Zigzag 0.8.5

New

• AI apps can use Zigzag over MCP, if you turn it on in Settings › Automation: list, open and read your tabs, take screenshots, click and type. It only works on this Mac, needs a key, and never touches private windows, passwords or Zigzag's own pages. A tab an app is using says so, with Stop. Copy Setup and Copy Prompt get an app connected in one paste. (#99)
• Settings is grouped, and Automation has its own pane. (#99)
• Give a tab, pinned tab or favorite its own emoji or symbol: right-click › Change Icon…, and Use Site Icon to go back. (#153)
• Dark pages draw a light site in a dark version of its own colors after your first visit, so photos and colors stay true and the page is dark from the first frame. The old filter is still there for sites it can't read. (#134)
• Dark pages handle pictures in frames, web components and backgrounds better, and there's a Pure black option. (#134)
• The mini player resizes from any edge or corner, snaps to the page's corners (hold ⌘ to place it anywhere), remembers its size and place, and takes Space and Esc. (#156)
• On the Chrome Web Store, the store's own button reads Add to Zigzag and installs through Zigzag. Thanks to philigrin for working out how. (#130)
• Closing a tab whose nested tabs are folded away closes them too, with Undo. (#155)

Fixed

• Folders shut again when their pages are open. (#154)
• The mini player only follows a video you were watching, not a muted preview on the page you left. (#156)
• Two-finger swipes go back and forward the way your Mac scrolls, as in Safari. Thanks to philigrin. (#147)
• Pages embedded from sites you've never opened get their cookies, so shared chat artifacts and similar embeds open. Thanks to vandenbulckjean. (#143)
• A Web Inspector docked to the side stays with its own tab and isn't covered by the address bar. Thanks to vandenbulckjean. (#148)
• With the bar above the page, showing and hiding the sidebar slides smoothly and the address keeps room at its end. Thanks to vandenbulckjean. (#151)
• 1Password connects to its Mac app when your only Chrome-family browser is Vivaldi, Arc or a beta. (#145)

Download the DMG, open it, and drag Zigzag to Applications. Requires macOS 15.4 or later. Updates install automatically.

Every version's notes: https://zigzagbrowser.com/release-notes

Zigzag 0.8.4

New

• Passwords… opens your Mac's AutoFill panel right at the page's field, and macOS fills the login in. It's also in a field's right-click menu under AutoFill, and on the key icon in sign-in fields. (#132)
• YouTube ads are blocked without touching YouTube's own dialogs or scrolling. If you use an ad blocker extension like uBlock Origin Lite or AdGuard, it takes over on YouTube. (#129)
• Importing from Chrome or another browser with several profiles brings each profile over as its own space, named after it. Importing again adds to the same spaces. (#131)
• Help › Keyboard Shortcuts opens the list of shortcuts. (#122)
• Settings search finds startup, homepage, dark mode and default browser settings by the words you'd use. (#121)
• Tabs that Zigzag put to sleep show a dotted ring round their icon, like Chrome, and say why when you point at them. (#140)

Fixed

• A background tab is never put to sleep for using a lot of energy without warning: Zigzag says it'll sleep in 2 minutes, with Keep Awake to leave it alone. A quiet tab is no longer blamed for another tab's work. (#140)
• With a proxy running on your Mac (like Clash), a mistyped address says Zigzag can't open the site and names the proxy, instead of blaming the network. An empty server error shows an error page instead of a blank one. (#137)
• The getting started guide matches the app: the overview shows real pages, the guide stays inside the window, and each step names the shortcut you set. (#133)
• A pinned page in a split shows as one row in the sidebar. (#114)
• Narrow split panes keep the address and the close button. (#115)
• Switches fill with your accent color when they're on. (#116)
• Site Controls offers Get Extensions when you have none. (#117)
• Chinese says 个人资料 for profiles everywhere, and the translate row names the language. (#118)
• New Space reads the same everywhere. (#119)
• History shows the time once, on each row. (#120)
• Site data labels lost a stray full stop. (#122)
• The command bar lists Settings once, and rows don't repeat their title in grey. (#135, #136)
• Zigzag Mini's recent list leaves out pages that failed to load. (#136)

Download the DMG, open it, and drag Zigzag to Applications. Requires macOS 15.4 or later. Updates install automatically.

