Shimmer Browser3.3.0 - App Store

Introducing Shimmer Browser - The focus browser!

Your style - 3 visual styles to choose from, resizable sidebar with a compact icon-only made, and all buttons are fully customisable.

Arc-like - save tabs, organise them into folders, sync via iCloud.

No more doom-scrolling - set time limits on saved tabs.

Clutter-free - block annoyances on the web, quickly clean up unsaved tabs, or set them to auto-close!

Tab triage - saved tabs detect links to other sites, and present them in tab triage with options to save for later.

Tabs on your homescreen - add widgets to your homescreen and select the tabs they show.

Give it a try! It’s free up to 4 tabs at once, so you can get a sense of the browsing experience. If you like it, you can unlock the full experience and help me add more features!

Version History v3.3.0 - A fresh new design!
• A bottom ‘dock’ area on iPhone houses the address bar and additional navigation buttons, dismisses on scroll.
• Fully configurable buttons! Build your own toolbars.
• The sidebar resizes down to just icons now! (Hold down on the sidebar or hover with a cursor to view tab names)
• Floating stop button (optionally) appears during page load, allowing you to (optionally) forgo the reload button.
• More context menus! Lots of the default buttons have context menus now, such as the toggle sidebar button and new tab button.
• Shimmer can now request permission to access local data such as microphone, camera, and photo library (retroactively editing per-site permissions not yet supported, but it prompts for initial permission per-site and I figure this is better than crashing).
• Many, many bug fixes.

You can tell this is a big update because my update notes are short - I’m just handwaving some general huge features and leaving you to figure out the details for this one! 3.3.0 Feb 2 v3.2.0
• Search Engine customisation! Choose from a list of built-in search engines, and see the favicon for your preference when searching.
• Bookmark import & export, and the ability to import a file from Safari - get started quickly, and prevent against data loss!
• Huge improvements to liquid-glass sidebar sizing and show & hide handling on iPhone and compact window widths, with a new custom implementation, which is now the only option for this size class. (More to come for compact widths!)
• Removed the portrait iPhone split view for non-liquid-glass modes, which was quite painful to use.*
• Swipe back to reveal the sidebar when the webpage has no further back history. (Very nice on iPhone!)
• The Local Tabs dropdown now includes tab expiry and Saved Tabs Only mode options.
• The New Tab context menu includes Paste (and Go), and New Folder options.
• The Address bar context menu includes Paste too.
• Cmd-click a link to open it in a new tab, or Opt-click for tab triage.
• The Settings page is now a modal, and a No Selection page (with a clarifying IAP prompt) has been introduced.

*On iPhone, I plan to re-introduce some more standard, Safari-like inline browsing controls very soon. The original design pre-3.0.0 was optimised for accessing a couple of saved tabs, rather than more general web-browsing, and just didn't scale to both. v3.0.0 amounted to a near-total rewrite of the app, so I'm giving the new sidebar some room to breathe for now, before I compact the controls down again in a more ergonomic way that hopefully feels nicer to use on iPhone, supporting browser usage just as well as focused usage.

UX tweaks:
• All settings (Layout, SavedTabsOnly) are per-device now, Settings has been reorganised. I'd like to reintroduce setting sync as a broader option in the future.
• Drag & drop works much more reliably with a unified implementation across drop targets (New Tab, Address Bar).
• Expanded cursor hover area to show the sidebar.
• Disables edge effects on the webview where they're not needed.
• Shifted the tab button down slightly to avoid overlaying in-page bottom nav bars on iPhone.
• Somewhat better handling of insetting (or not) certain pages when the sidebar is overlaid.
• Renamed "Privacy" blocker list to "Trackers" to reflect what it blocks.
• Sleeker use of Glass material.
• Faster animations.
• Next/prev tab shortcut now selects the first tab again (regressed in 3.0.0).
• Back button (and keyboard shortcut) can now close tab triage.
• Delete Tab is now Delete Folder for folders in their context menu.
• Can no longer drag things into themselves (oops). Now performs a pass on launch to restore anything this has happened to.
• Light webpages no longer lighten the liquid glass sidebar (I decided was a bit much, this might become a setting at some point).

