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Cra 0.1.283 November 2026

Pinned tabs and closing like Arc, notifications, Arc’s loading bar

A pinned tab that leaves its page now shows Arc’s slash and goes back with a click on its icon, and every close button, ⌘W and split behaves the way Arc’s do.

Pinned tabs that keep their page

When a pinned tab leaves its page, a slash between its icon and its name says so. Hover the icon to see “Back to Pinned URL” and the pinned page’s own icon; a click takes the tab back. Hold ⌘ for “Separate From Pinned Tab”, which moves the page into a new Today tab first. Closing a pinned tab brings back its own name and icon, and inside folders the highlight starts after the indent. Reported by Wladimir in #139.

Arc’s loading bar

A thin loading bar runs at the top middle of the window while a page loads, as in Arc.

Thank you

Kevin McKelvin

Kevin McKelvin, for #130

Site scopes that bounce and glow

Tab into a site’s search in the command bar and the bar bounces with Arc’s glow behind it. ⌥Return opens a suggestion as a split, the search engines are Chromium’s own (keywords included, editable in Settings), ⌘ over New Tab offers to paste and go, and ⇧⌘⌫ opens Clear Browsing Data, which now also clears archive entries in its range. Asked for by Abhi Kanani on X.

Folders that open on a hinge

Folder icons open and close on Arc’s hinge as their tabs show and hide. Asked for by Abhi Kanani on X.

Picked tabs move together

Tabs picked with ⇧ or ⌘ and dragged onto another space’s icon, or into its list, all move there, in their order.

A Secure DNS menu

Settings ▸ Privacy in dark mode: Block ads and trackers, Always use secure connections, and a Secure DNS row set to Automatic, above Clear Browsing Data

Settings ▸ Privacy has a Secure DNS menu next to “Always use secure connections”: Automatic, Off, Google, Cloudflare, Quad9, OpenDNS, CleanBrowsing, DNS4EU or your own. It’s the same setting as chrome://settings, and it applies at once. Asked for by Wladimir in #133.

What else is new

  • Closing like Arc

    Every close button now follows Arc: a pinned tab shows a minus that unloads it and keeps it pinned while it’s open, away from its page or showing under a closed folder, and an ✕ that archives it otherwise; a Today tab archives. Each button closes only its own row, and ⌘W takes every picked tab, archiving them all if one is a Today tab. A pinned split has one button at its end, an open Today split an ✕ in each pane, and an open split draws its panes as pills. A typed address on another site opens a new tab from a pinned tab, links to another site open Peek, and the tab shows the peeked page’s icon. Reported by Wladimir in #139.

  • Notifications

    Sites can ask to send notifications, with Cra’s permission sheet, and a click on one opens its page. Notification blocks Cra saved quietly before are reset to Ask once. macOS asks twice the first time, for Cra and for its helper.

  • Each space keeps its Arc profile

    An Arc import now puts every space on its own Cra profile, with that profile’s sign-ins, pinned extensions and extensions. Spaces an earlier import left on Default can go back with Settings ▸ Profiles ▸ Rebuild from Arc…. Reported by Wladimir in #131.

  • Tabs rest like Arc

    Background tabs freeze after 30 minutes and sleep after 4 hours, as in Arc, and the 10 tabs you used last never do. There’s no setting for it any more. Pages also start faster: Cra no longer captures or probes a page while it loads. Reported by Wladimir in #136.

  • Fixes from your reports

    • Picture in Picture plays on a click on play, resizes from every edge and shows resize cursors with another app in front (#134, Wladimir).Wladimir
    • The permission sheet says what a page asks for, in Chrome’s words, in tabs and Little Windows (#137, Anoninz).Anoninz
    • The developer bar’s Console and Network switch DevTools to that panel instead of closing it (#138, Wladimir).Wladimir
    • The fullscreen sidebar’s tint is built the way AppKit builds it (#132, Wladimir).Wladimir
    • The performance recorder counts freezes and passes the way its reports say (#135, Wladimir).Wladimir

Thank you

Thank you, Wladimir, Anoninz and Abhi Kanani for the reports, and Kevin McKelvin for the loading bar.

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