2026.3.29.0

New Features

• Sync
• Search Engine Removal
• Info Bars (e.g. Wayback Machine Info Bar)
• New Spell Checkers (WPF-based, Microsoft, Google, Yandex)
• Toasts
• Google Safe Browsing v5
• Tabs within Non-Client Area
• Optional Modern URL Display
  

Notable Changes (2026.1.25.0...2026.3.29.0)

• Updated to Chromium 146.
• Dropped 32-bit support.
• Improved Gemini & Gopher handlers.
• Persist settings navigation state.
• Implement "Copy email address" & "Copy link to highlight" option.
• Removed crash reporting.
• Implemented color picker RGB and HSL input formats.
• Removed inoperative YouTube ad skip.
• Improved navigation tracking.
• Enhanced new tab page.
• Transitioned favourites storage format to JSON.
• Implemented Wikipedia & Wikimedia POTD.
• Added several keyboard shortcuts.
• Implemented runtime system theme preference detection.

2026.1.25.0

New Features

• Tab Groups
  
• Profile Manager
• Omnibox Shortcuts [@history, @favourites]
• Favourites Manager
• Tab Tooltips
• Docked Edge developer tools
• Guest Profile
• Windows Share Integration
• Omnibox Highlighting
  

Notable Changes (2025.12.12.0...2026.1.25.0)

• Improved tabs drag & drop.
• Improved taskbar profile icons.
• Default web engine set to Edge web view.
• Improved history, downloads manager.
• Replaced compact tabs with resizable tabs.
• Improved news sidebar design.

2025.12.12.0

Chromium Security Update

Warning

CefSharp is becoming increasingly unstable. Switching to the Edge/WebView2 engine is recommended for better stability and support.

[12/12/2025]

• Updated to Chromium 143

[13/12/2025]

• Temporarily removed Chrome Runtime Style [Resolves access violation crashes. If the instabilities worsen, the CefSharp engine may need to be removed]
• Alloy Runtime Style is now enforced, regardless of settings

2025.12.8.0

[28/10/2025]

• Fixed critical issue in Updater design logic
• Improved Updater

[29/10/2025]

• Added Smart dark mode feature [Websites that are originally in dark mode will not be forced into chromium's dark mode]

[30/10/2025]

• Restore tabs setting is now disabled by default similar to other browsers
• Added dynamic dialog window to replace prompt & multi-prompt dialog windows
• Improved proprietary codecs dialog
• Fixed broken search suggestions

[31/10/2025]

• Most dropdowns now support text search
• Enabled zooming for Edge web views
• Fixed the issue of Edge web views losing focus when using arrow keys

[2/11/2025]

• Added "Open in new tab" for image & video context menu

[3/11/2025]

• Simplified some code

[8/11/2025]

• Fixed user agent branding not applying properly in CEF web views

[15/11/2025]

• Added favicon session cache [To save bandwidth]
• Added spellcheck web service [Chromium spellcheck results couldn't be retrieved]

[22/11/2025]

• Added Trident Version setting

2025.10.27.0

[1/10/2025]

• Viewing private tabs will now prevent SLBr from being captured in recordings
• Empty username arg will default to "Default" user
• Improved tab dragging

[2/10/2025]

• Improved the unsupported codecs warning
• Fixed dialogs always returning false
• navigator.connection.saveData now turns to true in Lite Mode
• DevTools are now closed when switching tabs due to a freezing issue
• Re-introduced lite mode tab "pausing" when unfocused to Edge web view, it doesn't work in Chromium (CEF) web view

[4/10/2025]

• Added a "web" to "Enable experimental (web) features" to clear misunderstandings
• Fixed the icon font not being applied properly in some circumstances
• Added some webview2 flags

[7/10/2025]

• Fixed freezing caused when reloading PDF pages
• Context menu now renders properly on PDF pages
• Font settings are now disabled if CEF is not initialized

[10/10/2025]

• Added WebView2 Runtime check to Switch web engine button

[11/10/2025]

• Site information popup now uses the Popup Button

[14/10/2025]

• Improved Translation feature significantly [No longer uses translate.google.com/translate?u=]
• Added Microsoft translation provider

[15/10/2025]

• Added Lingvanex translation provider
• Improved the translate option in context menu
• Added Yandex translation provider
• Introduced batching requests to Yandex & Microsoft [Google & Lingvanex seems to handle fine without batching]

[16/10/2025]

• Fixed translation feature in Edge web views

[18/10/2025]

• Added batching to Google & Lingvanex translation to improve speed
• Fixed translate button not greying out when disabled
• Improved reader mode button color handling

[22/10/2025]

• Added alternative favicon services [Yandex, DuckDuckGo]

[27/10/2025]

• Chromium 141 (CEF)

2025.9.29.0

It's been a good run.

