New
- Tabs open and close with Dia’s motion. A new tab appears in its place in the sidebar and the tabs below slide down from under it. A closed tab fades where it was while the ones below slide up over it. Before, the list jumped. With the pointer held still on ✕, the next tab slides under it already showing its ✕, so you can keep clicking to close tab after tab, as in Dia. Works inside groups too.
- A Nightly update channel. Settings › General › “Update channel” picks Stable or Nightly. Nightly gets each fix as soon as it’s ready, plus every stable release. Stable stays as it was.
- Chrome’s own Task Manager. Window › Task Manager opens Chrome’s task manager, as Dia’s does, and it stays open after you close the window that opened it. Battery Saver now uses Chrome’s own tab freezing, which also lowers the frame rate while you’re on battery.
Faster
| 0.2.36 | 0.2.37 | Change | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Swiping between profiles, JS time | 135 ms | 95 ms | −30 % |
| Swiping between profiles, rows redrawn | 3,800 | 1,280 | −66 % |
Swiping to another profile redraws about a third as many tab rows, so the swipe costs less on a long sidebar.
Fixed
- Saved passwords stay behind Touch ID. In 0.2.36 and earlier, a program running on your Mac could start Ardia in a way that revealed saved passwords and cards without asking, or opened your signed-in tabs to remote control. Both ways are closed, including the spellings and settings that got around the first fix.
- AppleScript can’t run code in your tabs unless you say so. Running JavaScript in a page through AppleScript, directly or through a
javascript:address, now needs View › Developer › Allow JavaScript from Apple Events, off by default, as in Chrome. - Ardia keeps your secure connections to itself. Starting Ardia with a key-log setting, or a flag that weakens certificate checks, no longer writes your HTTPS keys to a file or accepts certificates it shouldn’t.
- Clearing a site clears all of it. “Clear cookies & site data” now also removes the cookies a site sets for its whole domain, which usually hold your login, and what it stored inside other sites’ pages, as Chrome’s own clear does.
- Full screen shows the way out. A page in full screen, or one that locks your pointer or keyboard, now shows Chrome’s “Press Esc to exit” notice, so it can’t pass itself off as your desktop. A page asking for a Bluetooth or USB device leaves full screen first. The eyedropper on design sites works.
- A full-screen video stays put when you swipe to another Space. Swiping away from a video playing in full screen popped it out into picture in picture and out of full screen. It now stays in full screen and keeps playing where you left it.
- Page dialogs stay out of your way. A sign-in or other page dialog that arrives while you’re in another app no longer pulls Ardia in front, and it follows its page when the sidebar or window moves.
- Downloads get macOS’s checks again. A file macOS blocks is stopped and removed instead of finishing, and Finder’s “Where from” shows the page a download came from.
- Sites can’t open the screen-sharing picker by themselves. A page that asked to share your screen on load, as some sign-in pages do, opened the picker without a click. It’s refused now, as in Chrome; asking from a click still works.
- A cancelled relaunch stays cancelled. After Relaunch in ardia://flags was cancelled (by a download in progress, say), the next ordinary quit relaunched Ardia anyway.
- The sidebar peeks from the window’s top corner. With the sidebar hidden, resting the pointer at the window’s top-left corner did nothing; the peek only came lower down. The whole left edge opens it now.
Smaller
- Saved passwords and card numbers no longer leave copies in memory on their way to be saved.
- Saving an address from an extension’s popup no longer risks a crash.
- With the address bar in the sidebar, a tab’s preview no longer opens on top of the address bar’s suggestions.