Ardia 0.2.47-nightly.2

New

• Air Traffic Control. Settings › Air Traffic Control sends links from other apps to the profile you pick, as a
  new tab, a new window or Little Ardia. A rule matches by app and by site or pattern, the first one that fits
  decides, and Everything Else catches the rest. Try a Link shows where a link would go before one arrives.
• Split View marks the pane you're in. A ring in the profile's colour outlines the focused side, and follows the
  window's rounded corners when there's no page frame.
• Buttons answer a press. Toolbar, sidebar, media and download controls give a small press motion, and the reload
  and stop glyphs sit centred.

Install

Apple Silicon, macOS 14 or later. Signed with Developer ID and notarized by Apple: download, drag it to Applications, open it.

A nightly: every fix the day it lands, tested less than a stable release. It updates to newer nightlies and stables (Ardia › Check for Updates…); Settings › General › Update channel switches back to Stable, which never downgrades. Every release's notes: https://ardia.dev/release-notes

Source

This build's source, with the engine's patches and build scripts: https://github.com/mantrakp04/ardia/tree/v0.2.47-nightly.2 (LICENSE and NOTICE there cover the licenses). The engine's Helium and uBlock sources as built, and where Chromium's is: https://github.com/mantrakp04/ardia/releases/download/engine-ee28c4b3a7d9/ArdiaCore-ee28c4b3a7d9-source.tar.xz

Ardia 0.2.47-nightly.1

New

• Closing a tab goes back to the tab you used before it, as in Arc. It used to jump to a neighbour or to whatever the page had opened. A sleeping tab isn't woken while an awake one is there to go back to. Thanks, @maciekzygmunt.
• Back on a tab a link opened closes it and returns you to the tab that opened it. Thanks, @avoid-ashraful.
• ⌃Tab shows each tab as a picture of its page, in a row across the middle of the window, with its icon and title. Sleeping tabs are left out, so letting go never wakes one. Thanks, @araeyn.
• ⌘T then Return goes back to your most recent tab when New tab opens the command bar, and ↓ / ↑ move through the tabs without filling the field with their address. Thanks, @Bil0000.
• Put links from other apps first, in Settings › Tabs, puts links from Slack, Mail and the rest just below your pinned tabs. Thanks, @maciekzygmunt.
• Swipe back to close Little Ardia when its page has nothing to go back to. Settings can turn its gestures off, for anyone whose pinch fights page zoom.
• Tidy works on the tabs below it and leaves your pins alone, as in Arc. Thanks, @torztomasz.
• Live folders: hide a pull request from its row's hover button, and with Show Completed off, a merged pull request's tab leaves the folder too. Thanks, @torztomasz.
• The clean-up suggestion has Don't show again, a shorter card, and Undo. It used to come back every launch. Thanks, @torztomasz.

Fixed

• ⌘T on an empty New Tab page opens another tab again. It focused that page's field instead, so you could only make one new tab at a time. Settings › Tabs › Reuse an empty New Tab page brings the old way back.
• ⌘S hides the tabs in its own window only, as in Dia. It hid them in every window. Thanks, @maciekzygmunt.
• Esc closes Little Ardia when the page doesn't have the keyboard, and a blank one closes from its address bar.
• ⌘Y puts the cursor in History's search field, and what you type right after it lands there. Thanks, @Josephh310.
• Undo after cleaning up more than 100 tabs brings every one back. Thanks, @torztomasz.
• Delete on an inline completion keeps the caret after what you typed. Thanks, @narasaka.

Smaller

• Tabs opened without a click paint 200 ms sooner, such as those from an extension or a script.
• Renaming a tab in the sidebar lines its text up with the other rows. Thanks, @araeyn.
• The back and forward buttons fade into each other as history changes. Thanks, @araeyn.
• ardia browse set viewport works again, and its off-screen tabs stay out of the windows restored after a quit. A crashed tab it uses recovers on the next reload.

Install

Apple Silicon, macOS 14 or later. Signed with Developer ID and notarized by Apple: download, drag it to Applications, open it.

