This alpha makes tabs, gestures, and browser controls much more customizable, while fixing several navigation and refresh issues.
Highlights
- Customizable tab and toolbar gestures
- More control over where new child tabs appear
- Improved tab ordering and navigation
- Safer pull-to-refresh behavior
- New Clear Browsing Data shortcut
- More reliable color-scheme and user-agent settings
Gestures and Toolbar
- Reassign or disable swipes on the tab bar and side rail.
- Choose what happens when swiping a tab in the tab list or grid.
- Tab swipes can now close, bookmark, share, pin, duplicate, or move tabs.
- Customize what a toolbar button does when it is pressed and held.
- Choose fallback buttons to display when a toolbar action is unavailable.
- The toolbar customization screen has been redesigned for easier setup.
- Add Clear Browsing Data to the browser menu or toolbar.
- Existing tab-bar swipe preferences are preserved when upgrading.
Tabs and Navigation
- New New Child Tab Position setting:
- Insert child tabs directly after their opener.
- Place child tabs at the end of the tab list.
- Tab relationships remain intact regardless of the chosen display position.
- Improved ordering for tabs opened from links, pop-ups, and other containers.
- Fixed tabs occasionally appearing in the wrong position after restoring or reordering them.
- Fixed empty rows appearing in the two-level tab switcher.
- Back navigation from newly created search tabs now returns to the browser home screen instead of unexpectedly closing the tab.
- The home screen no longer shows the address and title of the tab hidden behind it.
- Pressing Back twice only closes a tab when there is somewhere sensible to return.
- Closing the last tab in a container no longer causes tabs in other containers to be closed unintentionally.
Pull-to-Refresh
Pull-to-refresh now responds only to intentional vertical page swipes.
It no longer activates accidentally during:
- Horizontal swipes.
- Nested scrolling.
- Pinch-to-zoom gestures.
- Double-tap zoom gestures.
- Fullscreen videos or games.
The refresh indicator also follows the app's current theme more reliably.
Settings and Appearance
- Changing the preferred light or dark page color scheme now updates all open pages, not just the current tab.
- Clearing a custom user agent correctly restores the normal browser behavior, including desktop mode.
- Android dynamic colors and surface colors are displayed more consistently.
Upgrade Notes
- Existing tabs, settings, and toolbar arrangements are preserved.
- New gesture controls use the behavior already configured in previous versions by default.
- The new tab-placement setting defaults to placing child tabs after their opener.