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Cra 0.1.304 November 2026

Capture like Arc, favorites you drag into place, Arc’s colour picker

⇧⌘2 now opens Arc’s Capture: click an element or drag a region, then copy, save or send it. Favorites move aside live as you drag one, the space colour editor uses Arc’s own presets everywhere, and a split’s focused pane gets Arc’s ring and full bar.

Capture, as in Arc

⇧⌘2, or the camera in the Site Control Center, greys the page and rings the element under the pointer. Click to take that element or drag to take a region, then Copy, Save…, Send via iMessage… or Retake from the menu beside it; ⌘C and ⌘S work too, and Esc leaves. Asked for by Haseeb Rizvi on X.

Drag favorites into place

Drag a favorite and the others slide aside to open a slot under the pointer; let go and it lands there, across rows too. A tab dragged in from the list opens a slot the same way, and a new row when it needs one. Reported by yrshkd in #176.

Arc’s colour picker, everywhere

Edit Space shows the same editor as Edit Theme Color…, with Arc’s own preset colours on five pages, one to three colours, Auto, Light or Dark, the grain and the intensity. A new space starts on one colour. Every change shows in the sidebar at once and is written when you save; Cancel puts the old colours back. Planned with Wladimir in #170.

Split panes like Arc’s

The focused pane of a split carries ← → ↻, the address, its pinned extensions, the Site Control Center and the split options, inside Arc’s ring; the others show their full bar while the pointer is over it. A narrow pane drops its controls in Arc’s order, the bars stay with the toolbar hidden, and the panes cast Arc’s shadow. Reported by Wladimir in #178.

Little Windows keep their sign-ins

A Little Window on Wikipedia’s Web browser article; in its address pill a Work chip with the profile smiley and a chevron, and on the right Open in Studio ⌘O

A Little Window opens in the profile of the space you used last and keeps it, with that profile’s sign-ins, as Little Arc does. Once you have more than one profile, its address shows the profile; click it to load the page in another one. A Peek uses its tab’s profile, and links from a Little Window stay in its profile. Reported by Anoninz in #172.

What else is new

  • 37 % less memory at 20 tabs

    Every tab used to preload a hidden address-bar popup from Chrome that Cra never shows. It’s gone: 20 tabs went from about 2 GB to 1.3 GB on the same pages, and the graphics process from 872 to 377 MB. Extension popups still open as before.

  • Menus that follow macOS

    Right-click menus, sheets, alerts, popovers and the Site Control Center now follow macOS’s light or dark, as Arc’s do, instead of turning white over a light space on a dark Mac. A one-colour theme keeps its look when macOS switches. Reported by Wladimir in #171.

  • Pinned extensions that leave room for the address

    With the toolbar hidden, pinned extensions stay in the sidebar’s address while it still has room, and move to their own row of tiles above the favorites when there are more, as in Arc. With the toolbar on, a narrow window hides pins from the front until the address fits. Reported by Marc-André Julien on X.

  • Your keyboard and your language

    Shortcuts turned on in macOS’s Keyboard settings, such as ⌘Space to switch input sources, now work while a page has focus (#174). Cra’s Chromium takes your macOS language the way Chrome and Arc do, so speech without a set language gets a matching voice (#167). Both reported by Anoninz.

  • For tools and contributors

    cra://open takes space=<id>, so a browser picker can send a link to a given space and its profile, in a Little Window too (#168, Vidhanth). The repository has a justfile: `just` lists every development script, one recipe each (#169, Wladimir).

  • Fixes from your reports

    • Shift + wheel pages spaces the same way as Arc with natural scrolling on (#93, Anoninz).Anoninz
    • Restoring a window from the Dock no longer flashes the sidebar matte or sharp before it lands (#156, Wladimir).Wladimir
    • The command bar follows the space’s light or dark and keeps its glow on the bar near the top of the screen (Abhi Kanani on X).
    • Open folders on dark themes are opaque like Arc’s (Abhi Kanani on X).
    • Picture in Picture can be thrown into a corner with two fingers (Abhi Kanani on X).
    • A split of a pinned tab playing a video puts that tab to sleep instead of into Picture in Picture (Abhi Kanani on X).

Thank you

Thank you, Anoninz, Wladimir, Vidhanth and yrshkd for the issues, and Haseeb Rizvi, Marc-André Julien and Abhi Kanani for the reports on X.

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