Oblada 0.5.2

Oblada 0.5.2 fixes YouTube and other sites lagging with the Barrier on, on networks whose DNS settings keep changing.

Oblada is a Chromium web browser with Zen's sidebar, Firefox's containers and add-ons from both the Chrome Web Store and Firefox Add-ons. Its design follows Zen's: if you like it, consider supporting Zen. For Macs with Apple Silicon, macOS 13 or later.

What's new

Fixed

• YouTube and other sites no longer lag with the Barrier on, on networks whose DNS settings keep changing (as some routers' do): requests to other sites waited for the DNS each time, to check whether they were trackers in disguise.

Installing

If you have Oblada 0.1.2 or later, it updates itself: it looks for new versions once a day, or right away when you open About Oblada, and installs this one when you quit or from About Oblada's Relaunch button.

Otherwise:

1. Open Oblada-silicon.dmg and drag Oblada to Applications. If you have an earlier Oblada, replace it: your tabs, workspaces, containers and extensions stay.
2. Oblada isn't signed by a registered Apple developer or notarized yet, so macOS stops it the first time you open it. Go to System Settings › Privacy & Security and click "Open Anyway". If macOS says the app is damaged, run this in Terminal instead:

   xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Oblada.app
   

Known limitations

• After each update, macOS asks once for your Mac's password before Oblada can read its saved passwords and cookies: choose "Always Allow".
• Firefox add-ons installed from somewhere else than addons.mozilla.org no longer update.
• Passkeys work from a phone (QR code) or a security key. Passkeys kept in iCloud Keychain, or on the Mac with Touch ID, need a build signed by a registered Apple developer.
• No Google sign-in or sync.
• In full screen, the layouts with the address bar at the top lay the tabs and the toolbar out as Chromium does.

Source

Oblada's edits to Chromium are in chromium/patches/, one patch per file: PATCHES.md says what each one does and what it depends on. What changed in this version, in detail, is in its devlog. The README and CONTRIBUTING.md explain how to build Oblada. Safe Browsing's lists are Google Safe Browsing's. The Barrier is built on Brave's work: adblock-rust, brave-core's protections, which it follows, and Brave's lists, with uBlock Origin's scriptlets and the EasyList authors' lists. Updates are made with Sparkle. Releases are official builds, with Google's profile-guided optimization profiles, as Chrome's, Brave's and Helium's are.

Built on Chromium 156.0.8078.48.

SHA-256 of Oblada-silicon.dmg: c49da91212ecd9d2ae4f843c284894c5654e60e33e5359f529675393198a5557

Oblada 0.5.1

Oblada 0.5.1 makes Safe Browsing work, with Google Safe Browsing's lists of phishing and malware sites, and fixes security holes an audit of Oblada's own code found: in Firefox add-ons' installs and updates, in pages opened again in containers, and in the Barrier. Firefox add-ons now install only from addons.mozilla.org.

Oblada is a Chromium web browser with Zen's sidebar, Firefox's containers and add-ons from both the Chrome Web Store and Firefox Add-ons. Its design follows Zen's: if you like it, consider supporting Zen. For Macs with Apple Silicon, macOS 13 or later.

What's new

Added

• Settings > Oblada > Privacy can turn off each protection Oblada applies as it starts: HTTPS memory (HSTS) and connections kept apart for each site, web features that mostly serve to recognize you, shorter referrers, cookies kept 6 months at most.

Changed

• Firefox add-ons install and update only from addons.mozilla.org.
• Certificate Transparency is on, as in Chrome: sites' certificates must be in public logs.
• Sites' wish to always be opened over HTTPS (HSTS) is kept apart for each site when it comes from inside another site's pages, as in Brave, rather than holding for pages only.

