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Oblada 0.2.0

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@callb4ck callb4ck released this 21 Oct 13:18
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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

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