A nightly: every fix the day it lands, tested less than a stable release. It updates to newer nightlies and stables (Ardia › Check for Updates…); Settings › General › Update channel switches back to Stable, which never downgrades. Every release's notes: https://ardia.dev/release-notes

Source

This build's source, with the engine's patches and build scripts: https://github.com/mantrakp04/ardia/tree/v0.2.47-nightly.1 (LICENSE and NOTICE there cover the licenses). The engine's Helium and uBlock sources as built, and where Chromium's is: https://github.com/mantrakp04/ardia/releases/download/engine-ee28c4b3a7d9/ArdiaCore-ee28c4b3a7d9-source.tar.xz

Ardia 0.2.46

New

• Onboarding is three steps. Where you're coming from, how it looks, and a last few choices; everything else is set from the browser you picked, with Customize more… for the rest. It used to be eight steps and up to 24 screens. Helium is found on your Mac and imports from there, and Redo Setup… in Settings › General walks through it again from your current settings.
• Auto Picture in Picture when you leave Ardia. With Auto Picture in Picture on, a playing video pops out when Ardia's window goes out of sight and goes back into the page when you return. It works in WebKit tabs too.
• Peek is on by default. Links to other sites and links that open a new tab now open in a Peek, as in Arc. Settings you already changed stay as they are.
• Clicking the address edits it in place. The suggestions drop down from the field; ⌘T still opens the bar in the middle, and "In the centre" in Settings now applies to ⌘L only.
• A tab switches when the mouse button goes down, as in Chrome, Safari and Arc, which takes about a tenth of a second off every switch. Dragging, ⌘-click and ⇧-click work as before.
• ⌘W closes every selected tab, and in a split it closes only the pane you're in. Close Split View in the pane's menu closes the whole split. Thanks, @bwfront.
• ⌥⌘← and ⌥⌘→ switch profiles, as in Dia and Arc. Thanks, @narasaka.
• ⌥↩ in the command bar opens the address in Split View. Thanks, @bwfront.
• A "New tab opened" pill. When a link opens in a background tab, a pill in the page's top right takes you to it. Thanks, @luangjokaj.
• A collapsed group keeps the tabs you opened from it. They stay under its header until you close them, as in Arc.
• Pinch a Little Ardia window. Spread to open it in the main window, pinch in to close it, as on a Peek.
• A compact ⌘T, as a plugin. Before you type, the command bar can skip your pinned tabs and Top Apps and list fewer open tabs. Install it from ardia-plugins; typing still finds every tab.
• A borderless page frame, and no frame in full screen when tabs are hidden. Thanks, @bwfront.
• ardia tabs --usage shows what each tab costs. Every tab's process, CPU and memory, hottest first, and ardia tabs --pid names the tabs behind a process top shows, so a tab draining the battery can be found from the terminal.
• ardia browse gets an agent's job done in fewer steps. An action answers with the text of whatever it opened, read --scroll reads a whole long list in one go, fill edits spreadsheet cells and picks from menus, and a drag lands where you aimed it.

Faster

• Switching tabs and opening a new one no longer slow down as tabs pile up. Every row in the sidebar used to recheck itself on any change anywhere; now only the rows that changed do any work. With 200 tabs a switch does about a third of the bookkeeping it did.

