Ferny - A privacy-focused, chromium-based web browser with a greatfull user experience

November 9 / 2019 Tabs:
- Added tab groups system
- Next-tab and prev-tab shortcuts are working for the overlay now
- Added tab cycling (Ctrl + Tab, Ctrl + Shift + Tab)
- Removed horizontal scrollbar

Themes 2.0:
- More saturated colors
- New color of window titlebar
- Removed borders from some buttons
- Added theme description
- Settings: Checkboxes for themes

Native:
- Ferny can be set as default web browser
- Added htm/html file icon
- Open with Ferny for http/https and others
- Electron 7.1.1 stable
- Faster app startup
- Added "Windows tasks"

Bookmarks:
- Removed url preview
- New blocks layout

Window controls:
- Added borders to buttons
- Removed fade-out animation

New browser context menu items:
- Download page (Ctrl + Shift + S)
- Bookmark this page
- Search for selected text
- Download images
- Copy image
- Bookmark this link
- Search for link text

Toolbar:
- Added show-full-history to tab history
- Bookmark button show you if page is already bookmarked
- Short address bar

Appearance:
- Removed all old themes
- Skinny scrollbars
- White page background color
- A lot of new icons

Search engines:
- Fixed ebay search
- Added startage

Bug fixes:
- App crashes after creating of new tab
- About window: No title bar
- About window: Empty icons
- Bookmarks: Can't move bookmarks
- Bookmarks: Duplicated bookmarks after moves
- History: Undefined titles and icons
- Windows: Auxclick not working
- Windows: Incorrect overlay/browser-view size

Installer:
- Added icon
- Added installation folder chooser

October 15 / 2019 Side menu:
- Added "Reload ingnoring cache" icon
- New hotkey for "Reload ignoring cache" (Ctrl + Shift + F5)
- Menu items rearranged
- Repaired "Bookmark all tabs"
- Added additional hotkeys
- Added "Close all tabs" (Ctrl + Q)

Webview right click:
- Added "Copy link text"

Notifications:
- Faster auto hide (2.5 sec)
- Added "Opened with ferny" notification

New search engines:
- Twitter
- Amazon
- Twitch
- Wolfram Alpha
- GitHub
- Ebay

Settings:
- Added system titlebar option
- Removed ugly themes

Main window:
- Decreased minimum window size
- Added delay to target url preview (0.5 sec)

Bug fixes:
- Incorrect size of drag zone
- Some broken notifications
- Incorrect position of window controls
- Broken last-tab closed action
- Broken search-engine option
- Broken tab-closed action
- Broken on-startup action
- Wrong titlebar height
- Bad window size
- No fullscreen for overlay

October 9 / 2019 Changes:
• Toolbar: Added back button right click history
• Engine: Electron v6.0.12
• Updator: Ask user if he wants to download an update
• History: Added date and time
• App commands: If can't go back go to the overlay
• Hotkeys: New hotkey for overlay (F1)

Design:
• New look of scrollbars
• Added borders to all windows
• Increased checkboxes corners rounding
• Added close-others icon

New themes:
• Twitchy-dark
• Contrast-light

Overlay:
• Added right click menu for all text fields
• Added paste and search for address bar

Bookmarks:
• On-bookmark-added -> Open bookmark editor
• On-folder-added -> Open folder editor
• Hidden folder header on editing
• Custom bookmark icon for invalid urls

About window:
• Added info text
• Added some links
• Improved look and feel

Settings:
• More compact themes preview
• Save home page on checkbox clicked
• Home: added buttons: use duckduckgo, use google, use bing, use yahoo

Bug fixes:
• Smooth showing ot the overlay on startup
• Broken tabs
• Incorrect downloads folder
• Sometimes new bookmarks disappear
• Some notifications are broken
• Invalid overlay size

October 5 / 2019 Tab menu:
• Added tab history
• Added move left (Ctrl + Shift + PageUp)
• Added move right (Ctrl + Shift + PageDown)
• Added move to start (Ctrl + Shift + Home)
• Added move to end (Ctrl + Shift + End)
• Bookmark tab

Settings:
• Add search-engine option
• Add downloads-folder option
• Slide-right tab animation
• Compact themes preview

