key typed while a dialog is closing reaches the browser window instead of being lost with the dialog.

Windows

• The keys typed right after Ctrl+F reach the find bar, whether the page or ilo's own controls had the keyboard.

Get it

• macOS: Macs with Apple silicon. Download ilo-mac-arm64.dmg.
• Windows 10 and 11, x64: download ilo-windows-x64-setup.exe. It isn't signed yet, so Windows may warn before running it. winget (winget install ilo.ilo) and the Microsoft Store follow once each accepts ilo.
• Linux: Flatpak, from flatpak.ilobrowser.com. Run flatpak install --user https://github.com/MartinPTielemans/ilo/releases/latest/download/ilo.flatpakref

SHA256SUMS lists each file's checksum.

Known gaps

• Windows: Japanese input is tested in pages and the address bar. One case is still open: text typed right after Ctrl+L, while the page is still answering the shortcut, is composed in the page instead of the address bar.
• On Wayland, leaving full screen with Esc can draw the page at its full-screen size for a moment before it fits the window.

The Mac build needs macOS 15 (Sequoia) or later, on Apple silicon.

ilo 0.1.7

ilo 0.1.7

Little ilo grows into a full window, with its own command bar, its pinned extensions and full screen, and sends its page to any Space. The agent surfaces say what needs you and how far the agent has got. It stays on Chromium 156.0.8078.79. On the Mac, and on Windows when installed with the installer, ilo updates itself to it. Flatpak copies update through Flatpak. What changed, with more detail: https://ilobrowser.com/changelog#0.1.7

What's new

• Little ilo opens its command bar inside its window, from ⌘L and ⌘T. Open in and its Spaces menu send its page to any Space. On the Mac it grows in from under the pointer.
• Little ilo's bar has your pinned extensions at its title's end, with their popups and menus, and a page's video goes full screen in the Little ilo window. Esc leaves full screen and keeps the window.
• The agent surfaces say what needs you. An agent's card has one primary button, Allow Once, Show Tab or Hand Back, and says how far the agent has got: "Step 5 · Clicking …", "Stopped after 6 steps", or "Needs you" and why. The conversation's header counts steps and pages.
• A ⌘T task's Always Allow and Never answers belong to its CLI, Claude or Codex. Settings › Agents lists them under "What Claude may do from ⌘T", each with Revoke. Answers an earlier version kept for a single task are cleared at launch.
• The import reads at a glance, in Settings and on the first launch: one line for each kind of data with its count, fewer words at each step, and one row with the counts when it's done.
• Screen readers (VoiceOver, Narrator and Orca) name the controls in Settings' Sync, Links, About and import views, by what each one does.

What's fixed

All platforms

• A desktop app's sign-in that opens in Little ilo hands back to the app when it's done.
• The open-app dialog's "Always allow" line wraps inside the dialog instead of running past its edge.

Get it

• macOS: Macs with Apple silicon. Download ilo-mac-arm64.dmg.
• Windows 10 and 11, x64: download ilo-windows-x64-setup.exe. It isn't signed yet, so Windows may warn before running it. winget (winget install ilo.ilo) and the Microsoft Store follow once each accepts ilo.
• Linux: Flatpak, from flatpak.ilobrowser.com. Run flatpak install --user https://github.com/MartinPTielemans/ilo/releases/latest/download/ilo.flatpakref

SHA256SUMS lists each file's checksum.

Known gaps

• Windows: Japanese input is tested in pages and the address bar. One case is still open: text typed right after Ctrl+L, while the page is still answering the shortcut, is composed in the page instead of the address bar.
• On Wayland, leaving full screen with Esc can draw the page at its full-screen size for a moment before it fits the window.

