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Horse v3.3.4-beta.3
When you switch an extension off, it should stay off. This beta stops unfinished extension work from carrying on after you disable or reload it, and brings another round of browser-engine crash fixes.
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Welcome to Horse news. Eleanor and Pascal share every new release alongside stories from building an independent browser and the people who have made the journey with us. Come and see what the magnificent animal has been up to.
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Horse v3.3.4-beta.2
More extensions can work with your bookmarks, recently closed pages, and site settings. Extension workers also reconnect properly after restarting.
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Horse v3.3.4-beta.1
Your research tools have moved in. DeepL, Obsidian Web Clipper, and Zotero now work in Horse, with their translators, clippers, and save actions where they belong. Trails keep the order you gave them after a…
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Horse v3.3.3
Fold a giant Folder and Horse now changes the Folder, not the entire universe behind it. 3.3.3 also gives security keys a proper front door, teaches updates to finish what they started, and makes extensions…
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Horse v3.3.3-beta.3
Update prompts are shorter, with the version ready to install and a choice to update now or later.
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Horse v3.3.3-beta.2
Scrolling through pages that keep loading more results no longer interrupts your work with repeated error dialogs.
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Horse v3.3.3-beta.1
Security keys work again, and updates stop getting stuck. If you sign in with a YubiKey or similar, 3.3.2 turned those requests away and this beta brings them back, now with a small Horse prompt while your key…
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Horse v3.3.2
Passwords have more ways into Horse, and a broken page now stays broken inside its own Trail. Bitwarden joins Horse's supported extension catalogue.
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Horse v3.3.2-beta.3
A browser should not freeze because an ad blocker is doing its job. This beta keeps Horse moving while uBlock Origin Lite handles a page that refuses to stop loading new things.
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Horse v3.3.2-beta.2
Passwords have more ways into Horse, and a broken page now stays broken inside its own Trail. Bitwarden joins Horse's supported extension catalogue.
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Horse v3.3.1
Horse has its permanent name badge on Mac. Now one Yes can put it to work: Horse takes over as your default browser, and links stop looking for the retired version of the app.
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Horse v3.3.0
Horse runs extensions now. 1Password, uBlock Origin Lite, and Dark Reader are first through the gate: passwords unlock, ads disappear, the lights go down, and your Trails remain gloriously unlike tabs. This is…
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Horse v3.2.2
Install this update to keep receiving future Horse updates on your Mac.
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Horse v3.3.0-beta.7
Install this update to keep receiving future Horse updates on your Mac.
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Horse v3.3.0-beta.6
Settings now behave like a proper desktop cascade from the cog all the way down to an extension’s actions. Extension windows look like they belong to Horse, Trails stop carrying one site’s icon into the next,…
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Horse v3.3.0-beta.5
1Password’s account sign-in now opens as a Trail, and the full extension menu opens from Settings.
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Horse v3.3.0-beta.4
Settings now put Extensions, Trails, and Saddlepack where you expect them. Extensions are held to their declared permissions, dark mode carries over from 3.2.1, password filling understands more real login…
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Horse v3.3.0-beta.3
Extensions keep working through restarts and updates. The welcome horse and ad blocking are also back where they belong.
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Horse v3.3.0-beta.2
Living with extensions for a day found the shortcut that did nothing, the window that hopped about while it loaded, and the pointer that stayed a hand. They have all been returned to useful employment.
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Horse v3.3.0-beta.1
Horse runs extensions now. Three of them: 1Password, uBlock Origin Lite, and Dark Reader.
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Horse v3.2.1
Trails 3 keeps settling in. This one makes Horse a proper citizen on Windows and Linux, fixes every broken copy button, and dresses up the Mac download.
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Horse v3.2.1-beta.3
Horse can now be your default browser on Windows, and Mac downloads now arrive ready to drag into Applications.
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Horse v3.2.1-beta.2
Linux menus open where you click, light mode stays light, and copying links reaches your clipboard again. Trails also keep their names while pages load.
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Horse v3.2.1-beta.1
Some sites draw their own back button at the top of the page. Inside a Subtrail, it now takes you back to the Trail you came from.
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Horse v3.2.0
Trails® 3 leaves beta. For years, making links behave meant teaching Horse each website’s private habits, one bug report at a time. That approach is retired. Horse now lets a site do its peculiar little thing,…
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Horse v3.2.0-beta.4
Beta 3 held up. Beta 4 steadies the last few things before Trails® 3 becomes simply how Horse works.