Optimisations:
• Webpage state is now carried across when saving/unsaving a tab.
• More efficiently determines the current page title.
• Tweaked favicon storage again, to cache them per-domain rather than per-page.
• Rounds webview width to the nearest integer, which fixes a few graphical issues.
• Tab sessions start more reliably now (sometimes the session wouldn't visibly start, especially on iPhone).
• Fixes a few memory leaks.

v3.2.1
• Localisation fixes. 3.2.1 Jan 13 v3.2.0
• Search Engine customisation! Choose from a list of built-in search engines, and see the favicon for your preference when searching.
• Bookmark import & export, and the ability to import a file from Safari - get started quickly, and prevent against data loss!
• Huge improvements to liquid-glass sidebar sizing and show & hide handling on iPhone and compact window widths, with a new custom implementation, which is now the only option for this size class. (More to come for compact widths!)
• Removed the portrait iPhone split view for non-liquid-glass modes, which was quite painful to use.*
• Swipe back to reveal the sidebar when the webpage has no further back history. (Very nice on iPhone!)
• The Local Tabs dropdown now includes tab expiry and Saved Tabs Only mode options.
• The New Tab context menu includes Paste (and Go), and New Folder options.
• The Address bar context menu includes Paste too.
• Cmd-click a link to open it in a new tab, or Opt-click for tab triage.
• The Settings page is now a modal, and a No Selection page (with a clarifying IAP prompt) has been introduced.

*On iPhone, I plan to re-introduce some more standard, Safari-like inline browsing controls very soon. The original design pre-3.0.0 was optimised for accessing a couple of saved tabs, rather than more general web-browsing, and just didn't scale to both. v3.0.0 amounted to a near-total rewrite of the app, so I'm giving the new sidebar some room to breathe for now, before I compact the controls down again in a more ergonomic way that hopefully feels nicer to use on iPhone, supporting browser usage just as well as focused usage.

UX tweaks:
• All settings (Layout, SavedTabsOnly) are per-device now, Settings has been reorganised. I'd like to reintroduce setting sync as a broader option in the future.
• Drag & drop works much more reliably with a unified implementation across drop targets (New Tab, Address Bar).
• Expanded cursor hover area to show the sidebar.
• Disables edge effects on the webview where they're not needed.
• Shifted the tab button down slightly to avoid overlaying in-page bottom nav bars on iPhone.
• Somewhat better handling of insetting (or not) certain pages when the sidebar is overlaid.
• Renamed "Privacy" blocker list to "Trackers" to reflect what it blocks.
• Sleeker use of Glass material.
• Faster animations.
• Next/prev tab shortcut now selects the first tab again (regressed in 3.0.0).
• Back button (and keyboard shortcut) can now close tab triage.
• Delete Tab is now Delete Folder for folders in their context menu.
• Can no longer drag things into themselves (oops). Now performs a pass on launch to restore anything this has happened to.
• Light webpages no longer lighten the liquid glass sidebar (I decided was a bit much, this might become a setting at some point).

Optimisations:
• Webpage state is now carried across when saving/unsaving a tab.
• More efficiently determines the current page title.
• Tweaked favicon storage again, to cache them per-domain rather than per-page.
• Rounds webview width to the nearest integer, which fixes a few graphical issues.
• Tab sessions start more reliably now (sometimes the session wouldn't visibly start, especially on iPhone).
• Fixes a few memory leaks. 3.2.0 Jan 7 v3.1.0
Features:
• Adblock and tracking protection now built-in. Enable on the settings page!
- Respects per-list auto-update rules. Updates will happen transparently on launch.
• Sidebar no longer obscures the webpage in iPhone landscape.
• Favicons now match the iOS 26 squircle.

Fixes:
• Fixed a potential issue with tab migration to SwiftData when focus limits were configured.
• Favicons loading was rewritten to only fetch when a tab is foregrounded in v3.0.0, to protect privacy.
- Fixed favicons for unused tabs disappearing after a week, outdated favicons are now kept until they can be reloaded.
- Favicons transparency is now preserved again on reload.
• Single-tab widget will now show the favicon without borders, when suitable.
• Fix tab triage not reappearing when switching away & back.
• Folder icon changes on open as expected, and dropping a tab onto a folder now works correctly.
• Inline frames for third-party sites now reliably render in the page, rather than in tab triage.
• Wording tweaks.

v3.0.1
• In Liquid Glass layout, the background behind the sidebar will now match the webpage.
• The Balanced sidebar will adapt to match very dark webpages in light mode. The Liquid Glass sidebar will adapt to match very dark or light webpages in both modes.
• Faster launch times.
• Handle “shimmer://“ url scheme.
• Fix a crash when switching tabs via keyboard.

