First public release of Minimalia. Lightweight, privacy-first browsing — now available for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Features

Browsing

• Tabbed browsing — multiple tabs with close, reopen, and switch shortcuts
• Pin tabs to keep them across sessions; pinned tabs are protected from accidental close
• Duplicate tabs (Ctrl+Shift+D) to fork the current page in a new tab
• Session restore — optionally reopen the previous window on next launch, including pinned tabs
• Private browsing — isolated profile, no history or cookies persisted
• Multiple search engines — Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing, or custom URL
• Three experience modes — Minimalia (custom homepage), Cleanups (declutter), or Default

Privacy & Ad Blocking

• Ad blocker using Brave's adblock engine with EasyList filters
• Promotion blocking for Bing and DuckDuckGo search results
• AI feature removal — strips AI overviews, Copilot, and AI chat from Google/Bing/DuckDuckGo
• HTTPS-only mode — silently upgrades http:// requests to https:// site-wide
• Site permissions — explicit prompts for camera, microphone, location, notifications, and other sensitive APIs
• WebRTC IP-leak protection — prevents real IP exposure through WebRTC
• Cookie control — choose to persist or clear on exit
• Search history toggle — enable or disable completely

Navigation & Tools

• Find in page (Ctrl+F) with next/previous/close controls
• Zoom controls (Ctrl+=/Ctrl+-/Ctrl+0) per-tab
• Developer tools (F12) with right-click Inspect option
• Print to PDF (Ctrl+P) with save location picker
• Ctrl+click to open links in new tabs
• Favicons on tabs, lock icon for private tabs

Bookmarks & History

• Bookmarks panel (Ctrl+B) with per-entry delete and bulk clear
• Right-click Bookmark/Unbookmark toggle
• Search history panel (Ctrl+H) with per-entry delete and bulk clear

Download Manager

• Progress dialog showing percentage and size for all downloads
• Save Image As with directory picker and progress
• PDF save with status bar feedback

Settings & Profile

• Unified settings dialog — change search engine, experience, and all toggles in one place
• First-run setup — single dialog instead of multiple prompts
• Reset Profile — clears all browsing data, bookmarks, history, and settings

Updates

• Built-in update notifier — checks for new releases on launch and shows a non-intrusive dialog with a one-click download link
• Snooze a release for a day, or dismiss it permanently — your choice is remembered per version

Platform

• Cross-platform data paths — proper locations on Windows, macOS, Linux
• Windows installer via Inno Setup
• GitHub Actions workflows for Linux AppImage and macOS DMG builds, published directly to GitHub Releases

Limitations

• Google sign-in is blocked — Google flags QtWebEngine-based browsers as "not secure" and blocks sign-in to Google services. This is a Google-side policy and affects all similar embedded-browser projects.
• Bing is experimental — the Microsoft Bing search engine option may not work reliably in all cases and can behave unexpectedly.