Fixed

• Closing a window no longer closes tabs another window still shows. With Share tabs across windows on, closing a window also closed the tabs of every profile the other window hadn't opened yet. They now move to the window you're still using, with their groups, splits and pages.
• A profile keeps its extensions when the keychain key changes. Every extension in the default profile could vanish at the next launch, with no message.
• Watching upscaled video for a long time no longer crashes it. After about 36 minutes at 30 fps, or 18 at 60, the video process could die.
• Reopening a window you just closed keeps Back. A window reopened in the seconds after closing came back with its tabs but none of their history. A window now closes at once, so ⇧⌘T brings back each tab with Back and Forward.
• Search suggestions come from the browser itself. They were fetched outside it, with a different identity and cookies, which may be why Google showed some people its "unusual traffic" page. Private windows no longer ask for suggestions at all.
• Connect Another Device shows its code in dark mode. The Show Code button was white on the white frame, so the sheet looked like a blank square and an iPhone had nothing to scan; the code is also larger now, so a camera reads it more easily.
• Memory Saver puts Top Apps to sleep too. Pinned tiles were never slept, however long they sat in the background, holding a few hundred MB each. They now sleep on Memory Saver's timer like any tab, even ones you visit often, and still stay awake while they play, record, sit in Picture in Picture or hold something you typed.
• Sync stops re-uploading your whole profile every 10 minutes. Each synced profile rewrote a full copy to iCloud over and over while you browsed; it now writes one only once enough has changed.
• Calls can share a window or the whole screen. Picking one used to fail; Ardia now asks for Screen Recording and says how to turn it on.
• ⌃Tab works in WebKit tabs, and pages there can't take Ardia's shortcuts. With the keyboard in a WebKit page, ⌃Tab and ⌃⇧Tab did nothing, and a page that handles its own keys could swallow ⌘T, ⌘W and the rest. They now reach Ardia first, as on every other page. Thanks, @narasaka.
• A paused video stays paused when you leave its tab. In a WebKit tab with Auto Picture in Picture on, pausing and switching tabs right away popped the paused video out, and it came back at 0:00. Thanks, @narasaka.
• The return button on a WebKit video's Picture in Picture window works. It did nothing; now Ardia comes forward on the video's tab and the video goes back into the page, as on other tabs. Thanks, @narasaka.
• Pages no longer stop taking clicks and typing. A drag that never got its end, most often when the ardia command was stopped in the middle of one, left the page ignoring every click and key while scrolling still worked, until Ardia was quit. Ardia now ends any drag left behind.
• One click switches tabs after a right-click menu. Closing a tab's or the command bar's right-click menu left the click behind it hanging, so the next click on a tab, often from the New Tab page, did nothing and a second was needed.
• ⌘T on an empty New Tab page stays on it. It, the New Tab row and + used to stack another identical empty tab, which looked like nothing happened; they now put you in that page's field.
• A loading tab shows the address it is loading. A tab opened from a link or another app switched to about:blank about a second into a slow load, so Copy URL copied about:blank; the address, the sidebar row and Copy URL now keep the real address until the page arrives.
• Imports land where they belong. Arc's split views arrive as splits with every pinned tab, and Zen's pinned tabs, folders and Essentials go to the profile of their own workspace or container instead of your first one.
• A light custom colour keeps the sidebar readable in dark mode. Tab titles, groups and icons on a light colour stayed white on light grey; they now turn dark, as Arc draws them. Settings › Appearance › "Adjust text to the colour" turns this off.
• Content blocker toggles stay where you put them. After switching panes or profiles, the switches could slide back to off while uBlock Origin reloaded its lists.
• Add to Chrome no longer fails with "Image decode failed", and every extension allowed in Incognito shows in private windows. Thanks, @FedyaLight.
• Turning Auto-Hide Tabs off keeps the tabs shown. A window could stay hidden after the setting was switched off, and hide again after scrolling or switching.
• Korean typing in the command bar. After the first syllable, each new consonant stayed separate; syllables now compose as they do in page fields.
• Settings search finds what you typed. "cli" leads to the ardia command, once, not to every setting with "click" in it, and matches are highlighted.
• Switching the update channel checks it at once and says what it found, and Check Now shows Checking… while it runs.
• Report a Problem keeps your draft through a quit, recording included, retries when the server is busy, says what's missing before you send, and its recording shows Picture in Picture.
• New Tab stays at the bottom of a long tab list. With more tabs than the window could show, the row shrank away to just its arrow.
• The Dock icon brings your window back while a video is in Picture in Picture, and ⌘T after closing the last tab keeps the command bar up.
• Site Controls opens next to its button with the sidebar on the right, as do the zoom, permission and history popovers.
• ⌃Tab ignores tabs you haven't looked at. A tab opened in the background joins the recent order once it's shown.
• Allowing a site to use your location asks macOS for it, so the site gets an answer instead of waiting.
• Connect Calendar does something. When macOS won't ask for access, Ardia opens the Calendars privacy settings and says why.
• Chats no longer make the toolbar bounce, and resizing a tiled window keeps up with the drag.
• Translated text starts showing in under a second, on-screen paragraphs first.
• Onboarding fits a small window, and Glass or classic? shows the difference between the two.
• A WebKit page no longer covers the tab you switched to. Thanks, @narasaka.
• Collapsed groups keep the tab you're on in view after you switch away. Thanks, @FedyaLight.
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Engine ee28c4b3a7d9

ArdiaCore's engine for engine key ee28c4b3a7d9990b911b1442f7bff08d8a58e937 (commit cc6afea), for builds without a Chromium tree (packages/ardiacore/scripts/fetch-engine.sh). Not an app release.

Engine 1c2355ca844e

ArdiaCore's engine for engine key 1c2355ca844e60155f5143097141d9502bfbaa66 (commit b412912), for builds without a Chromium tree (packages/ardiacore/scripts/fetch-engine.sh). Not an app release.

