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Cra 0.1.358 November 2026

Boosts, Easels and the rest of Arc’s Library

A side-by-side sweep of Arc found what Cra was still missing, and this release fills it in: Boosts, Easels, Arc’s Library pages, Previews for Gmail and Google Calendar, and AppleScript. uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2 extensions run again.

Boosts

Type “New Boost” in the command bar on any site for Arc’s Boost editor: a colour for the page, its fonts, size and case, Zap to click away what you don’t want, and Code for your own CSS and JavaScript, with Arc’s eyedropper to pick an element and its hammer for DevTools. The editor grows in and widens for Code as Arc’s does, measured frame by frame. Library ▸ Boosts lists them with each site’s icon; hover for the switch, right-click to rename or delete.

Easels

File ▸ New Easel (⌃⇧E) opens a canvas over the space’s backdrop with Arc’s tools: pictures, text, ellipses, rectangles, arrows and freehand, the text pill’s +, Aa and −, and Duplicate. A picked picture shows Arc’s outline and corner handles and resizes from its corners keeping its shape. The capture menu sends a capture to a new or existing easel.

Library ▸ Easels

Your easels as Arc shows them: cards with each easel drawn small, its pink squiggle and title. A click opens it in Peek on a black canvas, ⤢ makes it a tab, and right-click deletes it.

Library ▸ Media

Turn on Media in the Library and your recent screenshots, pictures and videos show in Arc’s grid, videos with a ▶. A click opens Arc’s preview over the dimmed window, grown out of the thumbnail: ‹ › or the arrow keys step through, Esc closes, and Open in Preview hands it to the Mac. Right-click for Copy Image, Send via iMessage, AirDrop, Show in Finder and Hide from Cra. Right-click the Media button to choose the folders. Nothing leaves your Mac.

Arc’s Library pages

Downloads and Archived Tabs get Arc’s Filter: how a tab was closed, which space or Little Window it was in, which profile a file came from. An archived tab shows Arc’s bin and restore buttons on hover, Downloads lists files still downloading with their progress (#245, franvz9), and the Library’s colours follow your space. Nothing in the sidebar shows through the open Library any more.

Previews for Gmail and Google Calendar

Hover a Gmail favorite for your unread mail in Arc’s card, with the sender, age, subject and first lines; a click opens the mail, ＋ writes a new one. A Google Calendar favorite shows today’s timeline, counts down to your next meeting on the tile, offers a Join link from two minutes before a call, and Join Meeting (⌃⌘J) opens the call. Its right-click menu has Arc’s Live Calendar settings. Both read with your space’s own Google sign-in.

What else is new

  • uBlock Origin and Manifest V2

    Cra’s Chromium build keeps Manifest V2 extensions working, so uBlock Origin and other MV2 extensions install, import and run again; get uBlock Origin from its GitHub releases and add it with Settings ▸ Extensions ▸ Add Unpacked Extension. localhost, 127.0.0.1 and *.localhost open in Developer Mode, as in Arc.

    BalajitechlabsThank you, Balajitechlabs, for #228.

  • Peek waits on its tab

    A link opened from inside a Peek no longer closes it: as in Arc, the Peek waits on its tab and comes back with it, at the same page and scroll, when you return. Clicking another tab’s row hides it rather than closing it.

    franvz9Thank you, franvz9, for #242.

  • Arc’s menus and settings

    Stay On Top, Save Page As (⇧⌘S), Copy URL as Quote (⌃⇧⌘C), Copy URL without trackers, Use Selection to Find and Jump to Selection (⌘J), Reveal Tab (⌃Space), Archive Tabs Below, Collapse Pinned Tabs and All Folders, Appearance for websites, Cast…, Capture Full Page and Portrait Mode, Open in Split View, Change Icon… and Share ▸ on tab rows, Help ▸ Essential Keyboard Shortcuts, Show Little Window “Open In” Menu (⇧⌘O), ⌘{ ⌘} F12 ⌘9 and ⌃⇧1–4. Settings gain Block cookie banners, website theme data, window dragging from the top of webpages, sound effects, restoring windows, Archive Little Windows after, and Your Data and Settings per profile. AppleScript uses Arc’s dictionary, with JavaScript off by default. Keep Cra in the menu bar after ⌘Q is a new opt-in (#231, Balajitechlabs).

  • Picture in Picture and the sidebar

    • Picture in Picture loses Chrome’s strip and gets Arc’s top bar, scrim and size limits (#246, Wladimir).Wladimir
    • The mouse’s back and forward buttons over the sidebar switch spaces (#233, Fred Blaise).Fred Blaise
    • A hovered tab’s name runs up to its ✕ (#243, Wladimir).Wladimir
    • Live folder emblems turn with the folder (#234, Grigoriy).Grigoriy
    • Live folders get Arc’s Pull Requests submenu and repository filters (#229, Grigoriy).Grigoriy
    • The sidebar’s ⌘S slide and the toolbar’s right-hand spacing follow Arc’s, measured again.

  • Fixes

    • While a Chrome “started debugging this browser” bar showed, clicks landed one bar too low (#241, Benjamin Wood).Benjamin Wood
    • Tab sleeping kept a slept tab’s colours, closes more under critical memory pressure and logs one line per pass (#237, Wladimir).Wladimir
    • Cra builds on Intel Macs from source, with an Intel CEF published (#235, jerry699).jerry699
    • CEF 156.0.26 (Chromium 156.0.8078.88).

Thank you

Thank you, Grigoriy, for two pull requests, jerry699 for Intel support, and Wladimir, franvz9, Balajitechlabs, Fred Blaise and Benjamin Wood for the reports.

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