The Mac build needs macOS 15 (Sequoia) or later, on Apple silicon.

ilo 0.1.6

ilo 0.1.6

Settings you can use from the keyboard alone, a media player that stacks in the sidebar, a switch for automatic update checks, and, on the Mac, scripts that can read and open ilo's windows, Spaces and tabs once you let them. It stays on Chromium 156.0.8078.79. On the Mac, and on Windows when installed with the installer, ilo updates itself to it. Flatpak copies update through Flatpak. What changed, with more detail: https://ilobrowser.com/changelog#0.1.6

What's new

• Settings works from the keyboard alone. ⇥ and ⇧⇥ move through it in reading order, ↑ and ↓ move along its column, and Space or ↩ acts. Typing a letter starts a search, and ⌘F goes to the search field. ⌘W, Esc and ⌘Z still do what they did.
• Settings › About has "Check for updates automatically", on the Mac and on Windows. Turned off, ilo asks for no updates until you choose Check for Updates.
• The sidebar's media player is a stack. The newest player shows, with up to two older ones peeking behind it. Point at it and they all open, each with its title, a close button, and Picture in Picture where the page allows it.
• Edit Theme Color… opens its picker at the window's top corner.
• With one Space that has no name or icon of yours, its name row hides. Show Space Header, in the Space's menu, brings it back.
• Mac: scripts can read ilo's windows, Spaces and tabs, show a Space or a tab, and open windows and tabs, once you turn on "Let scripts control the browser" in Settings › Agents. It's off at first. Scripts never see private windows or agents' Spaces, and nothing they can ask reads a page. Every script's request goes in the agents' activity log, and Settings shows them under "What scripts did".
• Mac: VoiceOver names the controls in Settings' sections, including Shortcuts' keys, and the tab rows' buttons, the delete dialog, the find bar and its count, Site Controls, the icon picker and New Space.

What's fixed

Mac and Windows

• Closing a Little ilo window that's over another app's window leaves that app in front.

Linux

• On Wayland, holding Esc to close the command bar no longer sends Esc on to the page.
• On Wayland, a click on the page that closes the command bar gives the page the keyboard. A click outside a menu over the command bar closes both.
• On Wayland, a page takes clicks as soon as what covered it goes, rather than after its next frame.
• On Wayland, going in or out of full screen lays the page out again, even when the window's size stays the same.

Get it

• macOS: Macs with Apple silicon. Download ilo-mac-arm64.dmg.
• Windows 10 and 11, x64: download ilo-windows-x64-setup.exe. It isn't signed yet, so Windows may warn before running it. winget (winget install ilo.ilo) and the Microsoft Store follow once each accepts ilo.
• Linux: Flatpak, from flatpak.ilobrowser.com. Run flatpak install --user https://github.com/MartinPTielemans/ilo/releases/latest/download/ilo.flatpakref

SHA256SUMS lists each file's checksum.

Known gaps

• Windows: Japanese input is tested in pages and the address bar. One case is still open: text typed right after Ctrl+L, while the page is still answering the shortcut, is composed in the page instead of the address bar.
• On Wayland, leaving full screen with Esc can draw the page at its full-screen size for a moment before it fits the window.

The Mac build needs macOS 15 (Sequoia) or later, on Apple silicon.

ilo 0.1.5

ilo 0.1.5

A security update to Chromium 156.0.8078.79. It also brings Settings in a window of its own that you can search, an import that shows what each browser holds before you bring it in, tabs you can drag out to another window, and one task card for agents from other apps and for ⌘T's. On the Mac, and on Windows when installed with the installer, ilo updates itself to it. Flatpak copies update through Flatpak. What changed, with more detail: https://ilobrowser.com/changelog#0.1.5

Security

• The engine is on Chromium 156.0.8078.79, a security point release.
• Mac: ilo no longer answers Chromium's AppleScript commands. Before this, a script that macOS let through, such as one from a terminal you once allowed, could read every tab's address and open, reload or close tabs. It did so outside ilo's rules for agents and its activity log.