Introducing v3.0.0!
• Folders let you navigate large collections of saved tabs more quickly. Nesting folders is supported!
• File downloads are now supported.
• Auto-close session tabs after a customisable time interval.
• Session limits are more clear and no longer require staying on the tab - manually start a session of a fixed length.
• Multiple layouts are now supported.
- The new default, Liquid Glass.
- Balanced, for a more traditional look.
- Arc-like, a clean modern look resembling a popular browser.
• Desktop-class Menu Bar support.
• Data is now stored with SwiftData. Your tabs will be migrated. Versions prior to 3.0.0 will continue to operate using the old store. 3.1.0 12/31/2025 Introducing v3.0.0!
• Folders let you navigate large collections of saved tabs more quickly. Nesting folders is supported!
• File downloads are now supported.
• Auto-close session tabs after a customisable time interval.
• Session limits are more clear and no longer require staying on the tab - manually start a session of a fixed length.
• Multiple layouts are now supported.
- The new default, Liquid Glass.
- Balanced, for a more traditional look.
- Arc-like, a clean modern look resembling a popular browser.
• Desktop-class Menu Bar support.
• Data is now stored with SwiftData. Your tabs will be migrated. Versions prior to 3.0.0 will continue to operate using the old store. 3.0.0 12/23/2025 • Disable reset zoom shortcut
• Swapped submit button side on overbar
• Use WebView with clipping disabled for improved stability
• Fix symbol for Close Tab menu bar item 2.3.1 07/27/2025 • New tab icon style - tab favicons (or site initials) are shown in rounded squares with a drop-shadow.
• Capital letters in tab names are used for more precise initials if present, otherwise the first letter of the tab name is used as before.
• Moved navigation controls & address bar to bottom of sidebar. More complete redesign built around bottom navigation incoming! 2.3.0 05/06/2025 v2.2.2
• Fixes a case where tab URLs could update slowly
• Toned down the darkening logic to avoid breaking pages in dark mode.

Much more to come! I’ve been abroad for the month. This month’s updates have just been small things bothering me enough to fix via screen sharing over hotel wifi. 2.2.2 04/28/2025 • When on the settings/home page, a fixed-position new tab button will show in the corner.
• Flattens out tab menus - seems simpler UX for skimming, clarifies stop/close options.