Fixed

• Safe Browsing works: Oblada warns before opening sites Google lists as phishing or malware, and before downloading files from addresses on its lists. Settings showed it on, but without a key for Google's Safe Browsing API it never got its lists.
• Security: another site could offer a Firefox add-on, or change where an installed one took its updates from, even if you said no.
• Security: a page sending a tab to a container, AMP pages left for the original and peeks opened sites as if you had typed their address, so other sites could act on them as you.
• Security: pages in containers could be prerendered, and searches prefetched, outside the container.
• Security: only uBlock Origin's and Brave's own filter lists can run their most powerful scripts, lists come over HTTPS only, and their rules can't have pages report where you are.
• Security: the Barrier checks where redirects lead, its questions (sensitive sites, Google sign-ins, blocked sites) can't be answered by the sites themselves, and only the page you picked an element on can add a filter.

Installing

If you have Oblada 0.1.2 or later, it updates itself: it looks for new versions once a day, or right away when you open About Oblada, and installs this one when you quit or from About Oblada's Relaunch button.

Otherwise:

1. Open Oblada-silicon.dmg and drag Oblada to Applications. If you have an earlier Oblada, replace it: your tabs, workspaces, containers and extensions stay.
2. Oblada isn't signed by a registered Apple developer or notarized yet, so macOS stops it the first time you open it. Go to System Settings › Privacy & Security and click "Open Anyway". If macOS says the app is damaged, run this in Terminal instead:

   xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Oblada.app
   

Known limitations

• After each update, macOS asks once for your Mac's password before Oblada can read its saved passwords and cookies: choose "Always Allow".
• Firefox add-ons installed from somewhere else than addons.mozilla.org no longer update.
• Passkeys work from a phone (QR code) or a security key. Passkeys kept in iCloud Keychain, or on the Mac with Touch ID, need a build signed by a registered Apple developer.
• No Google sign-in or sync.
• In full screen, the layouts with the address bar at the top lay the tabs and the toolbar out as Chromium does.

Source

Oblada's edits to Chromium are in chromium/patches/, one patch per file: PATCHES.md says what each one does and what it depends on. What changed in this version, in detail, is in its devlog. The README and CONTRIBUTING.md explain how to build Oblada. Safe Browsing's lists are Google Safe Browsing's. The Barrier is built on Brave's work: adblock-rust, brave-core's protections, which it follows, and Brave's lists, with uBlock Origin's scriptlets and the EasyList authors' lists. Updates are made with Sparkle. Releases are official builds, with Google's profile-guided optimization profiles, as Chrome's, Brave's and Helium's are.

Built on Chromium 156.0.8078.48.

SHA-256 of Oblada-silicon.dmg: 2d6c50c95b1e4fff2936661e78bbbd46fa290c2beb85cd6bc3fa344279f2c2b1

Oblada 0.5.0

Oblada 0.5.0 brings the Barrier: Brave's protections from trackers, ads and fingerprinting, Brave's Shields, on by default. It blocks trackers and ads with Brave's engine, adblock-rust, and its lists (EasyList, EasyPrivacy, uBlock Origin's, Brave's), shows every site a slightly different you, and forgets what third parties leave behind. Its button at the end of the address bar counts what it blocked and turns it off for a site, if one doesn't work right. Thanks to Brave for all of it.

Oblada is a Chromium web browser with Zen's sidebar, Firefox's containers and add-ons from both the Chrome Web Store and Firefox Add-ons. Its design follows Zen's: if you like it, consider supporting Zen. For Macs with Apple Silicon, macOS 13 or later.

