Alerse 0.1.13 for Windows

Alerse 0.1.13 for Windows, Chromium 157.0.8103.50 (ungoogled-chromium).

Packages for each architecture appear here as soon as it is built; SHA256SUMS covers every file.

Full Changelog: v0.1.12...v0.1.13

Alerse 0.1.12 for Windows

Alerse 0.1.12 for Windows, Chromium 157.0.8103.50 (ungoogled-chromium). Build number 157.0.8103.5012; sites see Chromium 157.0.8103.50. 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.

Windows only

• All Spaces are one Alerse button on the taskbar: no second button, profile badge or avatar on it, and no per-Space desktop shortcut.
• Ctrl+L on an empty Space opens the command bar with its rows.
• The Chrome Web Store installs extensions again (Add to Chrome), in every Space.

Known gaps

• x64 only, a local build. arm64 and the fixes found on the first day come in 0.1.13.
• The installer is not code-signed; SmartScreen may warn on first run.

Alerse 0.1.11 for Windows

Alerse 0.1.11 for Windows, Chromium 157.0.8103.38 (ungoogled-chromium).

Packages for each architecture appear here as soon as it is built; SHA256SUMS covers every file.

Full Changelog: v0.1.8...v0.1.11

Alerse 0.1.8 for Windows

Alerse 0.1.8 for Windows, Chromium 157.0.8103.38 (ungoogled-chromium). Arcomium is now Alerse, with a new icon.

• New name. Alerse installs beside Arcomium, in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Alerse. On its first start it takes over Arcomium's profile: Spaces, pinned items, tabs, passwords, extensions and sync. A minute later it removes Arcomium, but not your data. Quit Arcomium before the first start, then pick Alerse as the default browser in Windows' settings.
• Looks like Arc for macOS everywhere except the top bar:
  • the sidebar's rows;
  • a Space name row with a chevron that collapses the pinned tabs and a "..." menu;
  • folders, and a folder popup with search and dates;
  • the Space bar and its "+" popover;
  • pill tooltips;
  • the page card;
  • the command bar.
• Hidden sidebar. It floats back over the page from the window's left edge, as on the Mac. Ctrl+Shift+L shows or hides it.
• More in the logo menu and the command bar.
  • The Spaces submenu lists your Spaces.
  • The Tabs submenu has Copy URL, Copy URL as Markdown, Copy URL as Quote (selected text with a link), Reveal Tab in Sidebar and Collapse Pinned Tabs.
  • The window is named after the shown Space.
• 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.
• Pinned items. A hovered pinned item's "−" closes its tab and keeps the item; with no tab open, its "×" removes the item.
• Space bar. Downloads takes the left of the Space bar, where Arc has its archive.
• Fixes.
  • Split View's drop zone goes away after every drag of a row.
  • Rename Space is titled "Edit Space name", as in Arc.
• Build number 157.0.8103.3808; sites still see Chromium 157.0.8103.38.

The x64 installer and zip here were built locally ahead of CI, with PGO. The CI build replaces them under the same names when it finishes, and adds arm64.

Arcomium 0.1.6 for Windows

Arcomium 0.1.6 for Windows, Chromium 157.0.8103.38 (ungoogled-chromium).

• Command bar actions. Type an action's name: Copy URL, Copy URL as Markdown, Pin/Unpin Tab, Add Split View, New Space, Rename Space, Edit Theme, New Folder, Settings, View History. Each row shows its shortcut. A "Search [Tab]" hint starts site search, and the field shows the site's or action's icon. The (i) button opens Site Controls.
• New shortcuts. Ctrl+D pins or unpins the tab, Ctrl+Shift+C copies the URL, Ctrl+Shift+Alt+C copies it as a Markdown link.
• Split View.
  • Ctrl+Shift+= adds a pane and opens the command bar to fill it; Ctrl+Shift+- closes the pane; Ctrl+Shift+1 and Ctrl+Shift+2 switch between panes.
  • Separate and Expand are in the logo menu under Tabs.
  • Drag a tab onto another tab in the sidebar, or onto the edge of the page, to split; drag a pane out of the split to separate it.
  • A split shows as one sidebar row.
• Icon pickers, as in Arc, for Spaces, pinned items, folders and favorites: glyphs, and emoji with search. New items: Change Icon…, Reset Tab to Original URL, Collapse/Expand All Folders.
• Fixes.
  • Double-click renames a pinned item even when the first click opened its tab.
  • Closing the last tab of a Space no longer asks to delete the group.
  • The logo menu's Spaces, Tabs, Extensions and Developer submenus open again.
  • Import and Link routing work again (Chromium 157 had disabled commands that have no browser action).
• Build number 157.0.8103.3806; sites still see Chromium 157.0.8103.38.

