Blawsa 0.2.2

Improved

• Signing in to Google for online backup now happens in a Blawsa tab, where you're already signed in to Google, instead of in Safari. The tab closes by itself when you're done.

Fixed

• Turning on online backup no longer fails with "Google didn't return a sign-in code" when Blawsa is your default browser.

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Blawsa 0.2.1

Settings gets its own page, notes you can write in freely, and Stash Link on any link.

Try it

• Press ⌘, to open Settings in a tab. Type "backup" or "passwords" in its search box.
• Press ⌘J and write anything in the pad. Start a line with [ ] for a to-do, and click its box to tick it.
• Drag the notes pad by its top to wherever suits you.
• Right-click a link and choose Stash Link. Press ⌘J and open Stash to find it.

New

• Settings is now a page of its own, in a tab, like Chrome's: press ⌘, or click the gear at the bottom of the sidebar. Sections down the side (General, Appearance, Search, Passwords, Backup, Import, Extensions, About), and a search box that finds any setting. Passwords live here now too (⌥⌘P still opens them), and chrome://settings leads here.
• Right-click any link and choose Stash Link to keep it for later without opening it. It goes into the stash of the space you're in, under the page's own title.
• Move the notes pad: drag its pill, or the open pad by its top, anywhere over the page. It stays where you put it; right-click the pill to send it back to the corner.

Improved

• Notes are one piece of text you can write in freely, like Apple Notes: select across lines, paste several lines at once, undo. [ ] still makes a to-do (click its box to tick it), # a heading and - a bullet, and web addresses become links.
• On sites that use the Safari engine (like x.com and YouTube), right-clicking a link now offers the same as everywhere else: Open Link in New Tab, Open Link in Peek, Stash Link and Copy Link.

Fixed

• Typing [ ] to start a to-do no longer puts the brackets back at the start of your line.
• On sites that use the Safari engine (like x.com), links behind the notes pad no longer light up or show their address when you point at the pad.

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Blawsa 0.2.0

Notes in every space, and an encrypted backup of your browser.

Try it

• Press ⌘J for the notes pad. Type a line starting with [ ] to make a to-do, then press ⇧⌘S to stash the page you're on.
• Press ⌥⌘J to open the full notebook, or search your notes from the ⌘T bar.
• Click your space's name above the pinned tabs to fold them away. Click it again to bring them back.
• Open Settings, go to Backup and turn it on. Pick a passphrase only you know.

New

• Notes. Every space has its own notebook, under your favourites in the sidebar. Press ⌘J for a small pad over the page with three tabs: Scratch for jotting, To-do for a checklist, and Stash for links you want to come back to. Press ⌥⌘J for the full notebook with all your notes and lists. Start a line with [ ] for a to-do, # for a heading or - for a bullet, and paste a web address to make it a link card. ⇧⌘S stashes the page you're on, or drag a tab onto the pad. Search finds notes from every space, in the notebook and in the ⌘T bar. Notes are part of your backup.
• Backup, in Settings. Your spaces, pinned tabs, notes, history, settings and the list of your extensions are backed up to your Google account every hour or so, kept for 30 days, and restored on any Mac. Everything is locked on your Mac with a passphrase only you know before it's uploaded, so nobody else can read it, not Google and not Biibisoft. A recovery code opens it if you forget the passphrase. Passwords, sign-ins and site data are never backed up. Prefer no account? Save an encrypted backup file instead.
• Fold your pinned tabs away, like Arc: click the space's name above them (or the arrow that appears when you point at it). The pinned tab you're on stays in sight, and each space remembers.
• Copy your stash: "Copy all" puts every stashed link on the clipboard, and pointing at one link shows a button to copy just that one. They paste as clickable links in apps that take them.
• Point at a link and its address shows in the page's bottom-left corner, like Arc, so you can see where a link goes before you click it.

Improved

• Notes are ready for typing the moment you open the pad (⌘J) or the notebook (⌥⌘J), with the cursor at the end of your last line.
• Roomier, easier buttons: the notes pad's expand, tuck and close buttons are proper targets; Page Settings has even zoom buttons and full-width Copy URL and Developer Tools rows; buttons on panels and cards are never squashed against their text.
• Extensions whose button opens their own panel on the page, instead of a popup, now work: clicking the extension's tile (or its row in the Extensions menu) does what clicking its button does in Chrome. Before, Blawsa only said it "works on its own".
• Blawsa keeps the key that protects your sign-ins in its own Keychain item, "Blawsa Safe Storage", instead of the "Chromium Safe Storage" item other Chromium-based apps share. The first launch after updating moves it over (macOS may ask once); you stay signed in.
• "Open Link in New Tab", ⌘-click and middle-click now take you straight to the new tab, instead of opening it behind the one you're on.

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Blawsa 0.1.9

Sign-ins on the Safari engine stick, and X works there again.

Fixed

• Signing in on the Safari engine now carries over to Chromium within a couple of seconds, even on busy sites like X. Before, it often never did, and the next time you opened Blawsa you could be half signed out (X then got stuck on its logo).
• Sign-ins made on the Safari engine are no longer lost when you quit Blawsa before they've been carried over.
• X (and other sites behind Cloudflare and similar bot checks) could get stuck on its logo after switching to the Safari engine. Each engine now passes those checks on its own instead of borrowing the other's pass.
• Going to a tab from the command bar opens the folders it's in, highlights it and scrolls it into view, so you can find it again in the sidebar.

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Blawsa 0.1.8

Picture in picture, like Arc: a playing video floats when you switch tabs.