What's new

• Settings is a window of its own, with its twelve sections in a column beside a card. A field at the column's top searches every section. The command bar finds settings too, and opens Settings at the row.
• New in Settings: Appearance, the Dock icon, the sidebar's edge reveal, and a switch for agent tasks, among others.
• Drag a tab's row out of its window to move its page to another window's list, or to a window of its own. A picture of the row follows the pointer.
• The import reads a browser as soon as you pick it, says how much of each thing will come, and is laid out like Settings. Each browser in its list shows its own icon, and the favorites it offers are tiles. Spaces arrive as cards in their own colours, ticking as their tabs come in. A stalled import says which profile it's on, and a stopped one offers Import Again. On first launch, it says what each step is for.
• Agents from other apps get the same task card as ⌘T's tasks. Their Spaces stay out of every list.
• A task with two pages or more opens on Pages, a grid of them. When an outside agent's session ends, its card shows a receipt: the pages it worked in and what it did that has consequences, such as orders and messages.
• A task that waits for you badges the Dock or the taskbar.
• A new download flies from the pointer into the Library button. The recent downloads show there, and stay while a download's menu is open.
• The command bar learns from use. Among equally good matches, the commands you pick and the tabs you switch to most come first. It learns separately for each profile, keeps what it learns on this computer only, and forgets it when you clear your browsing data. Private windows and agents' Spaces teach it nothing.
• The command bar has Mute All Tabs, Enter Full Screen and New Profile.
• ⌘N's window opens with the command bar, and from full screen it opens in full screen.
• Window › Stay On Top keeps a window over the others.
• Esc in full screen goes to the page first. Press it twice, or hold it, to leave full screen.
• A window you're not in dims its header's glyphs.
• ⇧⌘C's toast has Share, which shares the page.
• Rest the pointer on a link for a moment and its whole address shows.
• A Google Meet link from another app opens in the Space you're in, by a link rule each profile starts with.
• Until a page paints, it shows black or white to match the appearance sites are told, so a dark site no longer flashes white.
• Only the tabs scroll in the sidebar, under the Space's name, with the system's scroller.
• With the sidebar hidden, a pointer flung to the window's edge, or passing it on the way to the page, no longer brings it out. It comes out once the pointer moves along the edge.
• The mouse's back and forward buttons go to the Library and to a new Space, as the swipe does.
• Close and Keep Pinned on the tab you're on shows the tab you used before it, and rings its row for a moment. A pinned tab that has left its pinned site names that site.
• A Space card's list starts higher, and the ••• at its foot opens the Space's menu.
• A ready update waits in a small banner at the sidebar's foot. Point at it to see what it is, and click to restart into it. Your tabs come back. On the Mac, an update ilo won't install by itself shows there as available, and a scheduled check no longer puts an alert over your work.

What's fixed

Everywhere

• A click on a tab's row while its Space slides in shows that tab.
• A tab dragged to the next Space and let go while its page is handed over moves there.
• Opening ilo with a link shows the link's page, not a Space an agent left.
• A two-colour Space's swatch reads as its main colour.
• A name field you're typing in keeps the keyboard while a toast or a tooltip is up.
• Link rules: "is equal to" compares the host and path, and "contains" ignores the scheme and www.
• A task's card looks selected only while its conversation shows, and its reply field follows a switch between light and dark.
• Agents: a frame with nothing in it is left out of an agent's view of the page.
• A shortcut pressed right after you switch windows acts on the window you switched to.

Mac

• A display going away under a full-screen window leaves ilo the active app.
• The Dock menu's New Window and New Incognito Window open ilo's windows.

Windows and Linux

• Key chips spell their shortcuts as the menus do.

Windows

• The window's caption no longer shows under the sidebar after ilo goes to the background.
• ilo can quit while a file dialog is open.
• The sidebar's list, scrolled back to its top with the wheel, no longer shows its edge.
• Ctrl and the other modifier keys no longer seem stuck after a menu or the command bar takes the keyboard, and windows over a page keep their size and place as they move.
• Resizing the window ends a capture, as on the Mac and Linux.
• An agent you stop is told so.

Linux

• On Wayland, a save or open panel no longer closes ilo.

Get it

• macOS: Macs with Apple silicon. Download ilo-mac-arm64.dmg.
• Windows 10 and 11, x64: download ilo-windows-x64-setup.exe. It isn't signed yet, so Windows may warn before running it. winget (winget install ilo.ilo) and the Microsoft Store follow once each accepts ilo.
• Linux: Flatpak, from flatpak.ilobrowser.com. Run flatpak install --user https://github.com/MartinPTielemans/ilo/releases/latest/download/ilo.flatpakref

SHA256SUMS lists each file's checksum.

Known gaps

• Windows: Japanese input is now tested in pages and the address bar. One case is still open: text typed right after Ctrl+L, while the page is still answering the shortcut, is composed in the page instead of the address bar.

