What’s new.

Protected streaming, Chrome extensions and device frames

Emulation

• New

  Device frame: emulated phones and tablets can show inside their body, with the screen’s rounded corners, side buttons and, on the iPhone SE, the home button. It’s on by default; hide it from the device menu. The choice is remembered per site. Screenshots and recordings stay frameless.

Developer tools

• New

  Chrome extensions: React, Vue and Redux DevTools, axe, Wappalyzer and others can be added from the Chrome Web Store (a link, an ID, or the toast that shows up on the store page) or from an unpacked folder. They work in every tab and island; panels live in DevTools, popups in Tools → Extensions. Manage them in Settings → Extensions.

Browsing

• New

  Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video, Spotify and other services with protected video (Widevine DRM) now play. The Widevine module downloads by itself on first launch.

• Improved

  Sites recognize Oblo as Chrome: user agent, Client Hints (Sec-CH-UA) and navigator.userAgentData match Chrome’s, even with an emulated language, theme or conditions. Fewer sign-ins and services that refuse the browser.

Privacy & network

• Fixed

  With the ad blocker on, some sites stayed blank (Disney+, for example): uBlock’s cleanup scripts now each run on their own and no longer get in each other’s way.

Welcome tutorial

Emulation

• Improved

  Default language: a site with no locale chosen sees the system language and the system time zone, no longer the one of the country’s capital.

Tabs

• Fixed

  Synced split view: clicking in one pane no longer switches the other panes to the device of the last pane you changed. With two tablets side by side and one switched to mobile, the other stays a tablet.

Browsing

• New

  Passkeys with Touch ID on Mac: sites that support them can create and use them with your fingerprint, stored in Oblo’s keychain. With several accounts on the same site you pick which one to use.

• Fixed

  Sign in with Google: no longer rejected with “This browser or app may not be secure”, including when it goes through another site such as GitHub.

Privacy & network

• Improved

  Tabs without emulation now run with no DevTools attached, so sites looking for signs of automation (sign-ins, banks, bot checks) see a regular browser. It attaches only when needed: devices, conditions, overlays, synced view, captures.

App & settings

• New

  Tutorial: on first launch, a step-by-step tour of what a regular browser can’t do: emulation, developer tools, annotated screenshots and recordings, islands and split view, highlighting the real buttons one at a time. Esc skips it; reopen it from Settings → General, the command palette or the app menu. Features are shown at work on real pages, such as apple.com and MDN, in a temporary tab that leaves no trace.

• Improved

  On Mac, one download per processor, Apple Silicon or Intel, instead of a universal one: the app and its updates are about half the size. The website offers the right one automatically.

Eight languages, Linux, split view and tab recording

Emulation

• New

  Free sizing: drag the device edges, with a ruler showing Tailwind breakpoints. New devices: iPhone 16 Pro Max, Galaxy S24, Galaxy Z Fold5, iPad Pro 13", 1366 laptop and QHD.

Developer tools

• New

  Running dev servers (oblo://dev, ⌥⌘L): the web servers listening on your computer, as a grid with previews or a list, with framework, project and process. It can also be your new tab page.

• New

  Annotated screenshots (⇧⌘A, or ⌥ on the button): the page freezes and you draw arrows, boxes, text, numbered steps and highlights on top, or pixelate sensitive data. ↩ delivers the image to the clipboard or to a file. In Settings you can make it what the Screenshot button does.

• New

  Record the tab as a video (⌥⌘R) or a GIF (⌥⌘G), with clicks shown as circles: handy for showing an interaction bug or an animation on an emulated device. Videos are MP4 and can include the tab’s audio; GIFs last up to 60 seconds.

• New

  Grid and Flexbox overlays, from the Tools menu: CSS grid lines, numbers and area names, and the spacing of flex containers, drawn over the page and updated as it changes.

• Fixed

  The Tools menu now updates on every page, not only when switching tabs.

Tabs

• New

  Split view: up to three tabs side by side, each with its own device, for example mobile, tablet and desktop together. In the tab bar and with ⌃Tab they count as a single tab. Create it with ⌥⌘S, from a tab’s context menu, or by dragging a tab onto another tab or onto the page.

• New

  Synced split view (⌥⌘Y): scrolling, clicks, typing and navigation in one pane are repeated in the others, so you can test the same page on several devices at once. You turn it on per split view and it is off by default, since it gets in the way with different pages.

• New

  Reorder tabs by dragging them: the tab follows the mouse and the others move aside to make room.

• New

  Tab hibernation: tabs left idle for a time you choose free their memory and reload when you open them again, back and forward included. Pinned tabs and dev servers stay loaded unless you change it in Settings. At startup, restored tabs load only when you open them.

• New

  Tab context menu: duplicate with history, pin, mute, hibernate, close others. ⇧⌘T reopens the last closed tab.

• New

  Islands (⇧⌘N): tabs with cookies and storage all their own, for example an admin and a guest side by side, each on their own island. Every island has a coloured number and remembers its logins after you quit Oblo; you can turn that off in Settings → General. Hover a tab and a + slides out to open another tab on the same island; right-click the + to reopen a remembered island, or forget one from the tab menu.

• Fixed

  Opening a new tab keeps the cursor in the address bar instead of moving it to the page.

