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Cra 0.1.272 November 2026

Arc’s Capture, live extension icons and Shift + wheel spaces

Capture puts the page on the clipboard with Arc’s Save toast, extension buttons follow their icon and badge as they change, and Shift + a mouse wheel over the sidebar switches spaces.

Capture like Arc

Capture this page, in the Site Control Center or with ⇧⌘2, now puts the page on the clipboard with the screenshot sound and says “Screenshot Copied to Clipboard” in Arc’s toast, with a Save button for when you want a file. Chromium draws the image, so it’s never blank, on any display and behind other windows, and Finder no longer opens. Share keeps the control center open under its list, and the lock badge shows the site’s certificate, or “Not Secure”. Reported by Wladimir in #90.

Extension icons and badges that change

The Site Control Center open under the toolbar: a pinned extension button and its tile under Extensions both carry a small red badge with the number 3, above Developer Mode, Block Ads & Trackers and the Secure lock

Pinned extension buttons, the Site Control Center and the Extensions menu now follow what an extension sets while it runs: ZeroOmega’s profile ring, AdGuard’s paused shield, and the badge with a count or a warning, drawn the way Arc draws it. Extensions also follow the space’s profile: each profile keeps its own pinned buttons, an extension’s options page opens in a space on the profile that asked for it, and Export Diagnostics names the extension whose proxy is in force. An extension page restored at launch now loads instead of showing an error. Reported by Wladimir in #106 and #107.

Shift + wheel switches spaces

Hold Shift and turn a mouse wheel over the sidebar, or tilt the wheel sideways, to move to the next or previous space, with Arc’s timing: one slow notch does nothing, a flick switches. Before your first space the Library slides in. Asked for by Anoninz in #93.

Shortcuts in context menus

The right-click menu of a pinned tab in the sidebar, with ⌘D next to Unpin Tab and ⇧⌘C next to Copy Link

Right-click menus on tabs, favorites, spaces and splits show each item’s shortcut, your own from keybindings.json included, and the reload chevron in developer mode lists Clear Cookies and Refresh and Clear Cache and Refresh, as in Arc. Reported by Wladimir in #89.

A performance recorder that stays on your Mac

Settings ▸ Performance in dark mode: Record performance switched on, a finding about short stalls since launch, and main-thread counts for stalls, freezes, the longest pause and the typical pass

Settings ▸ Performance shows what Cra records about its own speed on your Mac: freezes and what came just before them, CPU and memory per process, slow pages and crashed tabs. Nothing leaves the Mac; Help ▸ Export Diagnostics adds it as perf.json when you choose to send a report. Suggested by Wladimir in #91.

What else is new

  • ⌘W like Arc

    Closing a tab now shows the tab you were on just before it, if its page is still loaded, and otherwise the Today tab above it on screen, as in Arc. Closing a pinned tab or the last Today tab leaves nothing selected instead of reloading a pinned tab. Reported by Anoninz in #105.

  • Little Windows to any space

    In a Little Window, ⌃⌘1 to ⌃⌘9 send the page to that space. Every “Open in” now uses a window that already shows the space, as Arc does, instead of switching the window you used last. Asked for by Anoninz in #92.

  • Fixes from your reports

    • Allowing camera and microphone on Google Meet crashed Cra when macOS hadn’t given it access yet (#111, yrshkd).yrshkd
    • ⌃Tab no longer lists closed pinned tabs (Abhi Kanani on X).
    • Return on a completed address switches to its open tab (Abhi Kanani on X).
    • Settings ▸ Privacy ▸ Clear Browsing Data also clears the command bar’s history (Abhi Kanani on X).
    • A playing video goes to Picture in Picture when its window is covered (Abhi Kanani on X).
    • A fresh YouTube tab in Theater mode opens at the top of the page (Quinn Battersby).Quinn Battersby

Thank you

Thank you, Wladimir, Anoninz, yrshkd and Abhi Kanani for the reports, and Quinn Battersby for the YouTube fix.

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