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Horse v3.2.0-beta.3
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…
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Horse v3.2.0-beta.2
Back has always been a slightly suspicious concept in Horse. Every link made a new Trail, so what exactly were you meant to go back to? Trails® 3 answers that: Horse now remembers the path through pages and…
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Horse v3.2.0-beta.1
Links branch more reliably on websites that handle their own navigation. Photo lightboxes, sign-in buttons, and keyboard navigation now leave the right Trail behind.
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Horse v3.1.2
There’s nothing new to click. Horse is up to date with the latest security patches.
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Horse v3.1.2-beta.2
Right-click menus recover cleanly, and Horse catches up with the latest security patches.
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Horse v3.1.1
History now survives restarts and follows you from window to window. The first time you open this build, Horse brings your existing profile across automatically.
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Horse v3.1.2-beta.1
If a right-click menu crashes, your next click now opens a fresh one. Closing a window also takes its menus with it.
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Horse v3.1.1-beta.2
History now survives restarts and follows you between windows. Your saved profile carries over automatically.
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Horse v3.1.1-beta.1
Your saved Trails, settings, downloads, and site permissions carry over automatically when you first launch this version.
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Horse v3.1.0
Horse’s menus used to live inside the window, which meant they got clipped at the edge and we kept every label short so nothing would wrap. They’ve moved out. Right-click menus are now their own translucent…
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Horse v3.1.0-beta.1
This beta moves the right-click menus out of the window. They used to get clipped at the edge, so every label stayed short to keep from wrapping. Now they’re their own translucent panels that spill past the…
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Horse v3.0.0
More room for your Trails! Press Cmd+N (Ctrl+N on Windows and Linux) to open another Horse window, or right-click a Trail and send it to its own window. Every window shares the same Trail tree and keeps its…
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One Horse, multiple windows!
Horse has multiple windows, with the twist we always wanted: every window has all your Trails. You just choose a different page to view in each.
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Horse v3.0.0-beta.1
The first preview of multiple windows: several windows, one shared sidebar, the same Trails everywhere. Links opened from other apps also start loading immediately, even while Horse is still starting up.
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Horse v2.9.2
The final 2.x release keeps your place more reliably: the sidebar follows the current Trail, last-second changes survive quitting, reopening Horse from the Dock restores your place on macOS, and rapid repeated…
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Horse v2.9.1
Brief connection hiccups no longer throw a full error page; Horse rides them out and carries on.
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Horse v2.9.0
2,500 users! Thank you to everyone who’s stuck around, told a friend, or sent in feedback. The herd keeps growing. Click-and-drag selection works properly again, Settings reads more clearly, and Horse’s…
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Horse v0.46.4
Popups and page transitions stop flashing white, with fresher ad-blocking filters alongside.
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Horse v0.46.3
Context-menu links, blank pages, and the final page in a group all behave again.
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Horse v0.46.2
Background pages load properly, while the sidebar and website icons adapt better to their surroundings.
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Horse v0.46.1
Fullscreen and Horse’s own pages now navigate properly on macOS.
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Horse v0.46.0
Pages now wait until you select them before loading, so Horse starts much faster and uses less memory.
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Horse v0.45.2
A quick follow-up to window and sidebar memory.
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Horse v0.45.1
Horse remembers the shape of your window and sidebar, and localhost joins the addresses it understands.
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Horse v0.44.0
Resize the sidebar, give pages your own names, and right-click them for their common actions.
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Horse v0.43.0
Press the green button for fullscreen and the sidebar gets out of the way automatically.
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Horse v0.42.0
Major stability improvements, and you can now close the window without quitting on Mac.
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Horse v0.41.4
The main toolbar gets its own controls, and failed actions explain themselves more reliably.
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Horse v0.41.3
Opening a link can no longer trap Horse in a loop.
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Horse v0.41.2
Links can now open as children directly, with clearer recovery when something goes wrong.
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Horse v0.41.1
Dragging the page tree now works properly after you scroll.
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Horse v0.41.0
Links now open according to where they came from, and Google becomes the default search engine.
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Horse v0.40.13
A final repair pass for the 0.40 line.
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Horse v0.40.12
Clicks now reach Horse’s own controls reliably.
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Horse v0.40.11
Closing the final page now selects somewhere sensible before it disappears.
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Horse v0.40.10
Websites now recognise Horse by name instead of treating it as an anonymous visitor.
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Horse v0.40.9
The ad blocker learns from a larger, fresher set of filters.
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Horse v0.40.8
A small maintenance release for the 0.40 line.
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Horse v0.40.7
Closing a collapsed group now asks first, and cookie blocking works again.
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Horse v0.40.5
Empty groups now show navigation arrows that remain visible in light themes.
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Horse v0.40.4
Collapsed groups stay collapsed and keep their contents where they belong.