About window:
• Stylish titlebar

Engine:
• Electron v6.0.11

Bug fixes:
• Notification: cant exit app if update downloaded
• Windows: broken settings window controls
• "Open with ferny"
• Empty tab title if url is file
• Remove ability to check for update if update is downloading
• Broken download counter

October 1 / 2019 Changes:
• Added ecosia search engine
• Linux: added app icon

Settings window:
• Added stylish titlebar
• Added padding to side panel

Bug fixes:
• Resize window bug
• Maximize / restore down window bug

September 29 / 2019 Major changes:
• Brand new user interface
• New tab manager
• Sidebar replaced by the overlay
• New bookmark manager
• Linux build

Minor changes:
• Paste and search
• Added app commands
• Paste and match style
• 14 new themes
• Electron 6.0.10
• Search moved to the overlay
• New look of notifications
• Added history checkboxes

Temporary removed:
• Bookmarks bar
• Find in page
• Certeficate info
• Welcome window
• Picture in picture
• Tabs preview

August 10 / 2019 Better file support.

Design improvements:
• New tab button
• Delete icon
• Hotkeys window text
• Window controls
• Sidebar active tab indicator
• Tabs list button
• Hotkeys window titlebar
• Certificate info window titlebar
• Removed settings theme preview
• Darker colored borders

Bookmarks bar:
• Folder context menu
• Folder editor

Added custom action when the last tab is closed:
• Do nothing
• Open new tab
• Quit app

Tabs list button:
• Next tab
• Previous tab
• Switch tab hotkeys

GPL-3 license.

New supported file types:
• Images: PNG, GIF, JPEG, JPG
• Audio: MP3, M4A, WAV, OGG
• Text: TXT, JS, JSON, SQL, CSS, Markdown, License, PHP

New hotkeys:
• Next tab (Ctrl+Tab)
• Previous tab (Ctrl+Shift+Tab)
• Quit Ferny (Ctrl+Shift+Q)
• Reload ignoring page (Ctrl+F5)

Improved stability:
• Storage verification
• Electron 6.0.1 (Stable branch)

Tab preview on hover.

Increased launch speed.

Welcome screen:
• Modern theme
• Open settings button
• Mouse wheel actions
• Platform

New search suggestions module.

About:
• License
• Platform

Fixed broken hotkeys.

Module code system (Better performance):
• applyBgColor, applyBorderRadius
• extToImagePath
• saveFileToJsonFolder
• epochToDate, epochToTime,
• loadBgColor, loadBorderRadius
• applyWinControls

Downloads:
• Fixed colored left border
• File extension name
• File type icons: Exe, Ttf, Doc, Docx, Rar, 7z, Zip, Tar, Wim, Xls, Xlsx, Ppt, Pptx, Bmp, Db, Z, Iso, Vcd, Dmg, Dat, Csv, Asp, Ico, Apk, Cs, Cpp, Py, Otf, Psd, Tif, Tiff, Svg, Xhtml, Jsp, Rss, Pps, Swift, Vb, Xlr, Mp4, Avi, Dll, Mpg, Mpeg, Pdf, Flv, Mov, Png, Gif, Jpeg, Jpg, Mp3, M4a, Wav, Ogg, Txt, Js, Json, Sql, Css, Md, License, Php

Linux ready:
• Window controls
• File system

New themes:
• Material
• Elementary

July 31 / 2019 Color items:
• Bookmarks.
• History.
• Downloads.

Rebranding:
• Arrow Browser renamed to Ferny.
• New app icon.
• Removed HTML file icon.

Added:
• Added hotkeys window quick shortcuts.
• Added optional home button.
• Clear browsing data.
• Added open file dialog.
• Bookmark all tabs.
• Open tab in Picture-In-Picture mode.

New welcome screen:
• Slide shortcuts (LeftArrow, RightArrow).
• Developer link.
• Buttons animation.
• New tab style.
• New look of bottom dots.
• Close window button.
• Removed border rounding block.
• Color images.
• New tabs: bookmarks bar, home page.
• Old skip button is back.
• Removed substrate from titlebar.

