Alerse 0.1.13 for macOS

Alerse 0.1.13 for macOS, Chromium 156.0.8078.79 (ungoogled-chromium). Apple Silicon only. Build number 156.0.8078.7913; sites see Chromium 156.0.8078.79. Official build (ThinLTO and PGO).

Changes since 0.1.12

• A pinned item picked in the command bar shows its pinned tab, as a click on it in the sidebar does, instead of opening a second, unbound tab.
• Split View on a Space with one tab opens the pane's tab chooser, not Chromium's new tab page.
• An incognito window on its empty page is named "Incognito" in the Window menu, Mission Control and the Dock.
• Site controls follow an extension's icon, badge and pin while the panel is open.

The other fixes of 0.1.13 are Windows-only (taskbar, top bar, Web Store, Ctrl shortcuts).

Known gaps

• Still on Chromium 156 until ungoogled-chromium-macos releases 157, so the security fixes of 157.0.8103.50 are not in it.
• Ad hoc signed, not notarized: after copying Alerse to Applications, run xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Alerse.app.

Alerse 0.1.12 for macOS

Alerse 0.1.12 for macOS, Chromium 156.0.8078.79 (ungoogled-chromium). Apple Silicon only. Build number 156.0.8078.7912; sites see Chromium 156.0.8078.79. Official build (ThinLTO and PGO).

Changes since 0.1.11

• Each Space is its own profile. Every Space has its own window, cookies, logins, history, passwords, settings and extensions (ADR-0001), so a site signed in to in Work is signed out in home, and an extension or a password is added in each Space that needs it. Switching Spaces (Ctrl+1…, the Space bar, a two-finger swipe that previews the next Space's sidebar) brings that Space's window in its place; the sidebar's width and hidden state and full screen are shared by a window's Spaces. Alerse opens in the Space shown last.
• Spaces of 0.1 carry over. A Space that 0.1 kept as a folder in home becomes a Space of its own with its pinned items and icon. Its open tabs and cookies do not carry over. Importing from Arc again fills the Space the first import made.
• Motion. One set of quick timings for every animation: the Space switch, the floating sidebar sliding in as one panel, folders opening, tab rows coming and going, the selected tab's plate moving to its new place. Reduced motion is honoured.
• As in Arc: a click on the address field or Cmd+L opens the command bar on the page's address with the page and history rows; find in page is a pill inside the page card; the site controls panel is Arc's Site Control Center, with the page's zoom and blocked content first; the command bar's default icon is the outlined globe; the Space name stays put while the list scrolls; the blank page takes the Space's tint.
• Downloads button on the Space bar shows the recent downloads in a popover above it, and a second click closes it; with nothing recent it says so and offers All Downloads. It no longer opens a tab.
• Tabs show what they are doing: loading, sound, camera, microphone and screen sharing, a crashed page, a tab that left its pinned page, and dimmed when discarded. A hidden Space's icon shows its sound, recording and pending requests. Bookmarklets run on the current page. Arc's Clear above the tabs; closed tabs reopen with Cmd+Shift+T.
• Downloads save without the Save As question; the command bar is readable on a light theme; Ctrl+Tab works on macOS again; the first Cmd+W closes a favorite's tab.
• The update notice now also works on macOS, which reads the newest release, pre-releases included.

Install

1. Download alerse_v0.1.12_macos_arm64.dmg, open it and drag Alerse to Applications.
2. Remove the quarantine flag. The app is signed without an Apple certificate, so macOS otherwise reports it as damaged:

   xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Alerse.app

3. Open Alerse. Your 0.1 profile becomes the home Space; each other Space of 0.1 becomes a Space of its own on the first start.

Known gaps

• Still on Chromium 156, without the security fixes of 157; Windows is on 157.0.8103.50. macOS moves to 157 when ungoogled-chromium-macos releases it.
• Not notarized (ad-hoc signature). Updates do not install themselves.
• A tab moved to another Space loses its back and forward history.

Alerse 0.1.11 for macOS

Alerse 0.1.11 for macOS, Chromium 156.0.8078.79 (ungoogled-chromium). Apple Silicon only. Build number 156.0.8078.7911; sites see Chromium 156.0.8078.79. Official build (ThinLTO and PGO).