What's new

Added

• The Barrier: Oblada now blocks trackers and ads with Brave's engine and its lists (EasyList, EasyPrivacy, uBlock Origin's, Brave's), including the elements they leave on pages, cookie notices and the scripts that fight ad blockers.
• The Barrier's button at the end of the address bar shows how many trackers and ads it blocked on the page, and opens its controls for the site: turn it off for the site, block aggressively, upgrade to HTTPS strictly or not at all, block scripts, fingerprinting, cookies, forget the site when you close it. In the sidebar layouts, the controls are at the top of the site panel.
• Fingerprinting protection: sites see slight changes to canvas and audio readouts, to your processor, memory, screen size, fonts and speech voices, and generic GPU names, the same on a site until Oblada restarts but different from site to site and from container to container, so they can't follow you around. It reaches sites' workers too, and limits how many connections a site keeps open.
• Third parties' cookies are blocked, and what they store on a site is erased once you close it. Sites can be set to be forgotten when you close them.
• Tracking parameters (fbclid, gclid…) are removed from the addresses you open, tracking redirects are skipped for where they lead, and AMP pages, on Google's cache or the sites' own, for the original.
• Trackers hiding behind a site's own addresses (CNAME cloaking) are blocked too.
• Global Privacy Control asks sites not to sell or share your data.
• Sensitive sites, like those that help against domestic violence, can open in a temporary container, which keeps nothing once you close it: Oblada asks first.
• Before a site lets you sign in with Google in a way that needs Google's cookies on that site, Oblada asks.
• With aggressive blocking, Oblada warns before opening a tracker's address as a page.
• Block an element: pick anything on a page to hide it for good, from the Barrier's controls or the page's context menu.
• Settings > Oblada has the Barrier's defaults, its privacy settings (languages sites see, WebRTC's IP addresses, social media embeds, Do Not Track…), its filter lists, your own filters and lists from an address, and the sites with settings of their own.
• A DANGEROUS switch in Settings > Oblada turns all of the Barrier off.

Changed

• Web APIs that mostly serve to recognize you are off, as in Brave: Web Bluetooth, Web Serial, opening local files and folders from pages, FedCM, the Reporting API and others. Referrers never say more than the site across sites, and cookies last 6 months at most.

Fixed

• Tabs restored at startup no longer load in the background before you open them, except those of sites known to work in the background.

Installing

If you have Oblada 0.1.2 or later, it updates itself: it looks for new versions once a day, or right away when you open About Oblada, and installs this one when you quit or from About Oblada's Relaunch button.

Otherwise:

1. Open Oblada-silicon.dmg and drag Oblada to Applications. If you have an earlier Oblada, replace it: your tabs, workspaces, containers and extensions stay.
2. Oblada isn't signed by a registered Apple developer or notarized yet, so macOS stops it the first time you open it. Go to System Settings › Privacy & Security and click "Open Anyway". If macOS says the app is damaged, run this in Terminal instead:

   xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Oblada.app
   

Known limitations

• After each update, macOS asks once for your Mac's password before Oblada can read its saved passwords and cookies: choose "Always Allow".
• The Barrier downloads its filter lists the first time this version starts: until they're in, a few seconds on a good connection, it blocks nothing.
• Passkeys work from a phone (QR code) or a security key. Passkeys kept in iCloud Keychain, or on the Mac with Touch ID, need a build signed by a registered Apple developer.
• No Google sign-in or sync.
• In full screen, the layouts with the address bar at the top lay the tabs and the toolbar out as Chromium does.

Source

Oblada's edits to Chromium are in chromium/patches/, one patch per file: PATCHES.md says what each one does and what it depends on. What changed in this version, in detail, is in its devlog. The README and CONTRIBUTING.md explain how to build Oblada. The Barrier is built on Brave's work: adblock-rust, brave-core's protections, which it follows, and Brave's lists, with uBlock Origin's scriptlets and the EasyList authors' lists. Updates are made with Sparkle. Releases are official builds, with Google's profile-guided optimization profiles, as Chrome's, Brave's and Helium's are.

Built on Chromium 156.0.8078.48.

SHA-256 of Oblada-silicon.dmg: 76a93e02aefeebcec896978866213bbca09462d093c99c59ca74da212c6f3938

Oblada 0.4.2

Oblada 0.4.2 fixes the sidebar's width, which a restart often reset.