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Horse v0.40.3
Images gain their own right-click actions, and modifier-click navigation becomes more predictable.
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Horse v0.40.0
The 3D Horse moves on its own now, pages can have custom titles, and the browser underneath gets faster.
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Horse v0.39.0
Keyboard shortcuts put the common moves under your fingers.
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Horse v0.38.0
Horse now follows you around modern web apps! YouTube, Twitter, and other sites that change pages without reloading are now tracked properly.
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Horse v0.37.4
Menus display correctly again, and the welcome Horse has stopped cloning itself.
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Horse v0.37.2
Ad blocking tune-up: manual filter lists, and some stubborn sites behave better.
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Horse v0.36.4
Links from other apps now reach Horse properly, and pages gain a direct Delete command.
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Horse v0.36.3
Another quick repair for the default-browser release.
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Horse v0.36.2
A small stability pass after default-browser support.
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Horse v0.36.0
Horse can now be set as your default browser! When you click links in other apps, they will open directly in Horse.
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Horse v0.35.2
The page tree gets clearer controls and recovers more gracefully when its last page disappears.
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Horse v0.33.21
One more maintenance pass for the same release line.
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Horse v0.33.20
A quick repair after the ad-blocking update.
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Horse v0.33.19
Ad blocking returns in a build that installs and opens more reliably on macOS.
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Horse v0.33.3
Ad blocking expands again, while the interface gains cleaner borders.
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Horse v0.33.2
Reload gets its own button, and page backgrounds behave themselves.
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Horse v0.33.1
Ad blocking becomes more thorough, and the controls become easier to hit.
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Horse v0.33.0
Horse now blocks ads by default, leaving pages cleaner and quicker to load.
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Horse v0.32.1
Pages can now be reloaded without leaving their place in the sidebar.
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Horse v0.32.0
Pages can now live in groups, and closing a whole group asks first. A small fence around a potentially enormous mistake.
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Horse v0.31.3
Horse tries on a new app icon.
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Horse v0.31.2
Dragging the first page in the list now behaves like dragging any other page.
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Horse v0.31.1
The last page now keeps its highlight instead of becoming visually unclaimed.
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Horse v0.31.0
Drag and drop gets smarter! You can now drag pages above or below the root list, giving you more control over page organization.
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Horse v0.30.1
A small follow-up makes dragging easier to read.
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Horse v0.30.0
Horse now shows its version number, so you know what you are riding when you ask for Help.
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Horse v0.29.0
Create an empty placeholder page and decide where it goes later. Its address field is ready for typing immediately.
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Horse v0.28.0
Horse gets faster and safer, plus a white icon, visible version number, and a useful fallback when an address is broken.
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Horse v0.27.0
Pages now wait for a deliberate five-pixel movement before they start dragging, so an ordinary click stays an ordinary click.
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Horse v0.26.0
Pony mode joins the stable: a smaller visual mode for riders of unusual courage.
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Horse v0.25.0
Sites can now open the small popup windows they use for sign-ins and other side quests. Pages can also open new pages of their own.
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Horse v0.24.0
A quiet release that makes page moving more dependable.
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Horse v0.23.0
You can now join the mailing list from Horse and hear when something new rides out.
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Horse v0.22.0
The sidebar becomes adjustable, while Horse gets new typography, colours, and a smoother turn on the welcome screen.
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Horse v0.21.0
Pages can now be dragged into a new order. The sidebar is officially furniture.
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Horse v0.20.0
Dragging a page now shows exactly where it will land, with lines that keep the family tree legible.
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Horse v0.19.0
Pages load faster without flashing white between them, and parent pages open automatically when you add a child.
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Horse v0.18.0
The Horse logo now waits until no page is selected, giving websites the stage while they are in use.
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Horse v0.17.0
The Horse becomes three-dimensional and greets you when you open the browser. Flatness has been defeated.
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Horse v0.16.0
Meet the Horse. The mascot makes its first appearance on the welcome screen, an entirely proportionate use of three dimensions.
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Horse v0.15.0
Click a page to edit its address directly. When a page has no title, its address stands in rather than leaving a mysterious blank.
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Horse v0.14.0
The Back button arrives, because occasionally even a horse must reconsider a decision. Pages load faster too.
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Horse v0.13.0
Hold Cmd while clicking a link to open it separately. New pages also arrive faster.
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Horse v0.12.0
Horse gets a title bar of its own, smoother tree interactions, and better recovery when pages or their icons misbehave.
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Horse v0.11.0
Right-click a page for its common actions. Empty branches also admit that they are empty instead of staring into the middle distance.
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Horse v0.10.0
Page groups can now collapse and expand, so a large sidebar only shows what you need.