Browsing

• New

  Command palette (⌘K): commands, open tabs, devices, locales, network and CPU conditions, proxies, bookmarks and history in one list you filter by typing. Enter with no results opens the text as an address or search.

• New

  Find in page (⌘F, ⌘G) and per-site page zoom (⌘+, ⌘−, ⌘0), remembered across launches.

• New

  Downloads go to your Downloads folder, with a button that appears in the tab bar and shows progress around its icon (⇧⌘J for the list).

• New

  Print (⌘P), Save as PDF in A4 or “as on screen” on a single page, and View Source (⌥⌘U or view-source:).

Privacy & network

• New

  Ad and cookie banner blocking, from the shield in the address bar: uBlock Origin, EasyList and EasyPrivacy lists for ads and trackers, EasyList Cookie for banners. Off by default, turn them on everywhere or for a single site; the shield counts blocked requests, which no longer show up as errors.

• New

  Proxies: HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS4 and SOCKS5, saved with name, user and password (in the Keychain), for all of Oblo or for a single island. The default stays the system proxy; localhost and the local network always go direct. Settings → Network & Privacy.

• New

  Site info, from the icon left of the address: certificate (issuer, validity, names, copy as PEM), cookies with their values and one-by-one deletion, storage used, permissions you can always allow or block.

App & settings

• New

  What’s New page: after every update Oblo tells you what changed. Find it under What’s New in Oblo (Oblo menu on Mac, File on Windows), in Settings or by typing oblo://settings/changelog.

• New

  The interface now comes in eight languages: Italian, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil), German and Dutch. It follows your system language by default; change it in Settings → General, instantly, without restarting. The language sites see is still the emulated locale.

• New

  Oblo for Linux: a deb package for Ubuntu and Debian, and an AppImage for other distributions, 64-bit.

• Fixed

  Settings are no longer lost if Oblo quits while saving them.

Import, Settings in a tab, customizable toolbar

Emulation

• Fixed

  Reopening a tab with an emulated device no longer leaves the page drawn in the top-left corner.

Developer tools

• New

  Screenshots to the clipboard, to a file, or both.

Tabs

• New

  On launch, reopen your last tabs or just the start page: diagnostics, a blank page or an address of your choice.

Browsing

• New

  Import bookmarks and history from Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc, Vivaldi, Opera, Chromium, Firefox, Zen and Safari: on first launch or from File → Import from Another Browser. Bookmark folders are kept, as submenus of the Bookmarks menu.

• Improved

  Back and Forward with ⌘← and ⌘→ on Mac too, like other browsers, when focus isn’t in a text field.

App & settings

• New

  Settings now live in a tab (oblo://settings), with sections and search.

• New

  Customizable toolbar with drag & drop, plus new QR, Clear Site Data, Settings and separator items. Right-click the toolbar to remove an item or reset it.

• New

  New icon: a porthole with a sunset on the other side of the glass.

• Improved

  Toolbar menus (device, locale, tools, errors, bookmarks) now match the Settings style.

Oblo, the developer’s browser

• New

  The browser gets its name: Oblo. From the Italian oblò, the porthole you look through to see what’s on the other side.

Settings, shortcuts and accent color

Emulation

• New

  Notch, Dynamic Island and safe area on the iPhones that have them.

• New

  Emulated geolocation: the locale’s city, one of your choice, your real position or permission denied.

• Improved

  When switching device the page frame moves right away, without waiting for emulation.

Developer tools

• New

  Page panel with title, description, H1, lang, viewport, canonical, robots, Open Graph, hreflang and image alt, plus a Requests panel.

Browsing

• New

  History with address bar completion, and bookmarks.

App & settings

• New

  Settings (⌘,): clear data when switching locale, reload when switching device or locale, per-site memory, tab restore, search engine, screenshot folder, self-signed certificates on dev hosts and automatic updates.

• New

  Remappable keyboard shortcuts, single keys included, with conflict warnings.

• New

  Accent color: Line33 orange or six pastels.

The first release

Emulation

• New

  Real emulation via the DevTools Protocol: viewport, pixel density, orientation, touch, user agent and client hints. iPhone 15, iPhone SE, Pixel 8, iPad Air, iPad mini, Galaxy Tab S9 and three desktop sizes, with rotation and fit-to-window.

• New

  Ten ready-made locales plus any BCP 47 tag: Accept-Language, navigator.languages, Intl and time zone change together. Light, dark or automatic page theme.

• New

  Real-world conditions: Fast 4G, Slow 4G, 3G and offline networks, throttled CPU, print media, reduced motion, contrast, forced colors and vision deficiencies.

• New

  When emulating iPhone and iPad outside macOS, Apple fonts are replaced with Inter.

Developer tools

• New

  Debug overlays: element outlines, layout shifts, paint flashing, layer borders and an FPS counter.

• New

  A badge counts exceptions, console.error calls and failed requests without opening the Console.

• New

  Screenshots at the emulated resolution, full page included.

• New

  A QR code opens the page on your phone, with localhost already swapped for your LAN IP.

Tabs

• New

  Tabs, device settings remembered per site, and a diagnostics page.

App & settings

• New

  Automatic background updates.