The Mac build needs macOS 15 (Sequoia) or later, on Apple silicon.

ilo 0.1.4

ilo 0.1.4

Agents on Windows: tasks start without flashing windows and find Claude Code and Codex however you installed them. On the Mac, and on Windows when installed with the installer, ilo updates itself to it. Flatpak copies update through Flatpak. What changed, with more detail: https://ilobrowser.com/changelog#0.1.4

What's fixed

Everywhere

• Quitting while a task runs no longer crashes.

Windows

• Agents no longer flash console windows.
• Tasks find Claude Code and Codex however each was installed, and Claude tasks start through npm's claude.cmd.

Linux

• A ⌃Tab walk that starts in the page keeps going while ⌃ is held, on Wayland.

Get it

• macOS: Macs with Apple silicon. Download ilo-mac-arm64.dmg.
• Windows 10 and 11, x64: download ilo-windows-x64-setup.exe. It isn't signed yet, so Windows may warn before running it. winget (winget install ilo.ilo) and the Microsoft Store follow once each accepts ilo.
• Linux: Flatpak, from flatpak.ilobrowser.com. Run flatpak install --user https://github.com/MartinPTielemans/ilo/releases/latest/download/ilo.flatpakref

SHA256SUMS lists each file's checksum.

Known gaps

• Windows: input methods, such as Japanese, are untested.

The Mac build needs macOS 15 (Sequoia) or later, on Apple silicon.

ilo 0.1.3

ilo 0.1.3

Hand a task to Claude or Codex from ⌘T, a reworked sidebar, text fields that move by words, and a crash fix for pages that ask for a device. On the Mac, and on Windows when installed with the installer, ilo updates itself to it. Flatpak copies update through Flatpak. What changed, with more detail: https://ilobrowser.com/changelog#0.1.3

What's new

• ⇥ in ⌘T hands Claude or Codex a task. Its card sits at the foot of the sidebar while it works.
• The Space's name row lights like a tab row. Pressing it folds the pinned tabs, and its menu is reordered.
• Favorites are larger tiles, at most four to a row.
• With more Spaces than fit, they share the switcher, and the Library's Space cards scroll sideways.
• The sidebar's list ends with room to spare and a foot line, and glides to the row you go to.
• Split view: drag a tab to either side, ⌥ on a pane's ✕, add a favorite to a split, and a split's row has its own menu. ⌘W closes a pinned split whole, and ⌘Z brings a closed split back.
• Text fields move, select and delete by words, and a double- or triple-click selects a word or the line.
• Tooltips show after the pointer rests, and name a button's keyboard shortcut, in the find bar, the command bar and the save-password offer.
• Removing a pinned tab offers Undo, and deleting a Space says its tabs go with it and that ⌘Z brings them back.
• Settings: each profile can be renamed and says why it can't be deleted, the Widevine row offers to restart ilo once it's downloaded, and Settings and Site Controls work from the keyboard.
• Imports count what comes in as it comes, can be cancelled, and offer favorites worked out from your history.
• The command bar puts the open tabs your typing names first, a renamed tab before the rest, and shows one row per title for web apps like Figma and Notion.
• Under Reduce Motion nothing moves or scales; fades stay.
• Settings › About can take nightly builds.
• What's New opens as a tab in the main window after an update, on every OS.
• Agents: back and forward say the page's title, tabs an agent closes stay out of your archive, a link to an app stops in the agent's tab, and a click in another site's frame reaches it.

What's fixed

Everywhere

• A page that asks for a USB, HID, serial or Bluetooth device no longer crashes ilo.
• Quitting no longer crashes while a window is closing (#1478).
• A page's full screen in a window that already fills its screen no longer leaves the page over the Library's list.
• A Space swipe's detent comes while your fingers are still down.

Mac

• Pages no longer flash blank when you switch Spaces or tabs.

Windows

• The windows over a page survive Alt+F4, keep the keyboard and move with their window.
• A click on a site's notification reaches the page.
• Claude Code and Codex keep working with the Microsoft Store copy, across its updates.
• A minimized window's page is hidden, as on the Mac.
• The zoom readout sits under the find bar.

Linux

• Menus look right with no compositor, and a menu item that opens the command bar keeps it open.
• A floating call moves by its top bar and sizes from its corner, and the Cast, permission and agent cards share one ink.

