Highlights
New
- Crest 0.7 brings Chromium and WebKit together on Mac, with Chrome Web Store extensions and engine choices for each website. iPhone and iPad continue to use WebKit.
Improved
- Pause and resume Chromium downloads, and recover interrupted transfers when the server supports it.
- Chromium can show local service-worker and extension notifications while Crest runs, with Space access and notification permissions respected.
Fixed
- Protected-video pages still switch to WebKit automatically. Engine switches respect unsaved-changes prompts and remember the website only after the move is allowed.
- Interrupted Chromium profile upgrades resume safely without losing track of your existing browsing profiles.
- Crest updates advertise the macOS version the whole app requires, so older Macs are not offered an incompatible update.
- Crest windows on Mac no longer keep the system's WindowServer busy, which could use a lot of CPU on large or high-refresh external displays. The focused-window transparency setting has been removed.
Development builds contain the newest changes and may be less reliable than stable releases.