Oblada is a Chromium web browser with Zen's sidebar, Firefox's containers and add-ons from both the Chrome Web Store and Firefox Add-ons. Its design follows Zen's: if you like it, consider supporting Zen. For Macs with Apple Silicon, macOS 13 or later.

What's new

Fixed

• The sidebar keeps its width when Oblada restarts, instead of opening at its default width again.

Installing

If you have Oblada 0.1.2 or later, it updates itself: it looks for new versions once a day, or right away when you open About Oblada, and installs this one when you quit or from About Oblada's Relaunch button.

Otherwise:

1. Open Oblada-silicon.dmg and drag Oblada to Applications. If you have an earlier Oblada, replace it: your tabs, workspaces, containers and extensions stay.
2. Oblada isn't signed by a registered Apple developer or notarized yet, so macOS stops it the first time you open it. Go to System Settings › Privacy & Security and click "Open Anyway". If macOS says the app is damaged, run this in Terminal instead:

   xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Oblada.app
   

Known limitations

• After each update, macOS asks once for your Mac's password before Oblada can read its saved passwords and cookies: choose "Always Allow".
• Passkeys work from a phone (QR code) or a security key. Passkeys kept in iCloud Keychain, or on the Mac with Touch ID, need a build signed by a registered Apple developer.
• No Google sign-in or sync.
• In full screen, the layouts with the address bar at the top lay the tabs and the toolbar out as Chromium does.

Source

Oblada's edits to Chromium are in chromium/patches/, one patch per file: PATCHES.md says what each one does and what it depends on. What changed in this version, in detail, is in its devlog. The README and CONTRIBUTING.md explain how to build Oblada. Updates are made with Sparkle. Releases are official builds, with Google's profile-guided optimization profiles, as Chrome's, Brave's and Helium's are.

Built on Chromium 156.0.8078.48.

SHA-256 of Oblada-silicon.dmg: 9a27ec18af611258e69c95a67bab5319c579ea0b6d150c6447ea8af157efb841

Oblada 0.4.1

Oblada 0.4.1 puts the reload button back next to back and forward in the sidebar, when the sidebar is wide enough for it.

Oblada is a Chromium web browser with Zen's sidebar, Firefox's containers and add-ons from both the Chrome Web Store and Firefox Add-ons. Its design follows Zen's: if you like it, consider supporting Zen. For Macs with Apple Silicon, macOS 13 or later.

What's new

Changed

• The sidebar shows the reload button next to back and forward when it's wide enough for it; in a narrower one, Reload is in the ⋯ menu, as before.

Installing

If you have Oblada 0.1.2 or later, it updates itself: it looks for new versions once a day, or right away when you open About Oblada, and installs this one when you quit or from About Oblada's Relaunch button.

Otherwise:

1. Open Oblada-silicon.dmg and drag Oblada to Applications. If you have an earlier Oblada, replace it: your tabs, workspaces, containers and extensions stay.
2. Oblada isn't signed by a registered Apple developer or notarized yet, so macOS stops it the first time you open it. Go to System Settings › Privacy & Security and click "Open Anyway". If macOS says the app is damaged, run this in Terminal instead:

   xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Oblada.app
   

Known limitations

• After each update, macOS asks once for your Mac's password before Oblada can read its saved passwords and cookies: choose "Always Allow".
• Passkeys work from a phone (QR code) or a security key. Passkeys kept in iCloud Keychain, or on the Mac with Touch ID, need a build signed by a registered Apple developer.
• No Google sign-in or sync.
• In full screen, the layouts with the address bar at the top lay the tabs and the toolbar out as Chromium does.

Source

Oblada's edits to Chromium are in chromium/patches/, one patch per file: PATCHES.md says what each one does and what it depends on. What changed in this version, in detail, is in its devlog. The README and CONTRIBUTING.md explain how to build Oblada. Updates are made with Sparkle. Releases are official builds, with Google's profile-guided optimization profiles, as Chrome's, Brave's and Helium's are.

