5-Second Previews and the Little Window card

Hold Shift as the pointer reaches a link, or rest on a link on Google, X or Hacker News, and Arc Max’s card tells you what’s behind it: a picture, a line and a few points. Apple Intelligence writes it on your Mac; no AI service sees the page. Turn it on in Settings ▸ Max.

⌥⌘N opens Arc’s compact card at the top right of the screen, just the command bar. Pick a page and it grows into a Little Window from that corner; Esc, ⌘W or a click elsewhere fades it away.

The strip is Arc’s lighter gradient, the traffic lights stay grey until the pointer is over them, and the address pill shows only the site, with Arc’s open padlock on a page that isn’t secure.

The ⌄ beside Open in lists your spaces with Arc 1.172’s rows, a search field and a list that scrolls when you have many.

Settings ▸ Advanced ▸ Agents now has a tile for Claude Code, Claude Cowork, Codex, Cursor, T3 Code and Conductor, plus VS Code, Windsurf, Gemini CLI and LM Studio under Other Agent. A click writes Cra into that agent’s MCP settings; the agent still asks before it uses Cra the first time.

A new switch in Settings ▸ Privacy. Sites that tell browsers apart by reading back drawings, 3D graphics or sound get faint noise in what they read, different for each site and each time Cra opens, and every site sees 8 processor cores. It’s off by default, since a few sites may draw slightly differently.

Right-click a space’s icon in the bottom bar and you get the same menu as its name above the tabs, as in Arc: icon, name, theme, profile, search engine, folders and more.

Settings ▸ Tabs ▸ “Edit the address in the sidebar” lets a click on the address at the top of the sidebar edit it right there instead of opening the command bar. ⌘L still opens the command bar. It’s off by default, as in Arc.

Opening the Library no longer squeezes the page into what’s left. It keeps its width and slides past the window’s edge, as in Arc 1.172.

Drag a Picture in Picture window past the edge of the screen and let go: it springs back into the nearest corner, as in Arc, and the next one opens on screen too.

With the sidebar hidden, the sidebar that slides in from the edge now stays inside the window’s rounded corners on the way in and out.

Every setting now has a line saying what it changes, and the ones that change how Cra looks show it in a small picture.

If you updated from an older Cra, a small card in the sidebar asks once whether to share anonymous usage stats; ✕ puts it away for good. Stats stay off unless you say yes, and never include the sites you visit. Stats turned on in 0.1.38 now really go out, 30 seconds after launch.