Holoholo 0.1.12 alpha

What's new: https://alxxeu.github.io/Holoholo/notes/0.1.12.html

Holoholo 0.1.11 alpha

What's new: https://alxxeu.github.io/holoholo/notes/0.1.11.html

Holoholo 0.1.10 alpha

New

• Private Space. A locked space for private browsing, opened with Touch ID or your password. Open it with ⇧⌘N, by swiping past your last Space, from the Spaces menu, or by right-clicking the bottom bar. Its tabs come back after you restart Holoholo, stored encrypted on your Mac. Cookies and site data are kept only until you quit Holoholo. Nothing from it goes to the archive, search history or the downloads list, and extensions don't run in it. The space locks again when you leave it or lock your screen.
• Tweaks. Change how a site looks, for every page of that site: hide elements you don't want (⌥⌘Z), pick a font or tone, narrow the page, or add your own CSS. Open the panel with ⌥⌘B.
• Companions. Let tools like Claude Code, Claude Desktop or Cursor look at your tabs and act in them. It's off by default; turn it on in Settings → Companions. Each companion asks first and you choose which Spaces it can reach and whether it can only read or also act.

Improved

• A hidden sidebar now stays on screen over an empty page.

Holoholo 0.1.9 alpha

What's new

• Split View. View two tabs side by side or stacked. Start a split from a tab's right-click menu, by dragging a tab onto the page (glass drop zones appear at the edges), by dragging one tab onto another in the sidebar, or with ⌥-click on a link or a tab.
• Drag the divider to resize, double-click it to swap the panes, and convert between side-by-side and stacked from the menu.
• Pin a split: it stays in your pinned tabs (or a folder) as one row and unloads with a single button.
• Clicking inside a pane makes it the active tab.
• Favorite icons are softer.

Limitations

• A split has two panes; a split can't live inside an auto-sorted folder yet.

Holoholo 0.1.8 alpha

What's new

• Create folders by right-clicking an empty spot in the tab list. The name is editable right away (up to 30 characters).
• Select several tabs with ⌘-click or ⇧-click (Esc clears the selection), then right-click → "New Folder with N Tabs".
• Deleting a folder now asks whether to archive its tabs or keep them open.
• Pinned tabs can be renamed.
• "Move to Space" now works for pinned tabs and folders too.
• ⌘1…⌘9 switch between your favorites (⌘9 goes to the ninth, or the last one if there is no ninth).

Fixed

• The sidebar that slides out on hover no longer hides while a menu, the icon picker or an extension's Manage panel is open.
• Links opened from other apps now open as tabs in a single window instead of spawning extra windows.

Holoholo 0.1.7 alpha

Holoholo 0.1.7 alpha.

Requirements: macOS 26 or later, Mac with Apple Silicon.
Install: open holoholo.dmg and drag Holoholo onto the Applications shortcut. The app is signed with a Developer ID certificate and notarized by Apple. Existing installs update automatically (Settings, General).

Built on Chromium 156.0.8078.80.

New

• Built-in Inspect: open developer tools next to the page with ⌥⌘I or right-click → Inspect.
• Extensions page: Developer mode, Details, Site access, Load unpacked and the rest. Open it from Manage in the Extensions row, or from the Command Bar (⌘T).
• Safe Browsing for downloads: you get a Discard / Keep alert before a dangerous file is saved.

Fixed

• Clicks and hover on a page could stop working after installing an extension.

Known limitations: no password manager or autofill, no private windows, one window, no passkey support yet (Google may offer a passkey entry that does nothing; just type your email and password).

Found a bug? Open the Command Bar (⌘T) and choose Give feedback at the bottom, or write to alxxeu.dev@proton.me.

Holoholo 0.1.6 alpha

Holoholo 0.1.6 alpha.

Requirements: macOS 26 or later, Mac with Apple Silicon.
Install: open holoholo.dmg and drag Holoholo onto the Applications shortcut. The app is signed with a Developer ID certificate and notarized by Apple. Existing installs update automatically (Settings, General).

Built on Chromium 156.0.8078.80.

New

• Swipe the player card to change tracks: swipe left for next, right for previous (two fingers, with a firm, rubbery feel). The buttons are gone, the card stays compact. Works on sites that support media controls; the player now uses the browser's own media session.
• Disk image has a ready layout with an Applications shortcut.

Fixed

• Signing in to a Google account no longer closes Holoholo.
• Extension popups: Proton Pass no longer collapses into a narrow strip, and AdGuard and Simple Translate are no longer stretched.
• Developer builds no longer touch your personal profile.