Get it

• macOS: Macs with Apple silicon. Download ilo-mac-arm64.dmg.
• Windows 10 and 11, x64: download ilo-windows-x64-setup.exe. It isn't signed yet, so Windows may warn before running it. winget (winget install ilo.ilo) and the Microsoft Store follow once each accepts ilo.
• Linux: Flatpak, from flatpak.ilobrowser.com. Run flatpak install --user https://github.com/MartinPTielemans/ilo/releases/latest/download/ilo.flatpakref

SHA256SUMS lists each file's checksum.

Known gaps

• Linux on Wayland: a ⌃Tab walk that starts in the page stops after its first step (#1638).
• Windows: input methods, such as Japanese, are untested.

The Mac build needs macOS 15 (Sequoia) or later, on Apple silicon.

ilo 0.1.2

ilo 0.1.2

Little ilo, Peek for any link, sidebar backups, and more fixes. On the Mac, and on Windows when installed with the installer or winget, ilo updates itself to it. Flatpak copies update through Flatpak. What changed, with more detail: https://ilobrowser.com/changelog#0.1.2

What's new

• Little ilo: a small window for a quick page, from ⌥⌘N (Ctrl+Alt+N on Windows and Linux), ⌥⌘-click on a tab, the Dock's menu or an optional menu bar button. It opens where the pointer is, at the size the last one closed at, and its bar picks the page's profile. ⌘O moves its page to the main window, and ⇧⌘T reopens one you closed.
• Links from other apps can open in Little ilo, chosen in Settings › Links. The same link brings back the window it opened.
• ⇧-click a link, or choose Open Link in Peek from its menu, to open it in Peek over the page you're on. Peek's page is now the card, with its site and buttons floating over a lighter dim.
• ilo keeps backups of your sidebar. Help › Restore Earlier Sidebar, or the command bar, brings one back.
• A pinned folder moves to another Space from its menu, the command bar or a drag.
• An unloaded pinned tab's row has a button that removes it from the pinned tabs.
• Updates download in the background and say when they're ready, on every OS. Their notes and What's New open the release's entry on ilobrowser.com.

What's fixed

Windows

• Shortcuts keep working after a window is minimized and restored.
• A link from another app opens once, and opening ilo again brings its window forward.
• A window closed maximized opens maximized again.
• Quitting after a browser window closed under Little ilo no longer crashes.
• Menus, the command bar and other overlays stay under another app's window in front of ilo.

Everywhere

• A long note at the top of the page shortens its words instead of running past the window's edge.
• A sidebar name field keeps what's typed when it loses the keyboard.
• Connect finds Claude Code wherever it was installed.

Get it

• macOS: Macs with Apple silicon. Download ilo-mac-arm64.dmg.
• Windows 10 and 11, x64: download ilo-windows-x64-setup.exe. It isn't signed yet, so Windows may warn before running it. winget (winget install ilo.ilo) and the Microsoft Store follow once each accepts ilo.
• Linux: Flatpak, from flatpak.ilobrowser.com. Run flatpak install --user https://github.com/MartinPTielemans/ilo/releases/latest/download/ilo.flatpakref

SHA256SUMS lists each file's checksum.

Known gaps

• Linux: ilo can crash on quit right after a Space switch (#1478). 0.1.1 has it too; 0.1.3 fixes it.
• Windows: input methods, such as Japanese, are untested.
• Windows: protected video (PlayReady) is untested on real hardware.
• Windows and Linux: video tiles are empty.
• Linux: the arrow's shadow, Capture's camera cursor and the blur under overlays aren't drawn yet (#1279).

Found a bug? Report it at https://github.com/MartinPTielemans/ilo/issues

The Mac build needs macOS 15 (Sequoia) or later, on Apple silicon.

ilo 0.1.1

ilo 0.1.1

A fixes release for the 0.1.0 beta. On the Mac, and on Windows when installed with the installer or winget, ilo updates itself to it. Flatpak copies update through Flatpak.

What's fixed

Windows

• ilo no longer quits when one of its windows moves to another monitor, or when a window is resized after its last tab closed.
• Empty boxes no longer stay over the page after the window is minimized and restored.
• The app, its windows and their taskbar thumbnails show ilo's icon, not Chromium's.
• On a PC joined to a work or school account, Microsoft sign-ins that require a compliant device now work.