Every version's notes: https://zigzagbrowser.com/release-notes

Zigzag 0.8.3

New

• The sidebar's + button and a right-click on empty sidebar space open Zigzag's own menu: New Tab, New Folder and New Space…, with their shortcuts. (#100)
• Zigzag follows Increase Contrast and Reduce Transparency: lines, edges and quiet text get stronger, and panels go solid. (#105)
• Claude's side panel opens in Zigzag, so you can sign in and chat with it. (#112)

Fixed

• YouTube scrolls again after its ad blocker warning is hidden. (#113)
• A minimized mini player keeps playing a muted or silent video. (#111)
• The ⌃Tab switcher stays on the page beside the sidebar, with many tabs in rows. (#110)
• Site Controls never leaves an action alone on a row, and its site switches are spaced like the rest of Zigzag. (#104)
• Delete buttons in Settings show when you point at a row, the same everywhere. (#101)
• Settings › Passwords reads more clearly with more than one profile, the Shortcuts hint wraps in a narrow window, and Chinese uses one word for filling. (#106, #107, #108)
• Saving your session skips writes that would change nothing. (#89)

Download the DMG, open it, and drag Zigzag to Applications. Requires macOS 15.4 or later. Updates install automatically.

Every version's notes: https://zigzagbrowser.com/release-notes

Zigzag 0.8.2

Fixed

• Split view with the address bar above the page has one set of controls: each page's own bar moves into the top row, instead of repeating back, reload and the address. (#97)
• iCloud Passwords and other extensions that talk to an app on your Mac stay connected in every profile, instead of asking for a new code after a couple of minutes. (#98)
• Passwords… stays open until you pick a login or move on, instead of closing straight away. (#96)
• A pinned page you've opened shows under its folder even when the folder is shut, as in Arc. (#94)
• Holding ⌥⌘ and dragging moves the window from anywhere in it, Settings and an empty window included. (#95)
• Zigzag starts a little faster, and a freeze note from Help › Report a Problem says what was running. (#89)

Download the DMG, open it, and drag Zigzag to Applications. Requires macOS 15.4 or later. Updates install automatically.

Every version's notes: https://zigzagbrowser.com/release-notes

Zigzag 0.8.1

New

• Keep tabs awake: a switch in Site Controls keeps a site's tabs from sleeping in the background. Sites you keep awake are listed in Settings › Privacy › Sites. (#91)
• Passwords… in the password menu opens the Passwords app and password manager apps like Dashlane and 1Password, and fills the login you pick. On macOS 27, sign-in fields show the key icon. (#57)
• Right-click empty space in the sidebar for New Tab, New Folder and New Space, and the + button offers New Space or New Folder, even with a single space. (#87)

Fixed

• Zigzag no longer stalls with many tabs open. Dark pages, extension badges, memory warnings, saving, history and site icons stopped holding it up, and a freeze note in Help › Report a Problem now says what was running. (#89)
• Favorites keep their page when you leave them: an everyday memory warning from macOS no longer puts them to sleep, and a busy favorite is pointed out instead. A page that does come back returns to where you were, forums like Discourse included. (#65, #88)
• Extensions stay signed in after you sign in on their website, and can sign out. Thanks to sheauhuu for the fix. (#93)
• A private window no longer saves a site's ad blocking or dark page choice. (#92)

Download the DMG, open it, and drag Zigzag to Applications. Requires macOS 15.4 or later. Updates install automatically.