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Horse v0.9.0
Dark mode now reaches the whole browser, with matching backgrounds and a clearer loading state.
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Horse v0.8.0
Pages are saved more reliably, and the interface responds faster when something changes.
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Horse v0.7.0
Website icons settle into the sidebar, and your pages now survive a restart. Horse has acquired memory.
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Horse v0.6.0
Keyboard shortcuts make navigation quicker, while new icons, backgrounds, and spacing make the interface easier to scan.
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Horse v0.5.0
Pages can now sit underneath other pages in the sidebar. The tree has planted itself.
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Horse v0.4.0
Pages now show their website’s icon, and DuckDuckGo becomes the default search engine.
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Horse v0.3.0
Horse gets its first icon, so it finally looks like itself in your Dock or taskbar.
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Horse v0.2.0
The first pieces of Horse’s interface take shape, and the app is ready to leave its own computer.
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Horse v0.1.0
Horse becomes a real desktop app on macOS, Windows, and Linux. Three platforms, four hooves, excellent arithmetic.
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Horse v0.0.0
The journey begins. This is the very first version of Horse Browser: a blank canvas with a horse-shaped future.
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Horse v2.8.2
Zoomed pages stopped swallowing clicks: links land where you aim regardless of zoom level.
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Horse v2.8.1
Updates now arrive faster and more reliably, and every release after this one benefits.
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Horse v2.8.0
Happy New Year! 2026 is the Year of the Horse in the Chinese zodiac. Excellent timing. We’ve grown to over 2,000 users, and we’re grateful you’re all still here! This release fixes how Horse handles links on…
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Horse v2.7.1
Some Trails deserve a padlock.
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Horse v2.7.0
Settings get a refresh! Better grouping, and every Trail-related setting now explains itself.
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Horse v2.6.0
The hidden toolbar comes to Windows 11! The toolbar can now go translucent and pick up the color of your desktop, the way native Windows apps do. It’s a beta option; switch it on in Settings.
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Horse v2.5.1
The Shelf stays with you while you work: it opens when you make a new Trail and stays put while you edit a name or address.
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Horse v2.5.0
The Shelf arrives! Keep the sidebar hidden, hover at the edge of the screen, and it slides out just long enough to grab what you need.
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Horse v2.4.6
New Subtrails learned to open where you prefer, top or bottom, foreground and background separately. Typing notes became snappy even with thousands of Trails in the tree, and Google Docs joined the default…
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Horse v2.4.5
Horse catches up with the latest security fixes.
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Horse has a new home on the web
Horse has a new home on the web. The lessons we learned about SEO and where to find us
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Horse v2.4.4
An internationalization and input pass: Japanese romaji-to-kanji conversion confirms with Enter without submitting, emoji look right and line up with text on Windows, and Horse asks for a valid license key…
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Horse v2.4.3
One shortcut, corrected where it hurt: Ctrl+W now closes the Trail on Windows and Linux instead of taking the whole window with it.
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Horse v2.4.2
The January follow-up to the Foundations release: restoring a deleted Trail brings its children back instantly, the new-trail shortcuts settled into their final scheme, and a dozen drag-and-drop, Markdown, and…
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Pascal Pixel is Maker of the Year
Product Hunt named Pascal Pixel its 2024 Maker of the Year, while Horse Browser took silver in Bootstrapped & Small Teams.
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Horse v2.4.1
Keyboard shortcuts, dragging, and error pages behave more reliably. The sidebar can be expanded and collapsed from the keyboard again.
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Horse v2.4.0
Select a whole bunch of Trails and move, export, or delete them together. This release also brings Japanese language support, new search engines, and a mute button for each Trail.
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Free trials are back!
Try Horse Browser for free with our 7-day free trial.
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Password-manager support, the origin story
How Riders and an open-source maintainer helped unlock password-manager extensions for Horse.
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We’re nominated in Product Hunt’s Golden Kitty Awards
Horse Browser is for nominated for Product of 2024 in the Bootstrapped / Small Team category. And Pascal Pixel is Nominated for Maker of the Year 2024.
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2024: the year Horse found its Riders
How Horse survived a difficult year, found its first real audience, and acquired enough momentum to gallop into 2025.
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Horse v2.3.4
Saddlepack unlocking had a bug that could block autofill; this release restored the flow from lock screen to filled form.
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Horse v2.3.3
Boot time got a dedicated round of attention: Horse starts noticeably faster from this release on.
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Horse v2.3.2
More white-screen fixes for the ad blocker and Dark Reader, more web apps excluded from link tracking by default (X, Discord, Notion), and the three built-in helpers, Saddlepack, Ad Blocker, and Dark Reader,…
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Import and export arrived in Horse
How links learned to travel both ways: into Horse as Trails and back out again as ordinary Markdown.
