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@callb4ck callb4ck released this 23 Oct 06:25
0.3.2
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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

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