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@callb4ck callb4ck released this 22 Oct 16:08
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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

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