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How Beth McClelland uses Horse as her quiet internet
Beth McClelland describes using Horse Browser to explore historical questions while Trails preserve the route back.
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Horse v2.3.1
The ad blocker no longer leaves YouTube, X, or Instagram staring into a white void. Updates recover properly, and macOS opens one window for an outside link instead of breeding them.
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Horse v2.3.0
The tree became something you can hold with both hands: select many Trails at once, drag them out of Horse as Markdown files, and import Markdown back in as Trails. With Alt+L to collapse everything, a…
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Horse v2.2.0
Folders arrive: group related Trails into a shelf you can fold away, and export any Trail to Markdown to take your research with you. Projects took their final name, Notes, and Areas learned to keep respectful…
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Horse v2.1.4
Trails playing audio now wear a sound icon, macOS riders can choose between hidden and regular title bars, and clicks inside iframes (YouTube embeds, cookie pop-ups) land properly. Fresh downloads also moved…
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Horse v2.1.3
Windows automatic updates became reliable end to end: downloading, installing, and restarting without manual rescue.
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How Max Roberts uses Trails for podcast research
Podcaster Max Roberts describes seeing the lineage of his research without organising tabs while he works.
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Finding inspiration on the trail
A UK trip inspires Horse Browser development. New features: notes, projects, Trailheads, and an optional title bar.
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Four early reviews of Horse
Beth McClelland, Réka Writes, Philipp Temmel, and Desk Investor put Horse to work on curiosity, writing, and research.
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Horse v2.1.2
Windows Defender stopped raising false alarms about Horse, a trust-repair release for the Windows herd.
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Horse v2.1.1
Fullscreen video lost its black bars, restoring the cinema experience the button always promised.
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On the vacation trail
How trips to Jodrell Bank and the University of Oxford inspired us as we build our indie browser from scratch, Horse Browser
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Horse v2.1.0
Two new kinds of Trail arrived: Areas, which are title-only Trails for grouping things under a heading, and Projects, which hold your own notes instead of a website. The sidebar stopped being only a record of…
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3 months of updates in 1 read
Read a round-up of what’s happening at Horse Browser, from our new notes feature to improving Horse Browser on Windows and how to deal with hate mail
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Horse v2.0.1
A quick correction after the big rename: the Dark Reader menu labels now say what the settings actually do.
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Horse v2.0.0
Pages become Trails, with names for the paths between them: Uptrails, Sidetrails, and Subtrails. You can also edit keyboard shortcuts, and the password manager now goes by Saddlepack.
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Horse v1.18.2
Two first-impression fixes: clicking a link while Horse was hidden on macOS now opens a window, and onboarding reliably appears on first start.
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Horse v1.18.1
Automatic updater now reliably checks for and installs Horse Browser updates
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Horse v1.18.0
One download for every Mac: Intel or Apple Silicon, the same file simply works. Windows builds became properly signed in the same release, retiring the scary-warning ritual. Two installs, one lesson: the front…
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Horse v1.17.0
The Saddlepack Password Manager arrives: securely store and autofill your credentials inside Horse itself, no separate extension required. The vault laid down two releases earlier finally opens for business.
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Dogfooding Windows with Orangeboy
How a tiny orange PC gave Horse a proper Windows test machine and Pascal a completely proportionate emotional attachment to a computer.
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Horse v1.16.2
Linux application icons now display correctly across desktop environments, a small dignity restored to the penguin side of the herd.
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Horse v1.16.1
Linux riders can now download Horse as an AppImage.
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Horse v1.16.0
Horse catches up with the latest security and performance fixes.
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Giveaways and user guides
Explore the Horse Browser blog - Giveaways and User Guides
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Horse v1.15.2
A Windows-focused repair release: sidebar collapsing, page heights, downloads, history, and scrollbars all restored to working order on Microsoft’s side of the fence.
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A birthday break
Explore the Horse Browser blog - A Birthday Break
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Horse v1.15.1
The Boxing Week special of 2023: Kagi joined the search engines, videos gained Picture in Picture from the right-click menu, Manage Subscription appeared in Help, and Horse tried on a new tagline, from “The…
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Horse v1.15.0
Horse catches up with the latest security fixes. There is nothing new to click, which is exactly right for this sort of release.
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Horse v1.14.5
Small problems reported by riders are fixed in one quiet release.
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Horse v1.14.4
A fast fix for a startup crash introduced by the previous update, out within hours for anyone affected.