Changes since 0.1.10

• Alerse everywhere in the app. Settings, warnings, autofill, passwords, page info, the address bar's actions and the menus say Alerse, not Chromium or Chrome, in every language; the version line says "Official Build". The Chrome logo in the settings and extensions headers and next to "About Alerse" is Alerse's "A". chrome://flags marks ungoogled-chromium's flags "Alerse flag" and no longer promotes Chrome's release channels; the URL list is "List of Alerse URLs".
• No ungoogled-chromium welcome page. A new profile no longer opens chrome://ungoogled-first-run.
• Alerse's pages have their own addresses on macOS too: chrome://alerse-sync, chrome://alerse-links and chrome://alerse-import (they were chrome://arcomium-* on macOS).
• Fixed: closing a window crashed in some 0.1.10 builds; the fix is complete now.
• Sync refuses a password containing the earlier product name again.

Kept on purpose: the About page's "made possible by the Chromium open source project", the copyright line and the licenses in chrome://credits, which credit the code Alerse is built from; "Google Chrome" (a browser to import from) and the Chrome Web Store, which are other products.

Install

1. Download alerse_v0.1.11_macos_arm64.dmg, open it and drag Alerse to Applications.
2. Remove the quarantine flag. The app is signed without an Apple certificate, so macOS otherwise reports it as damaged:

   xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Alerse.app

3. Open Alerse.

Known gaps

• Still on Chromium 156; Windows is on 157. macOS moves to 157 when ungoogled-chromium-macos releases it.
• No update notice: pre-releases are not offered by the in-browser check. Updates do not install themselves.
• Not notarized (ad-hoc signature).

Alerse 0.1.10 for macOS

Alerse 0.1.10 for macOS, Chromium 156.0.8078.79 (ungoogled-chromium). Apple Silicon only. Build number 156.0.8078.7910; sites see Chromium 156.0.8078.79. Official build (ThinLTO and PGO).

Changes since 0.1.9

• Fixed: Alerse crashed whenever a window closed (0.1.9). Update from 0.1.9 soon.
• Sync sign-in on macOS. Sign in with a login and password, pair a new device with a short code and print a recovery sheet at chrome://arcomium-sync. Releases 0.1.8 and 0.1.9 for macOS said they had it, but their build left it out. It needs an alerse-sync server from its current main; the 24-word sync code still works without one.
• Copy Link in the address field shows a check mark for a moment after it copies.
• Picture-in-picture window, as Arc's: rounded corners; the site's name and the dark gradient show only while the pointer is on the window.
• "Restore pages?" after a crash shows in the middle of the window; it opened off the window before.
• Sidebar: a page that keeps changing its title no longer rebuilds the whole sidebar; rows, Space titles and the list are named for screen readers; animations follow "Reduce motion"; dragging a favorite out or removing it unpins its tab; duplicating a folder keeps its icon; a cancelled Space swipe no longer crashes.
• Sync: a sync code is not saved half-way when the keychain is locked; user names and passwords in the server address are dropped; the sync page is not offered in incognito or guest windows.
• Shortcut tooltips size their keycaps to the key's name; the update check gives up after 30 seconds.

Install

1. Download alerse_v0.1.10_macos_arm64.dmg, open it and drag Alerse to Applications.
2. Remove the quarantine flag. The app is signed without an Apple certificate, so macOS otherwise reports it as damaged:

   xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Alerse.app

3. Open Alerse.

Known gaps

• Still on Chromium 156; Windows is on 157. macOS moves to 157 when ungoogled-chromium-macos releases it.
• No update notice: pre-releases are not offered by the in-browser check. Updates do not install themselves.
• Not notarized (ad-hoc signature).

Alerse 0.1.9 for macOS

Alerse 0.1.9 for macOS, Chromium 156.0.8078.79 (ungoogled-chromium). Apple Silicon only. Build number 156.0.8078.7909; sites see Chromium 156.0.8078.79. Official build (ThinLTO and PGO).

Changes since 0.1.8

• Address field buttons, as in Arc. Hovering anywhere over the sidebar shows the field's site controls, Copy URL and pin buttons, not only when the pointer is on the field.
• Pinned extensions in the field. Extensions pinned in the extensions menu show as tiles at the field's right end, as Arc draws them. Click a tile to run it; right-click it for the extension's menu.
• Site controls open from the field's site button with the extensions for the site.