Ardia 0.2.46-nightly.7

Faster

• Switching tabs and opening a new one no longer slow down as tabs pile up. Every row in the sidebar used to recheck itself on any change anywhere, and the amount it checked had grown release by release. Now only the rows that changed do any work: with 200 tabs a switch does about a third of the bookkeeping it did.

Fixed

• Importing from Zen puts pinned tabs in the right profile. Pinned tabs, folders and Essentials from every Zen profile, workspace and container could all land in your first profile. Each now goes to its own, and workspaces that share a container share their data. Zen from before 1.18 is read too.
• A Report a Problem recording shows Picture in Picture. The mini player was missing from every recording. It is drawn where it sits now, blacked out when pages are hidden. A recording only ever holds its own window, never your other windows, and recording a private window always hides pages.
• Onboarding fits a small window. At the smallest size, rows were cut off in all three steps. The last step is one column now, without the gap in the middle.
• Help fix Ardia? stays out of the way. The card sat over the top-left of every New Tab page. It moved to the bottom-left corner and hides when the command bar needs the room.
• Settings search shows one result per place. "cli" listed the ardia command twice.
• Check Now says Checking… while it checks, with a spinner, instead of going dim.

Install

Apple Silicon, macOS 14 or later. Signed with Developer ID and notarized by Apple: download, drag it to Applications, open it.

A nightly: every fix the day it lands, tested less than a stable release. It updates to newer nightlies and stables (Ardia › Check for Updates…); Settings › General › Update channel switches back to Stable, which never downgrades. Every release's notes: https://ardia.dev/release-notes

Source

This build's source, with the engine's patches and build scripts: https://github.com/mantrakp04/ardia/tree/v0.2.46-nightly.7 (LICENSE and NOTICE there cover the licenses). The engine's Helium and uBlock sources as built, and where Chromium's is: https://github.com/mantrakp04/ardia/releases/download/engine-f1e7a822788b/ArdiaCore-f1e7a822788b-source.tar.xz

Before and after

The fixes, filmed on the previous release and on this one: https://ardia.dev/release-videos/fixes-0246n7.mp4

Ardia 0.2.46-nightly.6

New

• Onboarding is three steps. Where you're coming from, how it looks, and a last few choices; everything else is set from the browser you picked, with Customize more… for the rest. It used to be eight steps and up to 24 screens. Helium is now found on your Mac and imports from there.
• Redo Setup… in Settings › General walks through onboarding again, starting from your current settings. Cancel at any step keeps things as they were.
• A tab switches when the mouse button goes down, as in Chrome, Safari and Arc. That takes about a tenth of a second off every switch. Dragging, ⌘-click and ⇧-click work as before.
• Clicking the address edits it in place. The suggestions drop down from the field; ⌘T still opens the bar in the middle. "In the centre" in Settings now applies to ⌘L only.
• Unread counts on tabs are off by default, and readable when you turn them on in Settings › Tabs: a calm pill with larger digits, and the title drops its own "(3)" so the count shows once. A switch you turned on yourself stays on.
• ⌘W closes every selected tab, and the menu says Close 3 Tabs. Thanks, @bwfront.
• ⌥↩ in the command bar opens the address in Split View. Thanks, @bwfront.
• A borderless page frame, and no frame in full screen when tabs are hidden. Thanks, @bwfront.

Fixed

• Watching upscaled video for a long time no longer crashes it. After about 36 minutes at 30 fps, or 18 at 60, the video process could die. macOS's upscaler leaked one small object per frame until a system-wide pool ran out; Ardia now calls it a way that doesn't.
• A profile keeps its extensions when the keychain key changes. Every extension in the default profile could vanish at the next launch, with no message.
• Search suggestions come from the browser itself. They were fetched outside it, with a different identity and cookies, which may be why Google showed some people its "unusual traffic" page. Private windows no longer ask for suggestions at all.
• Settings search finds what you typed. "cli" now leads to the ardia command, not to every setting with "click" in it; matches are highlighted and the pane follows your selection.
• Switching the update channel checks it at once and says what it found. It used to download quietly, or not check at all, and Check Now stayed dimmed.
• One switch for links from other apps. "Open links from other apps in Little Ardia" is now a single toggle in Settings › General, and search finds it. The toggle people were turning off only applied inside a Little Ardia window.
• Report a Problem keeps your draft through a quit, recording included, retries by itself when the server is busy, and says which part failed instead of "upstream".
• Glass or classic? shows the difference. Both choices drew the same preview in onboarding.
• The New Tab row stops looking highlighted after you open a tab from it.
• Site Controls opens next to its button with the sidebar on the right, as do the zoom, permission and history popovers. They opened on the far side of the window.
• ⌃Tab ignores tabs you haven't looked at. A tab opened in the background joins the recent order once it's shown.
• An auto-hidden sidebar reopens only from the window's edge, and keeps the theme's gradient while it peeks.
• Auto Picture in Picture pops out only when the window is out of sight. Switching to an app beside Ardia leaves the video in the page.
• Allowing a site to use your location asks macOS for it, so the site gets an answer instead of waiting.
• Tabs in a group keep when they were last used after Start fresh or a reopen. Thanks, @YishenTu.

