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Cra 0.1.315 November 2026

Spotify and Netflix play, Tidy Tabs on your Mac, extension side panels

Spotify, Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video and the other big services now play: their pages open in Safari’s engine inside Cra, where Apple’s FairPlay plays them. Arc Max’s Tidy Tabs, Tidy Tab Titles and Tidy Downloads arrive on your Mac’s own Apple Intelligence, with nothing sent anywhere.

Spotify, Netflix and Disney+ play

Their licence servers refuse Chromium browsers without Google’s paid Verified Media Path certificate, which is why Disney+ showed error 83 and Spotify skipped tracks. Their players now open in Safari’s engine inside Cra, where Apple’s FairPlay plays them, in your tab, split view, Little Window or Picture in Picture. More than twenty services are listed, Prime Video and Amazon Music on Amazon’s stores among them; any other site that asks for DRM gets a Safari’s Engine switch in its Site Control Center. The first time a service plays, a note says so, and Why? shows what differs there: you sign in once more, and extensions don’t run. Reported by gritsp in #66, with Prime Video from DaddioTime.

Tidy Tabs, on your Mac’s Apple Intelligence

Hover the Today divider once Today holds six tabs and Arc’s Tidy appears beside Clear. A click asks the Mac’s own model to sort the loose tabs: the line squiggles and the broom sweeps, then the tabs slide under named groups. ⌘Z undoes it. It runs on the Mac, nothing is sent anywhere, and it shows only with Apple Intelligence on; Settings ▸ Max, laid out like Arc’s, turns it and the two below on and off. Every tab also gets Arc’s tidy titles for 52 sites, so “Jupiter - Wikipedia” reads “Jupiter”.

Tidy Tab Titles

Turn it on in Settings ▸ Max and a tab you pin gets a short name from the Mac’s model, played the way Arc plays it: a soft sweep turns the old title into the new one, sparkles cross the row, and “Double-click to rename” shows under it for a moment. Reset Name and Icon puts the page title back.

Tidy Downloads

With Tidy Downloads on, a finished download gets a readable name from its file name, the page and the site, and Arc’s card springs out of the download bin to say so: the new name, the old one struck through, ↶ to put it back and ✕. It stays while the pointer is on it; a click shows the file in Finder.

Links in background tabs

Settings ▸ Tabs ▸ “Open links in new tabs in the background”, off by default as in Arc. With it on, a page’s Open Link in New Tab leaves you on the page, scroll and focus kept, and the menu’s second item becomes Open Link in Foreground Tab. ⌘-click and ⇧⌘-click keep their meaning. Asked for by Quinn Battersby in #183.

What else is new

  • Extension side panels

    MetaMask’s toolbar button did nothing, in Cra as in Arc: MetaMask opens in Chrome’s side panel, which Cra never showed. Side panels now open in a card to the right of the page, one per window, kept across tab switches and resizable, with the extension’s icon, name and a close button. A split’s panes keep their room; a window too narrow for both hides the panel until it is wide enough. Reported by Michal Sambora on X.

  • Name a split view

    Rename… on a split edits its name in the row, as in Arc: a renamed split shows a pane count and the name, Reset Name and Icon puts the panes back, and an open renamed split in Today has one ✕.

    Jake AllenThank you, Jake Allen, for the pull request (#179).

  • Developer Mode and Little Windows where you expect them

    Developer Mode now shows its bar with the toolbar hidden, Cra’s default, as Arc does (#185). A link from an app that is full screen opens the Little Window over that app, as Little Arc does, instead of switching to the desktop (#186). Both reported by Balajitechlabs.

  • Fixes

    • The command bar follows macOS’s light or dark again, as Arc’s does: dark over a light space on a dark Mac (#187, Wladimir).Wladimir
    • A tab closed with DevTools open no longer leaves its page on screen when the page asks “Leave site?”.
    • Picture in Picture glides under two fingers instead of stepping, and the pointer rides along.
    • A collapsed space header keeps its icon.
    • Check for Updates… is a command.
    • Dark-theme folders get back Cra’s earlier colour, now opaque.
    • The empty favorites card shows its top edge.

Thank you

Thank you, gritsp and DaddioTime for #66, Quinn Battersby, Wladimir and Balajitechlabs for the issues, Jake Allen for the pull request, and Michal Sambora for the report on X.

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