Notable Updates

• Choose which extensions can run in Incognito: You can now decide which extensions are allowed in Incognito using an “Allow in Incognito” toggle in the Manage Extensions screen. By default, extensions are blocked in Incognito, and only the ones you explicitly enable will appear and run there, giving you more control over privacy.
• Back button support for tabs opened from another tab: Tabs that you open from another tab now behave more like Safari. Clicking Back will close the current tab and return you to the tab that opened it, so it is easier to get back to where you started without searching through all your tabs.
• Live preview of your Space avatar while editing: When you create or edit a Space, you now see an avatar preview next to the Space name. As you change the name, icon, image, color, or notification settings, the preview updates instantly so you can see exactly how your Space will look before you save.
• More predictable pinch-to-zoom on trackpads: When you zoom in on a page using a pinch gesture, pinching back out will now stop at the zoom level you started from instead of going below it. This matches Chrome and Firefox and makes it easier to return to your original zoom without overshooting.
• Tighter visual alignment between tabs and the window edge: The extra gap between the tab strip or app strip and the window frame has been reduced in custom layouts where tabs sit directly against the top or right edge of the window. This gives Shift a cleaner, more polished look without changing how tabs work.

Bugs Fixed

Layout & Accounts

• Secondary Gmail apps now stay signed into the right account: Previously, Gmail (and related Google apps) added to multiple Spaces could sometimes switch to the primary Space’s account. This is now fixed, so each Space keeps its own login. If you’re still seeing the issue, remove the affected Google accounts from Shift (not just sign out), restart Shift, then add them back (primary account first).
• Mac fullscreen now behaves more like Safari: On Mac, using the green window button for fullscreen no longer hides all of Shift’s UI. Browser controls now stay visible in browser fullscreen, while video fullscreen still hides the chrome as expected, so fullscreen browsing and fullscreen video each behave in a more familiar, Mac‑native way.
• Apps no longer overlap in vertical sidebars while editing: In some layouts, adding many apps to a vertical sidebar in Edit Mode could cause app icons to overlap other controls or hide the Add App button. Apps now move into the overflow menu instead, so everything stays visible and easy to click while you edit your layout.
• Help bar stays hidden in true “zen mode”: If you intentionally hide all bars (for example, with Ctrl+S or the sidebar toggles), the help bar no longer appears when you hover at the top of the screen. This keeps the top of the page fully accessible and avoids the help bar covering content in “zero‑bars” layouts.
• Print dialog icons are now readable in Light Theme: When printing PDFs from Gmail in Light Theme, the icons in the print tab are now clearly visible instead of blending into the background. This makes it easier to confirm print settings without switching to Dark Theme as a workaround.

Tabs & Navigation

• “Continue Where You Left Off” now restores secondary spaces correctly: When this setting is enabled, reopening Shift now restores the last active app or tab in each Space instead of opening new Home tabs for secondary spaces. This brings behavior back in line with Shift v9/Legacy and saves extra clicks after a restart for people working across multiple spaces.
• On‑startup page settings now work reliably on Mac: The “Open a specific page or set of pages” and “Continue where you left off and open a specific set of pages” options now behave correctly on macOS. When you restart Shift, your chosen startup pages open as configured, previous tabs are restored when expected, and you no longer end up with extra browser windows being created on each relaunch.
• Clicking links that open in new tabs no longer crashes Shift: A regression where clicking links with `target="_blank"` (for example, on W3Schools demo pages) could crash Shift has been fixed. Links that open in a new tab now behave normally on macOS and Windows without bringing down the browser.
• New windows now respect your current Space: Using the keyboard shortcut to open a new window now creates it in the Space you are currently using, instead of always defaulting to the first Space. This keeps multi‑Space workflows (like Work, Personal, or different clients) better organized.
• Restored tabs now return to their original position: Using Ctrl+Shift+T (Cmd+Shift+T on Mac) now brings back a closed tab exactly where it was in the tab strip, matching the behavior of other major browsers and making tab restore more predictable.
• Links opened from Home go to the end of the tab strip: When you open links in a new tab from the Home page, the new tab now appears at the rightmost end of the tab strip instead of beside the Home tab on the left. This keeps tab ordering more predictable, especially in custom layouts that use Home as a leftmost tab.
• Omnibox focus now persists when you go Back or Forward: If the address bar was focused before you click the Back or Forward buttons, it now stays focused after navigation. This makes it easier to quickly adjust or resubmit searches without having to click back into the Omnibox.
• Quick Settings now closes when you open a new tab or window: Opening a new tab, window, or Incognito window from Quick Settings now automatically closes the Quick Settings drawer, so the new view is not covered and you can get back to browsing right away.
• Tabs from other devices” button restored in History: The History page sidebar once again shows the “Tabs from other devices” entry. You can use it to view tabs from your other signed‑in devices, and if you are not signed in, you will see the appropriate sign‑in prompt.
• Removing an omnibox suggestion no longer changes your typed text: When you click the “x” to remove a suggestion in the address bar, Shift now leaves your typed query as‑is instead of autofilling with the next suggestion. This matches Chrome’s behavior and avoids unexpected changes while you are editing a search.

Settings & Extensions

• “Add extension” now always opens in Shift: When “Open links in Default Browser” was enabled, clicking “Add extension” could fail to open or open in another browser. The Chrome Web Store now always opens in Shift when you add an extension, regardless of your link‑handling settings.
• Extension toggles are no longer blocked by permission popups: On the Extensions settings page, the gray “This extension may read and change site information or run in the background” message no longer covers the On/Off toggle. The tooltip now appears beside the toggle, so you can reliably enable or disable any extension.
• Extension popups can no longer crash Shift with dialogs: A bug where running `alert`, `confirm`, or `prompt` inside an extension popup could cause Shift to crash has been fixed. These dialogs now appear correctly without bringing down the browser.
• Developer mode toggle restored on the extensions page: The toggle to enable Developer mode on `chrome://extensions` is visible again. You can turn on Developer mode to load unpacked extensions and access the additional extension controls that were previously hidden by a styling issue.

Apps & Customization

• Custom app icon uploads are now less restrictive and clearer: When adding a custom app, the icon upload no longer silently fails for many common images. The size limit has been raised to match local storage (8 KB), and the error message now clearly shows the maximum file size when an image is too large.
• Custom app icons now match Shift’s rounded style: Icons for custom apps that use Brandfetch logos now use a subtle rounded border, so JPEGs with square backgrounds look more polished and consistent with Shift’s design language.

Install & Updates

• Web installer now recovers cleanly if your network drops or changes: On Windows, the small web installer could get stuck with no way to cancel if your network changed mid‑download, sometimes requiring a Task Manager force‑quit. The installer now detects failed downloads, shows an error prompt, and lets you cancel or retry so you are never left in a “limbo” state.
• Installer now handles invalid install-info.json during uninstall: A corrupted `install-info.json` file (for example, with an unescaped backslash or unexpected characters) no longer prevents Shift from uninstalling. Even if this file is malformed, you can now remove or update Shift without running into installer errors.

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