BasicShell 0.4.0

Download: BasicShell-0.4.0.zip, unzip, move BasicShell.app to Applications. It is self-signed, not an Apple Developer ID, so the first time macOS refuses to open it: open it once, then System Settings › Privacy & Security › Open Anyway.

Requires: macOS 27 on Apple silicon.

In this build

• A sidebar-only layout (Settings › General › Layout): no top bar. The top of the sidebar has the traffic lights, back and forward, the site's name with reload in it (a click brings up its whole address over the page, as for a new tab) and the site's buttons; the window is dragged from its first row.
• An Extensions menu in the menu bar, as in Arc: each extension with its icon and badge, then Add Extension… and Manage Extensions…. In the sidebar-only layout it is where the extensions are, their popups opening at the top of the window.
• Full screen on a screen with a notch:
  • the top bar runs through the strip beside the notch;
  • the menu bar comes down only once the pointer has rested against the top for a moment, moving the top bar (or the sidebar) down below it, and stays while a menu or an extension's popup is open;
  • the Dock comes as soon as the pointer reaches the bottom;
  • after the menu bar the top bar stays a moment, to be reached again;
  • square corners, the screen's own, with no outline round the edges and no resize arrow at them.
• Reload sits inside the address field; the copy and new-tab buttons left the top bar (⇧⌘C and ⌘T, the sidebar's +).

SHA-256 of the zip: 69c13dc4acefd344ac77e0c6fa267451ef5424245044e0b3377bff6bd43e5545