Install

Apple Silicon, macOS 14 or later. Signed with Developer ID and notarized by Apple: download, drag it to Applications, open it.

A nightly: every fix the day it lands, tested less than a stable release. It updates to newer nightlies and stables (Ardia › Check for Updates…); Settings › General › Update channel switches back to Stable, which never downgrades. Every release's notes: https://ardia.dev/release-notes

Source

This build's source, with the engine's patches and build scripts: https://github.com/mantrakp04/ardia/tree/v0.2.46-nightly.6 (LICENSE and NOTICE there cover the licenses). The engine's Helium and uBlock sources as built, and where Chromium's is: https://github.com/mantrakp04/ardia/releases/download/engine-933c196aeb53/ArdiaCore-933c196aeb53-source.tar.xz

Before and after

The fixes, filmed on the previous release and on this one: https://ardia.dev/release-videos/fixes-0246n6.mp4

Ardia 0.2.46-nightly.5

New

• Auto Picture in Picture when you switch apps. With Auto Picture in Picture on, going to another app while a video plays pops it out, and coming back to Ardia puts it back in the page. It works in WebKit tabs too, and pops out faster than before.
• A "New tab opened" pill. When a link opens in a background tab, a pill in the page's top right takes you to it. Thanks, @luangjokaj.
• Peek is on by default. Links to other sites and links that open a new tab now open in a Peek, as in Arc. Existing settings stay as they are.
• ⌥⌘← and ⌥⌘→ switch profiles, as in Dia and Arc. Thanks, @narasaka.

Fixed

• New Tab stays at the bottom of a long tab list. With more tabs than the window could show, the row under the list shrank away to just its arrow, and scrolling never brought it back.
• The Dock icon brings your window back while a video is in Picture in Picture. With the browser window minimized, a click on the Dock did nothing; now it restores the window.
• ⌘T after closing the last tab keeps the command bar up. It used to close the bar that had just appeared and leave an empty page.
• Collapsed groups keep the tab you're on in view after you switch away. Thanks, @FedyaLight.
• A WebKit page no longer covers the tab you switched to. Thanks, @narasaka.
• Sidebar polish. A tab's unread count sits at the end of its row, a tab in Picture in Picture shows a PiP icon instead of a badge, profile initials and emoji sit centered, and a closed tab's title no longer lingers over another row. Thanks, @luangjokaj.
• The link preview moves out of the way. Near the bottom of a page, the link address shows at the top instead of covering footer links. Thanks, @luangjokaj.
• Hovering a Settings search result no longer drags the list around.

Install

Apple Silicon, macOS 14 or later. Signed with Developer ID and notarized by Apple: download, drag it to Applications, open it.

A nightly: every fix the day it lands, tested less than a stable release. It updates to newer nightlies and stables (Ardia › Check for Updates…); Settings › General › Update channel switches back to Stable, which never downgrades. Every release's notes: https://ardia.dev/release-notes

Source

This build's source, with the engine's patches and build scripts: https://github.com/mantrakp04/ardia/tree/v0.2.46-nightly.5 (LICENSE and NOTICE there cover the licenses). The engine's Helium and uBlock sources as built, and where Chromium's is: https://github.com/mantrakp04/ardia/releases/download/engine-054c7f68642e/ArdiaCore-054c7f68642e-source.tar.xz

Engine f1e7a822788b

ArdiaCore's engine for engine key f1e7a822788bff84061edc2c9f9fe3686fb9bde2 (commit 6e4bae3), for builds without a Chromium tree (packages/ardiacore/scripts/fetch-engine.sh). Not an app release.

Engine 933c196aeb53

ArdiaCore's engine for engine key 933c196aeb53fb03094773d9ccb95fc8959c0523 (commit ed8b445), for builds without a Chromium tree (packages/ardiacore/scripts/fetch-engine.sh). Not an app release.