The app is now called Ardia. The update installs over your copy, renames it to Ardia.app, and on its first launch brings everything across: profiles, tabs, pinned tabs, bookmarks, history, passwords, passkeys, cookies, settings and extensions. The website is now ardia.dev.
New
- Your passwords and sign-ins come with you. The first launch moves the key your saved passwords and cookies are locked with, and your sync key and connected accounts if you have them. macOS asks once for each, so one to three times: choose Always Allow. Turn down the passwords’ key and Ardia lets you try again or start without the old data, which stays where it was.
- Ardia has a new name and a new icon. The menu bar, the Dock and the window say Ardia, and the icon is a painted field of hills under a sun. The coloured app icons in Settings › Appearance › App Icon carry the hills in their own colour, in the Dock too.
- The New Tab page paints in your profile’s colour. Its hills take the shade of the profile’s colour and rise one after another when the page opens: the front hill, then the far one from behind it, then the sun.
- The offline page is a new game, Where’s the lamb? When a page can’t load, find the lost lamb with the yellow bell in a painted flock, across four scenes. It takes the tab’s profile colour, light or dark, and changes with it at once.
Fixed
- The History page stays smooth with thousands of entries. With 5,000 entries, a fast scroll through the list froze the window for over a second and dropped about 300 frames; it now drops about 20. Each keystroke in its search box takes a fifth of the time it did.
- A typed address opens even when a tab already has it. Typing the address of a page you had open made Switch to Tab the default row, so Enter jumped to that tab instead of opening the address. Now the address opens, as in Chrome, and the open tab keeps its own Switch to Tab row.
- The command bar covers the whole address field. In a wide window it ended short of the field’s right end, and the address text jumped to the right as it opened. Now it starts where the field is, with the text in the same place, and grows out of it, as in Dia.
- Clicking near the sidebar’s buttons no longer zooms the window. A click just above or to the left of the sidebar button counted as a double-click on the empty header and zoomed the window. The buttons now take the clicks around them.
Smaller
- The sidebar’s header is less crowded: back, forward and reload sit at Dia’s spacing with Dia’s smaller glyphs, so two buttons no longer light up at once, and only pinned extensions show there (the menu bar’s Extensions menu has the rest, as in Dia).
- Open at login may need switching on again in Settings › General, since macOS sees Ardia as a new app.
- If the app under its old name was your default browser, Ardia asks once to take its place.
- Panels that open from the address field, such as Site Controls, downloads and zoom, line their contents up on one even margin.
- Editing the address keeps https:// in it, so what you copy and edit is the full address.
- Sync between Macs keeps working across the rename, and bookmarks from before it aren’t duplicated.
- Hidden test copies of Ardia, the kind its automated checks start, keep their windows behind yours instead of jumping in front.