0.3.2

What's new in vanilla 0.3.2

• Passwords can be saved. In the Qt WebEngine views (widgets and Quick) vanilla asks when a
  sign-in form is sent, keeps the password in the operating system's credential store
  (Windows Credential Manager) and fills it in when you click the field or choose the
  account from the ↓ menu. The Edge view uses WebView2's own password autosave. The
  setting "Offer to save passwords" is on; nothing is saved without a "Yes".
• A Saved passwords page in the settings lists the sites and user names (never the
  passwords) and removes one or all of them. The Edge view's passwords are removed by
  "Remove all" too.
• Downloads got a toolbar button with a popup, as in Chrome and Edge. The button shows
  while a download runs, for a minute after the last one finished and while the popup is
  open; the popup lists the newest downloads with their progress, Open, Show in folder and
  Cancel. A Downloads page in the settings keeps the last 500 downloads of every view.
• The Edge view honours "ask for each download" and the download folder settings instead
  of saving silently.
• The directory settings moved from their own page into the settings, with the tree of
  directories above them. vanilla://directory says where they went.
• The settings page shows display names for the choices, lays out narrow windows in one
  column, centres its body, works with Reset for the view preferences and fonts, and About
  shows the version, Qt, Qt WebEngine (Chromium), the WebView2 runtime and the data
  folder. The display types are Normal, Recursive and Expandable. The settings tab has a
  gear icon.
• Dialogs were reworked: a page's alert, confirm and prompt show a globe and the host in
  the title and slide in at the top centre of the view; all dialogs share the look of the
  panels; the question about saving a password is modeless, in the top right corner, and
  answers "No" by itself after ten seconds. The HTTP authentication dialog names the
  origin or proxy that asks, so a background tab cannot pass itself off as the page you
  are looking at.
• The context menu of the address bar, the command line and the dialog fields has the same
  entries, order, words and keys as the text menu of a page.
• Starting with a large tree (20,000 tabs) is much faster: the window appears as an empty
  shell before the tree is read (1.2 s → 0.56 s to the window), the tree is read in about
  half the time, auto loading no longer freezes the window for seconds, and the window no
  longer flashes white while it comes up.
• MiniMap draws pages that scroll inside an element rather than the document (ChatGPT,
  Claude), skips the content the engine hides (closed <details>), and follows elements
  that scroll from the bottom.
• Edge view: the keyboard goes back to the page after a permission dialog or after
  switching from another application; Cancel in a permission dialog denies only that
  request instead of bringing up Edge's own prompt; single keys keep working after
  switching categories in the settings page.
• Opening a link in a new tab from a Qt WebEngine view sends the Referer the page's
  referrer policy allows, so links from Google and Wikipedia load instead of failing with
  ERR_BLOCKED_BY_CLIENT.
• Extensions: the declarativeNetRequest redirect of an extension is limited to its host
  permissions, as in Chrome. docs/EXTENSIONS.md lists which extension APIs work on each
  engine, by namespace and by method; the table is generated from the compatibility layer
  itself and the Edge column was measured on WebView2.
• "Open with default browser" passes web addresses and files that are not programs, and
  nothing else. A second vanilla hands its command line only to a vanilla of the same
  user. Titles written by pages or extensions are shown as plain text in tooltips.
• Qt's warnings are written to qt-warnings.log in the data folder.
• The Japanese UI was proofread throughout, and key names read as printed on the keyboard
  (Home キー, Page Up キー).

Fixes

• Closing a window after expanding or folding directories in the tab list no longer
  crashes.
• Closing a tab with the trash size 0 and auto save off no longer crashes.
• Starting with extensions registered no longer crashes while the Qt WebEngine view is
  restored.
• Vimium's J and K no longer jump to the ends of a large tree.
• In the vertical tab bar, a tab created in an expanded directory out of view is drawn at
  the level of its siblings.
• The tree bar's scroll buttons follow the colour scheme when it is switched at run time.
• Eight view preferences, among them Force dark mode, are applied again when set or reset.
• Right-clicking the address bar keeps the selection, so Copy is offered.
• Directory settings opened from the overview or the menu open the directory you asked
  for.
• The default of "views kept" is 10 and of "trash entries" 100 instead of showing
  "default" for a value of -1; existing settings keep what they hold.
• Two Qt warnings that appeared at every start are gone.
• The tab bar no longer touches items that are still animating out after their layer is
  gone, which could crash while closing tabs.

Notes

• Windows 10 / 11 x64. Extract the zip and run vanilla.exe; settings and sessions are kept
  in data/ beside the executable, so removing the directory removes everything.
• If vanilla.exe says VCRUNTIME140.dll is missing, run the bundled vc_redist.x64.exe
  once, then start vanilla again.
• The Edge WebView2 runtime is not bundled. Windows 11 has it; without it the Qt WebEngine
  view is used.
• Qt 6.12.0 and Qt WebEngine 6.140.0 (Chromium 140.0.7339.225) are unchanged from 0.3.1.
  The bundled Qt WebEngine is the official build, which carries no proprietary codecs:
  in that view H.264 and AAC do not play, while VP8, VP9, AV1, Opus and MP3 do.
  The Edge view brings its own codecs.
• The bundled Qt WebEngine does not carry vanilla's patches either. The patches are in
  tools/patches/ for those who build Qt WebEngine themselves (web-accessible-resources,
  isolated-world-unsafe-eval, ime-to-active-widget). The Edge view needs none of them.
• The executable is not code-signed, so SmartScreen may warn on the first run
  ("More info" then "Run anyway"). Check the archive against the hash below.

vanilla-0.3.2-x64.zip
SHA-256: 8FF9C0D8C874B239EDC2839781C7C08B0BB720176EDD8CA01F1FFD8F7F48E303

Credits

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 noreply@anthropic.com
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 noreply@anthropic.com
Co-Authored-By: Codex CLI (gpt-5.6-sol) noreply@openai.com
Co-Authored-By: Gemini (gemini-3.1-pro, gemini-3.8-flash) noreply@google.com