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Cra 0.1.826 October 2026

Video everywhere

Videos on X, Instagram, Reddit and news sites play: Cra now runs its own build of Chromium with the H.264 and AAC codecs. Extensions install straight from the Chrome Web Store, and sharing a tab in a video call can include its sound.

Videos play

Many sites showed “The media could not be played” because the Chromium engine Cra used left out the H.264 and AAC codecs most web video is made with. Cra now ships its own engine build with them, so video on X, Instagram, Reddit and news sites plays like it does in Chrome.

What else is new

  • Install extensions from the Chrome Web Store

    “Add to Chrome” works: the extension installs, starts right away and shows up in the Extensions menu and in Settings. Installing from the store used to make Cra quit.

  • Share a tab with its sound

    When a site asks to share your screen, Cra shows Chrome’s picker, so you can share a single tab, a window or the whole screen, with the tab’s audio switched on. Before, Cra shared the entire screen.

For every change in 0.1.8, see the changelog.

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