8 November 2026LondonRelease notes, No. 4Modfare 0.10
Fair wind.
Everything where you'd look for it, in words you'd use, so Modfare simply goes where you point it.
A fair wind is the one at your back: you set off and the boat just goes. That was the whole aim of this issue. We went through Modfare as someone who'd never heard of it would, from the first screen on, wrote down every place they'd pause, and took the pauses away one by one.
So the bar got quieter, Settings and the sidebar got buttons you can see, and Modfare now tells you what it just did when you change something. Home learned that “weather” means search for the weather. And nothing on screen offers a change a page can't make.
From the Modfare team, in London.
A quieter bar.
Home, back and forward, the address, your music, Mods, and two plain buttons: one to show the sidebar and one for Settings. Page health, sharing and side by side moved behind a single More button. On a Mac the window buttons sit in the Mac's own order.
Say it in the bar.
Type what you'd like into the bar, like “make it calmer” or “no ads”, and the first thing it offers is to change the page you're on. Questions still search. Ask for something a page doesn't have, like Shorts on Wikipedia, and it offers the site that does, or nothing at all.
Real icons, before you open a thing.
Every site on Home shows its own icon from the moment you add it, asked of the site itself and never of an icon service, so nobody else learns which sites you keep. Search on Home searches, or opens your site if you type its name.
A practice page that looks like a page.
The first run hands you a small local paper to try things on: a shouty advert, a video playing by itself, quick clips, a sign-up box. Click whatever bothers you and it's gone, and Change it back is right there.
And the smaller things.
- Settings say what they did. Change one and a line tells you what happened and where to see it.
- Mods on Home. Opened from Home, Mods tells you to open a site first, and offers yours.
- Plain words. Click, not tap. Cancel, not Not this. Automatic, not Like my computer. Your calendar without the jargon.
- Asked once. Say Not now to bringing things from another browser and Home won't ask again.
- Safer windows. Only Modfare's own pages can talk to Modfare, and a link never opens inside one of its windows.
- From 0.9. Settings and Add-ons in their own windows, a first run that builds your space, music in the bar, and a crash on closing an app fixed for good.
And a good deal more. Every change is on GitHub.
Past issues
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.Release notes, No. 1 · 8 November 2026Slack waterModfare 0.3: the quiet between tides.Fair wind is out now.
Modfare 0.10 for Mac and Windows, in early preview.