Install

1. Download alerse_v0.1.9_macos_arm64.dmg, open it and drag Alerse to Applications.
2. Remove the quarantine flag. The app is signed without an Apple certificate, so macOS otherwise reports it as damaged:

   xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Alerse.app

3. Open Alerse. Coming from a release before 0.1.8: quit it first; Alerse moves its profile on the first start.

Known gaps

• Still on Chromium 156; Windows is on 157. macOS moves to 157 when ungoogled-chromium-macos releases it.
• No update notice: pre-releases are not offered by the in-browser check. Updates do not install themselves.
• Not notarized (ad-hoc signature).

Alerse 0.1.8 for macOS

Alerse 0.1.8 for macOS, Chromium 156.0.8078.79 (ungoogled-chromium). Apple Silicon only. Build number 156.0.8078.7908; sites see Chromium 156.0.8078.79. Official build (ThinLTO and PGO).

Arcomium is now Alerse, with a new icon.

Changes since 0.1.7

• New name. Alerse is a new app, Alerse.app, with its own bundle ID io.github.vizzletf.alerse. On its first start it moves Arcomium's profile (~/Library/Application Support/Arcomium) to ~/Library/Application Support/Alerse. The move keeps your Spaces, pinned items, tabs, passwords, extensions and sync. Quit Arcomium first. If Arcomium still runs, Alerse leaves the profile where it is and moves it on a later start. Afterwards, drag Arcomium to the Trash.
• Alerse's "A" on the sidebar's logo button.
• Pinned items. A hovered pinned item's "−" closes its tab and keeps the item; with no tab open, its "×" removes the item.
• Sync sign-in. Sign in with a login and password, pair a new device with a short code, and print a recovery sheet. This needs an alerse-sync server from its current main. The 24-word sync code still works without either. A fresh profile's sync page no longer says it "left its sync chain".
• Command bar. It also offers Copy URL as Quote, Reveal Tab in Sidebar and Collapse Pinned Tabs. A renamed home Space keeps its name in the Space bar and the window title.
• Fixes. Split View's drop zone goes away after every drag of a row.

Install

1. Download alerse_v0.1.8_macos_arm64.dmg, open it and drag Alerse to Applications.
2. Remove the quarantine flag. The app is signed without an Apple certificate, so macOS otherwise reports it as damaged:

   xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Alerse.app

3. Quit Arcomium, then open Alerse. To sync with your other devices, open chrome://arcomium-sync.

Known gaps

• Still on Chromium 156; Windows is on 157. macOS moves to 157 when ungoogled-chromium-macos releases it.
• No update notice: pre-releases are not offered by the in-browser check. Updates do not install themselves.
• Not notarized (ad-hoc signature).

Arcomium 0.1.7 for macOS

Arcomium 0.1.7 for macOS, Chromium 156.0.8078.79 (ungoogled-chromium). Apple Silicon only. Build number 156.0.8078.7907; sites see Chromium 156.0.8078.79.

This is the first official macOS build (ThinLTO and PGO); 0.1.0 was a fast local build.

Changes since 0.1.0

• Looks and menus of Arc for macOS: sidebar, header, command bar, tooltips, inactive windows and the floating hidden sidebar are measured against Arc. Arc's menu bar: File, Edit, View, Spaces, Tabs, Archive, Extensions, Window, Help, with Arc's items and keys.
• Command bar actions: type an action's name, such as Copy URL, Copy URL as Markdown, Pin/Unpin Tab, Add Split View, New Space, Rename Space, Edit Theme, New Folder, Settings or View History. Each action shows its shortcut. Shift-Cmd-C copies the URL and Option-Shift-Cmd-C copies it as a Markdown link. Cmd-D pins or unpins the tab.
• Split View: Control-Shift-= adds a pane, Control-Shift-- closes it, and Control-Shift-1/2 switch between panes. You can also drag a tab onto another tab or onto the page's edge. Separate and Expand are in the View menu.
• Arc's icon pickers for Spaces, pinned items, folders and favorites, with glyphs and searchable emoji.
• Downloads button at the bottom left of the Space bar, where Arc has its archive. It opens Downloads (Shift-Cmd-J).
• Rename Space opens a dialog titled "Edit Space Name" instead of "Edit Folder Name".
• Tabs opened from pinned items stay on them across restarts. A speaker on a tab that plays sound mutes it with a click.
• A Space's data stays in its own partition; DevTools opens correctly.
• Built-in import from Arc and other browsers.