Built on Chromium 156.0.8078.48.

SHA-256 of Oblada-silicon.dmg: 807d41c568a24f9869f768fbe5b56db8730abd7d9133075ea1e5d1ef01c16321

Oblada 0.4.0

Oblada 0.4.0 brings four new window layouts, for seven in all. Expanded scaffold puts the full sidebar under an address bar at the top, and three new layouts have the tabs at the top: Horizon, with the address bar in the middle and the tabs sharing a row below it, as in Safari; Horizon compact, a single row where the active tab is the address bar; and Classic, the tabs above the address bar. Pick one in Settings > Oblada, in the menu's Window layout, or in the welcome.

Oblada is a Chromium web browser with Zen's sidebar, Firefox's containers and add-ons from both the Chrome Web Store and Firefox Add-ons. Its design follows Zen's: if you like it, consider supporting Zen. For Macs with Apple Silicon, macOS 13 or later.

What's new

Added

• Four new window layouts, for seven in all: pick one in Settings > Oblada, in the menu's Window layout or in the welcome.
• Expanded scaffold: the address bar at the top, as in Scaffold, and the full sidebar below it, with the tabs' titles and the workspaces. ⌘⇧L turns it into Scaffold and back.
• Horizon: the address bar in the middle at the top, and the tabs sharing a row below it, as in Safari.
• Horizon compact: a single row, where the active tab is the address bar, which floats over the page as you type.
• Classic: the tabs in a row at the top, the address bar below them.
• With the tabs at the top, they're as plain as the sidebar's and take little room, and the workspace shown is a pill before them: click it to switch workspace or make a new one, or swipe across the tabs. Hold the + down to open a tab in a container, as in the sidebar.

Changed

• The welcome lists the window layouts by where the tabs are, and shows the one picked, or the one under the pointer, at work next to the list.

Fixed

• The welcome and the New Tab page no longer turn opaque when reloaded.
• Extensions opened from the site panel show their popups under it, rather than at the top left of the window, in the Scaffold layouts.

Installing

If you have Oblada 0.1.2 or later, it updates itself: it looks for new versions once a day, or right away when you open About Oblada, and installs this one when you quit or from About Oblada's Relaunch button.

Otherwise:

1. Open Oblada-silicon.dmg and drag Oblada to Applications. If you have an earlier Oblada, replace it: your tabs, workspaces, containers and extensions stay.
2. Oblada isn't signed by a registered Apple developer or notarized yet, so macOS stops it the first time you open it. Go to System Settings › Privacy & Security and click "Open Anyway". If macOS says the app is damaged, run this in Terminal instead:

   xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Oblada.app
   

Known limitations

• After each update, macOS asks once for your Mac's password before Oblada can read its saved passwords and cookies: choose "Always Allow".
• Passkeys work from a phone (QR code) or a security key. Passkeys kept in iCloud Keychain, or on the Mac with Touch ID, need a build signed by a registered Apple developer.
• No Google sign-in or sync.
• In full screen, the layouts with the address bar at the top lay the tabs and the toolbar out as Chromium does.

Source

Oblada's edits to Chromium are in chromium/patches/, one patch per file: PATCHES.md says what each one does and what it depends on. What changed in this version, in detail, is in its devlog. The README and CONTRIBUTING.md explain how to build Oblada. Updates are made with Sparkle. Releases are official builds, with Google's profile-guided optimization profiles, as Chrome's, Brave's and Helium's are.

Built on Chromium 156.0.8078.48.

SHA-256 of Oblada-silicon.dmg: 7957b989a991ee15f8dd42018468a3b5ac9914c9fed505f3abdfe8ec0b9bc3f8

Oblada 0.3.2

Oblada 0.3.2 is faster: it's now built with the optimizations Chrome is built with, tuned by Google on how the browser really runs. Web pages and apps respond faster, scoring about 40% higher on the Speedometer benchmark, and Oblada takes about 200 MB less on disk. It also fixes a crash when a tab opened as Oblada starts, such as a link that opened it, went to another page.

