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What’s new · Blanc 1.39 · October 19

Give the page the whole window

Turn on Auto-hide the Island, and the page fills the window to its top edge. The Island slides back when you point at the top edge, rest the pointer near the top, or press ⌘L.

  1. Open Settings → General.
  2. Turn on Auto-hide the Island, or press ⌘⌥B (Ctrl+Alt+B on Windows and Linux).

It’s off by default.

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The Met’s page for Van Gogh’s Wheat Field with Cypresses filling a Blanc window to its top edge, with the Island hidden.

What’s new · Blanc 1.39 · October 19

Let idle tabs tidy themselves away

Loose tabs you haven’t looked at in a while close themselves into an Archive. Find them again in the ⌘L panel or in History, and bring one back with a click.

  1. Open Settings → General.
  2. Under Archive inactive tabs, choose 12 hours, 1 day, 7 days or 30 days.

Pinned, grouped and private tabs are never archived, and nor is a tab playing media or holding something you typed. The Archive stays on this device for 30 days.

Blanc’s History sheet on the Archived tabs view, listing six archived tabs under Today and Yesterday, each with its site icon and the time it was archived.

What’s new · Blanc 1.39 · October 19

A gold icon for your Dock

Sunrise Gold puts the Sunrise in glass over gold: soft in Light, polished in Dark.

  1. Open Settings → General.
  2. Under App icon, choose Sunrise Gold.

Sunrise Gold is for macOS.

Blanc’s Settings on the Appearance card, where the App icon row offers Sunrise, Sunrise Dark and Sunrise Gold, with Sunrise Gold selected.

Recently · Blanc 1.38 · October 18

Make the Start Page your own

Put a photo of your own behind the Start Page. Wash and Fade keep the page easy to read over it.

  1. Open Customize at the bottom of the Start Page.
  2. Under Wallpaper, choose Your image.
  3. Pick a JPEG or PNG, up to 25 MB.

Blanc keeps a resized copy on this device only, without location, camera or time details. It isn't synced, and private tabs never show it.

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Blanc’s Billboard Start Page over Van Gogh’s Wheat Field with Cypresses, with the Spotlight wash behind the clock and favorites.
Van Gogh, Wheat Field with Cypresses, The Met (public domain).

Recently · Blanc 1.38 · October 18

Paint the Start Page in a color

Choose one of the eight colors Spaces use, as a Soft, Solid or Gradient fill. Turn on Match each space’s color, and a window that belongs to a space shows that space’s color instead.

  1. Open Customize at the bottom of the Start Page.
  2. Under Wallpaper, choose Color.
  3. Pick a color and a fill.

The color settings sync with Profile Sync. An image chosen on this device still comes first here, and private tabs never show the color.

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Blanc’s Billboard Start Page painted in the Rose color with the Solid fill.

Recently · Blanc 1.37 · October 18

Give each tab group a color

A group can take one of the eight colors Spaces use. Its block in the ⌘L panel takes a light tint, its name gets a dot, and its tabs’ dots in the Island take the color.

  1. Right-click a group’s header in the ⌘L panel, or press its ⋮ button.
  2. Pick a color.

Groups have no color unless you choose one.

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Blanc’s ⌘L panel over a Wikipedia article, with an Inspiration group tinted rose and a Reading group tinted green.

Recently · Blanc 1.37 · October 18

Open the Island just by pointing

Rest the pointer on the Island’s address for a moment, and the panel opens.

  1. Open Settings → General.
  2. Turn on Open the Island on hover.

It’s off by default.

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Blanc’s resting Island over the Smithsonian Open Access page, with the address and the tab dots of a rose-colored group.

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