Yalqen- Fixed
- Show scroll-animated content in full-page screenshots
- Added
- Missing settings and simplify the settings page
- Added
- Manual tab cleanup to the sidebar
Fixed- Keep tooltip and preview shadows inside their overlay
- Fixed
- Stop crashing when an extension worker restarts
- Added
- Open new tabs at the end of the tab list
- Added
- Keep pinned tabs on their site
- Added
- Preview gmail and calendar when hovering their tabs
- Redesign sidebar bottom row and space switcher
- Added
- Live folders for rss, atom and github feeds
- Mini window for outside links and mini player
- Sidebar spaces and space routing rules
- Site styling boosts and easels
- Window color theme setting
- Flag weak, reused and old passwords in settings
- Added
- Show an unread dot on mail and chat tabs
- Added
- Auto-archive for idle tabs
- Favorites grid above pinned tabs
- Link peek overlay for shift-click and context menu
- Nested tab folders
- Import arc spaces as workspaces
- Added
- Split view with drag-to-split
- Added
- Show extension confirmations in an in-app dialog
- Fixed
- Render deferred content in full-page screenshots
- Added
- Developer tools and extensions to the toolbar editor
Fixed- Let grammarly finish signing in
- Added
- Draw tooltips in yalqen's style with shortcut key caps
- Show the play button in the collapsed sidebar
- Fixed
- Unblock google and extension sign-in flows
- Added
- Import arc history, pinned tabs and spaces
Fixed- Stop runtime tests hanging when profile cleanup throws on quit
- Added
- A background image option to the new tab page
- Fixed
- Create the glass window with vibrancy instead of transparency
- Fixed
- Stop toolbar ghosting by creating the glass window transparent
- Fixed
- Match password picker button to the system theme
- Fixed
- Stop glass toolbar buttons turning white
- Fixed
- Stop crash when a page closes itself before its tab is removed
- Fixed
- Stop stale toolbar pixels on the opaque glass window
- Added
- Default to narrow left tab panel for new installs
- Fixed
- Improve toolbar tab strip with many and pinned tabs
- Stop glass window flashing after stage manager switch
- Fixed
- Remove welcome letter and recipient counting
- Fixed
- Use opaque theme in fullscreen
- Improved
- Smooth tab switching and reduce page load work
- Fixed
- Migrate ACP client to SDK 2 and handle display capture permissions
- Improved
- Stop the media card progress bar from animating every frame
- Fixed
- Allow quitting while a tab is still loading
- Added
- Initial linux appimage support
- Initial linux appimage support
Fixed- Update linux support and preserve chromium sandboxing
- Added
- Sealed thank-you letter and anonymous letter count
- Fixed
- Sign the mac app with the osx-sign 2 api
- Fixed
- Restore tab dragging by activating tabs on click again
- Fixed
- Show the window after the interface has painted
- Added
- Switch tabs on press and add an adjustable glass tint
- Added
- Show connection security by lock color only
- Improved
- Show the first window sooner and cut agent chat streaming cost
- Added
- Redesign sidebar media player as capsule with track skip
- Added
- Thank-you invitation card and accent color
Fixed- Make the sidebar player's play, pause and seek reliable
- Added
- Fill verification codes from open mail tabs
- Added
- Merge site permissions, exceptions and data into one list
- Added
- Simplify General and Privacy
- Added
- Visual pickers and a toolbar preview in Appearance
- Added
- Make the sidebar media player minimal
- Replace sidebar widgets with a cover-art media player
- Added
- Make sidebar widgets a compact panel of single-line rows
- Added
- Optional sidebar widgets with drag-and-drop ordering
- Added
- Reorganize panes and add settings search
- Fixed
- Speed up tab opening and stop threat-list refreshes from blocking
- Added
- Follow the transparency setting in the command bar and new tab page
- Added
- Refine solid window palette to neutral near-black and clean light
- Added
- Built-in site technology detection and toolbar button
- Added
- Transparency setting and keep pinned favicons opaque
- Fixed
- Skip unload prompt for untouched pages on quit
- Fixed
- Fit sidebar to pinned tabs and close window on cmd+w
- Fixed
- Fit sidebar to four pinned tabs and remove group controls
- Fixed
- Send color scheme hint on first page load
One shortcut cycles the tab panel, and the AI panel moves to a new key.