Otherwise, this is a bug fix update:
• Respect website’s preference of whether to open links in new tabs.
• Improve handling of buttons which navigate via javascript.
• Fix display conditions for certain menu items.
• Fix a crash when pressing the triage new tab button.
• Prevent triage webpages continuing some activities on dismiss.
• Improve experience on a fresh launch. 2.2.1 04/07/2025 • Adds Copy and Share options to tab context menus.
• Adds option to replace a tab’s homepage with the current page.
• Adds a hover shortcut
• Adds ålert bubbles for copying URLs and when a tab session is logged.
• Keeps nav buttons when no tab selected (less moving around seems more valuable than extra space at small heights for now).
• Fix for sessions not saving in some circumstances. 2.2.0 03/20/2025 v2.1.0
• Copy URL keyboard shortcut (cmd shift c).
• Unsaved tabs now reflect the loaded page’s tab title if found, rather than just the page’s domain.
• Allow insecure loads in WKWebView - the address bar will show an “unlocked” icon for http:// URLs.
• Tab icons now always use uppercase letters.
• Favicons are now found from the page HTML from the navigating WKWebView if present, rather than using a standalone page fetch.
• Fixed a regression where tab triage controls could appear behind the sidebar.
v2.0.2
• Fix for a layout regression where the sidebar sometimes overlapped the webview on iPhone landscape. (More optimisations in 2.1.1)
• Enables the built-in webview find interaction, triggered with cmd F. (Turns out it's just an opt-in toggle!)
• Reuse ongoing favicon fetch requests if a view layout occurs during fetch.
• Better handle favicon fallback fetching when the site returns a favicon but then the fetch fails.
v2.0.1
• Big performance improvements to browsing with webviews enabled!
• Webview navigation controls are now larger for easier touch interaction.
• Webview navigation controls are now a fullwidth toolbar on iPhone, as they're generally more useful than tab names.
• The compact webview navigation control menu now opens as a mini-toolbar, and stays visible until dismissed.
• Webview interaction is now disabled when the address bar is shown, to aid tap-to-dismiss.
• Fix for the permissions prompt showing in some cases when opening links from a cold start. 2.1.1 03/17/2025 • Copy URL keyboard shortcut (cmd shift c).
• Unsaved tabs now reflect the loaded page’s tab title if found, rather than just the page’s domain.
• Allow insecure loads in WKWebView - the address bar will show an “unlocked” icon for http:// URLs.
• Tab icons now always use uppercase letters.
• Favicons are now found from the page HTML from the navigating WKWebView if present, rather than using a standalone page fetch.
• Fixed a regression where tab triage controls could appear behind the sidebar.
v2.0.2
• Fix for a layout regression where the sidebar sometimes overlapped the webview on iPhone landscape.
• Enables the built-in webview find interaction, triggered with cmd F. (Turns out it's just an opt-in toggle!)
• Reuse ongoing favicon fetch requests if a view layout occurs during fetch.
• Better handle favicon fallback fetching when the site returns a favicon but then the fetch fails.
v2.0.1
• Big performance improvements to browsing with webviews enabled!
• Webview navigation controls are now larger for easier touch interaction.
• Webview navigation controls are now a fullwidth toolbar on iPhone, as they're generally more useful than tab names.
• The compact webview navigation control menu now opens as a mini-toolbar, and stays visible until dismissed.
• Webview interaction is now disabled when the address bar is shown, to aid tap-to-dismiss.
• Fix for the permissions prompt showing in some cases when opening links from a cold start. 2.1.0 03/14/2025 v2.0.1
• Big performance improvements to browsing with webviews enabled!
• Webview navigation controls are now larger for easier touch interaction.
• Webview navigation controls are now a fullwidth toolbar on iPhone, as they're generally more useful than tab names.
• The compact webview navigation control menu now opens as a mini-toolbar, and stays visible until dismissed.
• Webview interaction is now disabled when the address bar is shown, to aid tap-to-dismiss.
• Fix for the permissions prompt showing in some cases when opening links from a cold start.
v2.0.2
• Fix for a layout regression where the sidebar sometimes overlapped the webview on iPhone landscape.
• Enables the built-in webview find interaction, triggered with cmd F. (Turns out it's just an opt-in toggle!)
• Reuse ongoing favicon fetch requests if a view layout occurs during fetch.
• Better handle favicon fallback fetching when the site returns a favicon but then the fetch fails. 2.0.2 03/13/2025 • Big performance improvements to browsing with webviews enabled!
• Webview navigation controls are now larger for easier touch interaction.
• Webview navigation controls are now a fullwidth toolbar on iPhone, as they're generally more useful than tab names.
• The compact webview navigation control menu now opens as a mini-toolbar, and stays visible until dismissed.
• Webview interaction is now disabled when the address bar is shown, to aid tap-to-dismiss.
• Fix for the permissions prompt showing in some cases when opening links from a cold start. 2.0.1 03/13/2025 • Full browser support! Turn off in-app Safari to enable the new browsing experience!
• Default browser support! Use Shimmer as your default browser!
• A new address bar, visible for those power users who disable both “Saved sites only” and “In-App Safari”!
• Opened a link to a new website from one of your saved tabs? Triage tools are now available! From the preview, you can quickly return, save for later, or continue (Full browser mode)
• Unsaved tabs will now return to the most recently viewed page on app relaunch, rather than the page they started on (Full browser mode)
• Quickly share from the open address bar by tapping/dragging the favicon, or long-press the collapsed address bar for context menu & drag (Full browser mode)
• When resizing the tab bar, triple-tap the divider to match the length between the collapsed/non-collapsed states. (Double-tap restores to default)

• Fixes to how sessions are recorded when session limits are set
• More reliable updates to session limits on return from extended background time
• Keyboard shortcuts for new tab, close tab, and settings (new tab previously only worked when the + button was onscreen)
• Newly opened tabs are now reliably scrolled into view, no matter how they were created
• Loading new pages will blind you less in dark mode
• More visible dividers
• Visual improvements to some animations
• Keyboard shortcuts now work more reliably when the page isn't focused
• Unsaving a tab and saving it again no longer keeps the name (this was a bug)
• Fixes some visual glitches with the sidebar
• Better support for those pesky safe area insets
• Many more bug fixes
• Many more bugs if my track record is anything to go by 2.0.0 02/23/2025 • Limit browsing for social media or other sites to X number of times in Y hours for a given saved tab.
• Saved searches now use the search as their default tab title.
• Expanded support back to iOS 17.
• cmd backspace to delete a tab focused with the keyboard focus ring.

