0.3.6 Release

Version 0.3.6 | @OldValencia

What's new

• A menu on every site tab. Right-click a tab, or press the keyboard's menu key, for Back, Reload, zoom, Copy link, Open in browser, sound, Mobile version, Move left / right, Clear site data and Edit site. It works on any tab, not only the one on screen.
• A simpler three-dot menu. Back and zoom moved to the tab menu; the three-dot menu now holds Settings and Extensions.
• A way back when a site sends you elsewhere. When a site takes you to another website or opens a page of its own, a bar above the page shows where you are: ✕ returns to the page you left on the site, Open in browser continues in your default browser. It replaces Close page and Open start page.
• Keep a page as a site. + on that bar adds the page as a site of its own, with the name the website gives itself filled in; the new tab opens on that page and the site you came from goes back to where you were.
• A window size for each site. Turn on Remember size for … in the Window size menu, and the window takes that site's size whenever you open it. Pick a preset and the site follows the preset, resize by hand and it keeps that size, or Fill the screen. Outside the dock the tabs stay under the pointer.
• Mobile version. Turn it on in a tab's menu, and the site shows the layout it gives a phone, handy for Instagram, X or YouTube in a tall, narrow window.
• Mute a site, always or only while Spark is hidden, from its tab's menu. Settings → Browser sets both for all sites at once.
• See which site makes noise. A tab that plays sound shows a speaker, crossed out when the site is muted.
• Sign out of one site. Clear site data… in a tab's menu clears that site's cookies and storage; the other sites stay signed in. Sign-out questions now use Spark's own dialogs.
• Find a site by name. Ctrl + Shift + L, even inside a page, opens All sites with its search ready.
• Drop files into any site. Hold a file from Explorer over a tab for a moment to open that site, then drop the file into its page. Hold it near either end of the tabs to scroll to the others.
• A dot on the tray icon when a site changes while Spark is hidden, for example when a chat finishes an answer. Its tooltip names the site.
• The open site's tab is in view when Spark starts, and stays in view when the window gets narrower.
• Menus close when you click into the page, not only when you click Spark itself.
• A new README, with the mascot showing you around each part of Spark, fresh screenshots and a new tour video.
• Meet Sparky. Spark has a new icon: its mascot, now called Sparky, who also says hello in the first-run tour.
• A livelier Sparky. Sparky now blinks and looks around, beams when a slow or broken page arrives, cheers a new site and waves goodbye to a removed one, gasps when a site sends you elsewhere or a file is carried in, sways while a site plays sound, and goes "shh" when you mute one. Click it too many times and it gets dizzy.
• A sharp tray icon. The tray draws Sparky at its own size instead of shrinking a large picture. The dot that marks a changed site is now blue and sits above Sparky's face, so it stays visible.