Ardia 0.2.46: Two hundred tabs, and the sidebar barely notices.

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• Onboarding is three steps. Where you’re coming from, how it looks, and a last few choices; everything else is set from the browser you picked, with Customize more… for the rest. It used to be eight steps and up to 24 screens. Helium is found on your Mac and imports from there, and Redo Setup… in Settings › General walks through it again from your current settings.
• Auto Picture in Picture when you leave Ardia. With Auto Picture in Picture on, a playing video pops out when Ardia’s window goes out of sight and goes back into the page when you return. It works in WebKit tabs too.
• Peek is on by default. Links to other sites and links that open a new tab now open in a Peek, as in Arc. Settings you already changed stay as they are.
• Clicking the address edits it in place. The suggestions drop down from the field; ⌘T still opens the bar in the middle, and “In the centre” in Settings now applies to ⌘L only.
• A tab switches when the mouse button goes down, as in Chrome, Safari and Arc, which takes about a tenth of a second off every switch. Dragging, ⌘-click and ⇧-click work as before.
• ⌘W closes every selected tab, and in a split it closes only the pane you’re in. Close Split View in the pane’s menu closes the whole split. Thanks, @bwfront.
• ⌥⌘← and ⌥⌘→ switch profiles, as in Dia and Arc. Thanks, @narasaka.
• ⌥↩ in the command bar opens the address in Split View. Thanks, @bwfront.
• A “New tab opened” pill. When a link opens in a background tab, a pill in the page’s top right takes you to it. Thanks, @luangjokaj.
• A collapsed group keeps the tabs you opened from it. They stay under its header until you close them, as in Arc.
• Pinch a Little Ardia window. Spread to open it in the main window, pinch in to close it, as on a Peek.
• A compact ⌘T, as a plugin. Before you type, the command bar can skip your pinned tabs and Top Apps and list fewer open tabs. Install it from ardia-plugins; typing still finds every tab.
• A borderless page frame, and no frame in full screen when tabs are hidden. Thanks, @bwfront.
• ardia tabs --usage shows what each tab costs. Every tab’s process, CPU and memory, hottest first, and ardia tabs --pid names the tabs behind a process top shows, so a tab draining the battery can be found from the terminal.
• ardia browse gets an agent’s job done in fewer steps. An action answers with the text of whatever it opened, read --scroll reads a whole long list in one go, fill edits spreadsheet cells and picks from menus, and a drag lands where you aimed it.

Faster

• Switching tabs and opening a new one no longer slow down as tabs pile up. Every row in the sidebar used to recheck itself on any change anywhere; now only the rows that changed do any work. With 200 tabs a switch does about a third of the bookkeeping it did.