Improved- Cycle the tab panel from wide to narrow to hidden with ⇧⌘P
- Open the AI panel with ⇧⌘A
- Remove the separate shortcuts ⌘S and ⇧⌘U for the tab panel and sidebar
- Added
- Increase glass window transparency
- Fixed
- Keep dock icon size stable in packaged app
- Added
- Apply chosen language to the electron locale
- Fixed
- Resolve codeql alerts in browser test helpers
- Fixed
- Restore discarded tabs and unify language setting
- Added
- Installable web app windows
- Isolated article reader view
- Persistent profile reading list
- Tab groups and saved browsing workspaces
Fixed- Keep newly pinned background tabs accessible
- Added
- Encrypted address and payment card autofill
- Manage stored site data across the browser profile
- Added
- Manage extension access to selected sites
- Added
- Isolated persistent browser profiles
- Multi-tab selection and group actions
- Configure home and startup pages
- Generate edit and transfer saved passwords
- Organize bookmarks in nested folders and edit selections
- Protect browsing and downloads with local threat lists
- Restore recently closed tabs across restarts
- Save offline web pages and open local files
- Show certificates from active page connections
- Added
- Bookmark html import and export
- Tab duplication and bulk closing
- Added
- Saved password account selection
- Added
- Download location and save as options
- Per-site ad and cookie protection exceptions
- Automatically update store extensions with rollback
Fixed- Preserve unsaved pages when cancelling close
- Fixed
- Guard pushState against destroyed window
- Override http-cache-semantics to 4.3.0
- Fixed
- Release single-instance lock before relaunch
- Added
- Group site permissions by domain with compact rows
- Show update-ready card on new tab page
- Fixed
- Use block bodies in listener callbacks to prevent contextBridge cloning error
- Added
- Interface language setting with restart capability
- Added
- Per-tab ai chats, agent sign-in and one-click mcp connections
- Fixed
- Unblock google sign-in by presenting firefox on accounts.google.com
- Added
- Sync AI project chats with browser tabs
- Fixed
- Prevent google sign-in blocking in electron browser
- Added
- Dismissible announcement and feedback cards to new-tab page
- Fixed
- List yalqen under macos screen recording permissions
- Added
- Responsive scan and flow verification to agent chat
- Fixed
- Launch dev app through launchservices so macos lists it for permissions
- Added
- Multi-tab chat and visual comparison
- Added
- Screen sharing and site permission settings
- Fixed
- Request macos camera and microphone access for sites
- Added
- Collapsible AI panel rail and composer settings popover
- Fixed
- Make menus opaque in the glass theme
- Added
- Auto permission mode and persist chat model and effort
- Added
- Design references, per-project agent scope and multiple projects
- Added
- Agent work modes, short replies and compact tool output
- Fixed
- Show run button for preview scripts and keep composer controls in the panel
- Added
- Undo, diffs, chat history, completions and acp agents to agent chat
- Added
- Agent chat controls, fix with claude flow and image attachments
- Added
- Redesign agent panel with project runner and element selection
- Added
- Native claude chat interface
- Added
- Claude code side panel
- Added
- One-click claude code setup and agent status tracking
Fixed- Load lazy images before full-page screenshots
Google sign-in completes properly when it opens a popup.
Fixed- Keep sign-in popups connected to the page that opened them
A simpler sidebar and navigation controls that appear when you can use them.
Improved- Limit background work and release browser resources when they are no longer needed
Fixed- Remove the downloads card from the sidebar
- Show back and forward buttons only when available and align toolbar spacing
- Fixed
- Even out spacing between the right-hand toolbar buttons
- Fixed
- Redraw the history icon and use consistent toolbar button spacing
Bring your bookmarks and history with you, with an English interface and more phone presets.
Added- Import bookmarks and history from Chrome, Brave, Edge and Firefox
- English interface that follows the system language
- iPhone 16 Pro and Pixel 9 device presets
- Kagi as a built-in search engine
Improved- Redesign switches and selects in settings
Fixed- Keep the page attached to the sidebar during its animation
- Match dotted and dotless i in history, bookmark and address bar searches
- Added
- Center the active tab in the toolbar
Fixed- Prefer an unpinned tab when choosing the next tab after closing one
- Improved
- Reduce preparation work in the browser process
Less work behind the scenes when tabs change and cookies are checked.
Improved- Reuse unchanged tab snapshots
- Cache third-party cookie classification
A lighter command bar and fewer unnecessary tab updates.
Improved- Reduce search work in the command bar
- Avoid unnecessary tab updates
A clearer sidebar, with circular pins, separate tab icons and a session switcher.
Added- Switch between personal, developer and private windows from the sidebar
Improved- Redesign pinned tabs and tab rows with separate icons and title capsules
- Number tab shortcuts by the order shown in the sidebar list
Updates on your terms, and a reload button of its own.
Added- Update window with release notes, install and restart, and Later options
- Separate reload button beside the navigation controls
- Dismissible GitHub repository card on the new tab page
A new shape for the address bar and toolbar.
Improved- Separate address pill and navigation and toolbar action capsules
Saved logins, filled in the next time you need them.
Added- Autofill saved passwords on sign-in forms
Improved- Offer to save a password immediately after signing in
- Fixed
- Use a 2048-bit RSA key in extension signing tests
Add extensions directly from their Chrome Web Store pages.
Fixed- Make the Chrome Web Store Add button work inside Yalqen
- Added
- Show update download progress and a ready-to-install banner
- Added
- Browse the Chrome Web Store and install extensions from their pages
The Chrome Web Store joins unpacked extension support.
Added- Install extensions from a Chrome Web Store link in settings
- Improved
- Organize settings in a vertical sidebar
Save logins securely on your Mac.
Added- Offer to save passwords after sign-in
- Manage saved passwords in settings
- Added
- Choose and reorder toolbar buttons
- Navigation hint overlay
- Added
- Confirm downloads with a native dialog
Automatic updates, with your tabs restored after restarting.
Added- Download and install updates from GitHub releases inside the app
Improved- Reduce disk writes, layout work and command bar costs
Translate any text you select, right from the page menu.
Added- Translate selection from the page context menu
Page translation, unpacked Chrome extensions and more device presets.
Added- Translate whole pages
- Load unpacked Chrome extensions
- Startpage as a built-in search engine
- Galaxy S24 and iPhone 15 Pro Max device presets
The first build meant for daily use: privacy settings, several windows and a proper settings page.
Added- Block third-party cookies
- HTTPS-only mode and secure DNS
- Font size, default zoom and page language settings
- Open links from other apps and offer to become the default browser
Improved- Command bar starts connecting while you type
- Faster tab panel on large sessions
Fixed- Favorites losing their order after restart
Several windows, printing and a closer look at every page.
Added- Support for several windows
- Printing and PDF export
- Page source and spelling suggestions
Fixed- Zoom level not remembered for some sites
Private browsing and developer tools.
Added- Private tabs and windows
- Phone view with real device presets
- Chromium DevTools
The very first prototype: a calm vertical tab panel and a command bar.
Added- Vertical tab panel
- Command bar
- Favorites
Changelog
Every release of Yalqen, from the first prototype to today.