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Horse v1.14.3
The ad blocker now stops YouTube ads before they start playing rather than after, which is the only time that counts.
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Horse v1.14.1
The sidebar got a slim custom scrollbar and cleaner dark-mode menus, and Windows learned to render the emoji that macOS riders had been enjoying.
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Horse v1.14.0
Custom emoji arrived for Pages: swap a favicon for any emoji and your sidebar becomes a map you can read at a glance. Right-click menus were rebuilt around renaming and personalizing, retiring toolbar…
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Horse v1.13.2
A security-and-speed release: cached data is now encrypted, Horse protects its own files from tampering, interface resizing got quicker, and Trails started working on Figma.
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Horse v1.13.1
The SSL certificate dialog stopped re-asking about the same site, remembering your answer the way you would expect.
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Horse v1.13.0
Horse renamed “Tabs” to “Pages” across the interface, the first step in a naming journey that would eventually lead to Trails. The sidebar had never really held tabs; the words were catching up with the truth.
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Horse v1.12.5
A grab-bag of real fixes: copy a link from any tab menu, bypass SSL warnings per session, right-click search uses your chosen engine, and popup windows accept focus properly.
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Horse v1.12.4
The back and forward arrows now appear only when a Trail actually has somewhere to go, removing dead controls from the interface.
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Horse v1.12.3
Developers and people on corporate networks got a proper dialog for sites with invalid SSL certificates, making internal tools and local development reachable on purpose instead of blocked outright.
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Horse v1.12.2
General stability improvements from the late-summer 2023 stretch, smoothing edges reported by riders.
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Horse v1.11.0
License verification is more robust.
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Horse v1.10.2
Horse updates can now be prepared more reliably, so fixes have a straighter path to your computer.
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Horse v1.10.1
Dark Reader arrives! Websites can now switch to dark mode automatically, not just the browser around them.
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Horse v1.10.0
Menu items for Dark Reader and Ad Blocker control Faster ad blocker
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Horse v1.9.8
License verification got smoother and failed page loads stopped confusing tab handling, two background fixes from the steady summer-2023 hardening.
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Horse v1.9.7
The ad blocker came back online after a regression, and Horse stopped showing error pages for hiccups that pages recover from on their own.
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Chatting passwords and podcasts
Explore the blog of Horse Browser - Our new Password Manager and Pascal Pixel’s podcast interview with Kirupa
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Horse v1.9.5
Drag-and-drop got a manners lesson: dragging pages works even mid-rename, pages land where you aimed them, and tab naming plus URL handling firmed up underneath.
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Horse v1.9.4
Copy Tab Link arrived, Smart Titles learned to update when tabs close and to filter language codes and stray numbers out of names, and the URL parser got stricter about what counts as a real address.
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Horse v1.9.3
A speed-and-polish release: the ad blocker got fixed, license messages became friendlier, and the 3D horse on the welcome screen now loads lazily, cutting startup time noticeably.
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Horse v1.9.2
Menu labels for tab actions were rewritten for clarity, part of the steady work of making Horse legible to someone who just arrived from an ordinary browser.
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Horse v1.9.1
Cmd+T now starts a fresh tab on a fresh Trail, matching what a new tab means in a trail-shaped browser, and some overly cautious default exclusions were removed so Trails work in more places out of the box.
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Horse v1.9.0
Links now form the right Trails across far more of the gloriously peculiar web. Sites that handle clicks in unusual ways no longer confuse where Horse should branch.
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Our first year as an indie browser
The first year of building Horse, from the Riders who accepted its rough edges to the moment it entered the Scribbled Line Toolchest.
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Horse v1.8.18
Selected text became more useful: Look Up a definition on macOS or search the selection directly, straight from the page.
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Horse v1.8.17
Links opened from other apps now work even when Horse has to start up first, and exiting fullscreen no longer throws errors on the way out.
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Horse v1.8.16
The downloads panel moved to Cmd+Shift+J, aligning Horse with the shortcut most browsers already taught your fingers.
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Horse v1.8.15
The manual joined the Help menu and now opens on first boot, so new riders start with a map instead of guessing at the reins.
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Horse v1.8.14
The search engine roster grew with Baidu, Yandex, and Qwant, and a dead zone at the top of the Settings page became clickable again.
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Horse v1.8.13
Popup windows and new tabs got a correctness pass, smoothing over the sites that open things in unusual ways.
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Horse v1.8.12
Closing a tab now closes its whole branch of children with it, matching what the tree visually promises.
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Horse v1.8.11
Closing tabs now truly lets go of their memory, keeping long Horse sessions lean instead of slowly swelling.
