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@callb4ck callb4ck released this 23 Oct 16:47
0.4.0
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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

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