• Only show address bar on launch when "Saved tabs only" is disabled.
• WIP new tab behaviour for WebViews. Nearly ready to launch!
• Workaround for some glitchiness with the homepage backgrounds.
• Portrait on iPhone now defaults to expanded mode, as contains the added functionality of the close all tabs button, and potentially more to come.
• "Session tabs", as they're named to VoiceOver users, are now "Local tabs", to avoid confusion with the "Session limit" feature.
• Various under the hood changes.

Session limits require updating all synced devices. Limits you set up may not be retained if changes are made to your tabs on older version of the app. 1.8.0 02/19/2025 If you read your update notes, you'll love this release! ＼(^o^)／
v1.6 is the biggest update to Shimmer Browser yet, introducing window tabs, searches, tab selection indicators, and lots lots more!

• Shimmer may now be used as a general-purpose browser by disabling Focused tabs
- New per-window tabs appear after your saved tabs in a rebuilt sidebar
• These are the default tab type in this mode
• If you have 2+ window tabs, an option appears to close all in one go!
- Use the long-press menu to Keep window tabs, or Unkeep saved tabs
- The settings homepage now scrolls, to accommodate the new Focused tabs setting

• A rebuilt address bar
- Uses the design introduced in v1.5.0 a few days ago!
- Enter search terms to generate a DuckDuckGo search (Use !bangs to search with other websites for now)
- No longer moves out of position when the keyboard appears - but still avoids the keyboard if it would otherwise be hidden
- Now dismisses more reliably

• A rebuilt sidebar, based on the portrait toolbar
- Tabs sharing the same URL are now have separate navigation history
- Start from a clean slate, with a new "Stop" context menu option for tabs!
• This forgets the current browsing session for that tab, good for when you get off-track!
• Changed the top toolbar to show "Done" rather than "Close" to clarify behaviour

• More keyboard commands
- cmd 1 through 10 will jump to specific tabs
- cmd shift [ or ] to navigate between adjacent tabs (saved URL schemes will be skipped)
- Keyboard shortcuts & webview interaction should now be more reliable when swapping between tabs

• WebViews updated
- Still macOS-only where SafariVC is unavailable, as they're not ready for prime-time
- Now attempt to open a new tab when moving between domains (experimental behaviour)
- Improved reliability of back and forward enabled states, with a new animation on change
- Reload becomes stop when loading, with a fancy animation
- cmd R to reload
- cmd . or escape to stop loading
- cmd W to close (matching In-App Safari)
- Zoom shortcuts maybe never worked, will take a look

• The widget now opens existing tabs, rather than opening the tab's link separately

• Improved hover effects for various buttons

• v1.7.0
- Added Save/Unsave shortcuts - cmd shift D!
- Renamed "Keep" action for tabs to "Save"
- Renamed "Focused sites" to "Saved sites only"
- Address bar now shows over the current tab again, and disappears automatically when editing focus is lost (or with return / cmd W!)
- Address bar no longer appear when dismissing a site, only on use of "New tab"
- Fixed a potential crash when interacting with the app with no saved tabs
- Fixed slight icon jiggling while scrolling through tabs
- Fixed selection of newly created tabs
- Fixed "Stop" keyboard shortcut in WebViews
- Lots of behind-the-scenes rewrites!
- The app now detects when incompatible data has been saved, and warns before overwriting - hopefully you'll never see this!
• v1.7.1
- Quick fix widget not loading properly - that’s what I get for shipping bug fix updates with in-progress major changes. I’ll be more careful in future! v1.7.1 02/14/2025 If you read your update notes, you'll love this release! ＼(^o^)／
v1.6 is the biggest update to Shimmer Browser yet, introducing window tabs, searches, tab selection indicators, and lots lots more!