Left out on purpose: tab archive, Little Arc and Peek. The archive button opens History as before.

The x64 installer and zip here were built locally ahead of CI, with PGO. The CI build replaces them under the same names when it finishes, and adds arm64.

Arcomium 0.1.5

Arcomium 0.1.5 for Windows, Chromium 157.0.8103.38 (ungoogled-chromium).

• A tab opened from a pinned item stays on that item after a restart, after reopening a closed tab, and when a saved tab group opens again. Before, such tabs came back below the pinned items as ordinary tabs.
• Build number 157.0.8103.3805; sites still see Chromium 157.0.8103.38.
• docs/design.md now records the decisions, defaults and known gaps of earlier releases.

The x64 installer and zip here were built ahead of CI, with PGO. The CI build replaces them under the same names when it finishes, and adds arm64.

Arcomium 0.1.4 for Windows

Arcomium 0.1.4 for Windows, Chromium 157.0.8103.38 (ungoogled-chromium).

• DevTools work again: in 0.1.3 they opened blank.
• A tab that plays sound shows a speaker in the sidebar, between its icon and title, as in Arc. Click it to mute the tab; the muted speaker is crossed out. Click again to unmute.
• When a newer Arcomium is released, the logo menu shows Update to Arcomium X.Y.Z, which opens its release page. The browser asks GitHub once a day, without cookies; set arcomium.update_check.enabled to false in Local State to turn it off.
• Each release has its own version number (157.0.8103.3804 for this one), so the installer installs over the previous release. Sites still see Chromium 157.0.8103.38.
• Importing from Arc over bookmarks that an older tools/arc_import.py made replaces them instead of adding a second copy, and keeps your own bookmarks in those folders.

The x64 installer and zip here were built ahead of CI, with PGO. The CI build replaces them under the same names when it finishes, and adds arm64.

Arcomium 0.1.3 for Windows

Arcomium 0.1.3 for Windows, Chromium 157.0.8103.38 (ungoogled-chromium).

• Built-in import from another browser: open the logo menu and pick Import from Another Browser..., or go to chrome://arcomium-import. It finds Arc and the profiles of Chrome, Edge, Brave, Vivaldi, Opera, Yandex Browser and Chromium on this computer. Arc's Spaces come over with their pinned tabs, folders and icons; other browsers' bookmarks go to a folder pinned in the current Space. Importing again replaces only what was imported before and keeps what you added. Firefox, Safari and HTML bookmark files go through the standard importer, linked from the page.
• The other browsers' files are only read.

The x64 installer and zip here were built ahead of CI, with PGO. The CI build replaces them under the same names when it finishes, and adds arm64.

Arcomium 0.1.2 for Windows

Arcomium 0.1.2 for Windows, Chromium 157.0.8103.38 (ungoogled-chromium).

• Chromium 157 with its security fixes.
• Arcomium's own install identity: its own folder, registry key, app ID and file associations, apart from Chromium's. A profile kept in Chromium's folder moves to Arcomium's on the first start. Uninstall an older Arcomium that was installed as Chromium after updating.
• Sync is end-to-end or not at all: nothing but the device list reaches the server before the chain's passphrase is in place.

The x64 installer and zip here were built ahead of CI, with PGO. The CI build replaces them under the same names when it finishes, and adds arm64.

Arcomium 0.1.1 for Windows

Arcomium 0.1.1 for Windows, Chromium 156.0.8078.79 (ungoogled-chromium).

• Command bar closer to Arc's: a larger input, plain search rows, site icons, tighter fuzzy matches.
• A memory leak fixed: switching Spaces no longer piles up color providers.
• Faster sidebar: tabs of hidden Spaces no longer rebuild it.
• Spaces keep their data where it belongs: Clear browsing data covers every Space, closed Spaces keep their logins, discarded tabs stay in their Space.
• New menus: the logo menu, Mute / Open in Split View / Edit Pinned Page on tabs, New Space / Folder / Tab on the plus button, Alt+1–9 for Spaces.
• Faster defaults: Memory Saver on, Ctrl+Tab in recently used order, parallel downloads; no Topics API.

The x64 installer and zip here were built ahead of CI, without profile-guided optimization. The CI build (with PGO) replaces them under the same names when it finishes, and adds arm64.