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0.9.6

Sync between your devices without an account, real Glass transparency on Mac, a new icon, sturdier Tampermonkey and extensions

Added

  • Sync without an account: export and import your data in a file encrypted with a passphrase
  • Sync without an account: link your devices with a pairing code; your data travels encrypted through a mailbox, every five minutes
  • Sync without an account: two linked devices on the same Wi-Fi exchange their data directly
  • Mac: real Glass transparency, with the desktop blurred behind the bar (“Transparency” setting in Appearance)
  • Site info (macOS): “Identify as” an iPhone to get a site's lighter mobile version
  • Reloading a page keeps the current video's position
  • New icon: a jade feather on a dark green background

Improved

  • Top bar: a single look, Glass, as Band or Islands (Plume, Classeur and Halo removed)
  • Power saving mode: no more video previews when hovering over thumbnails
  • Passwords: “Use passwords from” can be chosen in a single click
  • Extensions: “Experimental” label in the Extensions window and in Settings

Fixed

  • Tampermonkey starts again and its scripts work on Mac (chrome.userScripts)
  • Mac: an extension's background is no longer suspended when Feather's window is hidden (Checker Plus for Gmail)
  • Mac: an extension whose background fails to start is restarted, then a notice explains it instead of an empty window (Proton Pass)

0.9.5

Smarter, lighter sleeping tabs, more complete extensions (right-click, notifications, Proton Pass), site info and shield merged, clearer downloads

Added

  • Mac: menu items that extensions add to the right-click menu now appear, and their keyboard shortcuts work
  • Mac: extension notifications go through the Mac's Notification Center, with their buttons, and clicks are passed back to the extension
  • Memory panel (Mac): how much each enabled extension weighs, with the total
  • Windows: an extension's background can open tabs (Checker Plus, Proton VPN), and its errors are logged in erreurs.txt
  • Mac: hovering over a sleeping tab quietly wakes it up, ready for your click, and a picture of the page stays on screen while it wakes
  • Mac: the back/forward history of sleeping tabs is saved to disk and restored at the next launch

Improved

  • Site info (padlock) and the shield are now a single panel with three tabs: Protections, Settings, Log
  • Downloads: icon actions, full file name, progress under the line
  • Base sidebar on Mac: ← → ↻ on the same line as the red, yellow and green buttons; centered header in Base and Rail
  • Windows, bar on the left: minimize, maximize and close stay on the left, mirrored; on Mac, the traffic lights stick to the right edge when the bar is on the right
  • In dark theme, site icons no longer have a white square, except dark ones
  • Memory: when the Mac runs low on memory, Feather first puts forgotten tabs to sleep, as many as needed; frozen tabs get low priority from the system
  • “Lighten heavy pages” only kicks in when the Mac is under pressure, never while you're using it or during a video
  • Extensions: an extension's hidden document closes when it's no longer needed, and uBlock Lite takes over from Feather's blocker sooner
  • Interface: 8 bugs and 8 refinements from the November 3 review (private window in Glass, mouse wheel on top tabs, pinned tabs as tiles…)

Fixed

  • A tab whose page is stopped by the system reloads or goes back to sleep instead of staying dead
  • YouTube Shorts: the next short plays again after a long while
  • Mac: Checker Plus for Gmail can delete a message again (“No gmail IK found”)
  • Mac: Proton Pass keeps its icons in the fields of sites that rewrite their page, and extensions that load .wasm files work
  • Payment buttons that open an empty window before filling it (CentroBill) work
  • Windows: on-device translation starts again
  • Security: a site can no longer rewrite the messages its page sends to Feather

0.9.4

Extensions closer to Chrome, lighter hidden tabs on Mac, free-form sidebar and Glass style by default; Windows also gets everything from 0.9.2 and 0.9.3

Added

  • Sidebar: a “New tab” row at the top of the tab list, like Zen
  • Free-form sidebar: ← → ↻ and Home move like the other buttons; a full area refuses one more button and tucks its last buttons into “⋯”
  • Ad tabs that a page opens on its own (on the first click on a video, for example) are blocked and closed, thanks to the “popup” rules of EasyList and Liste FR
  • Extensions on Mac: chrome.notifications shows up in Feather's window
  • Windows: everything from 0.9.2 and 0.9.3 (list of missing Chrome features, small window for an extension that opens tabs, sites answering 403 or 404 shown as they are…)

Improved

  • Glass style (address above the page) for a new Feather; your current settings don't change
  • Mac: a tab hidden for 30 seconds gives back its display memory, about 25 MB per tab (except sound, video, form in progress, pinned tab…)
  • Extensions on Mac: allowed sites are allowed in full, as in Chrome, not just their home page (Checker Plus for Gmail)

Fixed

  • The first click on an inactive Feather window counts, and a panel or preview open over the page no longer eats nearby clicks (Mac)
  • A button clicked while the interface is updating no longer loses the click
  • Mac: Proton VPN no longer closes tabs at launch (Feather reported an install at every start)
  • Mac: the Checker Plus for Gmail window has its real size, not half of it on a Retina screen
  • Mac: extension pages reopened at launch (Checker Plus options…) no longer stay blank

Notes for older versions are available in French.