• Shimmer may now be used as a general-purpose browser by disabling Focused tabs
- New per-window tabs appear after your saved tabs in a rebuilt sidebar
• These are the default tab type in this mode
• If you have 2+ window tabs, an option appears to close all in one go!
- Use the long-press menu to Keep window tabs, or Unkeep saved tabs
- The settings homepage now scrolls, to accommodate the new Focused tabs setting

• A rebuilt address bar
- Uses the design introduced in v1.5.0 a few days ago!
- Enter search terms to generate a DuckDuckGo search (Use !bangs to search with other websites for now)
- No longer moves out of position when the keyboard appears - but still avoids the keyboard if it would otherwise be hidden
- Now dismisses more reliably

• A rebuilt sidebar, based on the portrait toolbar
- Tabs sharing the same URL are now have separate navigation history
- Start from a clean slate, with a new "Stop" context menu option for tabs!
• This forgets the current browsing session for that tab, good for when you get off-track!
• Changed the top toolbar to show "Done" rather than "Close" to clarify behaviour

• More keyboard commands
- cmd 1 through 10 will jump to specific tabs
- cmd shift [ or ] to navigate between adjacent tabs (saved URL schemes will be skipped)
- Keyboard shortcuts & webview interaction should now be more reliable when swapping between tabs

• WebViews updated
- Still macOS-only where SafariVC is unavailable, as they're not ready for prime-time
- Now attempt to open a new tab when moving between domains (experimental behaviour)
- Improved reliability of back and forward enabled states, with a new animation on change
- Reload becomes stop when loading, with a fancy animation
- cmd R to reload
- cmd . or escape to stop loading
- cmd W to close (matching In-App Safari)
- Zoom shortcuts maybe never worked, will take a look

• The widget now opens existing tabs, rather than opening the tab's link separately

• Improved hover effects for various buttons

• v1.6.1 bug fixes
- Tabs now un-keep properly
- Corrects the orientation of the window tabs dropdown arrow to match the active layout
- Fixes and adds animations for sidebar interactions
- Don't create tabs with an empty address
- The window tabs dropdown is now visible at smaller widths
- Highlight new tab icon only when creating new tab, rather than whenever the homepage is shown

• v1.6.2
- The address bar now displays automatically when closing the active tab, unless focused tabs are enabled
- Close the address bar with cmd w instead of escape - I keep reaching for cmd w
- The New Tab button now displays at the start of the window-specific tabs for better access, and visual clarity (especially in dark mode where the divider can be easy to miss)
- The tab list now scrolls when toggling Focused tabs to reveal the new divider, and the reveal is now animated
- Added some extra space at the end of the tab list
- Layout bug fixes!

• v1.7.0
- Added Save/Unsave shortcuts - cmd shift D!
- Renamed "Keep" action for tabs to "Save"
- Renamed "Focused sites" to "Saved sites only"
- Address bar now shows over the current tab again, and disappears automatically when editing focus is lost (or with return / cmd W!)
- Address bar no longer appear when dismissing a site, only on use of "New tab"
- Fixed a potential crash when interacting with the app with no saved tabs
- Fixed slight icon jiggling while scrolling through tabs
- Fixed selection of newly created tabs
- Fixed "Stop" keyboard shortcut in WebViews
- Lots of behind-the-scenes rewrites!
- The app now detects when incompatible data has been saved, and warns before overwriting - hopefully you'll never see this! 1.7.0 02/13/2025 If you read your update notes, you'll love this release! ＼(^o^)／
v1.6 is the biggest update to Shimmer Browser yet, introducing window tabs, searches, tab selection indicators, and lots lots more!

• Shimmer may now be used as a general-purpose browser by disabling Focused tabs
- New per-window tabs appear after your saved tabs in a rebuilt sidebar
• These are the default tab type in this mode
• If you have 2+ window tabs, an option appears to close all in one go!
- Use the long-press menu to Keep window tabs, or Unkeep saved tabs
- The settings homepage now scrolls, to accommodate the new Focused tabs setting

• A rebuilt address bar
- Uses the design introduced in v1.5.0 a few days ago!
- Enter search terms to generate a DuckDuckGo search (Use !bangs to search with other websites for now)
- No longer moves out of position when the keyboard appears - but still avoids the keyboard if it would otherwise be hidden
- Now dismisses more reliably

• A rebuilt sidebar, based on the portrait toolbar
- Tabs sharing the same URL are now have separate navigation history
- Start from a clean slate, with a new "Stop" context menu option for tabs!
• This forgets the current browsing session for that tab, good for when you get off-track!
• Changed the top toolbar to show "Done" rather than "Close" to clarify behaviour

