Nimlo 0.6

Nimlo 0.6

Nimlo 0.6 focuses on window and tab management, making the browser shell feel more like a real multi-window macOS app.

What’s new

• Drag tabs to reorder them within a window
• Detach a tab into its own new window
• Move tabs between Nimlo windows
• Re-dock detached tabs back into an existing window
• Preserve active tab state per window
• Close windows cleanly when their last tab is closed

Notes

This remains an experimental Apple Silicon macOS release. Nimlo still uses the system WebKit view for page rendering while the browser experience is built out in Zig.

Requirements

• macOS 15 Sequoia or newer
• Apple Silicon Mac

Download

Use Nimlo-0.6-arm64.dmg from the release assets.

SHA-256:

538546b74a94e6010bfefde85a5a25ae78b19ffb5d4d1b892caaa4c231af5296

Nimlo 0.5

Nimlo 0.5

Nimlo 0.5 adds local history and bookmarks, making the prototype much more useful as a day-to-day browser shell.

This is still an experimental macOS prototype, not a production browser or security replacement for Safari, Chrome, Firefox, or Edge.

What's New

• Local JSONL history persistence
• nimlo://history with day grouping and newest-first sorting
• History search across title, full URL, and hostname
• Tokenized history queries
• Multi-select history actions
• Open or delete selected history rows
• Select visible history results or a full day group
• Inline confirmation before bulk history deletion
• Keyboard and range-selection support for history

Bookmarks

• Local JSONL bookmark persistence
• Bookmark the current page from the toolbar star, menu item, or Cmd-D
• nimlo://bookmarks management page
• Bookmark search across title, URL, hostname, and tags
• Add and remove per-bookmark tags
• Filter bookmarks by tag, tagged state, or untagged state
• Multi-select bookmark deletion with confirmation
• Keyboard and range-selection support for bookmarks

macOS Release

• Apple Silicon macOS build
• Minimum macOS version: macOS 15 Sequoia
• Signed and notarized Developer ID DMG for direct distribution

Download

Use Nimlo-0.5-arm64.dmg from the release assets.

SHA-256:

5fb1545a1084f982763d0440eb5315366eb5a3b2606141eb2c7f9b10703d2f8a

Nimlo 0.1.0 - First macOS Prototype

Nimlo 0.1.0

This is the first public prototype release of Nimlo, an open-source browser project built to give people a lighter, calmer, user-controlled choice for the web.

This release is not a production browser yet. It is an early macOS app shell focused on proving out the core browsing experience: native window chrome, tabs, WebKit rendering, local file browsing, and privacy-first defaults.

What works

• macOS .app bundle distributed in a .dmg
• Native AppKit window and menu integration
• Embedded WebKit WKWebView rendering
• Independent webview per tab
• New tab, close tab, and tab switching
• Address bar with URL/search handling
• Back, forward, reload, and stop controls
• Native tab strip with favicons
• nimlo://start start page
• nimlo://about system/about page
• Local file:// URL support
• Directory rendering for local folders
• Nonpersistent WebKit data store by default
• No telemetry, no accounts, no ads

Known limitations

• macOS only for now
• No bookmarks, history, downloads, or settings UI yet
• No session restore yet
• No auto-update mechanism yet
• Uses system WebKit for rendering
• Still experimental and not recommended as a daily browser replacement

Why this exists

Nimlo starts small on purpose. The goal is to build a browser that is easier to understand, more local-first, and less shaped by ads, accounts, telemetry, and growth systems.

This release is the first step: a working browser shell that can grow into something useful while staying open and inspectable.