Sidebar:
• New load history method (Better performance).
• Added settings quick shortcuts.
• Patreon link.
• Bookmark folder.
• Brand new bookmark manager.
• Some new animations.
• Sidebar collapse.
• New hideable header.
• Added settings theme preview.
• Pin/unpin sidebar saves.

New bookmarks bar:
• Folders.
• New options: only icons, only labels.
• Bookmark editor.
• New layout.
• URL drop on bar/folder.
• Dragable links.

More tab menu actions:
• Back, forward.
• Copy URL.
• Go home.
• Close others, close to the right.
• Picture in picture.

Improved look and feel:
• Improved look of borders.
• New style of checkboxes and radio buttons.
• Classic tab behavior.
• New zoom notification.
• New Flex UI layout (Better performance).
• System window controls.
• Shorter max length of target URL panel.

New hotkeys:
• About (F2).
• Hotkeys window (F1).
• Actual zoom (Ctrl+Zero).
• Toggle sidebar (F3).
• Go home (Ctrl+Shift+H).
• Welcome window (F7).
• Focus address bar (F6).
• Report an issue (Ctrl+Shift+I).
• Copy tab URL (Ctrl+Shift+C).
• Picture in picture (Ctrl+Shift+P).
• Open file (Ctrl+O).
• Close others (Ctrl+Shift+W).
• Switch tab (Ctrl+Number).
• Clear browsing data (Ctrl+Shift+Del).

Fixes:
• Fixed suggestions in offline.
• Fixed actual zoom button.
• Fixed bookmarks bar Open in new tab and Copy URL buttons.
• Fixed loading of borders radius and bookmarks bar.
• Fixed settings start page error alert.
• Fixed duplicate history.
• Fixed about app incorrect URLs.

July 10 / 2019 Changes:
• Added space between "Arrow" and "Browser".
• Improved file system.
• New background colors.
• New scrollable tabs manager (Better performance).
• Brand new compact title bar.
• New hotkey for Check for updates (Ctrl+Shift+U).
• Reduced the minimum window height.
• New icons for search engines.

Added:
• Zoom hotkeys (Ctrl+Wheel).
• Right click context menu for web pages.
• Back/Forward hotkeys (Alt+Left/Right).
• View page source (Ctrl+U).
• Inspect element.
• Added button press animation.
• Skip welcome button.
• New search engines: Baidu, Naver, Qwant, YouTube.

Fixes:
• Fixed broken load of app.
• Fixed tabs size at window restore.
• Fixed hotkeys window dark mode.
• Fixed history loading.

June 26 / 2019 Changes:
• Step loading of history (Better launch speed).

Fixes:
• Fixed notification text.
• Fixed update progress bar.

June 25 / 2019 Changes:
• New type of window transparency if it is not active.
• Removed sidebar tabs animation (Better performance).

Added:
• Added files and URLs Drag&Drop support on tabs.
• Added color border for each tab.

Fixes:
• Fixed page zoom.
• Fixed broken first app start.

June 22 / 2019 Changes:
• The notification panel can hold a maximum of 5 notifications.
• Implemented "is-url" module (https://github.com/segmentio/is-url).
• New bookmark options button animation.

Added:
• Added black background color.
• Added Mail.ru search engine.
• Added update error notification info.

Fixes:
• Fixed developer debug console.
• Fixed bookmarks bar in fullscreen mode.

June 22 / 2019 Changes:
• New app icon.
• New html file icon.
• Removed installer and uninstaller icons.
• Colored search engine icons.
• Notifications come out on the left.

Added:
• Added Yandex search engine.
• Added search engine icons in settings.
• Added download progress notification.
• Added update progress bar.

June 16 / 2019 Changes:
• Removed blur effect from disabled buttons.
• Improved performance of some interface elements.
• The default search engine is now DuckDuckGo.
• Removed file upload error notifications.
• New app icon.
• New look of the welcome window.
• Target url label moved to left-bottom corner.
• Increased font size of the target url label (12px).
• New look of the find-in-page panel.
• Now the substrates are darker.
• Removed shadows from favicons (Better performance).
• New look of sidebar tabs.

