2.0 Beta 4

• Full incognito browsing. Enabling this will auto switch to WebView, but history will not be created anywhere.
• WebView mode - added bottom bar, toolbar coloring, menu options.

2.0-Beta 2

• Crash fixes for pre-lollipop devices
• Fix issues with dynamic toolbar color.
• Disable auto revert to webview for incognito mode.
• Light nav bar for 8.1

2.0-Beta1

Design

• NEW: Round and Adaptive Icon for Android Oreo
• NEW: New home screen with bottom search bar inspired by Google apps
• NEW: Chromer uses website favicons to calculate toolbar color.
• NEW: Bottom bar now shows text in addition to icons

Features

• NEW: TABS! See all active tabs opened by Chromer in one screen and quickly switch to them
• NEW: History app shortcuts for 7.1
• NEW: Use custom names while creating home screen shortcuts + Oreo support
• NEW: Minimize does not require web heads to be enabled.
• NEW: Search bar shows suggestions from Clipboard and History
• NEW: Info card in home screen to show active provider
• NEW: New tab dialog shows search suggestions

Performance

• IMPROVED: Multitasking performance has been greatly improved.
• IMPROVED: Does not load duplicate tabs
• IMPROVED: Aggressive background loading is smoother

Article mode

• NEW: AMOLED Black theme
• NEW: Tried to reduce extra gap between text. Improved Blockquote legibility.
• FIX: Crash when tapping on certain links

AMP Mode

• NEW: AMP resolver dialog with option to skip.

Others

• FIX: Chromer not opening links sometimes.
• FIX: Certain languages not rendering correctly in search bar
• IMPROVED: Stability of web heads has been improved. Minor UI fixes. Change More menu name to "Chromer Options" for better clarity

1.7.3-Beta

Changes:

• Round and Adaptive Icon for Android Oreo
• Bottom Bar disabled by default to resolve crashes in Chrome.
• History app shortcuts for 7.1
• Use custom names while creating home screen shortcuts + Oreo support
• Article mode UI and stability. Tried to reduce extra gap between text.
• Fixed not opening links sometimes.
• Fixed Certain languages not rendering correctly in search bar
• Stability of web heads has been improved. Minor UI fixes.

1.7.2

• NEW: Home screen UI with bottom bar.
• NEW: Circle icon for 7.1+ and supported launchers
• NEW: Overhauled history screen. Option to disable history.
• NEW: Article mode shortcut in bottom bar.
• NEW: AMP indicator in history to show if there is an AMP version available, tapping this would launch the AMP version.
• FIXES: Old website reuse bug, crash fixes, duplicate history entries.

1.7.2 Beta

• UI Changes
• Crash fixes.
• Clicking recents item or history item won't close the app.
• Article mode supports more websites.

Chromer 1.7 - Anniversary update.

1.7

New browsing modes!

• Article view A reader mode which filters all images and ads on a page and displays only the content of the page - Full support with web heads.
• AMP Support Chromer can now launch the AMP version of the page if it exists for faster loading and better reading experience on mobile.
• To enable, Settings > Browsing mode > AMP , Article mode.

Design

• NEW: Major UI overhaul and moved settings to its own page with better categorization.
• NEW: Simpler home screen with recently launched links shortcuts.

History

• NEW: In addition to syncing history with Google account, Chromer now provides its own history option.

Others

• NEW: Chromer opens the page in web view in case custom tab provider is not found.
• NEW: Menu option under "More" to easily open the current page in article mode.
• NEW: Web head service notification now has actions for creating new tab and managing web heads
• IMPROVED: Web head animations and performance.
• IMPROVED: Aggressive background loading performance.
• IMPROVED: Performance improvements in many areas, related to storage.
• MISC: Removed screen scanning option.

Chromer 1.6.3

Crash fixes.
New tab in bottom bar opens dialog activity instead of auto handling text.
Synced translations.

Chromer 1.6.2

NEW: Open with menu item.
NEW: 7.1+ New tab launcher shortcut.
IMPROVED: Rewritten blacklist feature. Much better foreground app detection and blacklist action.
IMPROVED: Better parsing of metadata from websites, thanks to Crux. Dynamic web toolbar color also enhanced.
IMPROVED: Height of bottom bar is reduced to 48dp. Removed deprecated APIs and use new way of rendering bottom bar.
IMPROVED: Overhauled web head context screen. Design and stability fixes.
IMPROVED: Share all in context has now has two different modes - multiple and csv. Can share to more apps now.
FIX: CCT not launching when setting certain apps like Instapaper as favorite share app.

1.6.1

Minor release that fixes some crashes and improves features introduced in 1.6.

Cumulative changelog from beta:

• NEW: Minimize web heads - added a button in bottom bar/menu to minimize current open page back to web head. (Needs merge tabs to work)
• NEW: General share as preferred action
• IMPROVED: Web head context screen now syncs better with active web heads.
• IMPROVED: Many performance and crash fixes.
• IMPROVED: Translation updates.
• FIXED: Dynamic toolbar issues.