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Veb 0.16

Reference archive: this page documents the original Yab browser. Features, platforms and release dates here do not describe the current Veb prototype. Veb release plans →

Tabs that come out of their window, sites that never fall asleep, and page corners drawn once.

Added

  • Tabs out of windows

    Drag a tab past its window's edge and a live picture of the page follows the pointer: let go to open it in a new window, or over another window's tabs to move it there, without the page reloading.

  • Sites kept awake

    Settings › Tabs has "Always keep these sites awake", with WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, Gmail and music sites to start. A tab's menu adds or removes its site. They, and pinned and kept tabs in every space, sleep only when memory runs out, after every other tab.

Improved

  • Smart Zoom

    Tapping twice with two fingers zooms into what's under them with WebKit's own animation, as in Safari, instead of jumping there in one frame.

  • Claude setup-token

    A CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN exported in your shell signs Claude in for tasks and Connect, and Settings › AI › Models says "Signed in with a setup token".

  • Memory running short

    When macOS says memory is short, Veb keeps looking for tabs to put to sleep until it is back to normal, and a page stuck in a loop no longer holds it up.

  • iCloud Passwords says why

    Its row in Settings › Extensions says it can't connect yet: Apple's helper runs only in browsers Apple has approved, the same approval passkeys wait on. Veb no longer starts the helper again and again.

Fixed

  • Middle click

    A middle click on a link opens it in a new tab behind the page, right after it, as in Chrome and Arc. With ⇧ the tab opens in front.

  • Page corners

    The page's rounded corners and the address bar's are each cut once on one curve, so dark and light pages no longer show an arc at their corners.

  • Video back in its player

    After Back to Tab, a floating video sits in its player again even when the site left it at the whole page's size, and a video that came back no longer floats out on its own.

  • Back to the pin

    Closing a link opened from a pin goes back to that pin again, as in Arc.