riptide v0.3.0

0.3.0 - 2026-10-08

Features

• settings: :settings opens a page to browse, change and reset every setting
• tabs: Mark tabs using the camera, microphone or screen
• settings: A clearer settings page with sections, a colors preview and checks while typing
• settings: URLs & search second on the settings page
• sessions: :recover lists each crash's tabs to reopen some or all
• notifications: Libnotify presenter with app name, urgency, timeout and site icon
• settings: A Keys tab to bind, unbind and restore keys, with clash warnings
• settings: A Sites tab to forget saved permission answers and clear site data
• windows: Well-known call sites open in call windows by default
• settings: Edit per-site values on the page, and j/k/Return to move and edit
• windows: Say when a call site opened in a call window
• prompts: Questions belong to their tab, and permission requests show the site and what it wants
• completion: Site icons in :open and tab completion
• adblock: The status bar counts requests blocked on the page
• adblock: Hosts files work as block lists
• completion: Letters with gaps match when nothing contains the text
• spell: :spell-install downloads dictionaries checked against pinned checksums
• tabs: Cm mutes the call from any tab with the site's own key
• spell: :spell-install alone lists the languages to pick from
• tabs: Gp floats the page's video in picture-in-picture
• Chromium's crash dumps are kept locally and listed in :crash-report
• lua: Rt.on with patterns, groups and once, and eleven more events
• lua: Rt.defer and rt.every timers, rt.notify levels, and a time limit per callback
• lua: Rt.keymap with descriptions, and commands that complete their arguments
• lua: Rt.store keeps data between runs
• lua: Sandboxed plugins from a folder, loaded once you approve their permissions
• tabs: Screen shares are marked, and :share-stop ends them from any tab
• lua: Plugins install from git and stay pinned in rt-pack-lock.json
• lua: A Plugins tab with update review, revoke and remove
• lua: Plugins can wait for an event, command or key to load
• lua: Rt.statusbar.widget draws lua: widgets
• lua: Rt.ui.select and rt.ui.input, rt.page to type and fill logins, and rt.json
• lua: Rt.ui.float draws boxes of text over the page
• lua: Builtin plugins, starting with passwords to fill logins from pass, rbw, bw or KeePassXC
• lua: Rt.ui.panel docks lines beside or below the page
• lua: Plugins ship HTML pages that talk only to their own plugin
• Chrome extensions, installed from the Web Store with :extension-install
• lua: Plugin pages can dock in a panel beside the page
• lua: Rt.page.eval, rt.page.css and rt.page.selection
• lua: Rt.page.hint hints a selector's elements and hands the pick to Lua
• An Extensions tab in :settings, :extension-open and extension updates
• help: :help rt.ui.float and :help
• Install extensions straight from the Web Store page
• lua: Riptide --plugin-test runs a plugin's specs, and a plugin template
• lua: Subdir installs one plugin from a repository of several
• Extension popups float over the page, as in Chrome
• Drag an extension's popup by its bar
• lua: Plugins declare dependencies, which install and load first
• lua: One checkout per repository, and check, update, sync, restore and clean
• adblock: Scriptlets, $redirect stand-ins and $removeparam
• lua: Riptide checks plugins for updates in the background
• adblock: UBlock Origin's lists by default, with its trusted scriptlets
• adblock: Procedural element hiding (:has-text, :upward, :remove and more)
• adblock: Element hiding inside frames
• lua: Check plugins for updates daily, mentioning each update once
• lua: Add plugins from the Plugins tab or :pack-add, kept in plugins.toml
• adblock: Your own rules, and an element picker that writes them (;x)

Bug fixes

• window: Windows can be resized, so tiling window managers tile them
• cmdline: :q closes the current window and :qa quits, as in qutebrowser
• tabs: Middle-click and Ctrl+click open links in a background tab
• ui: Ctrl+scroll no longer zooms riptide's own bars
• lua: A plugin whose folder is missing shows as Failed on the Plugins tab
• Say plainly what works when an extension has a popup
• lua: Commands added after loading run in the same callback
• extensions: Build on Windows, and wait for the limits link in the e2e test
• lua: Plugin names and tests on Windows

Downloads

• Linux (x86_64): the .deb for Ubuntu 24.04+ and Debian 13+ (sudo apt install ./riptide_*.deb), the .AppImage, or the .tar.gz (unpack and run riptide). See Installing for the sandbox setup.
• macOS and Windows: experimental packages that don't run the browser yet.
• Check a download with sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS --ignore-missing, or its build provenance with gh attestation verify <file> --repo joshzcold/riptide.