[15/8/2025]

• Added reverse image search feature [Google Lens, Bing Visual Search, Yandex, TinEye]
• Added scroll viewer to all setting tabs

[17/8/2025]

• Improved ad blocking by caching hosts so they are not split again by the Trie each time

[18/8/2025]

• Made DimUnloadedIcon a global binding source rather than bounded per-tab
• Removed some unnecessary RaisePropertyChanged in non INotifyPropertyChanged classes
• Icon determination for downloading files now uses switch rather than if statements
• Cached some of the solod color brushes created programmatically
• Fixed ad & tracker icons remaining white in light theme

[19/8/2025]

• Updater
• Improved update UI & update system

[20/8/2025]

• Bundled Segoe Fluent Icons with the application
• Added color picker popup
• Removed Green theme
• Added Custom theme
• Fixed taskbar still appearing in fullscreen mode
• Added MultiPromptDialogWindow for full customizability
• Added add button for new search engines without indexing
• Added edit button to edit selected search engine

[21/8/2025]

• Fixed search engine malfunctioning saving
• Tab icons are now rounded
• Removed an extra e in the search url of Yahoo
• Added Yandex search
• Switched to preview C#
• Added a lot of null checks for Chromium component
• Ctrl + T now opens a new tab
• F6 now focuses on the omnibox

[22/8/2025]

• Added Yandex SafeBrowsing code

[28/8/2025]

• Chromium 139
• Removed SetWebLifecycleStateAsync as it was not functioning properly in 139
• Chrome status bubble no longer shows in Chrome runtime style
• Text selection is now cut in context menu

[29/8/2025]

• Reworked SafeBrowsingHandler into WebRiskHandler with Google, Yandex & PhishTank support
• Added setting to switch between different web risk services
• Removed Suppress Error setting
• Errors are suppressed in Release builds
• Improved task management for script evaluation
• WebGL is disabled in Lite Mode
• Added Tab to Search
• Improved weather API
• Improved vertical tabs
• Added button in toolbar to toggle compact tabs easily
• Removed unnecessary value savings
• Escape key now closes find popup

[30/8/2025]

• Improved disposal of browser component
• Fixed weird sidebar behaviour
• Web apps foundational code
• Added Check for web apps setting
• Added ellipsis to download names
• History duplicates are now properly removed
• Added middle click to open in new tab for favourites
• Added QR code generator
• Added QR code cache

[31/8/2025]

• Removed slbr://license and slbr://whatsnew
• Removed unused Resources files
• Improved private new tab page
• Added view-source to the code protocol
• A new window is now opened if the app is opened again
• Fixed new windows not rendering tabs

[1/9/2025]

• Added Create QR Code to Tools menu in Options
• Added safe flag inserter, incase CefSharp decides to add some flags for default and cause errors
• Added IWebView, a unified abstract layer for browser components

[2/9/2025]

• Added download events for IWebView

[3/9/2025]

• Improved speed by using async begininvokes rather than sync invokes
• Added hotkey support for IWebView

[1/9/2025 - 13/9/2025]

• Improving & adding features to IWebView

[6/9/2025]

• File extension detection now removes hashes

[7/9/2025]

• Renamed all HTML files to lowercase

[10/9/2025]

• Integrated IWebView into main SLBr

[11/9/2025]

• Improved context menu handling
• Added external protocol handling
• Disabled WebView2's SLBr web risk handling in favor for using WebView2's own SmartScreen
• Disabled SLBr web risk handling for Trident IWebView

[12/9/2025]

• Improved filter on quick image popup
• Added setting to change default browser engine on reboot
• Removed legacy handlers
• Removed SLBr's own zooming handler, since all 3 engines have their own zooming handler
• Removed Enhance image feature (It's just CSS)
• Removed half baked anti-fingerprinting feature

