Cra 0.1.326 November 2026

Peek grows out of the link, a download folder per profile, Meet’s picture-in-picture

Peek now grows out of the link you clicked and closes back into it, and a new-tab link inside a Peek opens a tab in your space, both as in Arc.

Peek grows out of the link

Arc’s Peek starts as a picture of the link you clicked, grows into the card while that picture fades, and on close shrinks back into the link. Cra’s card grew out of the whole page. It now plays Arc’s motion, measured frame by frame on Arc: the card’s centre and width ease out, its height trails, the buttons ride the corner, and closing goes back to wherever the link is now. Reported by franvz9 in #204.

Links in a Peek open in your space

A link that opens a new tab, clicked inside a Peek, opened yet another Little Window. As in Arc, the Peek now closes and the link opens as a selected tab in Today, right below the tab the Peek came from. ⌘-click makes a background tab and keeps the Peek open. Reported by franvz9 in #202.

Tab in the command bar lists actions

In Arc, ⌘T then Tab puts an Actions pill in front of the field and lists the browser’s actions with their shortcuts. Cra swallowed that Tab. Now Tab on the empty bar enters Actions: commands, space switches and moves, the ones you use most first; typing narrows them, and Backspace or Escape leaves. Reported by Balajitechlabs in #195.

A download folder per profile

Settings ▸ Profiles has Arc’s Download location: a Downloads card with one picker per profile, set to a folder, or to Ask Where to Save so every download asks first, in a sheet on Cra’s window. Cancelling the sheet cancels the download, and the Library’s Open Downloads Folder opens the window’s profile folder. Asked for by yrshkd in #190.

Drop a tab on a pinned tab for a split

Arc makes a split wherever the tab you drop onto sits, and has no drop that makes a folder. A tab dropped on a pinned tab now offers the same split as one dropped on a Today tab: the pinned tab stays pinned and the split opens in Today with a copy of it. Cra’s own New Folder drop is gone; New Folder with N Items stays on the menu for a selection. Reported by yrshkd in #191.

The colour editor answers the pointer

In the space colour editor the swatches and the pad’s knobs grow a little under the pointer and shrink while pressed, the arrows and buttons brighten, and the pointer turns into a hand over the knobs, as in Arc. Reported by Wladimir in #189.

Back to Pinned URL slides in

On a pinned tab that has moved away from its URL, hovering the icon now slides the title up while “Back to Pinned URL” fades in under it, and back out the same way, as in Arc, instead of swapping in one frame. Reported by Wladimir in #189.

Edit Space… keeps the icon

Saving Edit Space… on an imported space put a 🌱 on top of its symbol. The sheet now keeps the icon as it is, and an icon well beside the name opens Arc’s icon picker, with emoji, symbols and Remove Icon. Spaces the bug already stacked are repaired when Cra loads them. Reported by franvz9 in #205.

Capture scrolls

Capture now lets the page scroll under it, as Arc’s does: the wheel goes to the page and the picture follows, so you can bring the part you want into view before you drag. Reported by Balajitechlabs in #195.

What else is new

Meet’s automatic picture-in-picture
Leaving a Google Meet call’s tab now opens Meet’s own picture-in-picture window of the call, and coming back closes it, the way Arc and Chrome do it, with Chrome’s one-time question per site. Tabs using the camera or microphone now show the red recording dot in the sidebar, tab sleeping leaves them alone, and the sidebar player’s track buttons work on a page’s first load. Reported by Matteo Cultrera in #198.
Picture in Picture over full-screen apps
A Picture in Picture window went missing when another app was full screen. Like Arc’s, it now stays on top there too, and a click on its controls no longer pulls Cra forward. Reported by sashkohristov in #206.
Little Window from any app
⌥⌘N opens a Little Window from every app, full-screen ones too, as Arc’s “Open Little Arc when I press ⌥⌘N”, with a switch in Settings ▸ Tabs ▸ Links. A Peek’s Back, Forward and Refresh and the Little Window’s strip now work after a click in the page, where they did nothing before. Reported by Balajitechlabs in #195.
Background tabs give back their GPU memory
Every tab Cra had shown kept about 15 MB in the GPU process for its last frame. Background tabs now hand their tiles back as Chrome’s do: with 20 visited tabs the GPU process went from 386 MB to about 235 MB, and switching back to a tab still shows it straight away. Reported by Balajitechlabs in #195.
Web Store extensions stay on
Extensions copied in from Arc, Dia or Chrome could turn off after a reload with “cannot verify the source”. They now become the Chrome Web Store’s own installs on a profile’s first page load, so they update from the store and stay on; one the store won’t take keeps loading from its folder. The store’s install download no longer lands in Downloads. Reported by franvz9 in #203.
Fixes
- ⇧⌘C copies the URL before the page sees it, so Google Docs no longer takes it for word count (#194, Lee Crawfurd).
- ⇧⌘V pastes and matches style in pages (#192, yrshkd).
- A Today tab’s ✕ no longer disappears as the pointer reaches it (#196, Lee Crawfurd).
- The sidebar keeps its active look through a full-screen Space switch and builds its blur like AppKit’s (#156, Wladimir).
- Windows reopen on their own display with the last resize kept at quit (#201, Quinn Battersby).
- Tidy Downloads’ card keeps its strike inside and its blue readable on a dark space (#197, Quinn Battersby).
- Settings shows extensions’ translated descriptions instead of __MSG_ keys (#200, Daddio).

Thank you

Thank you, franvz9, Balajitechlabs, yrshkd, Wladimir, Lee Crawfurd, Matteo Cultrera and sashkohristov for the issues, and Quinn Battersby and Daddio for the pull requests.

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