Every version's notes: https://zigzagbrowser.com/release-notes

Zigzag 0.8.0

New

• Profiles: give a space its own sign-ins, extensions, history and favorites, so two accounts on one site or two wallets live side by side. Spaces on the same profile share everything, and with one profile nothing changes. Choose a space's profile in its editor, where New Profile… makes one. Thanks to vandenbulckjean for building it. (#61)
• Dark pages: Settings › Appearance can draw light websites dark, always or when your Mac is dark, with a switch for each site in Site Controls. Sites with their own dark theme are left as they are, and pictures and video keep their colors. (#53)
• Nested tabs: turn on Settings › Tabs › Open ⌘-clicked links under their tab, and links you open in a new tab sit under the page they came from, folded away when you like. Closing the page moves its tabs up instead of closing them. (#58)
• A playing video follows you in a mini player when you switch tabs. It shows just the video, without the site's own controls. Drag it anywhere in the window, minimize it to keep listening, or click its site name to go back. (#17, #69, #71)
• With the address bar above the page, the bar takes the page's own color and reads as one card with it. Thanks to philigrin for building it. (#56)
• Reader sets the article in one calm column, with its source, author and reading time on top, and Find searches the article. (#47)
• Each page in split view has its own close button, which leaves the other page. (#70)
• Keep on Top: pin a pop-up or Zigzag Mini, or choose Window › Keep on Top, and it stays above your other apps. (#72)

Fixed

• YouTube no longer turns gray and stops taking clicks after its ad blocker warning is hidden. (#86)
• Sound Booster, Shazam and other extensions hear streamed tabs like YouTube, and an extension asking for a tab another one is already listening to says which one has it. (#45)
• The password menu opens when you click a field, even where the site lays its hint over the field, picking a login fills it, and sign-up fields list your saved logins under Use Strong Password. (#68)
• Muting a tab leaves a call's camera and microphone as they were, the speaker shows the page's real state, and a favorite playing sound can be muted from its tile. (#66)
• Favorites stay loaded when you leave them, unless your Mac is short of memory. (#65)
• With the address bar above the page, the bar shows a sidebar button while the sidebar is hidden, lines up with the page, and stays still as the sidebar slides. (#67)
• Picture in Picture's Return button brings its tab back from any tab. Thanks to micsama for the fix. (#59)
• VoiceOver and the keyboard can open a space's menu in Settings again. Thanks to vandenbulckjean for the fix. (#54)
• Text typed into pages keeps its dashes and quotes, and your own text replacements work again. (#49, #52)
• Extensions that look for Chrome's named tab and window constants, like Coupert, work. (#63)
• A tab that goes from one site to another drops the last site's icon. (#69)
• Profiles and private windows keep to themselves: Reader, site icons, search suggestions, dark pages, Download Again and extension options no longer carry anything across. (#76, #81, #82, #83, #84, #85)
• Nested tabs keep their place when you reopen closed tabs or split one, and a link opened under a folded tab unfolds it. (#77, #78, #79)
• The bar above the page takes the right color after leaving a page drawn dark. (#75)
• Settings and the browser's menus, tooltips and previews are more consistent, and Find a Setting finds the new settings. (#74, #80)

Download the DMG, open it, and drag Zigzag to Applications. Requires macOS 15.4 or later. Updates install automatically.

Every version's notes: https://zigzagbrowser.com/release-notes

Zigzag 0.7.9

New

• Bring everything over from more browsers: Orion, Helium, Comet, Yandex, Naver Whale, Chromium, Thorium, Chrome Beta, Dev and Canary, Brave Beta and Nightly, and Firefox Developer Edition and Nightly. Only the browsers on your Mac are listed. (#41, #46)
• Settings › Appearance › Address bar above the page: back, forward, reload and the address move into a slim bar above the page. Thanks to philigrin for the idea. (#20)
• Pin up to three extensions next to the address: hover an extension in Site Controls and click its pin. Thanks to vandenbulckjean for building it. (#22)
• Hold ⌃ to see each space's number for ⌃1–9, as holding ⌘ shows the tabs'. (#43)
• Hold ⌥⌘ and drag anywhere on a page to move the window, handy with a borderless page and the sidebar hidden. ⌥⌘ double-click zooms it. (#40)