[13/9/2025]

• Fixed new tab page not loading background

[14/9/2025]

• Added warning when WebView2 is not installed
• Added warning when developer tools is requested in Trident webview
• Added WebView2 & Trident versions to About settings section
• Added WebView2 credit to slbr://license
• Removed background splitting of Find popup tooltips
• Fixed issue where file was accidentally renamed to Item
• Globalized most appearance variables like AllowTranslateButton [Why didn't I do this in the first place?]
• Added NASA APOD to new tab background options
• Improved popup handling

[15/9/2025]

• Added docked devtools for WebView2 [Text input couldn't be handled]
• Moved DLL imports & related into a util class
• Added warning when elevated privileges is detected
• Removed DocumentPictureInPictureAPI from disable-blink-feature so Picture-in-Picture API works better
• Added feature to warn users when a proprietary codec is detected
• Improved audio detection for CefSharp

[16/9/2025]

• Added audio icon to tabs playing audio
• Added more keyboard shortcuts [Ctrl+D (New favourite), Ctrl+S (Save as), F9 (Reader mode), Ctrl+P (Print), Ctrl+R (Refresh)]

[17/9/2025]

• Improved Reader Mode
• Added width limit to dialogs
• History now saves SLBr pages

[20/9/2025]

• Added jump lists
• Improved AMP system

[21/9/2025]

• Added SLBr icons font [Adds monochrome icons of Chrome, Edge, Internet Explorer & SLBr]

[22/9/2025]

• Added switch web engine button
• Changed icon for slbr:// pages to use the SLBr monochrome icon instead
• Icon image generation now utilizes the global icon font rather than just Segoe Fluent Icons
• Added setting to hide/show the switch web engine button
• Fixed "Add from favourites" typo

[27/9/2025]

• Fixed new tab omnibox not being focused when using Edge web views
• Removed Segoe Fluent Icons from being shipped along, now it uses whatever icon fonts the system has
• Improved profile switching dialog

[28/9/2025]

• Updated to Chromium 140

2025.8.13.0

[24/7/2025]

• Fixed broken icon fetching due to static1.brave.com shutdown
• Replaced gstatic links in new tab with direct favicon links
• Optimized SSL data fetching
• Fixed certain unloaded sites getting stuck on reload
• Added force lazy loading setting
• Added scroll support for settings
• Added text indicator for the font size sliders
• Default search engine has been changed to Google, to enable the usage of search suggestions
• Fixed initialization crash
• Fixed initialization providing wrong values for New Tab background & runtime style
• Enabled Reader Mode button for default
• Re-enabled chrome protocol blocking

[25/7/2025]

• Disabled user agent branding for private tabs
• Fixed unloaded tabs not waking up unless focused
• Removed context menu for new tab button
• Added compact vertical tabs
• Fixed site favicons not being detected
• Added Escape key support for fullscreen
• Added fullscreen warning
• Added fullscreen API toggle to Anti-Tamper Mode

[26/7/2025]

• Added support for multi-profile startup boosts
• Fixed issue of custom profiles crashing due to the inability to create icons
• Added youtube.com to initial ad block whitelist [YouTube ad skip remains functional]
• Added Network Limiter

[27/7/2025]

• Added PopupButton
• Improved downloads toolbar button
• Added IsIndeterminate loading animation to progressbar
• Tab close buttons will no longer appear when they block the view of the tab icon

[28/7/2025]

• Added handling of invalid base 64 icons
• Replaced the defunct glitch-based test of Show Picker with SLT Tests [https://slt-world.github.io/]

[30/7/2025]

• Added Always use Private Tabs setting
• Icon fetching is disabled for private tabs
• Internal functions can only be executed on SLBr pages

[3/8/2025]

• Background processes will only appear if the user matches

[10/8/2025]

• User gestured videos will only be applied in Lite performance mode
• Smooth scrolling will not be applied in Lite mode regardless of setting
• New Tab button is now aligned at the top in vertical tabs
• Fixed cloudflare challenges not passing due to conflicting user agents in requests

2025.7.16.0

[15/6/2025]

