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Veb 0.17

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 →

Sites' own picture in picture, speed and subtitles on a floating video, and tabs across the top that answer where they are drawn.

Added

  • Sites' picture in picture

    A site's own Picture-in-Picture button, as on X, opens Veb's floating window.

  • Speed and subtitles

    A floating video has speed and subtitles buttons in its top row, each with a short menu: 0.5× to 2×, and the video's subtitle tracks.

  • Elements as Chrome's

    Developer Tools' Elements shows the tree, Styles and the sidebar as Chrome does, with every rule in its order.

Improved

  • ⌃Tab as Arc's

    ⌃Tab's grid takes pins and kept tabs whose page is up, shows a single tab too, and picks the tile under the pointer as you move.

  • New tab as Arc's

    While ⌘T asks for a new tab, its row lights up in the column, as in Arc.

  • Speaker by the icon

    A playing tab's speaker sits right after its icon in the column, as in Arc.

  • Hidden tabs come back at once

    Tabs out of sight keep running, slowed, as in Chrome, so switching to one is quicker. Low Power Mode still stops them.

  • Memory

    Veb no longer puts tabs to sleep when memory is only short, as Chrome does; only when it runs out.

  • Settings opens at once

    Settings › General no longer waits on macOS for the default browser's name and icon, which took up to half a minute on some Macs.

  • Floating dialogs

    Dialogs that float over the page use a more readable Liquid Glass.

  • Flat icon

    The Flat app icon is drawn in layers, with its face in Liquid Glass.

Fixed

  • Tabs across the top

    Tabs across the top get their hover card and close on a middle click from launch, in a scrolled strip and in a second window, where they were placed 40 points too high.

  • Signed in after a restart

    Sites that keep you signed in with a session cookie, like YouTube's chosen account, stay that way after you quit Veb or update it.

  • Leaving a call on ⌘Q

    Quitting during a call leaves the call for everyone else, and every closed tab's page says goodbye to its site.

  • Peek's top

    A peek's panel stands as far from the window's top as the page does.

  • One space, no dot

    With a single space there is no space dot, even with Mail or Code connected.

  • Settings' sidebar

    Settings' sidebar shows no scroll bar when macOS is set to always show them.