Known limitations: downloaded files are not scanned by Safe Browsing (macOS still quarantines them), no password manager or autofill, no private windows, one window, no passkey support yet (Google may offer a passkey entry that does nothing; just type your email and password).

Found a bug? Open the Command Bar (⌘T) and choose Give feedback at the bottom, or write to alxxeu.dev@proton.me.

Holoholo 0.1.4 alpha

Holoholo 0.1.4 alpha.

Requirements: macOS 26 or later, Mac with Apple Silicon.
Install: open holoholo.dmg and drag Holoholo to Applications. The app is signed with a Developer ID certificate and notarized by Apple. Existing installs update automatically (Settings, General).

Built on Chromium 156.0.8078.80.

New

• New icon set for Spaces (25 icons) with a picker grid: right-click a Space, choose Icon…
• Icons for pinned tabs and favorites: right-click, Icon…, pick one instead of the site icon; Use Site Icon brings it back.
• Holoholo remembers where you left off: window position and size, full screen, and whether the sidebar was hidden.

Improved

• Pull-to-reload is harder to trigger by accident: it needs a longer pull and a short hold, and no longer fires when you drag the tabs in the sidebar.
• Fixed the Proton Pass popup collapsing into a narrow strip.

Known limitations: downloaded files are not scanned by Safe Browsing (macOS still quarantines them), no password manager or autofill, no private windows, one window, no passkey support yet. Next/previous buttons in player cards are not active yet.

Found a bug? Open the Command Bar (⌘T) and choose Give feedback at the bottom, or write to alxxeu.dev@proton.me.

Holoholo 0.1.3 alpha

Holoholo 0.1.3 alpha.

Requirements: macOS 26 or later, Mac with Apple Silicon.
Install: open holoholo.dmg and drag Holoholo to Applications. The app is signed with a Developer ID certificate and notarized by Apple. Existing installs update automatically (Settings, General).

Built on Chromium 156.0.8078.80.

New

• Safe Browsing. Holoholo now warns about phishing, malware and unwanted-software sites using Google Safe Browsing lists stored on your Mac. Only a short fingerprint of a matching address is sent to Google. You can turn it off in Settings, Privacy.

Known limitations: downloaded files are not scanned by Safe Browsing (macOS still quarantines them), no password manager or autofill, no private windows, one window, no passkey support yet. Next/previous buttons in player cards are not active yet.

Found a bug? Open the Command Bar (⌘T) and choose Give feedback at the bottom, or write to alxxeu.dev@proton.me.

Holoholo 0.1.2 alpha

First update of the closed test: Holoholo 0.1.2 alpha.

Requirements: macOS 26 or later, Mac with Apple Silicon.
Install: open holoholo.dmg and drag Holoholo to Applications. The app is signed with a Developer ID certificate and notarized by Apple. Existing installs update automatically (Settings, General).

Built on Chromium 156.0.15.

New

• Command Bar (⌘T) is now an omnibox: search history, search-engine suggestions (DuckDuckGo, Google, Bing, Brave), recent tabs, pinned extensions on the right. Search settings are in Settings, Search; history and suggestions can be turned off.
• Media player cards above the bottom bar: favicon, title, play/pause for tabs that play sound; several players stack into a group.
• Page load indicator along the top of the page.
• Pull down on a page to reload.
• Press ⌘Q twice to quit, so you don't lose tabs by accident.
• Notifications now appear at the top right.

Improved

• Sidebar rewritten on native AppKit: smoother scrolling, Space swipes and drag and drop on long lists.
• Folders and groups stay expanded.
• Expanded extension list closes when you swipe to another Space.
• Rapid clicks on the extensions arrow always toggle it.
• Removing an extension and enabling one with new permissions now work (they were silently rejected before).
• Camera/microphone permission prompt no longer crashes Google Meet when asked twice.
• Fixed popups that appeared without a click, and keyboard focus stolen from search suggestions.
• Favicons are fetched through Chromium. If state.json is damaged, Holoholo restores it from a dated backup and tells you.

Known limitations: no password manager or autofill, no private windows, one window, no passkeys yet, no Safe Browsing warnings. Next/previous buttons in player cards are not active yet. Some extensions may show an "Internal error" after an update; reloading the extension fixes it.

Found a bug? Open the Command Bar (⌘T) and choose Give feedback at the bottom, or write to alxxeu.dev@proton.me.