Highlights
New
- Crest 0.9 brings Sub-Spaces, which let several Spaces share one set of sign-ins while each keeps its own tabs and look, built-in ad blocking on Mac, iPhone and iPad, and a Chromium engine built from Chromium itself, now at 157. Quick Windows and Peek do more, and Crest can follow the system's light or dark appearance.
- Choose how much customization Crest shows with three styles: Heraldic keeps every control, while Modern and Simple show fewer, simpler ones and keep the rest under Advanced. Pick one in Settings › Appearance or during setup, and give any Space its own. Space icons in the switcher can now be dots. The address field and pins now look the same on every Space, and text over a Space's colors is easier to read.
Fixed
- Chromium is updated to 157.0.8103.51, which fixes CVE-2026-125350, a security flaw being exploited in the wild, and eight other security flaws.
- The Private Browsing Space no longer offers a lock, which on iPhone could lock it with no way back in until Crest was quit. The lock setting for other Spaces now names Face ID on devices that have it.
- On Mac, importing from Arc no longer quits Crest when Spaces that share an Arc profile aren't next to each other in Arc; they come in together, each with its own tabs.
- On Mac, when Crest can't unlock another browser's passwords during an import, as when Keychain access is denied, the import still brings that browser's Spaces and tabs and leaves only the passwords behind.
- Extensions that open their own popup, such as 1Password when you click its button in a sign-in field while it's locked, now show it on Mac instead of doing nothing.
- On Mac, a link that opens in Peek from a Chromium page now loads even when the page updates its own address as it opens the link, as web apps such as Google Drive can, instead of leaving an empty Peek or opening nothing.
- On Mac, a link from another app that opens Crest now shows in front, instead of behind the window Crest reopens, and Crest's windows reopen in the order you left them.
Nightly builds contain the newest changes and may be less reliable than stable releases.