Highlights
- Redesigned the Quick Tab Switcher into a new Tab Stacking system.
- Added new layouts: Accordion and Two Rows.
- Improved startup tab restoration so restored tabs appear earlier and are handled more safely.
- Added a new Refresh Rate setting for smoother scrolling on supported Android devices.
- Removed the Android “install unknown apps” permission from the app manifest.
Tab Switching Improvements
The Quick Tab Switcher has been reworked and is now configured through Settings > Toolbar Layout > Tab Stacking.
New options include:
- Accordion: shows containers as chips and expands the selected container inline.
- Two Rows: shows tabs from the selected container on one row and recently used tabs on another.
- Recently Used Tabs: keeps the previous recent-tabs style.
- Container Tabs: shows tabs from the selected container.
- Disabled: hides the quick switcher bar.
Other improvements:
- The active tab is kept centered more reliably while switching or reordering tabs.
- Container chips now show tab counts and use clearer container coloring.
- Tab chips can now show close buttons.
- The active tab always gets a close button.
- A new setting allows close buttons on every quick-switcher tab chip.
- Closing tabs from the switcher now uses the same confirmation and undo behavior as the regular tab menu.
- The maximum title width of quick-switcher chips is now adjustable.
- Pinned, private, isolated, sandbox, and nested tabs are represented more clearly in the switcher.
Better Startup and Restore Behavior
Tab restoration after app startup is now more robust.
- Saved tabs can appear earlier as temporary tab chips while the browser engine finishes restoring them.
- Tapping a tab that is still restoring now queues the selection and opens it once it becomes available.
- The app waits for the browser engine to report that restore is complete before cleaning up saved tab data.
- This reduces the chance of restored tabs disappearing during startup or when opening WebLibre through a shared link.
Private tabs are still not restored, matching the existing private browsing behavior.
Appearance and Smoothness
- Added Settings > General > Refresh Rate with System, High, and Low options.
- The default is High, which can make scrolling and animations smoother on 90Hz/120Hz Android screens.
- Low can be used to reduce battery usage.
- The status bar and navigation bar areas now better match the active container or toolbar color.
- System bar icons adjust for contrast so they remain readable.
- Toolbar animations and tab favicons should feel smoother.
- Recent tab entries now show container color and icon badges more clearly.
Settings Migration
Existing Quick Tab Switcher settings are migrated automatically:
- If the switcher was disabled, it remains disabled.
- Existing “recent tabs” and “container tabs” choices map to the new Tab Stacking options.
- New installs default to Accordion when container UI is enabled.
Notes
- The refresh-rate setting is Android-only and depends on device/OS support.
- Container-based tab stacking modes fall back to recently used tabs if container UI is disabled.