Ardia 0.2.41: Netflix plays now, and Chromium moves up to 156.

Ardia now runs on Chromium 156, and streaming sites open in WebKit, where their protected video plays. Your profiles, tabs, passwords, cookies, extensions and uBlock Origin filters carry over as they are.

New

• Ardia runs on Chromium 156. The engine moves up from 155 to 156.0.8078.47, with Helium 0.20.1’s privacy patches on top, and brings Chrome 156’s security fixes.
• Netflix and other streaming sites play, in WebKit. Netflix, Disney+, Max, Prime Video, Hulu, Apple TV+, Spotify and others open in WebKit from the first visit; Settings › Engines › Open streaming sites in WebKit turns it off. Any page can move there from its tab’s menu or View › Open Page in WebKit, and when a video needs DRM that Chromium can’t play, Ardia offers to move it, with Move Back and “Don’t ask again for this site”. WebKit keeps its own sign-ins, and extensions and the ad blocker stay in Chromium for now.
• Import from Zen, with each space as a profile, its pinned tabs, folders, Essentials and tab icons, plus bookmarks, history, cookies and passwords. Thanks, @JustMarkDev.
• A new onboarding for new installs: Arc or Dia first, then one choice per page, previewed as you pick, with every browser in “Where are you coming from?” showing its icon. A setup code from the ardia.dev demo sets Ardia up the same way: paste it on the first screen (“Have a setup code?”) or in Settings › General.
• New tabs can open below the current one. Settings › Tabs › “Add new tabs” has a third choice, “Below the current tab”: the new tab joins that tab’s group, and closing it takes you back. Where the New Tab button sits is its own setting again.
• Screen sharing can include audio. For a screen or a window, tick “Also share system audio”; for a window, the app’s own audio when the site asks for it. Sharing a tab carries its sound again.
• Hovering a collapsed group shows every tab in it, most recently used first, with a search field and arrow keys, as in Arc. Thanks, @YishenTu.
• Pinned tabs show − and unload, as in Arc, and a pinned group’s − unloads all its tabs. A second middle-click or the ✕ on a closed pin removes it, with Undo, and closing an unpinned group asks first. Thanks, @Blackajiro.
• Tabs in pinned groups keep their pinned page, with Back to Pinned URL, and it syncs across your Macs. The tab menu is shorter, with moves and pinned-page controls in submenus that say where a tab goes. Thanks, @TechSupportz.
• Extensions show up in the command bar. Type an extension’s name to open its popup or its options, as in Arc. Thanks, @thomasrene, for asking.
• ⌥-click can open a link in split view, a new choice in Settings › Tabs › Links. ⌥⇧-click and ⌥⌘-click open the split again, as in Dia.
• Private windows say they’re private, with an Incognito heading, a private search field and a sidebar badge. Thanks, @nanadotam.
• Custom themes can be black, and their gradient can turn. The colour wheel has a brightness bar, and a dial sets the gradient’s direction. Thanks, @maciekzygmunt.
• Profile themes follow dark mode, so spaces imported from Arc as Light no longer stay light at night. Thanks, @nanadotam.
• The selected tab’s glow can be Full, Soft or Off (Settings › Appearance › Selected Tab), and page scroll bars can be thin, even with a mouse plugged in (Settings › Appearance › Scroll Bars).
• Tab groups have a None colour that draws no box, like Arc’s folders, and can have no icon. Thanks, @mtbaqer.
• Live folders can hide a pull request until you refresh, and each folder can turn off “Group Stacked Pull Requests” and “Show Completed”. Thanks, @torztomasz.
• Hold ⌘ in the profile menu to open a profile in a new window. Thanks, @felipeorlando.
• The Raycast extension can switch profiles and open new tabs and windows, incognito ones included. Thanks, @ridemountainpig.
• Windows open and close with a short fade, like Little Ardia. Thanks, @TechSupportz.
• Popup windows show the site’s address in a strip the page can’t cover. Thanks, @aryankeluskar.
• Ardia installs with Homebrew: brew install mantrakp04/tap/ardia, or ardia@nightly for nightlies.
• Ardia sends one anonymous “opened today” count a day, even with sharing off. It holds the app version, update channel, macOS version, chip, and whether it’s this copy’s first day, week or month. There’s no persistent ID; each day’s count gets a new random one. Settings › Privacy & Security › What’s Sent lists it.