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Horse v1.8.10
Two very different fixes in one release: scrollbars and window dragging behave on Windows and Linux, and a critical bug that could close all your tabs at once was eliminated.
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Horse v1.8.8
Click a link in any other app and Horse opens it: external URL handling arrived, the small feature that makes a browser feel like your default.
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Horse v1.8.7
Horse now introduces itself to Google properly, which unblocked sign-ins and services that had been treating it as an unknown visitor, and Smart Titles gained better validation.
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Horse v1.8.6
ChatGPT logins had broken for Horse riders; this release fixed them. Keeping up with the tools people actually use is a browser’s job.
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Horse v1.8.5
Automatic update checks were strengthened so no installation gets left behind on an old build, quietly tightening the update loop that keeps every rider current.
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Horse v1.8.4
A fast follow to Focus Mode: the cases where it did not engage correctly were found and fixed within days of launch.
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Horse v1.8.3
Focus Mode debuts: hide every tab except the one you are working in. For the brains Horse is built for, removing the periphery is sometimes the whole feature.
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Horse v1.8.2
History gained a proper toggle in the menu on Cmd+Shift+H, making the browsing record a first-class panel rather than a buried list.
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Horse v1.8.1
Smart Titles arrive: Horse automatically shortens long page names into labels you can actually scan in the sidebar. Undo Closed Tab also found its permanent home in the menu.
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Horse v1.6.4
Closed a tab you needed? Restore Closed Tab brings it back. Moving tabs around the tree also got smoother in the same pass.
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Horse v1.6.3
Domain exclusions learned wildcards: one entry like *.google.com now keeps Trails out of an entire family of sites instead of listing them one by one.
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Horse v1.5.2
The File menu was redesigned around how riders actually work, with clearer tab and trail actions, and Duplicate Tab arrived on Cmd+Shift+D.
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Horse v1.5.1
Downloads support rounded out, plus two trail-tree fixes: opening a child of the root page while the root is selected works properly, and Horse tracks single-page sites (the kind that change content without…
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Horse v1.5.0
Trails became fully yours to control: turn Trails mode on or off entirely, and keep a list of domains where automatic link tracking should stay out of the way. The first release to acknowledge that some sites,…
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Horse v1.4.27
A targeted fix for OpenAI’s websites, which had been misbehaving in Horse: they work now.
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Horse v1.4.26
Downloads matured into a real manager with progress tracking, turning the sidebar’s download list into something you can rely on for big files.
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Horse v1.4.24
Another round of the compatibility grind: better browser headers so fewer sites treat Horse like a stranger, plus fresh ad blocker filter lists.
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Horse v1.4.22
Horse got new typography: the letters you look at all day, chosen on purpose. The ad blocker’s filter lists came up to date as well.
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Horse v1.4.21
The File menu was reorganized around clearer options for opening pages, making the menu bar read like it belongs to a browser.
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Horse v1.4.20
A web-app compatibility pass for the sites people live in: Facebook, GitHub, Reddit, Twitter, and more now behave like they do in the big browsers.
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Horse v1.4.19
Popup windows arrived: sites that open small login or checkout windows now work as intended, with the ad blocker’s filter lists refreshed alongside.
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Horse v1.4.17
In-page anchor links and search parameters stopped confusing trail navigation, and Twitter photo lightboxes learned to open properly. The compatibility grind of spring 2023, one paper cut at a time.
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Horse v1.4.16
Some sites turn away browsers they do not recognize; this release taught Horse to introduce itself in a way more of the web accepts, and refreshed the ad blocker’s filter lists.
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Horse v1.4.15
Link clicks got smarter about the messy ways real pages fire them, making trail creation steadier across the web.
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Horse v1.4.14
When a page crashes, Horse now recovers gracefully instead of taking the mood down with it, and the ad blocker’s filter lists were refreshed.
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Horse v1.4.13
More speed for the most-touched control in the app: sidebar resizing got another performance pass.
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Horse v1.4.12
Loading trails picked up a spinner icon in the sidebar, and the ad blocker’s filter lists came up to date.
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Horse v1.4.11
Settings moved into a dedicated page of their own, giving Horse’s growing list of preferences a proper home instead of a cramped menu.
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Horse v1.4.10
Two edit-in-place annoyances gone: YouTube notification counts stopped leaking into trail titles, and renaming a trail no longer resets under your fingers while you type.
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Horse v1.4.9
Another handful of small problems are gone.
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Horse v1.4.8
A quiet maintenance release: small bugs fixed, nothing new to learn.
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Horse v1.4.7
Error pages grew up: instead of a dead end, a failed load now explains what went wrong and what you might do about it.
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Horse v1.4.6
Trails now show a loading progress indicator, so a glance at the sidebar tells you which pages are still on their way.
