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Cra 0.1.2029 October 2026

Peek, Site Search and instant extension popups

Two more of Arc’s features: Peek opens links to other sites in a preview over the page, and Site Search takes you straight to a search on YouTube, GitHub or Wikipedia with Tab. Favorites rearrange into a narrower grid, spaces stay drawn while you swipe, and extension popups open almost instantly.

Peek

A link to another site in a favorite or pinned tab now opens in a Peek, Arc’s preview window over the page, so the tab you pinned stays where it is. Shift-click opens any link in one. Click outside it or press Escape to go back, or “Open in” to keep it as a tab. Both are in Settings ▸ Tabs. Asked for by drale2k in #12.

Site Search

Start typing a site in the command bar and press Tab to search it directly, as in Arc: YouTube, GitHub, Wikipedia, Google Drive, Reddit, Spotify and a dozen more. The site’s pill sits in front of the field and the suggestions take its colour. Backspace on the empty field takes you back to what you typed.

Favorites fit a narrow sidebar

Favorites show four across while there is room and drop to two, then one, as the sidebar gets narrower, the way Arc lays them out. Swiping between spaces now draws the next space under your fingers instead of leaving it blank until you let go, and swipes work in the sidebar that slides in when it is hidden. From drale2k’s wishlist in #12.

What else is new

  • Extension popups open almost instantly

    Before showing an extension’s popup, the browser engine animated the extension’s icon into a toolbar Cra keeps hidden, and waited for that animation to finish. Cra’s engine build now skips it, so popups open in well under a fifth of a second instead of about a third, and they appear in place instead of flashing somewhere else first. Pressing Escape in a popup no longer quits Cra.

  • Contributions from Quinn Battersby

    Quinn sent a run of fixes this week.

    • A pinned extension’s right-click menu and icon style work in both toolbars (#14).
    • The URL and the hidden sidebar’s top strip move the window when dragged (#15).
    • Extension popups opened by a shortcut land under their button and on its display (#16).
    • Closing tabs and tab sleeping no longer disturb a page you reopened (#17).
    • The hidden sidebar slides in reliably when you move back to the edge, over the whole margin (#19).
    • Popups stay open when you switch to another app (#20).

    Thank you, Quinn.

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