Oblada is a Chromium web browser with Zen's sidebar, Firefox's containers and add-ons from both the Chrome Web Store and Firefox Add-ons. Its design follows Zen's: if you like it, consider supporting Zen. For Macs with Apple Silicon, macOS 13 or later.

What's new

Changed

• Oblada is now built with the optimizations Chrome is built with, tuned on how the browser really runs: web pages and apps respond faster, scoring about 40% higher on the Speedometer benchmark. Oblada also takes about 200 MB less on disk, and 25 MB less to download.

Fixed

• Oblada no longer crashes when a tab opened as it starts, such as a link that opened Oblada, goes to another page.

Installing

If you have Oblada 0.1.2 or later, it updates itself: it looks for new versions once a day, or right away when you open About Oblada, and installs this one when you quit or from About Oblada's Relaunch button.

Otherwise:

1. Open Oblada-silicon.dmg and drag Oblada to Applications. If you have an earlier Oblada, replace it: your tabs, workspaces, containers and extensions stay.
2. Oblada isn't signed by a registered Apple developer or notarized yet, so macOS stops it the first time you open it. Go to System Settings › Privacy & Security and click "Open Anyway". If macOS says the app is damaged, run this in Terminal instead:

   xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Oblada.app
   

Known limitations

• After each update, macOS asks once for your Mac's password before Oblada can read its saved passwords and cookies: choose "Always Allow".
• Passkeys work from a phone (QR code) or a security key. Passkeys kept in iCloud Keychain, or on the Mac with Touch ID, need a build signed by a registered Apple developer.
• No Google sign-in or sync.

Source

Oblada's edits to Chromium are in chromium/patches/, one patch per file: PATCHES.md says what each one does and what it depends on. What changed in this version, in detail, is in its devlog. The README and CONTRIBUTING.md explain how to build Oblada. Updates are made with Sparkle. Releases are official builds, with Google's profile-guided optimization profiles, as Chrome's, Brave's and Helium's are.

Built on Chromium 156.0.8078.48.

SHA-256 of Oblada-silicon.dmg: dfed8290fabbda9c87f6bec19c9d62885d031830fc3636456214e054e3c3d228

Oblada 0.3.1

Oblada 0.3.1 starts faster and does less in the background: tabs from your last session load when you open them, tabs left alone are unloaded to free memory, and components you don't use are no longer downloaded. It also fixes container tabs coming back outside their container once unloaded.

Oblada is a Chromium web browser with Zen's sidebar, Firefox's containers and add-ons from both the Chrome Web Store and Firefox Add-ons. Its design follows Zen's: if you like it, consider supporting Zen. For Macs with Apple Silicon, macOS 13 or later.

What's new

Changed

• When Oblada reopens your last session, tabs load when you open them, so it starts faster. Pinned tabs, and tabs that work in the background such as chats and mail, still load right away.
• Memory Saver is on: tabs left alone for a while are unloaded to free memory, and reload when you open them. Settings > Performance can turn it off.
• Large downloads come over several connections at once, where the site allows it, so they finish sooner.
• Live Caption's speech recognition and Read aloud's voices are downloaded only when you use them, and large components no longer keep a second copy of themselves, which could take hundreds of MB.

Removed

• History no longer groups your visits by topic, which worked in the background as pages loaded.
• Oblada no longer measures every page's CPU and memory every two minutes, for statistics it never sent.

Fixed

• A container tab unloaded to free memory, or by an extension, reloads in its container, and a temporary container's data is no longer erased when its last tab is unloaded.

Installing

If you have Oblada 0.1.2 or later, it updates itself: it looks for new versions once a day, or right away when you open About Oblada, and installs this one when you quit or from About Oblada's Relaunch button.