• More keyboard commands
- cmd 1 through 10 will jump to specific tabs
- cmd shift [ or ] to navigate between adjacent tabs (saved URL schemes will be skipped)
- Keyboard shortcuts & webview interaction should now be more reliable when swapping between tabs

• WebViews updated
- Still macOS-only where SafariVC is unavailable, as they're not ready for prime-time
- Now attempt to open a new tab when moving between domains (experimental behaviour)
- Improved reliability of back and forward enabled states, with a new animation on change
- Reload becomes stop when loading, with a fancy animation
- cmd R to reload
- cmd . or escape to stop loading
- cmd W to close (matching In-App Safari)
- Zoom shortcuts maybe never worked, will take a look

• The widget now opens existing tabs, rather than opening the tab's link separately

• Improved hover effects for various buttons

• v1.6.1 bug fixes
- Tabs now un-keep properly
- Corrects the orientation of the window tabs dropdown arrow to match the active layout
- Fixes and adds animations for sidebar interactions
- Don't create tabs with an empty address
- The window tabs dropdown is now visible at smaller widths
- Highlight new tab icon only when creating new tab, rather than whenever the homepage is shown

• v1.6.2
- The address bar now displays automatically when closing the active tab, unless focused tabs are enabled
- Close the address bar with cmd w instead of escape - I keep reaching for cmd w
- The New Tab button now displays at the start of the window-specific tabs for better access, and visual clarity (especially in dark mode where the divider can be easy to miss)
- The tab list now scrolls when toggling Focused tabs to reveal the new divider, and the reveal is now animated
- Added some extra space at the end of the tab list
- Layout bug fixes! 1.6.2 02/11/2025 If you read your update notes, you'll love this release! ＼(^o^)／
v1.6 is the biggest update to Shimmer Browser yet, introducing window tabs, searches, tab selection indicators, and lots lots more!

• Shimmer may now be used as a general-purpose browser by disabling Focused tabs
- New per-window tabs appear after your saved tabs in a rebuilt sidebar
• These are the default tab type in this mode
• If you have 2+ window tabs, an option appears to close all in one go!
- Use the long-press menu to Keep window tabs, or Unkeep saved tabs
- The settings homepage now scrolls, to accommodate the new Focused tabs setting

• A rebuilt address bar
- Uses the design introduced in v1.5.0 a few days ago!
- Enter search terms to generate a DuckDuckGo search (Use !bangs to search with other websites for now)
- No longer moves out of position when the keyboard appears - but still avoids the keyboard if it would otherwise be hidden
- Now dismisses more reliably

• A rebuilt sidebar, based on the portrait toolbar
- Tabs sharing the same URL are now have separate navigation history
- Start from a clean slate, with a new "Stop" context menu option for tabs!
• This forgets the current browsing session for that tab, good for when you get off-track!
• Changed the top toolbar to show "Done" rather than "Close" to clarify behaviour

• More keyboard commands
- cmd 1 through 10 will jump to specific tabs
- cmd shift [ or ] to navigate between adjacent tabs (saved URL schemes will be skipped)
- Keyboard shortcuts & webview interaction should now be more reliable when swapping between tabs

• WebViews updated
- Still macOS-only where SafariVC is unavailable, as they're not ready for prime-time
- Now attempt to open a new tab when moving between domains (experimental behaviour)
- Improved reliability of back and forward enabled states, with a new animation on change
- Reload becomes stop when loading, with a fancy animation
- cmd R to reload
- cmd . or escape to stop loading
- cmd W to close (matching In-App Safari)
- Zoom shortcuts maybe never worked, will take a look

• The widget now opens existing tabs, rather than opening the tab's link separately

• Improved hover effects for various buttons

• v1.6.1 bug fixes
- Tabs now un-keep properly
- Corrects the orientation of the window tabs dropdown arrow to match the active layout
- Fixes and adds animations for sidebar interactions
- Don't create tabs with an empty address
- The window tabs dropdown is now visible at smaller widths
- Highlight new tab icon only when creating new tab, rather than whenever the homepage is shown 1.6.1 02/11/2025 If you read your update notes, you'll love this release! ＼(^o^)／
v1.6.0 is the biggest update to Shimmer Browser yet, introducing window tabs, searches, tab selection indicators, and lots lots more!

