multi

• Fixed missing app icon for some new/updated apps
• Load notification polyfill before user JS

• Added codesign step to app creation, so notifications should work in more scenarios—read the blog post to learn more
• Changed create-mac-app so that omitting MULTI_JSON_CONFIG no longer overwrites an existing JSON config
• Changed Custom CSS/JS injection to happen as early as possible (before document.body is loaded)
• Replaced keepOpenAfterWindowClosed config option with terminateWithLastWindow which defaults to false, matching macOS default behavior
• Removed Better.fyi ad-block list since it is no longer maintained
• Removed "Copy URL" shortcut since it can be implemented with Custom JS

• Adds keepOpenAfterWindowClosed config to prevent app from quitting when the last window is closed
• Adds alwaysOnTop config to position app's window on top of all others
• Adds customCookies config, allowing access to HTTPCookiePropertyKey

• Add full-screen support (https://github.com/kofigumbs/multi/issues/100)
• Apply blocklist before loading URL content (https://github.com/kofigumbs/multi/issues/101)
• Fix macOS Ventura permissions error (https://github.com/kofigumbs/multi/issues/85)
• Fix banner notifications (https://github.com/kofigumbs/multi/issues/86)

• Adds bindings for text field undo/redo
• New Examples/ directory in the source tree—consider sharing what you've made with Multi!

• Changes the default userAgent configuration default so that it matches the WebKit version used by the OS

• Multi is now free (as in beer) -- see the blog post to learn more

• Notifications auto-focus the relevant tab when clicked
• Multi apps are created in the same directory where Multi is installed (normally, this is /Application, but now Multi supports arbitrary locations)

• Fix window tab ordering

• Adds a new userAgent tab config option

• New logo, thanks to @chrismessina
• Optimized for M1 macs (universal binary), thanks to @dotsam
• Multi is now notarized, so security preference workarounds are no longer required
• Multi tabs are now regular macOS window tabs—so they can be displayed, moved, grouped, and closed as such
• New windowed config option
• New Basic Authentication config options (basicAuthUser/basicAuthPassword)
• New Paste and Match Style shortcut (⌘↑V)
• The Inspect Element (Developer Tools) menu is now available from Multi apps
• Back/Forward navigation gestures are now available from Multi apps
• Fixed app sandbox issue when creating new apps on Big Sur
• Reworked the README, which is now more comprehensive

This release also removes the sideBySide config option. It was originally added on a whim and poorly designed. I recommend trying the new windowed config instead, which works in a more mac-native manner.

The minimum required macOS version for multi is now 10.13 (High Sierra). Functionally, this was always the case, but now macOS should enforce this.

• New feature: Custom JS https://github.com/hkgumbs/multi#custom-jscss
• Fix notifications

• New configuration option: openNewWindowsInBackground
• Restore browser window size when app is reopened

• New configuration option openNewWindowsWith

• Fix macOS 10.13 launch crash (#29)

• New feature: Custom CSS https://github.com/hkgumbs/multi/blob/2.x/Documentation/CUSTOM-CSS.md
• New shortcut to copy current URL to clipboard: ⌘L
• New shortcuts to control zoom: ⌘+/⌘-/⌘0
• Add bridge for window.open, fixing popup downloads in Slack
• Allow .icns files to be used as icons (in addition to .png)

• Fixes the condition for showing the "Cannot allocate configuration script." warning

• Use cross-platform sed command in case users have GNU Sed installed
• Calculate trial period with UserDefaults instead of file timestamps (previous behavior meant that trial was calculated from release date instead of installation date)

Adds the alwaysNotify configuration option. By default, macOS ignores notifications for the frontmost app, but you might very well want to see those. Slack is a good example of this because the web app creates a notification if you get a message in another channel.

Documented at https://github.com/hkgumbs/multi/tree/2.x#json-configuration

Multi 2.0.0 is a complete rewrite and works differently from previous versions:

• Rearchitected to use a single "runtime app" (Multi.app), which is installed with the attached .dmg — now the runtime can be updated without needing to reconfigure or recreating your existing apps
• create-mac-app takes its options as environment variables
• Apps are created in /Applications/Multi/
• New built-in ad-blocker, provided by https://better.fyi (macOS 10.13+)
• New native bridge for window.alert
• New native bridge for window.confirm
• New native bridge for window.prompt
• New native bridge for <input type="file">
• New keyboard shortcuts: Back, Forward, Select Next Tab, Select Previous Tab
• New optional UI for creating and updating config.json
• New optional side-by-side view

Note: Multi is not notarized, so you'll need to allow it to run via your "Security & Privacy" system preferences. See Licensing for more about sponsoring Multi's development.