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@callb4ck callb4ck released this 20 Oct 16:16
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Oblada 0.1.1 moves downloads into the sidebar, gives the site panel the bookmark star and installing sites as apps, and reopens your tabs and workspaces at startup.

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

  • A downloads button at the bottom of the sidebar, next to your workspaces: it shows how your downloads are going, and lists the recent ones.
  • Install a website as an app from the site panel (the button at the end of the address bar), or open it in its app once it's installed.

Changed

  • The bookmark star moved from the address bar to the site panel, leaving the address more room. It's filled when the page is already bookmarked.
  • Oblada now reopens your tabs and workspaces when it starts. You can change this in Settings, On startup.
  • The first launch opens Oblada's welcome, instead of Chromium's window for signing in to Google.
  • "Import bookmarks and settings" opens Oblada's own import.
  • Clicking the address bar shows the whole address, not just the site.
  • About Oblada shows Oblada's own version and the Chromium version it's based on.
  • "Get help" leads to Oblada's issues on GitHub.

Removed

  • "You and Google" in Settings: Oblada doesn't use Google accounts.
  • The "Continue where you left off" bar at startup.
  • The update check in About Oblada, which always failed. Download new versions from GitHub.

Fixed

  • The site's icon could stay stuck above the address bar after hovering it.
  • The credits page (oblada://credits) now lists every open source project in Oblada and its license.
  • About Oblada said "made possible by the Oblada open source project" instead of Chromium.

Installing

  1. Open the .dmg and drag Oblada to Applications. If you have Oblada 0.1.0, 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

  • Oblada doesn't update itself yet: new versions are published on this page.
  • 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.

Built on Chromium 155.0.8059.85.

SHA-256 of Oblada-0.1.1-arm64.dmg: 87894d6b4e9a22a88a4e2caf5d95eba83d893b3b781162024e1252f8c3759aff

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