New

• Switch to another tab or space while a video plays with sound, and it floats in picture in picture; come back and it goes back into the page. Turn it off in Settings → Tabs.
• Float any video by hand from View → Picture in Picture (⌃⌘P), and press it again to bring it back.
• The "back to tab" button on a floating video takes you to the tab it came from, in whichever space it's in, with the video still playing. It floats again the next time you switch away.

Fixed

• Picture in picture didn't work at all on sites that use the Safari engine, such as Twitch. It does now.
• Closing the window with the red button now really closes your pages: a video or stream stops playing instead of carrying on in the background. Click Blawsa in the Dock and your tabs come back.
• YouTube live streams that Chromium can't play now switch to the Safari engine on their own, as other videos do.
• No more bare black Chrome windows when a site or extension opens a window by itself (WordPress admin pages did this). Its page opens as a tab in Blawsa instead.
• Blawsa could crash the first time a page opened in the Safari engine, while it brought your sign-ins over. Copying them is also about three times faster now.

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Blawsa 0.1.7

Signing in now works and sticks: sign-in pop-ups stay in front, and Safari-engine sign-ins aren't lost.

Fixed

• Signing in to a site that uses the Safari engine could quietly undo itself: if another tab opened while the site was saving your sign-in, Blawsa threw the sign-in away, and the next visit asked you to sign in again. Your sign-ins now stay, and signing out still signs you out in both engines.
• Sign-in pop-ups ("Continue with Google" on Twitch, for example) could open behind Blawsa's window, so signing in seemed to do nothing. They now open centred in front of the window and stay there.

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Blawsa 0.1.6

No more stray black "Untitled" windows on sign-in pages and links that open a new window.

Fixed

• Sign-in pages that offer Google's "Sign in as…" prompt (Auth0 logins, for example) no longer open empty black "Untitled" windows. The page's own "Continue with Google" button still works.
• A bare black "Untitled" window no longer pops up when a site opens a link in a new window (Notion, Slack and Google do this). The link opens in Blawsa instead.

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Blawsa 0.1.5

Every space now has its own favorites, and you can drag them into any order.

Improved

• Each space has its own favorites, whatever logins it shares. Pinning or unpinning one in a space never changes another. Your spaces keep the favorites they showed before.
• While you drag in the sidebar, a line shows exactly where the item will land: between tabs, beside a favorite, or into a folder.

Fixed

• Dragging a favorite onto the one beside it did nothing, and dragging it further landed it one place short. A favorite you drop on another now takes its place.

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Blawsa 0.1.4

Blawsa now has two engines, Chrome's and Safari's: video that wouldn't play now does, and you stay signed in whichever one a page uses.

Try it

• Open a live stream or video that says "No compatible source": Blawsa reloads it with the Safari engine and it plays. Next time, that site opens with the Safari engine straight away.
• Click the compass beside the address (or press ⌥⌘E) to reload any site with the other engine. It lights up while the Safari engine draws the page, and Blawsa remembers your choice for that site.

New

• The Safari engine plays the video formats Chrome's engine in Blawsa can't (H.264, AAC, HEVC and HLS live streams), with your Mac's own hardware decoding.
• Switching engines keeps you signed in: your cookies (sign-ins included) and the site's saved data go along, and the page comes back where you were scrolled. Signing in or out with either engine counts in both.
• Saved passwords, suggestions as you type, downloads, history and Peek work with both engines. Extensions run only with the Chrome engine.
• Netflix, Disney+, Max, Prime Video and other streaming services open with the Safari engine, which can play their protected video. Any other site whose protected video won't play switches by itself.
• Find on the page with ⌘F: matches light up as you type, with a count. Return or ⌘G goes to the next one, ⇧⌘G the one before, Esc closes it.
• Print with ⌘P, through the Mac's print panel, which also saves the page as a PDF.
• Reload Without Cache (⇧⌘R), Stop Loading (⌘.), View Page Source (⌥⌘U), and ⌃Tab / ⌃⇧Tab to move between tabs.

Improved

• A space with no tab open now greets you with its own colours, its emoji and name, a big search bar and its sites one click away.
• The command bar puts what's in the space you're in first: its tabs, favorites and folders, and history from sites it uses. Tabs from other spaces still show up, below, under Other spaces.

Fixed

• Pages that showed a message, asked you to confirm or asked for a value (alert, confirm, prompt) froze, because the question never appeared. It now shows as a sheet on the window, as does "Leave this page?" for pages with unsaved changes.
• Pages protected by a username and password (a router, a staging site) stayed blank, and Blawsa could crash when you quit. They now open with the Safari engine and ask you to sign in.
• Links that belong to other apps (email addresses, Zoom, phone numbers) did nothing in pages drawn by Chrome's engine. They now open in their app, and the page stays put.
• Typing a router or local address (192.168.1.1, nas.local, myapp.test) tried a secure connection those devices don't have. They now open as they should.
• Blawsa's own downloads of site icons no longer keep or send cookies, so sites can't recognise you through them.

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Blawsa 0.1.3

Spaces that share logins get their own sign-ins and extensions back, and extensions no longer open their websites every time Blawsa starts.

Fixed

• After a restart, spaces that share logins could open with the sign-ins, cookies and extension data of a space that has its own logins, so your usual sign-ins and Tampermonkey scripts seemed to vanish. Nothing was lost: Blawsa now always opens them with their own.
• Every launch, some extensions opened their welcome or what's-new page, because the browser engine told them they'd just been installed. Blawsa now ignores tabs extensions open while starting up. An extension you add still shows its welcome page.

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