9 November 2026LondonRelease notes, No. 6Modfare 0.12
Landfall.
Ready to come ashore: tabs and groups like the browsers you know, Paper and Arcade for how it looks, letters you choose on any website, and YouTube that plays where you click.
Landfall is the first sight of land after a long time at sea. This is the first Modfare we're handing to friends, so this issue is about the things you'd miss on day one if they weren't there: tabs that behave, a look that feels like ours, and pages that keep working when you change them.
Tell us where it falls short. Every note gets read.
From the Modfare team, in London.
Paper and Arcade.
Two new themes, after the two websites. Paper is warm paper and ink with the big words in Fraunces. Arcade is cream and pixels, square corners and hard shadows. Both under Mods, Looks, or in Settings.
Tabs, and groups of them.
Links open as today's tabs under the page that opened them, as in Chrome and Arc. Keep one and it joins your sites. Put tabs in a coloured group, fold it away, rename it. Tidy closes the ones open twice and groups the rest by site, and tabs you've left alone for a day move to Earlier, never the one you're on or one that's playing.
And the smaller things.
- Letters on any website. New York, Charter, Georgia, San Francisco, Helvetica, Avenir or Verdana, for one site from More or for every site in Settings. Code and icons keep their own.
- Typefaces that fit. Settings shows the best six, each in its own letters, with the rest a click away.
- YouTube plays where you click. In As a feed and Big Picture a video opens playing, with Back to the feed.
- One layout at a time. Turn on a second layout or skin for a site and it takes the first one's place, and says so. Undo brings the first back.
- New views. Stage, List and Board, beside Feed, Big Picture and One at a time.
- Home changes picture at once. Pick a painting and it's there, credit and all.
- Menus like a Mac app. File, Edit, View, Tabs, Window and Help, with the shortcuts you expect.
And a good deal more. Every change is on GitHub.
Past issues
Release notes, No. 5 · 8 November 2026Sea roomModfare 0.11: room to make it yours.
Release notes, No. 4 · 8 November 2026Fair windModfare 0.10: everything where you'd look for it.
Release notes, No. 3 · 8 November 2026High waterModfare 0.8: a home to start from.
Release notes, No. 2 · 8 November 2026Spring tideModfare 0.4: whole pages, reshaped.Landfall is out now.
Modfare 0.12 for Mac and Windows, in early preview.