Everywhere

• After the last tab closes, the window no longer shows a leftover page over the empty Space.
• A pinned tab in a split view keeps its pin, and closing its pane only takes it out of the split.
• A Space's dot in the Space switcher is a circle for themes with three colours.
• The command bar takes the keyboard back whenever it opens without it, and over the URL field it casts a shadow instead of a grey bar.
• The window's buttons keep their size while a swipe opens or closes the Library.
• Onboarding offers an ilo account, so sync is found on the first run, and its opt-in switches line up and take a click.
• A key an agent presses goes to the page only. It never runs an ilo shortcut or quits ilo.
• Adding a passkey while signing in to an ilo account shows the passkey dialog over the sign-in window, and it no longer mentions Incognito windows.
• Linux, Flatpak: Settings › Agents says the sandbox can't see Claude Code or Codex, and Copy Setup still gives a command that works outside the Flatpak.

Get it

• macOS: Macs with Apple silicon. Download ilo-mac-arm64.dmg.
• Windows 10 and 11, x64: download ilo-windows-x64-setup.exe. It isn't signed yet, so Windows may warn before running it. winget (winget install ilo.ilo) and the Microsoft Store follow once each accepts ilo.
• Linux: Flatpak, from flatpak.ilobrowser.com. Run flatpak install --user https://github.com/MartinPTielemans/ilo/releases/latest/download/ilo.flatpakref

SHA256SUMS lists each file's checksum.

Known gaps

• Windows: input methods, such as Japanese, are untested.
• Windows: protected video (PlayReady) is untested on real hardware.
• Windows and Linux: video tiles are empty.
• Linux: the arrow's shadow, Capture's camera cursor and the blur under overlays aren't drawn yet (#1279).

Found a bug? Report it at https://github.com/MartinPTielemans/ilo/issues

The Mac build needs macOS 15 (Sequoia) or later, on Apple silicon.

ilo 0.1.0

ilo 0.1.0

ilo is an open-source web browser built on Chromium, free and licensed under the GPL. Your tabs live in a sidebar, in Spaces, and one command bar opens pages, tabs and commands.

This is the first public beta, so expect bugs.

What's in it

• Spaces, each with its own pinned tabs and Today tabs. Today's tabs you leave alone move to the archive.
• The command bar, for pages, tabs and commands.
• Import from the other browsers on your computer: their tabs and bookmarks come in as a Space, with their history, and passwords from a file you export.
• Sync with an ilo account, end-to-end encrypted, so the server can't read what it keeps. You can run your own server.
• Passwords: ilo saves them and fills them in.
• Agents: Claude Code, Codex or any MCP client can work in a Space of their own through ilo's built-in MCP server. They're off until you turn them on, and they never read your passwords or cookies.
• Crash reports, only if you turn them on.
• Updates: ilo updates itself on the Mac and when installed with winget or the installer. Store and Flatpak copies update through the Store and Flatpak.
• Protected (DRM) video.

Get it

• macOS: Macs with Apple silicon. Download ilo-mac-arm64.dmg.
• Windows 10 and 11, x64: download ilo-windows-x64-setup.exe. It isn't signed yet, so Windows may warn before running it. winget (winget install ilo.ilo) and the Microsoft Store follow once each accepts ilo.
• Linux: Flatpak, from flatpak.ilobrowser.com. Run flatpak install --user https://github.com/MartinPTielemans/ilo/releases/latest/download/ilo.flatpakref

SHA256SUMS lists each file's checksum.

Known gaps

• First run: the agents switch is drawn to the right of its row. Click the row to turn agents on (#1286).
• Windows: input methods, such as Japanese, are untested.
• Windows: protected video (PlayReady) is untested on real hardware.
• Windows and Linux: video tiles are empty.
• Linux, Flatpak: Settings › Agents doesn't offer to connect Claude Code and Codex (#1278). Copy Setup gives a command that works when you run it outside the Flatpak.
• Linux: the arrow's shadow, Capture's camera cursor and the blur under overlays aren't drawn yet (#1279).

Found a bug? Report it at https://github.com/MartinPTielemans/ilo/issues