• Reduced duplicate code
• Centralized favourite change listener
• Optimized favourite code
• Fixed diagnostics webhook
• New tab omniboxes are now automatically focused
• More history option added to History menu
• Improved SLBr's history, downloads & new tab pages
• Removed broken links in warning pages
• Fixed omnibox from selecting text with suggestions
• Added surpress error setting
• Browser context menu no longer overrides devtool's context menu
• Fixed theme not being applied to the browser context menu
• Customized developer tools CSS

[16/6/2025]

• Merged ad & tracker block into one setting
• Added ad block allow list
• Optimized favourites save
• Turned certification groupbox into expander
• Added Enhance images & videos setting that makes images & videos brighter and sharper
• Added Startup Boost setting to turn on & off background startup on PC reboot

[18/6/2025]

• Added JIT setting
• Sub resources and PDF files are no longer sent to SafeBrowsing

[19/6/2025]

• Optimized string functions

[26/6/2025]

• Removed throw functions in Gopher & Gemini
• Different application icons for different non-"default" profiles
• Removed unnecessary code in SafeBrowsingHandler
• Implemented Web Lifecycle optimization to Lite Mode
• Enabled developer tools run bounce tacking mitigations & set ad blocking enabled
• Disabled third party cookies

[27/6/2025]

• Added flags to override most google connections
• Added blob protocol to code protocols
• Removed PopupPermissionHosts in favor of using popup content settings
• Improved permissions handling with interaction prevention until the prompt is answered
• Reworked search engines functionality
• Added Brave Search & Yahoo
• Added auto indexing of other search engines with OpenSearch
• Improved omnibox design
• Omnibox's first entry will be the original text
• Added mathematics omnibox feature
• Added definition, currency & weather omnibox feature

[28/6/2025]

• Improved key triggering for omnibox
• Combined multiple HttpClients into one MiniHttpClient
• Added smart suggestions toggle
• Added check for updates toggle
• Added translate omnibox feature
• Improved omnibox handling

[29/6/2025]

• Fixed omnibox popup closing when chromium component is active
• Added firefox's shift to force default right-click menu

[30/6/2025]

• Disabled unnecessary devtools: check when the devtools isn't open
• Renamed wrong spelling of "suppress"

[1/7/2025]

• Improved ad block list [Removed OEM domains, Changed script list]
• Added benchmark script
• Removed inefficient Trie & FastHashSet for ad block based on benchmark results
• Optimized frame start code
• Added Disable Devtools detection to Anti Tamper Mode
• Disabled window.close() functions for Chrome runtime style

[2/7/2025]

• Added private/incognito tabs
• Removed dysfunctional AI chat feature

[3/7/2025]

• Improved new private tab page for private tabs

[4/7/2025]

• Added functionality to OnBeforeUnloadDialog and OnResetDialogState
• Limited quick image dialog to only opening files
• Improved ads & tracker block UI in settings
• Improved ads & tracker blocking with efficient mode
• Improved incorrect settings handling
• Removed Save-Data header

[5/7/2025]

• Improved YouTube ad skip code

[6/7/2025]

• Added more flags to improve performance
• Modified lazy loading margin values to maximize lazy loading
• Added High Performance mode

[7/7/2025]

• Added AMP setting to load AMP pages when available

[8/7/2025]

• Added disabled/commented code for acceleratedmobilepageurl.googleapis.com without API keys
• Removed iframe SafeBrowsing
• Optimized user agent branding
• Added Mobile View setting for a mobile user agent

[9/7/2025]

• Added blocking unreachable scripts to Never Slow Mode

[10/7/2025]

• Removed System.Drawing.Common
• Removed checking image files for file selection

[11/7/2025]

• Added slider style
• Added font customization to Appearance setting
• Added external fonts toggle
• Relocated most of the settings dropdown initialization code to XAML
• Optimized dropdown saves into integers

2025.6.15.1

[9/11/2024]

• Chromium 130
• Removed some unused code

[28/11/2024]

• Chromium 131

[24/12/2024]

• Applied appropriate style for new tab button on startup
• Fixed default screenshot type
• Fixed weird omnibox enter behaviour
• Empty tabs will now open slbr://newtab
• Fixed loading status showing when switching tabs
• Omniboxes with slbr://newtab are now displayed as empty properly

[25/12/2024]

