1.44.1

Blanc 1.44.1

Added

• Reader Mode. Read an article without the clutter around it. Type
  /reader, or choose Enter Reader Mode when the expanded Island offers
  it. Blanc lifts the article out of the page you've already loaded, on your
  computer, and keeps its headings, links, images with captions, tables and
  code. Choose System, Light, Dark or Sepia, one of four typefaces, a text
  size from 16 to 28 pixels and one of three widths; Blanc remembers your
  choice on this device. Exit Reader Mode returns to the page as you left
  it, without reloading. Reader Mode is free. Some pages aren't articles, and
  on those Blanc says so and leaves the page as it was.
• Move to Space. Once you have a space, a tab's menu has Move to Space
  ▸: it moves the tab, as it is, to the end of another space without leaving
  the window you're in. New Space… in the same menu makes a space that
  starts with that tab. A tab group's menu has Move Group to Space ▸,
  which moves the whole group with its name and colour, and Open Link in
  Space ▸ in a link's menu opens the link in another space. Private tabs
  don't offer these.
• Select several tabs. In the ⌘L panel and in vertical tabs, ⌘-click
  (Ctrl-click on Windows and Linux) adds or removes a tab, Shift-click selects
  a range, and Shift with the arrow keys extends the selection. Right-click a
  selected tab to move, group, pin, mute, reload, quiet, copy the links of or
  close them all at once. Closing them is one entry in Recently closed.
• Send to Device. Send the page you're on to another of your synced
  Blanc devices from the tab menu's Send to Device ▸ or with
  /send <device>. It waits for you in Sent to this device at the top of
  the Other devices drawer and on the Ledger start page; nothing opens by
  itself. Pages stay up to 7 days. Private tabs and internal pages can't be
  sent. Sending needs Profile Sync on both devices.
• Open links from other apps where they belong. When another app opens a
  link in Blanc (a link you click in Slack, Mail or a terminal, say), rules in
  Settings → Profiles → Open links from other apps decide which profile,
  and optionally which Space, it opens in. A rule reads "Links to
  jira.example.com open in Work". It matches that domain and its subdomains,
  or, from the rule's ⋮ menu, any address that contains text you choose. The
  first matching rule wins. A Space that isn't open opens in a new window of
  its profile, and a rule can open its links as private tabs. Links no rule
  matches open where they always have, in the window you used last. The group
  appears once you have two profiles or a Space. Rules stay on this device and
  aren't synced.
• Make a rule from the page you're on. With two or more profiles, the
  shield popover has Open links to this site in this profile (or …in
  this Space when the window shows one); click it again to remove the rule.
  /route in the ⌘L panel does the same for the current page, and
  /route off removes its rule. Neither is available in a private tab.
• Copy Link (⇧⌘C, Ctrl+Shift+C on Windows and Linux). Copies the current
  page's address without selecting the address first, from the keyboard or
  Edit → Copy Link. The Island briefly says "Link copied". On macOS,
  ⌥⇧⌘C copies the address without tracking parameters (Edit → Copy Clean
  Link). Blank and internal pages copy nothing.
• /copy and /copy clean. The same two copies from the ⌘L panel, so
  the clean copy has a keyboard path on Windows and Linux too.
• Ctrl+Tab by most recent use (Linux and Windows). Ctrl+Tab goes back
  to the tab you used before, and a second tap comes back. Hold Ctrl and
  press Tab again to step further back; a row of tab icons under the Island
  shows where you'll land, and letting go of Ctrl switches there. Esc stays
  put (on Windows, Ctrl+Esc opens the Start menu, which also leaves you
  where you were), a click on a tile switches at once, and Ctrl+W closes the
  picked tab. Ctrl+PageDown and Ctrl+PageUp still go by position. Turn it
  off in Settings → General → Switch tabs with Ctrl+Tab. On macOS,
  Ctrl+Tab still goes by position for now.
• Vertical tab text size. Settings → General → Island → Vertical tab
  text size: Default, Large or Extra large. Titles and group names grow
  together, in every open window at once.
• Site icons on the Island. Settings → General → Island → Show site
  icons on the Island draws each tab on the Island as its site’s icon
  instead of a dot, so you can tell which tab is which without hovering. A
  small dot under an icon marks the current tab. Icons take more room, so
  fewer tabs fit before the rest go into a count. It’s off by default and
  stays on this device.

Changed

• Switching spaces says which tab is in the way, and is in the way less
  often. When a page has to stay open during a switch, the switch box names
  up to three of them with the reason (still loading, using your camera,
  microphone or screen, a pop-up open, or connected to the page that opened
  it, as during a sign-in) and a Show tab button. A tab another page
  opened no longer holds the window once that page has closed, and a page
  whose ad or chat frame keeps reloading no longer counts as loading.
• Settings → Sync shows your devices. This device comes first, with a
  name you can edit in place, followed by your other synced devices and their
  platforms. What syncs is shown as tiles. The recovery code, joining with a
  code and turning sync off are now under More options.
• Pinned tabs always lead the Island's dots, including pinned tabs inside a
  group, and show as rounded squares (on a tile with site icons on). While a
  pinned tab is active, the Island keeps showing its group, or the last section
  you were in.

Fixed

• Open in Glance in a tab's menu now works on either page of a two-page
  split: that page leaves the split and floats over the other.
• With vertical tabs on Windows and Linux, the main-menu button moves into
  the rail, so it stays reachable.