Version v3.2.0-beta.3
Beta, released on July 16, 2026
Beta 3 makes Trails® 3 considerably harder to confuse, especially on websites that redraw themselves, quietly rename their own addresses, or perform several small acts of theatre before admitting where a link actually goes.
This beta also adds Scout, the little box in the bottom corner. Hover over a link and Scout shows where it leads. Give it a moment and it looks ahead for the page’s title and icon, or tells you when that destination is already somewhere in your Trails. It is a modest rectangle with an unreasonable amount of responsibility.
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- Scout shows the destination of a link before you open it, then looks ahead for its title and icon after a deliberate hover.
- Scout recognizes destinations already open in your Trails and presents the existing Trail instead of treating it like a stranger.
- Links on sites such as GitHub that handle navigation after the click now open as the correct Subtrail instead of replacing the current Trail.
- Links behave the same on modern and older sites alike, including delayed pages, redirects, and sites that save their own position before moving.
- Pages that immediately tidy or rename their own address, including Wikipedia aliases, now reopen the existing Trail instead of growing an infinite family of duplicates.
- Clicking a page-handled link that never actually navigates no longer leaves a loading indicator hanging around in expectation.
- Reopening an existing destination no longer replaces the title of the Trail you came from with its address.
- Scout favicons and loading indicators now match the ones used by ordinary Trails instead of arriving from a subtly different universe.
- While a Subtrail is opening, the Trail you are leaving now remains visually untouched. The destination and loading state appear in Scout, where the future belongs.
- Scout uses the same titles, icons, loading graphic, colours, spacing, border, and shadow as Trails in the sidebar.
