What's new

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

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

Extensions: Checker Plus for Gmail starts (Mac; Windows will follow)

Added

• Mac: a file that an extension's background fails to load is logged in erreurs.txt, with the extension's name

Fixed

• Mac: an extension background stored in a subfolder finds its own files again; Checker Plus for Gmail stopped right at startup (“Can't find variable: storage”)
• Mac: background requests to an allowed site are relayed with your cookies for the whole site, as in Chrome, not just its home page (Checker Plus for Gmail, Proton VPN)