Otherwise:

1. Open Oblada-silicon.dmg and drag Oblada to Applications. If you have an earlier Oblada, replace it: your tabs, workspaces, containers and extensions stay.
2. Oblada isn't signed by a registered Apple developer or notarized yet, so macOS stops it the first time you open it. Go to System Settings › Privacy & Security and click "Open Anyway". If macOS says the app is damaged, run this in Terminal instead:

   xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Oblada.app
   

Known limitations

• After each update, macOS asks once for your Mac's password before Oblada can read its saved passwords and cookies: choose "Always Allow".
• Passkeys work from a phone (QR code) or a security key. Passkeys kept in iCloud Keychain, or on the Mac with Touch ID, need a build signed by a registered Apple developer.
• No Google sign-in or sync.

Source

Oblada's edits to Chromium are in chromium/patches/, one patch per file: PATCHES.md says what each one does and what it depends on. What changed in this version, in detail, is in its devlog. The README and CONTRIBUTING.md explain how to build Oblada. Updates are made with Sparkle. Some of this release's changes follow what Helium and Brave do.

Built on Chromium 156.0.8078.48.

SHA-256 of Oblada-silicon.dmg: 5619196d99fd89e0c0d25b1001b324f3c4d7c739fc8b80bf23cc786a2899341b

Oblada 0.3.0

Oblada 0.3.0 gives the window themes and three layouts to choose from, and copies links without the trackers sites add to them.

Oblada is a Chromium web browser with Zen's sidebar, Firefox's containers and add-ons from both the Chrome Web Store and Firefox Add-ons. Its design follows Zen's: if you like it, consider supporting Zen. For Macs with Apple Silicon, macOS 13 or later.

What's new

Added

• Themes for the window: up to three colors in a gradient, how see-through the window is, grain, and light or dark. Right-click the sidebar to edit the default theme, or a workspace to give it its own.
• Three window layouts, in Settings > Oblada or the menu's Window layout: Sidebar, as before; Scaffold, with the tabs as icons on the side and the address bar at the top; and Compact, only the page, the sidebar showing over it when the pointer reaches the window's left edge.
• Settings > Oblada, a page for Oblada's own settings.
• The welcome lets you pick the window layout, each shown at work in a little window.
• Copy Clean Link, in a link's right-click menu and in the address bar's, copies the link without the parameters sites add to track who follows it (utm_source, fbclid and the like), from Firefox's lists, which Oblada keeps up to date from Mozilla. Copy link, in the site's panel, copies the page's link that way too, and Copy Clean Link to Highlight, for selected text, a link to that text.

Changed

• The workspace's name is no longer shown above its tabs: the workspaces at the bottom of the sidebar tell which one is open. It can be turned back on in Settings > Oblada, where it looks like a heading rather than a tab.
• The address bar shows a container's icon, or a temporary container's number, instead of its name, which hid the address. The name is in the tooltip.
• A container's color mark on a tab sits against the tab's edge, further from its icon.
• In compact mode only the page shows: the sidebar widens over it from the window's left edge, with the window's theme, soon after the pointer gets there.
• In full screen, the bar with the window's buttons shows over the sidebar and the page when the pointer reaches the top, rather than pushing them down.
• The site's information is in the Site and extensions panel, at the end of the address bar, rather than at its start. Sites with warnings still show them there.

Fixed

• The sidebar shows what's behind the window, blurred, instead of a solid gray.
• In compact mode, ⌘L and ⌘T open the address bar over the page, which didn't show.
• Pages opened in a peek work with extensions as in a tab: ad blockers filter them, also once they're made a tab.
• Full screen from a peek (a video's button, for one) makes the page a tab, in full screen. It used to do nothing, and the page couldn't go full screen even once made a tab.

