Browsers Changelog

What's new in Browsers 0.5.5

Apr 23, 2024
  • Added:
  • macOS: Support Mimestream 1.3.0+ deep links
  • macOS: Support Floorp Daylight (daily beta build)
  • Linux: Support Floorp Thanks to @pricci1 for contribution #155
  • Fixed:
  • Windows: fix segfault by temporarily disabling app icons

New in Browsers 0.5.4 (Mar 14, 2024)

  • Fixed:
  • Linux: fix detecting Chromium and Vivaldi
  • macOS: Fix detecting Workflowy
  • Changed:
  • Linux - use alternative freedesktop implementation to find installed applications and icons
  • If browsers which support profiles don't have valid profiles, still show the browser itself. Requires Refresh

New in Browsers 0.5.3 (Feb 22, 2024)

  • Fixed:
  • Fix parsing Firefox containers for latest Firefox version

New in Browsers 0.5.2 (Feb 9, 2024)

  • Fixed:
  • Disable support for profiles in Arc. See #94
  • Really fix opening Private window in Firefox. Thanks to @mpsijm for fix #134
  • macOS: Don't exit on lost focus if Settings or About dialog are still open
  • Windows: Fix crashing when Zoom is installed
  • Include also locked Firefox profiles. Might help with #81

New in Browsers 0.5.1 (Feb 1, 2024)

  • Fixed:
  • Opening Private window in Firefox. Thanks to @mpsijm for fix #129

New in Browsers 0.5.0 (Jan 29, 2024)

  • Added:
  • Add Settings dialog for configuring opening rules.
  • Add Edge (stable, dev, beta, canary) profile support for Windows. Fixes #88

New in Browsers 0.4.5 (Jan 15, 2024)

  • Fixed:
  • Disable keyboard shortcuts if About dialog is focused

New in Browsers 0.4.4 (Dec 29, 2023)

  • Fixed:
  • Windows: Fix various installer issues. Thanks to @Erquint for thorough report #116
  • Windows: Don't require "Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable" to be installed
  • Added:
  • Windows: Add uninstaller to Installed Apps

New in Browsers 0.4.3 (Oct 24, 2023)

  • Fixed:
  • macOS: Exit on lost focus when application looses focus not the window. #95

New in Browsers 0.4.2 (Sep 26, 2023)

  • Fixed:
  • Linux: Fix opening Browsers on top of a Snap application window Contribution by @tommoyer. #87
  • Linux: Handle more errors when loading app icons. #90
  • Linux: Fix initial position in Wayland
  • Windows: Fix shortcut in system-wide installation
  • Added:
  • Support deeplink for a Slack canvas
  • Linux: uninstall.sh script in the archive

New in Browsers 0.4.1 (Aug 3, 2023)

  • Fixed:
  • Fix all urls when using Firefox containers #73. Contribution by @blandir.
  • macOS: Don't prompt to be default browser on launch. There is an option to set it via default via options menu. #76
  • macOS: Workaround for Safari bug where Safari launches Browsers on hard launch. #79
  • Added:
  • Beta configuration to enable for Browsers to quit when clicking outside the Browsers dialog. #77

New in Browsers 0.4.0 (Jul 17, 2023)

  • Fixed:
  • Windows: Fix install script
  • Firefox Containers: Fix urls with & and + #73
  • Added:
  • Linux: provide rpm package

New in Browsers 0.3.9 (Jun 21, 2023)

  • Fixed:
  • Opening browser in private in Linux and Windows when shift + mouse click
  • Opening browser in private mode with shift +

New in Browsers 0.3.8 (Jun 21, 2023)

  • Added:
  • Linux: provide deb package

New in Browsers 0.3.7 (Jun 21, 2023)

  • Added:
  • Support Slack desktop app for .slack.com urls
  • Allow opening browser by numerical key 1, 2, ..., 9, 0
  • Fixed:
  • Windows: Fix install script
  • Windows: Fix shortcut when installing for all users

New in Browsers 0.3.6 (May 31, 2023)

  • Added:
  • Allow installing under system path in Linux (/usr/local/bin/) and Windows (%ProgramFiles%)
  • Fixed:
  • Make UI a big higher. Might need to reduce it only in Windows, as Windows seems to fit more
  • Stable ordering of profiles when refreshing

New in Browsers 0.3.5 (May 29, 2023)

  • Added:
  • Linux: support armv7l (mostly 32-bit raspberry pi)
  • Windows: initial support for non-browser apps (Spotify, Linear, Zoom, etc)
  • macOS/Windows: Add support for Workflowy app
  • Security:
  • Get rid of chrono library with outdated time dependency and use our own rolling-file-rs fork
  • Changed:
  • macOS: show always on top
  • Fixed:
  • Linux: fix making window visible when clicking on another link
  • Windows: fix running install.bat straight from the zip file
  • Fix order of apps when restoring a profile
  • Fix 3-dot menu button shifting/disappearing when clicking on another link
  • Linux: fix window size in LXDE (Openbox)