• Added CEF Runtime Style setting
• Fixed automatic display of favourites bar
• Chromium 131.3
• Added prerender demo to Tests list

[16/1/2025]

• Replaced site info's tooltip with a detailed popup containing site certificate information
• Replaced bound object internal with javascript object insertion [New tab (Search & Background), Downloads & History functions are now restored]

[21/1/2025]

• Re-added gemini & gopher
• Fixed gopher incorrect URL substring
• Added Gopher parser & styler

[22/1/2025]

• Added version checker

[6/6/2025]

• Switched to Debian Google API keys
• Google SafeBrowsing enabled for default
• Updated to Chromium 137
• data: scheme is now handled properly
• Updated to .NET 9
• Improved download path setting with a folder navigator
• Added Quick Image Picker to display clipboard & download images for input with image/*

[7/6/2025]

• Added right-click reload options
• Improved screenshot path setting with a folder navigator
• Added picture-in-picture for context menu on video media

[11/6/2025]

• Fixed internal not being loaded in time on slbr protocol pages
• Added extension runtime style warning in settings
• Improved restart warning in settings

[12/6/2025]

• Fixed inefficient Zoom code
• Fixed text disappearance in with suggestions
• Removed multiple occurrences of loaded event
• Sped up suggestions timer to 200 ms

[13/6/2025]

• Removed YouTube Suggestions API
• Improved suggestions code
• Removed YouTube video quality feature
• Improved adaptive theme to use the theme-color meta
• Improved notifications polyfill
• Expanded favicon setting feature

[14/6/2025]

• Improved ad & tracker blocking
• Fixed shutdown function being triggered twice
• Opened developer tools no longer obstructs tabs & windows from being closed
• Added time limit for SLBr to hang on closure
• Const-ified string scripts
• Flashes of white will no longer be seen on initialization of a tab
• Removed unnecessary code

[15/6/2025]

• Added background initialization for faster startup

2024.10.20.0

[6/9/2024]

• Fixed AI Compose style not applied
• Code cleanup
• Removed Flag Emoji feature (Use extensions instead)
• Improved context menu handler
• Fixed Ecosia whitelist for ad block
• Downloads menu opens slbr://downloads instead of a list of downloads
• Fixed incorrect display of host for non-HTTP links
• Enhanced blocking for certain chrome:// URLs

[7/9/2024]

• Fixed Chrome Web Store's Add to SLBr & Remove from SLBr
• Minimized JS scripts
• Disabled Web Bluetooth, Live Caption & Picture in Picture
• Disabled a few browser preferences [Translate, Download Bubble, Credentials Service, Autofill, History]
• Improved YouTube ad skip with auto anti-ad block dialog closer

[9/9/2024]

• Moved Inspect & View Source into a sub context menu
• Added Translate option to context menu
• Added Clear All Data for privacy settings
• Added Validate HTML to Tools menu
• Improved About SLBr settings section

[10/9/2024]

• Added Download favicons for start settings
• Changed favicon function in popup browsers to be the same
• Removed unnecessary checks from Safe Browsing feature
• Removed a few unused Error variables in Resource Request Handler
• Fixed Duplicate Tab to work on unselected tabs

[11/9/2024]

• Fixed settings locales being duplicated
• Fixed settings locales disappearing after removing a locale
• Fixed the credentials dialog causing thread access errors
• Added 5 sub frame budget for Never Slow Mode

[12/9/2024]

• Optimized download cancel system

[16/9/2024]

• Added Extension button visibility dropdown to Appearance settings
• Added favourites bar visibility dropdown to Appearance settings

[22/9/2024]

• Added zoom to Options menu
• Removed 1.2+​(sqrt(​1-​sqrt(​x^​2+​y^​2)^​2)+​1-​x^​2-​y^​2)*​(sin(​10000*​(x*​3+​y/​5+​7))+​1/​4) from Google menu since it cannot be considered an easter egg
• Optimized loading by initializing Chromium later
• Loading icon will no longer be reset each time a BrowserLoadChanged is called
• Windows are shown earlier

[23/9/2024]

• Added worker to flush out memory every minute
• Tab unload progress bar will not update minimized UI
• Removed non-functional developer tools coords

[5/10/2024]

• Chromium 128

[20/10/2024]

• Chromium 129
• Fixed incorrect permission prompts