• Shimmer may now be used as a general-purpose browser by disabling Focused tabs
- New per-window tabs appear after your saved tabs in a rebuilt sidebar
• These are the default tab type in this mode
• If you have 2+ window tabs, an option appears to close all in one go!
- Use the long-press menu to Keep window tabs, or Unkeep saved tabs
- The settings homepage now scrolls, to accommodate the new Focused tabs setting

• A rebuilt address bar
- Uses the design introduced in v1.5.0 a few days ago!
- Enter search terms to generate a DuckDuckGo search (Use !bangs to search with other websites for now)
- No longer moves out of position when the keyboard appears - but still avoids the keyboard if it would otherwise be hidden
- Now dismisses more reliably

• A rebuilt sidebar, based on the portrait toolbar
- Tabs sharing the same URL are now have separate navigation history
- Start from a clean slate, with a new "Stop" context menu option for tabs!
• This forgets the current browsing session for that tab, good for when you get off-track!
• Changed the top toolbar to show "Done" rather than "Close" to clarify behaviour

• More keyboard commands
- cmd 1 through 10 will jump to specific tabs
- cmd shift [ or ] to navigate between adjacent tabs (saved URL schemes will be skipped)
- Keyboard shortcuts & webview interaction should now be more reliable when swapping between tabs

• WebViews updated
- Still macOS-only where SafariVC is unavailable, as they're not ready for prime-time
- Now attempt to open a new tab when moving between domains (experimental behaviour)
- Improved reliability of back and forward enabled states, with a new animation on change
- Reload becomes stop when loading, with a fancy animation
- cmd R to reload
- cmd . or escape to stop loading
- cmd W to close (matching In-App Safari)
- Zoom shortcuts maybe never worked, will take a look

• The widget now opens existing tabs, rather than opening the tab's link separately

• Improved hover effects for various buttons

• Various small bug fixes 1.6.0 02/10/2025 • Added a fancy bar overlay for editing favourite tabs' names & URLs
• Add button moved to a consistent position in portrait & landscape modes
• Favicon caching improvements
• Navigate homepage settings with the keyboard
• Layout fixes 1.5.0 02/07/2025 Features:
• Tabs are now kept in memory. No more reloads when switching tabs!
• URL scheme support - replace https:// with shimmer:// to open in Shimmer!

Nitpicky details:
• Tweaked icon.
• Clarified wording for tab editing hint.
• Improved hover effect for tabs.
• Entering no URL for a tab now cancels tab creation. (v1.4.1 fixes a possible crash)
• Untitled tabs show Untitled again (the domain is still used when available).
• More reliable notch/island orientation detection for iPhone.
• macOS/WKWebView tweaks for experimental PIP support, experimental text zoom shortcuts, close shortcut support. 1.4.1 01/28/2025 Features:
• Tabs are now kept in memory. No more reloads when switching tabs!
• URL scheme support - replace https:// with shimmer:// to open in Shimmer!

Nitpicky details:
• Tweaked icon.
• Clarified wording for tab editing hint.
• Improved hover effect for tabs.
• Entering no URL for a tab now cancels tab creation.
• Untitled tabs show Untitled again (the domain is still used when available).
• More reliable notch/island orientation detection for iPhone.
• macOS/WKWebView tweaks for experimental PIP support, experimental text zoom shortcuts, close shortcut support. 1.4.0 01/27/2025 • Optimised the UI for smaller window sizes (including portrait iPhone).
- Labels display vertically above tabs, making use of the space!
- Editing a tab changes the top bar into a textfield.
• Mainland Chinese (简体中文), Japanese (日本語), and Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt) localisations!
• Tab names now default to the domain name.
• Tabs are now keyboard navigable when focus is given using tab.
• Tweaked favicon loading, trying to tackle an issue where favicons may stop working and improve performance.
• Layout fixes when an onscreen keyboard is shown.
v1.3.1:
• A better fix for the favicon loading issue.
• Use a SafariVC-like UI on macOS (fixed macOS detection).
v1.3.2:
• Fix layout changing when keyboard appears.
• Minor fix for to make sidebar edge-to-edge.
• Shrunk the resize handle a bit to aid usage with narrow sidebars when enabled. 1.3.2 01/22/2025