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Cra 0.1.336 November 2026

Blank Window, tabs you drag out, Arc’s right-click menu

⌃⌘N opens a Blank Window with a sidebar of its own, and a tab dragged out of the window opens in one, both as in Arc.

Blank Window

File ▸ Blank Window (⌃⌘N) opens a window with a sidebar of its own, “This Window”: no spaces, favorites or pinned tabs load in it, and its tabs show in no space. It comes back after a relaunch, and closing it closes its tabs, as in Arc. Hover its sidebar for “Move to…”, which sends its tabs to the top of a space’s Today in the main window. Asked for by MbpMelborp in #220.

Drag a tab out of the window

Let go of a sidebar tab outside every Cra window and it moves into a new Blank Window, the size of the one it left and centred where you dropped it, with its page as it was. A tab dropped on another window’s sidebar moves there and opens. Asked for by MbpMelborp in #219.

Arc’s right-click menu

A page’s right-click menu is now Chromium’s own Mac menu, as in Chrome and Arc, so it has extension icons, Look Up, Writing Tools, Speech, Services and AutoFill. Its items are Arc’s: Open Link in Little Window where Arc has Little Arc, one Inspect on the element, Translate with Save As… and Print…, and Search Google for Image.

Links to apps open the app

Spotify’s “Open in Desktop app”, and any other link to an app that opens in a new tab or window, made a blank tab. As in Arc, it now asks “Open Spotify?” over the page and macOS opens the app, with no tab. Reported by yrshkd in #207.

Auto spaces follow macOS again

Since 0.1.30, a space set to Auto with one colour was saved as a fixed light or dark look, so it stopped changing with macOS. Auto now always keeps a light and a dark half and switches with the system, one colour or two. The test for this is now locked, so a later change can’t rewrite it along with the behaviour. A space edited on 0.1.30–0.1.32 may be stuck: open its theme editor and pick Auto once more. Reported by neolytic in #155.

The page behind a Peek draws back

Opening a Peek now draws the page behind it back a little as it fades, its margins widening while the sidebar stays still, and closing brings it back in one motion. With pages edge to edge it only fades.

Thank you

Grigoriy

Grigoriy, for #221

A Peek keeps the window’s shadow and edges

With a Peek open, the browser window keeps its full shadow and coloured traffic lights, as in Arc, where the Peek is a card inside the window. Its edges stay with the window: a drag from them resizes it with the Peek open, and the card follows.

Thank you

Grigoriy

Grigoriy, for #222

A closed folder opens on the first click

A closed folder keeps its open tab in sight under it. Clicking that folder didn’t open it, as in Arc, so the rest of the folder was out of reach until the tab closed. A click now always opens it. Asked for by Grigoriy in #213.

Collapsed pinned tabs keep the last one in sight

With the pinned section collapsed (a click on the space’s name), the open pinned tab’s row vanished the moment you picked a favorite. Like Arc, the window now keeps the last pinned tab you had in sight until you collapse the section again or close the tab.

Website languages per profile

Settings ▸ Profiles with a Languages card under Downloads: the Default profile lists English (United Kingdom), English (United States), English, with a Change… button

Settings ▸ Profiles has a Languages card: the languages websites show their pages in for each profile, most wanted first, and Change… opens Chromium’s language settings for that profile. The command bar has Language Settings. Cra itself stays in English. Asked for by quguai in #209.

What else is new

  • Fixes

    • Tabs on one host, such as AWS consoles or localhost apps, keep their own favicons (#211, Fred Blaise).Fred Blaise
    • Shortcuts follow the keyboard layout, so ⌘- zooms out on Turkish Q (#212, yrshkd).yrshkd
    • A middle click in a split pane no longer closes a tab (#208, yrshkd).yrshkd
    • Arc’s GitHub live folder imports as a live folder that refreshes (#215, Fred Blaise).Fred Blaise
    • A GitHub live folder signed out by single sign-on says so instead of emptying.
    • A download an extension’s popup starts now saves (#218, Wladimir).Wladimir
    • An extension popup’s close button closes it (#216, Grigoriy).Grigoriy
    • An extension imported from another browser keeps its files until its Web Store copy is in place (#217, Grigoriy).Grigoriy
    • An Arc sidebar that lists an item twice imports instead of crashing.
    • Cra writes nothing to a site’s DevTools console.

Thank you

Thank you, MbpMelborp, yrshkd, Fred Blaise, quguai, neolytic, Wladimir and Grigoriy for the issues, and Grigoriy for four pull requests.

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For every change in 0.1.33, see the changelog.

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