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Named after Oblada melanura, a little Mediterranean fish

One browser instead of three.

Oblada is a web browser with Zen's sidebar, Firefox's containers, Brave's protection from trackers, and add-ons from both the Chrome and Firefox stores. Built on Chromium, named after a fish.

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BetaExpect a few rough edges · Free and open source · macOS on Apple Silicon · Linux soon, then Windows

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The shallows · 5 m

Your tabs swim down the side, or along the top . Your accounts stay in pools of their own . Trackers’ nets stay outside the Barrier. Your add-ons come from Chrome Web Store and Firefox Add-ons. And underneath it all runs Chromium, so the web works the way it was tested.

The tour

Everything within reach, nothing in the way.

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  1. 01

    Tabs down the side.

    Vertical tabs in a sidebar, with room for long titles and dozens of tabs. The page gets the rest of the window.

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    Workspaces you swipe between.

    Keep home, work and the weekend apart, and swipe with two fingers to move between them. Each workspace takes its own color, and can open its new tabs in a container of its own.

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    Two pages, one window.

    Drag a tab onto the page to split the view. Drag the handle to swap sides, or onto the sidebar to separate them again.

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    An address bar that floats.

    Press ⌘L and the address bar rises over the page like a buoy, with its suggestions right under it. Pick one and it drifts back to the sidebar.

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    Compact mode.

    Hide the sidebar and the page gets the whole window. Reach for the left edge and the sidebar slides back in.

The shoal · 10 m

Seven ways to swim.

Tabs down the side or along the top, the address bar wherever suits you: Oblada has seven window layouts. Pick one the first time you open it, and change it whenever you like, from the menu's Window layout or Settings › Oblada.

Tabs on the side

Tabs at the top

The reef · 12 m

Every account in its own tide pool.

Each container keeps its own cookies, logins and site data. Open the same site in two containers and use two accounts side by side, with nothing seeping from one to the other.

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cookies

Work

cookies

Banking

cookies

Shopping

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Always open this site in…

Set a rule once and the site opens in its container from now on, whatever link brought you there. Click a link:

Temporary containers

For one-off visits. Nothing is written to disk, and when the last tab closes the container pops, data and all.

Eight colors, the same as Firefox's

The barrier · 16 m

new in 0.5!

The nets stay outside.

The Barrier brings Brave's Shields to Oblada, on by default: it blocks trackers and ads, shows every site a slightly different you, and forgets what third parties leave behind.

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    • Trackers and ads, blocked.

      With Brave's engine and the lists it uses: EasyList, EasyPrivacy, uBlock Origin's and Brave's own. The empty boxes they leave behind, cookie notices and anti-adblock walls go too.

    • Third parties forget.

      Their cookies are blocked, and what they store on a site is erased once you close it. Any site can be forgotten when you close it, too.

    • Site by site.

      Turn the Barrier off where a site breaks, block harder where it doesn't, block scripts: right from the address bar.

    A different you on every site.

    Sites that fingerprint you read your canvas, audio, fonts, screen and processor. The Barrier changes them slightly: the same on a site until Oblada restarts, different on every other site and in every container.

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    Links without the hooks.

    Sites hang parameters on links to know who followed them. Oblada cuts them off the addresses you open, and skips tracking redirects and AMP pages for the real page. Click the links:

    And also

    • Global Privacy Control
    • HTTPS wherever it works
    • Trackers hiding behind a site's own addresses
    • Sensitive sites in a temporary container
    • A question before Google sign-in on other sites
    • Block any element
    • Your own filters and lists
    • Web APIs that mostly track you, off
    • A red switch that turns it all off

    The Barrier stands on Brave’s work: its adblock-rust engine, its lists, and its way of blurring fingerprints. Thank you, Brave.

    The currents · 20 m

    Add-ons from two seas.

    Install from the Chrome Web Store as usual, or straight from Firefox Add-ons: Oblada converts the .xpi while it installs. Firefox's contextualIdentities API comes along too, so add-ons like Multi-Account Containers work with Oblada's containers.

    Chrome Web Store

    Every Chrome extension, as it is.

    Firefox Add-ons

    The .xpi is converted on install.

    Old friends that came along

    • uBlock Origin
    • Bitwarden
    • Dark Reader
    • Multi-Account Containers

    The deep · 30 m

    A message in a bottle.

    Dear reader,

    Oblada started with a small wish: one browser instead of three. Zen showed how calm a browser can feel with the tabs down the side. Firefox's containers made it possible to be three people on the same site without ever logging out. And Chromium is what the sites we use every day are built and tested on.

    No browser had all three, so we put them together. It's free, it's open source, and it's named after the occhiata, a silver fish with big eyes and a black spot on its tail that swims in schools along the rocks of the Mediterranean. It seemed right for a browser that keeps your tabs swimming together.

    See you in the water,

    the Oblada crew

    P.S. Thank you, Zen, for the inspiration: the calm in Oblada started with you. If you like it too, go donate to Zen.

    The seabed · 40 m

    Come on in, the water’s fine.

    Oblada is in beta: free, open source, and for now on Macs with Apple Silicon.

    Download for MacSource code

    Linux builds are coming soon, then Windows.

    Bring your extensions, your bookmarks, and every account you have.