Changelog
Every Luma release, newest first.
- Known phishing and malware sites are stopped with a warning page. The lists are checked on your computer.
- Scripts inside third-party frames can no longer read or set cookies.
- Deleted a workspace by mistake? Reopen it from the toast or the menu.
- A shortcuts sheet, a “What’s new” note after each update and an opt-in beta channel.
- A plain, native-looking installer.
- Every menu and panel now looks and moves like the dock, with an icon for every action and workspace symbols in “Move to”.
- Finished downloads can be dragged out of the sidebar to the desktop or any app.
- Deleting a workspace asks in the dock; the group editor uses the same form.
- A new installer in the Aurora look, with a progress ring around the icon.
- Workspaces get Luma’s own hand-drawn symbols instead of system emoji.
- Editing a workspace opens its form right in the dock.
- Extensions and downloads live in a small dock that grows into a list.
- One layout: the sidebar with the address bar and the page floating beside it.
- A new start page with a clock, greeting, widgets and a customise panel that grows from its button.
- The “Aurora” look: a living gradient behind the sidebar and a workspace birth animation.
- The dock grows in place into the workspace form, the menu and Settings, which open over the page.
- Address bar and buttons in the sidebar, so the page fills the window.
- Essentials shared by every workspace, a mini player and a floating search for Ctrl T.
- Compact mode, two-finger swipe between workspaces and an animated workspace switch.
- Most of Chrome’s extension APIs, including side panels, native messaging and user scripts.
- The Chrome Web Store’s own Add and Remove buttons work in Luma.
- Top-bar layout: toolbar buttons sit flush right while the address field stays centred.
- New top-bar layout: a centred address field on top and a full-width row of tabs underneath.
- Tab previews on hover, and automatic picture-in-picture when you leave a playing video.
- Sleeping tabs come back with their scroll position and half-filled forms.
- The toolbar picks up the colour of the page, plus a new loading ring, livelier address bar and download animations.
- Live theme preview and section headers in Settings.
- Lower memory use: a memory limit that puts the least-used tabs to sleep first, and filter lists compiled in the background.
- Sign-in pages that need third-party cookies now work without turning protections off.
- The sidebar slides open and closed (Ctrl+Shift+S), with the page moving along.
- A redesigned interface, welcome screen and installer.
- A profile picker at startup, with monogram avatars.
- Workspaces get a new dock and editor; menus follow your theme; Settings can be searched.
- Password manager: save, fill, view and export passwords, protected by your system and Windows Hello.
- Import passwords and open tabs from other browsers.
- Links opened from other apps land in the Luma window you already have open.
- Profiles, each in its own windows.
- Your chosen colour tints the whole browser; custom New Tab picture.
- Developer tools docked inside the tab, with device mode.
- Efficiency mode and faster tab sleep.
- Chrome Web Store extensions, with signature checks and automatic updates.
- End-to-end encrypted sync to a folder or WebDAV server.
- Vertical tabs, groups, workspaces, split view, command palette and session restore.
- Containers, “Block element” and your own filters, reader view and reading list, Peek previews and mouse gestures.
- The first Luma: Chromium engine, tracker and ad blocking, pop-up blocker, privacy center and installer.