Fixed

• Closing a window no longer closes tabs another window still shows. With Share tabs across windows on, closing a window also closed the tabs of every profile the other window hadn’t opened yet. They now move to the window you’re still using, with their groups, splits and pages.
• A profile keeps its extensions when the keychain key changes. Every extension in the default profile could vanish at the next launch, with no message.
• Watching upscaled video for a long time no longer crashes it. After about 36 minutes at 30 fps, or 18 at 60, the video process could die.
• Reopening a window you just closed keeps Back. A window reopened in the seconds after closing came back with its tabs but none of their history. A window now closes at once, so ⇧⌘T brings back each tab with Back and Forward.
• Search suggestions come from the browser itself. They were fetched outside it, with a different identity and cookies, which may be why Google showed some people its “unusual traffic” page. Private windows no longer ask for suggestions at all.
• Connect Another Device shows its code in dark mode. The Show Code button was white on the white frame, so the sheet looked like a blank square and an iPhone had nothing to scan; the code is also larger now, so a camera reads it more easily.
• Memory Saver puts Top Apps to sleep too. Pinned tiles were never slept, however long they sat in the background, holding a few hundred MB each. They now sleep on Memory Saver’s timer like any tab, even ones you visit often, and still stay awake while they play, record, sit in Picture in Picture or hold something you typed.
• Sync stops re-uploading your whole profile every 10 minutes. Each synced profile rewrote a full copy to iCloud over and over while you browsed; it now writes one only once enough has changed.
• Calls can share a window or the whole screen. Picking one used to fail; Ardia now asks for Screen Recording and says how to turn it on.
• ⌃Tab works in WebKit tabs, and pages there can’t take Ardia’s shortcuts. With the keyboard in a WebKit page, ⌃Tab and ⌃⇧Tab did nothing, and a page that handles its own keys could swallow ⌘T, ⌘W and the rest. They now reach Ardia first, as on every other page. Thanks, @narasaka.
• A paused video stays paused when you leave its tab. In a WebKit tab with Auto Picture in Picture on, pausing and switching tabs right away popped the paused video out, and it came back at 0:00. Thanks, @narasaka.
• The return button on a WebKit video’s Picture in Picture window works. It did nothing; now Ardia comes forward on the video’s tab and the video goes back into the page, as on other tabs. Thanks, @narasaka.
• Pages no longer stop taking clicks and typing. A drag that never got its end, most often when the ardia command was stopped in the middle of one, left the page ignoring every click and key while scrolling still worked, until Ardia was quit. Ardia now ends any drag left behind.
• One click switches tabs after a right-click menu. Closing a tab’s or the command bar’s right-click menu left the click behind it hanging, so the next click on a tab, often from the New Tab page, did nothing and a second was needed.
• ⌘T on an empty New Tab page stays on it. It, the New Tab row and + used to stack another identical empty tab, which looked like nothing happened; they now put you in that page’s field.
• A loading tab shows the address it is loading. A tab opened from a link or another app switched to about:blank about a second into a slow load, so Copy URL copied about:blank; the address, the sidebar row and Copy URL now keep the real address until the page arrives.
• Imports land where they belong. Arc’s split views arrive as splits with every pinned tab, and Zen’s pinned tabs, folders and Essentials go to the profile of their own workspace or container instead of your first one.
• A light custom colour keeps the sidebar readable in dark mode. Tab titles, groups and icons on a light colour stayed white on light grey; they now turn dark, as Arc draws them. Settings › Appearance › “Adjust text to the colour” turns this off.
• Content blocker toggles stay where you put them. After switching panes or profiles, the switches could slide back to off while uBlock Origin reloaded its lists.
• Add to Chrome no longer fails with “Image decode failed”, and every extension allowed in Incognito shows in private windows. Thanks, @FedyaLight.
• Turning Auto-Hide Tabs off keeps the tabs shown. A window could stay hidden after the setting was switched off, and hide again after scrolling or switching.
• Korean typing in the command bar. After the first syllable, each new consonant stayed separate; syllables now compose as they do in page fields.
• Settings search finds what you typed. “cli” leads to the ardia command, once, not to every setting with “click” in it, and matches are highlighted.
• Switching the update channel checks it at once and says what it found, and Check Now shows Checking… while it runs.
• Report a Problem keeps your draft through a quit, recording included, retries when the server is busy, says what’s missing before you send, and its recording shows Picture in Picture.
• New Tab stays at the bottom of a long tab list. With more tabs than the window could show, the row shrank away to just its arrow.
• The Dock icon brings your window back while a video is in Picture in Picture, and ⌘T after closing the last tab keeps the command bar up.
• Site Controls opens next to its button with the sidebar on the right, as do the zoom, permission and history popovers.
• ⌃Tab ignores tabs you haven’t looked at. A tab opened in the background joins the recent order once it’s shown.
• Allowing a site to use your location asks macOS for it, so the site gets an answer instead of waiting.
• Connect Calendar does something. When macOS won’t ask for access, Ardia opens the Calendars privacy settings and says why.
• Chats no longer make the toolbar bounce, and resizing a tiled window keeps up with the drag.
• Translated text starts showing in under a second, on-screen paragraphs first.
• Onboarding fits a small window, and Glass or classic? shows the difference between the two.
• A WebKit page no longer covers the tab you switched to. Thanks, @narasaka.
• Collapsed groups keep the tab you’re on in view after you switch away. Thanks, @FedyaLight.
• Tabs in a group keep when they were last used after Start fresh or a reopen. Thanks, @YishenTu.

Smaller

• Ardia runs on Chromium 157.0.8103.50 with Helium 0.21.2, bringing Chrome’s latest security fixes.
• Unread counts on tabs are off by default, and a calm pill with larger digits when you turn them on in Settings › Tabs.
• Top Apps show only the site’s icon, as in Dia. Settings › Tabs › “Show tab status on Top Apps” brings back the speaker, Picture in Picture mark and unread count in the tile’s corners. Thanks, @luangjokaj.
• A group’s colour shows without hovering; neutral groups still show their box only on hover, as in Dia.
• “Open links from other apps in Little Ardia” is one switch in Settings › General.
• A tab’s unread count sits at the end of its row, a tab in Picture in Picture shows a PiP icon, and profile initials and emoji sit centered. Thanks, @luangjokaj.
• Near the bottom of a page, the link preview shows at the top instead of covering footer links. Thanks, @luangjokaj.
• Help fix Ardia? sits in the New Tab page’s bottom-left corner, out of the command bar’s way.
• An auto-hidden sidebar reopens only from the window’s edge and keeps the theme’s gradient while it peeks.
• The New Tab row stops looking highlighted after you open a tab from it.
• Tab groups sit 3 pt inside their box, and an untitled bookmark on the bookmarks bar shows only its favicon.
• The first tab in a group keeps its whole glow after you fold the group and open it again. Thanks, @luangjokaj.
• The reload button turns smoothly into the stop mark while a page loads, and back.
• The ardia command shows its pill only while it drives Ardia.
• A multi-page ardia browse read no longer fails with “Page.getFrameTree not found” when Ardia puts a tab it is reading to sleep; it reads that page again.
• Installing or updating the ardia command gives the coding agents on your Mac (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, opencode) its skill, and agents now report what gets in their way with ardia feedback, traced to the line in Ardia’s source.
• Command bar results use the same type size as the field you’re typing in. Thanks, @araeyn.