Added:
• Added new window controls for welcome and hotkeys windows.
• Added search to the hotkeys window.
• Added history system.
• Added sidebar tabs animation.
• Added libraries links on about page.
• Search engine and new tab blocks are added to welcome screen.
• Added optional bookmarks bar.
• Added notification middle click close action.
• Added hotkeys categories.
• Added web page certificate info window.

Fixes:
• Fixed dark mode on hotkeys window.
• Fixed search for bookmarks and downloads.
• Fixed dark mode at the sidebar downloads.
• Fixed incorrect downloads dates.
• Fixed address bar incorrect url.

June 8 / 2019 Changes:
• Libraries update (Electron Beta6, Chrome 76).
• System window controls are replaced with new ones.
• New tabs list button.
• New sidebar icon.
• New scrollbar style.
• The hotkey window can now be resized.
• New shortcut for settings (Ctrl + Comma).
• Increased app name font size on about page.
• Now the bookmark opens in the current tab.

Added:
• Added tab close button animation.
• Added mouse wheel events on the search panel.
• Added pin/unpin sidebar button.

Fixes:
• Fixed Google Auth freeze.
• Fixed invisible tabs after fullscreen mode.
• Fixed bookmark middle click.

June 5 / 2019 Changes:
• New icons: browser, installer, uninstaller, html file.
• When you click on the link in the sidebar, the panel will close.
• "Key binds" renamed to "Hotkeys".
• New shortcut for hotkeys (Ctrl + Shift + H).
• Firmware update (Electron 5, Chrome 73, Node 12).

Added:
• Added Fullscreen HTML API.
• Added background for keys in the hotkeys window.

Removed:
• Removed support for all file types except .html and .htm.

Fixes:
• Repaired fullscreen mode.
• Fixed update notification.

June 4 / 2019 Changes:
• New app icon.
• New installer icon.
• New html file icon.

Added:
• Added uninstaller icon.
• Added icons for htm, webp, xht, shtml, xhml files.
• Added links in settings.
• Added key binds window.

June 3 / 2019 Changes:
• New search panel animation.
• New welcome screen design.

Added:
• Added user custom search engine.
• Added "new-window" options for websites.
• Added icon for html files.
• Added welcome screen section in settings.
• Added icon, date, time for downloads.
• Added user custom new tab page (Default: "https://google.com").
• Added information buttons in the settings.
• Added some notifications in downloads.
• Added installer icon.
• Added Yahoo search engine.

Fixes:
• Fixed show file / folder buttons in downloads.
• Fixed "Search with" buttons.
• Now you can not clear downloads when the file is loaded.

June 2 / 2019 • Improved web security (Disabled node integration, JQuery is working).
• Added sidebar.
• Bookmarks, downloads, settings, about moved to sidebar.
• Fixed incorrect behavior of back/forward/refresh/stop buttons.
• "Open with" for htm, html, shtml, webp, xht, xhtml files.
• Some design improvements.
• Removed fade animations (Better performance).

May 21 / 2019 • ArrowFlat UI Design 2.1 (Removed shadows and borders).
• Decreased installer file size.

May 21 / 2019 • New flat colors: blue, green, orange, red, light, gray, dark.
• Smaller font: 14px.
• Variable roundness of the corners of the interface elements.
• Some new shortcuts.
• The size and position of the window are maintained.
• New download manager.
• The application will not close during file download.
• Find in page.
• Removed loading screen.
• Windows 10 controls.
• Dynamic width of tabs.
• Tabs list button.
• Removed browser icon on the title bar
• Context menu icons.
• Removed error page.
• Lighter substrates.
• Welcome screen.
• Multiple search engines on search panel (Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Wikipedia).

April 13 / 2019 • New outlined icons style.
• Tab context menu.
• Light and dark themes.
• New bookmark manager (Drag&Drop).
• Loading screen.
• Zoom factor.
• Added context menu icons.
• New design (Shadows replaced by borders).
• Input roles.
• Bookmarks, settings, about in new tab.
• Sidebar replaced by context menu (Better performance).
• Keyboard shortcuts.
• Notification fade animation.
• New app icon.
• Fullscreen mode (F11).
• Removed download manager. It will appear later in the new form.
• Error page.
• New font (Open Sans).
• 50 new background colors.

March 5 / 2019 Arrow Browser is available!