Install

1. Download arcomium_v0.1.7_macos_arm64.dmg, open it and drag Arcomium to Applications.
2. Remove the quarantine flag. The app is signed without an Apple certificate, so macOS otherwise reports it as damaged:

   xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Arcomium.app

3. Open Arcomium. To sync with your other devices, open chrome://arcomium-sync.

Known gaps

• Still on Chromium 156; Windows is on 157. Linux and macOS move to 157 when ungoogled-chromium-macos releases it.
• No update notice: pre-releases are not offered by the in-browser check. Updates do not install themselves.
• Not notarized (ad-hoc signature).
• Dropping a sidebar row onto the page's edge while that row's own page is shown does nothing, as intended, but the split drop zone can stay visible until the next drag.
• Left out on purpose: tab archive, Little Arc, Peek and Arc's AI features.

Built from arcomium-mac 44de55b, arcomium 00de8d5, ungoogled-chromium-macos 31f0175.

Arcomium 156.0.8078.79-32 for macOS

Arcomium for macOS on ungoogled-chromium 156.0.8078.79. Apple Silicon only.

Changes

• Switching Spaces blends the window color into the next Space's instead of jumping to it.
• Tabs of the Spaces not shown keep running: music or a messenger in another Space no longer stops.
• From -31: a Space has one tab group in sync, the same on every device, and every Space is open in the window.

The sync server must run arcomium-sync 0.1.1 or newer.

Install

1. Download arcomium_v156.0.8078.79-32_macos_arm64.dmg, open it and drag Arcomium to Applications.
2. Remove the quarantine flag. The app is signed without an Apple certificate, so macOS otherwise reports it as damaged:

   xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Arcomium.app

3. Open Arcomium. To sync with your other devices, open chrome://arcomium-sync.

Notes

• A fast local build: no LTO or PGO, so it is slightly slower than an official build.
• Updates do not install themselves.

SHA-256: c0bc8511263175fa57367131779a37412a7e8dbf586d8b4bb6cad808dbd38817

Built from arcomium-mac 27329b8, arcomium 4c769ea, ungoogled-chromium-macos 31f0175.

Arcomium 156.0.8078.79-31 for macOS

Arcomium for macOS on ungoogled-chromium 156.0.8078.79. Apple Silicon only.

Changes

• A Space has one tab group in sync, the same on every device. Before, each device and each restored session could make its own copy of a Space, so tabs went to different copies and did not reach the other device. Copies made before are merged once into one, keeping each page once.
• Every Space is open in the window: a Space from another device, or one whose tabs came through sync, shows its tabs without a click. The Space shown does not change.
• Fixes a crash on startup when a restored Space's group was connected twice, and a crash when a synced tab replaced a Space's empty page.

The sync server must run arcomium-sync 0.1.1 or newer.

Install

1. Download arcomium_v156.0.8078.79-31_macos_arm64.dmg, open it and drag Arcomium to Applications.
2. Remove the quarantine flag. The app is signed without an Apple certificate, so macOS otherwise reports it as damaged:

   xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Arcomium.app

3. Open Arcomium. To sync with your other devices, open chrome://arcomium-sync.

Notes

• A fast local build: no LTO or PGO, so it is slightly slower than an official build.
• Updates do not install themselves.

SHA-256: 85e8abe77167762549929fd602835dda23b95706340172b18d8c0052ddbcc62e

Built from arcomium-mac 4f7d324, arcomium 76d3f2f, ungoogled-chromium-macos 31f0175.

Arcomium 156.0.8078.79-30 for macOS

Arcomium for macOS on ungoogled-chromium 156.0.8078.79. Apple Silicon only.

Changes

• Fixes a crash on a swipe between Spaces right after a bookmark folder popup closed.
• Fixes a crash when a tab arrived through sync in a Space whose empty page was shown.
• From -29: a Space that came through sync or was restored after a restart opens empty, without the address bar.

The sync server must run arcomium-sync 0.1.1 or newer.

Install

1. Download arcomium_v156.0.8078.79-30_macos_arm64.dmg, open it and drag Arcomium to Applications.
2. Remove the quarantine flag. The app is signed without an Apple certificate, so macOS otherwise reports it as damaged:

   xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Arcomium.app

3. Open Arcomium. To sync with your other devices, open chrome://arcomium-sync.

Notes

• A fast local build: no LTO or PGO, so it is slightly slower than an official build.
• Updates do not install themselves.

SHA-256: 51ed67419f989e3f7b8d64f0e21202dcc2acf573aa983bb9e9c7a37a6d390a1f

Built from arcomium-mac 8a8dd70, arcomium 396d107, ungoogled-chromium-macos 31f0175.