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Yab 0.47

Builds 0.47.0 Stable, 0.47.1, 0.47.2

User script managers, passkey autofill and extension side panels work on Chromium tabs as in Chrome, AppleScript reaches Yab with Chromium tabs open, and Yab comes back by itself after Update.

Added

  • Extensions

    Tampermonkey, Violentmonkey and other user script managers run their scripts on Chromium tabs: an extension that asks for it has Allow user scripts on its Settings page, as in Chrome, and scripts install from its own pages.

  • Extensions

    An extension's own items appear in its button's right-click menu on Chromium tabs, and its keyword works in the address field.

  • Passkeys

    On Chromium tabs a site's passkeys are listed under its sign-in box as you click into it, with Use Passkey from another device, as in Chrome.

  • Video

    A video's right-click menu on Chromium tabs has Save Video Frame As and Copy Video Frame.

  • Search

    Typing part of a site's name in ⌘T offers the site Google suggests, such as facebook.com for "faceb".

  • Search

    Typing a site's alias and Space searches that site, as in Chrome; Settings, Field, Sites, Keyboard shortcut switches back to Tab only.

  • Shortcuts

    Share Page can have its own keyboard shortcut, such as ⌃S as in Arc.

  • Energy

    Energy Saver in Settings, as in Chrome. It is off unless you turn it on, so pages and scrolling keep your display's full refresh rate.

Fixed

  • Updates

    After you press Update, Yab comes back by itself instead of quitting and staying closed.

  • AppleScript

    AppleScript and apps that script Yab, such as site blockers, work with Chromium tabs open, and quit, open location and opening a file reach Yab.

  • Sound

    A muted tab stays muted through a reload, a link and in every window it is pinned in.

  • Site icons

    A tab's icon follows its page at once, such as an unread count or a timer, and pages of one site such as Docs and Slides each keep their own icon after a restart and while asleep.

  • Calls

    The camera and microphone card offers Chrome's three choices, and its first, Allow while visiting the site, is kept for that site in every tab and after a restart, so Google Meet no longer asks every time.

  • Passwords

    iCloud Passwords and other password managers no longer leave their helper apps running in the background on WebKit tabs, where hundreds could pile up and freeze the Mac.

  • Pages

    A page left open for long no longer runs out of memory and reloads by itself.

And 25 smaller fixes

Extensions4

  • An extension's side panel follows the tab you are on, as in Chrome.
  • Extension notifications show on Chromium tabs.
  • Extensions from the Chrome Web Store on Chromium tabs update themselves, keeping their data and settings; one whose update wants more access asks you first, and an extension's own tabs, such as GoFullPage's result, stay open.
  • Extensions that set up in their own page after you install them from the Chrome Web Store, such as Toggl Track, finish setting up on Chromium tabs, as in Chrome.

Passwords3

  • Filling a login from Apple Passwords asks for Touch ID once, not twice, and Apple Passwords' code box is ready to type in when it opens.
  • 1Password's browser helper ends with the page that used it instead of piling up in the background.
  • After Apple Passwords is connected, the next site's sign-in asks for its code without a restart, and Not Now on one site no longer hides it on every other.

Peek2

  • Peek on a Chromium tab shows its page as soon as it is drawn, instead of an empty card until the whole page has loaded.
  • Open as Tab works while a peeked Chromium page is still loading, and keeping peeks in quick succession never leaves a blank tab.

Passkeys1

  • Sites that use passkey extras such as large blobs or older security key sign-ins work on Chromium tabs.

Speed1

  • Work Chromium tabs leave until after startup, such as extension updates, starts once your first page shows instead of up to three minutes later.

Screens1

  • A page on a portrait monitor is told that monitor's size and orientation on Chromium tabs.

Mouse1

  • The pointer keeps a page's own cursor on Chromium tabs when a tab's speaker icon comes or goes.

Quit1

  • ⌘Q quits with a Chromium tab still loading.

Search1

  • Shift-Fn-Delete takes a history row out of ⌘T, as Shift-Delete does in Chrome.

Agents1

  • Connecting Gemini no longer opens Google in another browser or waits a minute, and the Connect screen sees agy installed in Terminal when you come back.

Pages1

  • A Chromium page that is slow to answer goes on loading instead of showing "The page couldn't load".

Shortcuts1

  • ⌘S, ⌘[ and ⌘] are Yab's even on pages that keep them, such as Google Docs and Figma, so the sidebar, Back and Forward always answer, as in Arc.

Downloads1

  • A download under way in the sidebar has a cross that cancels it, and its menu says Cancel, as in Chrome.

Bookmarks1

  • Each bookmark shows its own site's icon in Bookmarks and the Bookmarks menu, as in Chrome.

Split View1

  • Split View keeps its colored border around and between the halves in full screen.

Accessibility1

  • Hint and accessibility apps such as Neru, Homerow and Vimac see a Chromium tab's page after it goes to another site, and in new tabs, as in Chrome.

Tabs1

  • The tab bar's color matches the page from edge to edge, also after leaving full screen.

Disk1

  • Yab no longer leaves copies of itself in a temporary folder after it closes unexpectedly, where they could take gigabytes.

Crashes1

  • When Yab closes unexpectedly without a crash report, it sends what it knows at its next start, if you allow crash reports, so it can be fixed.
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