Polypane 23 runs on Chromium 132 and includes a number of quality of life improvements and bug fixes.
What's Polypane? Polypane is the web browser for ambitious web developers. It's a stand-alone browser that shows sites in multiple fully synced panes and helps you make your site more responsive, more accessible and faster.
Happy new year!
I took some time off at the end of the year, so this release is a bit smaller than usual. I hope you all had a great holiday season and are ready for a new year of web development!
As a true dev, my "time off" was mostly spent working on a secret new addition to the Polypane family. I can't wait to share more about that soon!
Undocked panel on Windows
When you have an undocked panel or undocked devtools on Windows they now have their own taskbar icon rather than being grouped with the main Polypane window. This makes it easier to switch/tab between the different windows, and is similar to other browsers. Thanks Charles for suggesting this!
Mac installer icon
I found out that the installer/dmg on mac can have its own icon, so now Polypane's installer icon is different from the app icon!
Polypane Portal now supports Bonjour/mDNS
Bonjour/mDNS is a networking protocol that allows devices to discover services on the local network. It's used by Apple sharing, Samba, Chromecast and many other services.
Polypane Portal now also announces itself using Bonjour, so you can use Bonjour (or similar mDNS zeroconf protocols) to find Polypane Portal on your network without needing to know the IP address.
If your device or app supports it, that means you no longer have to manually type the IP address or scan the QR code in Polypane to open the Portal.
Pane resizing with arrow keys
You can resize panes in many ways, one of which is by clicking the width or height and using the arrow keys (and optionally holding ⇧ or ⌘ for larger increments).
This now happens instantly, rather than waiting for the Enter or Tab key. Thanks Michael for suggesting this!
Chromium 132
Polypane 23 runs on Chromium 132, the most recent release. For all the experimental features enabled in this release, check out the experimental web platform features overview.
Get Polypane 23
Polypane is available for Windows, Mac and Linux (.deb or AppImage) in both 64 bit and ARM versions.
Polypane automatically updates on Mac, Windows and on Linux when using the AppImage. Otherwise, go to the download page to download the latest version!
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Polypane 23 Changelog
New
- New Undocked panel and devtools now have their own task bar icon on Windows (Thanks Charles!)
- New Separate Mac Installer icon
- New Polypane Portal now supports Bonjour
- New Chromium 132
Improvements
- Improved Changing the pane size with Arrow keys now happens instantly (Thanks Michael!)
- Improved Speed up the creation of
window.__polypanein the page context (Thanks James!) - Improved Color contrast checker now no longer shows tooltips for valid contrast pairs
- Improved Disabling Content-security-policy now more accurarely rewrites headers for better support
- Improved Elements panel: After setting a forced state, the element styles are automatically reparsed
- Improved Elements panel: support for
::details-content - Improved The traffic lights on macOS now show and hide depending on the apps state
Fixes
- Fix Elements panel: specificity errors for deeply nested css functions
- Fix Crash when switching to new tabs in some cases
- Fix Header toggle button backgrounds in light mode
- Fix Tooltip for buttons in header no longer show behind window controls
- Fix Pane reordering buttons weren't visible (Thanks Ryan!)
- Fix Elements panel: Class editor didn't update after selecting a new element (Thanks Marc!)
- Fix Elements panel: pressing Arrow up in a style editor now selects the last item rather than the second-last in the suggestion list