Removed

• Send feedback, which went to Google, is gone from the sidebar's right-click menu.
• Settings no longer has Theme and Customize your toolbar: workspaces have their themes, and the toolbar is the sidebar's.

Installing

If you have Oblada 0.1.2 or later, it updates itself: it looks for new versions once a day, or right away when you open About Oblada, and installs this one when you quit or from About Oblada's Relaunch button.

Otherwise:

1. Open Oblada-silicon.dmg and drag Oblada to Applications. If you have an earlier Oblada, replace it: your tabs, workspaces, containers and extensions stay.
2. Oblada isn't signed by a registered Apple developer or notarized yet, so macOS stops it the first time you open it. Go to System Settings › Privacy & Security and click "Open Anyway". If macOS says the app is damaged, run this in Terminal instead:

   xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Oblada.app
   

Known limitations

• After each update, macOS asks once for your Mac's password before Oblada can read its saved passwords and cookies: choose "Always Allow".
• Passkeys work from a phone (QR code) or a security key. Passkeys kept in iCloud Keychain, or on the Mac with Touch ID, need a build signed by a registered Apple developer.
• No Google sign-in or sync.

Source

Oblada's edits to Chromium are in chromium/patches/, one patch per file: PATCHES.md says what each one does and what it depends on. What changed in this version, in detail, is in its devlog. The README and CONTRIBUTING.md explain how to build Oblada. Updates are made with Sparkle. The lists of tracking parameters are Firefox's and Mozilla's (lists).

Built on Chromium 156.0.8078.48.

SHA-256 of Oblada-silicon.dmg: e2ee6b08f6b3a572d490f94013c71d03e4637fa64bfc352b87af5bb2773fdab0

Oblada 0.2.0

Oblada 0.2.0 puts the controls of the music and videos playing in your other tabs at the bottom of the sidebar, and is based on Chromium 156, with its security fixes.

Oblada is a Chromium web browser with Zen's sidebar, Firefox's containers and add-ons from both the Chrome Web Store and Firefox Add-ons. Its design follows Zen's: if you like it, consider supporting Zen. For Macs with Apple Silicon, macOS 13 or later.

What's new

Added

• Media playing in other tabs has controls at the bottom of the sidebar: hover over them for what's playing, how far along, picture in picture and closing them.

Changed

• Oblada is now based on Chromium 156, with its 353 security fixes.
• oblada://version shows Oblada's logo and authors, and no longer calls every build a "Developer Build".
• The media button in the toolbar is gone: its controls are at the bottom of the sidebar.

Installing

If you have Oblada 0.1.2, it updates itself: it looks for new versions once a day, or right away when you open About Oblada, and installs this one when you quit or from About Oblada's Relaunch button.

Otherwise:

1. Open Oblada-silicon.dmg and drag Oblada to Applications. If you have an earlier Oblada, replace it: your tabs, workspaces, containers and extensions stay.
2. Oblada isn't signed by a registered Apple developer or notarized yet, so macOS stops it the first time you open it. Go to System Settings › Privacy & Security and click "Open Anyway". If macOS says the app is damaged, run this in Terminal instead:

   xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Oblada.app
   

Known limitations

• After each update, macOS asks once for your Mac's password before Oblada can read its saved passwords and cookies: choose "Always Allow".
• Passkeys work from a phone (QR code) or a security key. Passkeys kept in iCloud Keychain, or on the Mac with Touch ID, need a build signed by a registered Apple developer.
• No Google sign-in or sync.

Source

Oblada's edits to Chromium are in chromium/patches/, one patch per file: PATCHES.md says what each one does and what it depends on. What changed in this version, in detail, is in its devlog. The README and CONTRIBUTING.md explain how to build Oblada. Updates are made with Sparkle.

Built on Chromium 156.0.8078.48.

SHA-256 of Oblada-silicon.dmg: 2309b9a79813a5d379ff5ae081d926ff66752db9c2d3821506dd3f6937e867b0