New in Browsers 0.3.4 (May 21, 2023)

  • Changed:
  • Wildcards in URL rules #18
  • Optional default browser #18
  • Fixed:
  • Linux: Opening browsers with multiargument Exec line in .desktop file #32

New in Browsers 0.3.3 (May 14, 2023)

  • Fixed:
  • Windows: show also browsers installed to current user only

New in Browsers 0.3.2 (May 14, 2023)

  • Fixed:
  • Fix opening link in Windows

New in Browsers 0.3.1 (May 14, 2023)

  • Changed:
  • Use cached Chrome profile images instead of downloading from the internet
  • Support Chrome profile images picked from image choice
  • Use symlink for linux binary
  • Added:
  • Initial Windows support

New in Browsers 0.3.0 (May 2, 2023)

  • Fixed:
  • Allow picking Browsers as a default browser in XFCE

New in Browsers 0.2.9 (May 2, 2023)

  • Fixed:
  • Run only single instance of Browsers. Fixes #15

New in Browsers 0.2.8 (Apr 30, 2023)

  • Fixed:
  • Linux: Convert .svg icons and cache all used icons as png.

New in Browsers 0.2.7 (Apr 28, 2023)

  • Fixed:
  • Linux: Use the full binary path in software.Browsers.desktop, because many distros don't have $HOME/.local/bin in PATH
  • Linux: Include icon in About dialog and translations
  • Linux: Move config file from $HOME/.local/share/software.Browsers/config.json to
  • $HOME/.config/software.Browsers/config.json

New in Browsers 0.2.6 (Apr 27, 2023)

  • Fixed:
  • Recognize chromium.desktop (e.g MX Linux) as Chrome based browser

New in Browsers 0.2.5 (Apr 26, 2023)

  • Fixed:
  • Improve installation in Linux (auto-creates ~/.local/bin/ directory)
  • Don't crash if Firefox is detected, but profiles.ini is missing

New in Browsers 0.2.4 (Apr 25, 2023)

  • Fixed:
  • Recognize firefox.desktop (e.g KDE Neon) and firefox-esr.desktop (e.g Raspberry Pi OS) as Firefox
  • Recognize chromium-browser.desktop (e.g Raspberry Pi OS) as Chrome
  • Remove openssl system dependency (ssl is used to verify https when fetching profile images)

New in Browsers 0.2.3 (Mar 30, 2023)

  • Fixed:
  • Don't crash if a browser doesn't have an icon #12

New in Browsers 0.2.2 (Mar 15, 2023)

  • Fixed:
  • Set correct version in macOS Browsers.app

New in Browsers 0.2.1 (Feb 16, 2023)

  • Fixed:
  • Show dialog when clicking a link when About dialog is also open

New in Browsers 0.2.0 (Feb 16, 2023)

  • Fixed:
  • Update dialog position when clicking a link when old dialog is still open

New in Browsers 0.1.0 RC 25 (Jan 18, 2023)

  • Support apps which handle `figma` scheme

New in Browsers 0.1.0 RC 24 (Jan 17, 2023)

  • Fix parsing empty hidden browsers list

New in Browsers 0.1.0 RC 22 (Jan 8, 2023)

  • Fix ordering if (hidden) custom apps are present
  • Never store the custom apps in the serialized order list

New in Browsers 0.1.0 RC 21 (Jan 8, 2023)

  • fix label

New in Browsers 0.1.0 RC 19 (Jan 6, 2023)

  • Add move to top/bottom actions

New in Browsers 0.1.0 RC 18 (Jan 4, 2023)

  • Fix opening without url

New in Browsers 0.1.0 RC 16 (Dec 20, 2022)

  • Really fix vertically stacked screens on macos (update to latest druid fork)

New in Browsers 0.1.0 RC 15 (Dec 19, 2022)

  • Fix vertically stacked screens on macos (update to latest druid fork)

New in Browsers 0.1.0 RC 14 (Dec 15, 2022)

  • Update druid fork

New in Browsers 0.1.0 RC 13 (Nov 14, 2022)

  • Fix linux build

New in Browsers 0.1.0 RC 12 (Oct 27, 2022)

  • Update Cargo.lock fixes #5

New in Browsers 0.1.0 RC 11 (Oct 23, 2022)

  • Update Cargo.lock

New in Browsers 0.1.0 RC 10 (Oct 12, 2022)

  • Basic support for url domain rules
  • This matches url domain to specific browser profile

New in Browsers 0.1.0 RC 9 (Oct 10, 2022)

  • Fixup

New in Browsers 0.1.0 RC 8 (Oct 10, 2022)

  • Add script to install cross base images

New in Browsers 0.1.0 RC 7 (Oct 7, 2022)

  • oh those are directories

New in Browsers 0.1.0 RC 4 (Sep 27, 2022)

  • Add expected snap paths for user profile roots for chromium