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Horse v1.4.5
Startup got faster by caching license verification, trimming the wait between clicking the icon and browsing. The unglamorous work that makes a daily browser feel instant.
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Horse v1.4.4
Keyboard shortcuts stopped going quiet while a page had focus: Cmd-keys now reach Horse reliably no matter where your cursor lives.
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Horse v1.4.3
The downloads panel learned to show up on its own the moment a download starts, so you can watch progress without hunting for it.
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Horse v1.4.2
Editing a trail’s name or URL gained proper submit buttons, so finishing an edit no longer depends on knowing the right key to press.
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Horse v1.4.0
Find in Page arrives! Press Cmd+F (Ctrl+F on Windows and Linux) to search the page, see how many matches there are, and jump between them.
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Horse v1.3.3
A one-line fix for the most important click in Horse: links inside trails opening the way they should, every time.
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Horse v1.3.2
Fullscreen mode behaves again, and Escape now does what your fingers expect while renaming a trail: it stops editing.
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Horse v1.3.1
Downloads moved into the sidebar with live progress indicators, right next to the trails that produced them, and the ad blocker’s filter lists were refreshed. The sidebar keeps collecting the tools you…
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Horse v1.2.1
A follow-up to the sidebar polish: the remaining slowness while resizing was found and removed.
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Horse v1.2.0
A polish pass on the sidebar itself: the resize handle became easier to grab, highlighting cleaned up, and resizing the window or sidebar got noticeably snappier. The sidebar is Horse’s cockpit, so speed here…
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Horse v1.1.12
Resizing the sidebar stopped squeezing the page next to it, new trails highlight the search box the way you expect, and the ad blocker’s filter lists came up to date. Three small frictions gone.
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Horse v1.1.11
Stability week continued: crash reporting was strengthened, and the scrollbar and background fixes reached every corner of Linux and Windows.
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Horse v1.1.10
Several small problems across the new platform lineup are fixed.
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Horse v1.1.8
Plugin functionality came back to life, and Horse put on a new app icon.
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Horse v1.1.7
Page navigation shortcuts gained a Shift modifier, rounding out the keyboard story started earlier in the 1.0 line.
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Horse v1.1.6
Another quick round of fixes keeps the young browser steady.
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Horse v1.1.5
Automatic crash reporting is now available to help diagnose problems.
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Horse v1.1.4
The update prompt learned manners. Clicking “Later” now actually means later: instead of asking again every four hours, Horse quietly installs the update on your next restart.
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Horse v1.1.3
Windows and Linux got a coat of polish: native-feeling scrollbars and corrected backgrounds, so Horse stops looking like a visitor on those platforms.
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Horse v1.1.2
The full platform lineup arrives: Apple Silicon and Intel Macs, both flavors of Windows, and Linux from small ARM boards to ordinary Intel and AMD machines. Wherever you browse, there is now a Horse build for…
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Horse v1.1.1
Windows riders officially join the herd with 32-bit and 64-bit builds. Trail navigation also moved to Cmd+Shift+Arrow so keyboard shortcuts stop fighting with ordinary text editing.
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Horse v1.1.0
Tiny Horse mode debuts: collapse the sidebar and instead of losing everything you get a mini toolbar that keeps your current page, Settings, and Help within reach, and lets you edit the page title directly.…
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Horse v1.0.7
One fix, but a load-bearing one: paste. Cmd+V and Ctrl+V now behave everywhere they should.
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Horse v1.0.6
Choice arrived in two places at once: pick your own search engine (Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing, Ecosia, Yahoo, or Brave) instead of being handed one, and move between trails from the keyboard. The first signs of…
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Horse v1.0.5
Three quality-of-life fixes for the young sidebar: right-click menus stopped escaping it, trail names became editable with a click, and edits save themselves when you click away. Small things, but naming your…
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Horse v1.0.4
A handful of early bugs are gone, with no new buttons to learn or settings to visit.
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Horse v1.0.3
Apple Silicon Macs (M1 and M2) had a bug that could keep the updater from completing; this release fixed it, keeping the newest Macs on the same fast update path as everyone else.
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Horse v1.0.2
Horse checks for updates as soon as it launches.
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Horse v1.0.1
Horse now checks for updates automatically and offers to restart when a new version is available.
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Horse v1.0.0
Welcome to Horse! Organize your browsing as branching paths you can follow, fold away, and return to later. Horse runs on macOS, Windows, and Linux.
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Why Horse has Trails instead of tabs
The true story of how Pascal and Eleanor built Horse, invented Trails, and only later discovered why the idea worked especially well for ADHD.
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