Fixed

• Focusing the address bar with Zhuyin or Kotoeri no longer crashes Ardia.
• Closing a tab lets the page save first, so Discord and other sites no longer sign you out when you close their tab.
• Windows and tabs come back as you left them. Windows that were in full screen return in full screen, each in its own Space, after a relaunch or an update. Tabs keep their Back and Forward history across a relaunch, and Back turns off after Clear History.
• Clear keeps the selected tab and tabs playing sound, as in Arc, instead of closing everything and opening a New Tab page. Undo works until you change the window.
• Ardia is sharp on 1x external displays. Pages and the sidebar looked soft when the Mac’s own screen was the main one.
• A camera or microphone prompt no longer comes back after you allow it, and a prompt a site withdrew no longer appears later.
• Shortcut hints show the key you set. Menus, the command bar and tooltips follow your rebinding, and Settings no longer reports a conflict with a shortcut you took over.
• Launch looks settled from the first frame: pinned icons, the glass and the address bar’s colour no longer flicker in.
• Switching tabs shows the new page at once instead of fading between them.
• Deleting a profile removes its WebKit data too.
• New Tab stays at the top when that’s the setting, however many tabs there are. It used to drop to the bottom once the list filled the sidebar. Thanks, @nanadotam.
• Import finds Brave Beta and Nightly, Edge’s and Vivaldi’s other channels too, and brings tabs over from browsers on Chromium 156. Imported tabs show their icons before you open them, and keep them after 30 days. Thanks, @0xJeu.
• Arc import keeps favorites that are also pinned, and onboarding no longer pins a site twice. Arc imports get Arc’s grain, about five times subtler than before. Thanks, @nanadotam.
• Closing a pane of a pinned split keeps it one pinned split, instead of splitting it into separate pins.
• A pinned tab dragged in the top bar’s dock lands where you drop it.
• Settings › Extensions opens on the window’s profile, so a pin you turn on shows in that window, and Back returns to the Extensions list.
• Little Ardia shows extension popups, fades in once its page is ready, and can be dragged by its title. Popup windows, such as a Messenger call, can ask for the camera and microphone. Thanks, @TechSupportz.
• Swiping to another profile no longer ends with a jump. Thanks, @maciekzygmunt.
• The page no longer jumps on every ardia command. A pill floats over the page while the CLI is connected, instead of a bar that pushed it down. Thanks, @om-ray.
• The Downloads panel hangs from its button, and the page shows blurred through it. Thanks, @404khai.
• A group’s own tabs sit indented under it, and tabs answer a click. Thanks, @YishenTu and @Blackajiro.
• Hiding horizontal tabs (⌘S) slides them away, and the page keeps its margins.
• Translation covers long footnotes and side-by-side buttons on pages like apple.com.

Smaller

• Settings › Tabs can hide the ↓ Clear button. Thanks, @felipeorlando.
• Settings › Search Engine can turn off the Search button on selected text. Thanks, @midverm.
• Settings › Tabs can fade the icons of tabs that aren’t loaded. Thanks, @FedyaLight.
• On macOS 26, Settings › Tabs can give the selected Top App Dia’s icon-coloured ring. Thanks, @codeninjaben.
• The selected first tab’s glow isn’t cut off at the top of the list. Thanks, @midverm.
• Hovering a group below a collapsed live folder shows the group, not one of the folder’s pull requests. Thanks, @YishenTu.
• In full screen, the traffic lights move below the menu bar and stay clickable.
• ⌘S in a page’s text field goes to the page, and ⌘S twice quickly toggles the sidebar.
• The address bar pastes plain text, so a copied link pastes as its URL.
• The window-sharing pill stays with the window when the sidebar is hidden. Thanks, @narasaka.
• Move Tab Up and Down step over whole groups and stay out of the pinned area.
• The top tab strip scrolls to the selected tab when it’s out of view.
• A site without an icon no longer shows the previous site’s icon.
• A sidebar group shows its box only while the pointer is over it.
• The profile dots show Dia’s tooltip.
• A group named after an IP address shows the address instead of “0”.
• Colours are consistent across the app: one red for errors, Dia’s menu hover on every row, Dia’s separator everywhere.