Fixed

• Rabby unlocks and reaches websites. Thanks to vandenbulckjean for the fix. (#12)
• Error pages say what happened in plain words, keep the site's name whole, and offer what fits: Try Again, Go Back, or Reload for a page that stopped. Details holds the exact error, ready to copy, and a page that failed while you were offline loads again once you're back online. (#39)
• Clear keeps the tabs from what you're working on now. What counts as recent follows your own pace, so it no longer leaves only one or two tabs. (#42)
• Hovering a tab shows and hides its highlight at once, and the find bar (⌘F) drops down from the top and goes back up. (#44)
• Extensions see each tab's site icon, as in Sound Booster's list of tabs, and an extension that can't hear a streamed tab, as on YouTube, says so instead of failing quietly. (#45)

Zigzag 0.7.8

New

• After an update, Zigzag says so and offers What's New, and the note waits until you've seen it. The notes show their links, credits and issue numbers. (#33)
• Panels, menus, toasts, sheets and the find bar (⌘F) come and go with short, quiet motion that shows where they came from. The command bar and switching tabs stay instant, and Reduce Motion turns it all into a simple fade. (#37)

Fixed

• Swiping sideways in web apps like Excel scrolls the sheet instead of going back, even inside embedded frames, and a scroll that starts mid-sheet stays a scroll at the edge, as in Chrome. (#38)
• Swiping on a PDF goes back and forward, as on any page. (#36)
• Links Zigzag opens itself, like those in About, open in a tab instead of Zigzag Mini, and closing a Zigzag Mini you used alongside your windows keeps you in Zigzag. (#34)
• A long site name keeps its start and its ending, in the address and Site Controls. (#35)
• A dialog's title lines up with the text under it.

Zigzag 0.7.7

New

• Settings › Tabs › Swipe to go back and forward: turn it off and websites get every two-finger swipe. (#30)

Fixed

• Tabs you leave in the background stay as they were. They sleep after an hour out of sight instead of 15 minutes (after 15 minutes once more than 20 are awake, and after 5 only while your Mac is low on memory), and never while they have something you typed in them. (#32)
• A tab that loads again comes back where you were, with the text you'd typed, but never passwords or card details. (#32)
• When a page reloads because it used too much memory, or your Mac ran low, Zigzag says so. (#32)
• A busy background tab gets three minutes, not one, before it's put to sleep for using a lot of energy. (#32)
• A full-screen video keeps the whole screen, with no frozen strips, and going back to its tab doesn't take it out of full screen. Swiping over it no longer goes back a page. (#31)
• Typing in the command bar never waits on your history, however big it is. History results and address completion join the list as they arrive. Thanks to zemu for measuring it. (#29)

Zigzag 0.7.6

New

• Bring your extensions over from Chrome, Arc, Brave, Edge and other Chromium browsers. In Import (⇧⌘I), choose Extensions: you see each one with what they'll be able to do together, confirm once, and Zigzag adds them from the Chrome Web Store one at a time. (#23)
• AppleScript: scripts, Shortcuts and AI agents can list windows and tabs, read a page's title, address and text, open, switch and close tabs, and go back, forward or reload, written the way Safari and Chrome take them. Running JavaScript in pages is off until you turn on Settings › General › Allow JavaScript from Apple Events, and private windows are never reachable. Examples are in docs/automation.md. (#26)

Fixed

• Kondo works: its web app reaches the extension, and adding a LinkedIn account finishes. (#25)
• Extensions that listen for cookie changes are told which cookie changed, and cookies saved by a Chrome-based browser can be set again.
• An extension's own page inside a website can reach its background, as in Chrome.