Version 2.1.10

If you're running any previous version, please update to version 2.1.10 as soon as possible. It fixes a potentially serious bug where updates to Chrome could break Epichrome apps permanently, so they'd have to be deleted and recreated.

This version also fixes a minor bug that would cause apps to display the wrong dock icon if an app was used to download a file or display certain dialog boxes. Thanks to rschend for finding this and tracking down the cause, and to the others who contributed their reports.

Version 2.1.9

If you're already using 2.1.8, there's no need to install this release. All it does is fix a minor bug where on first run after update, apps would display the wrong icon in the task switcher and dock. Thanks to trak3r for reporting this.

Version 2.1.8

This version fixes a long-standing bug that caused all Epichrome apps to run without hardware graphics acceleration due to the GPU process crashing on startup. This could cause sluggish graphics response (especially on retina displays) and failures to load WebGL sites.

(Note that it's possible the first time you run your apps or Chrome after updating to 2.1.8, you may have to re-log in to Chrome in each app's settings, and you may also have to re-log in to some or all your websites. Once you've done that, though, your credentials should persist even after you quit the newly-updated apps.)

Big thanks to mhwinkler and jdsimcoe for identifying this bug (in two utterly different forms) and putting in a bunch of time helping isolate it and test approaches to a fix, and to breeden for once again testing the new update before I inflicted it on everyone else.

Note: This is likely to be my last update for a while (except for fixing catastrophic problems like 2.1.7). My day job has gotten very busy, so I probably won't have time to work on new features or major updates for the foreseeable future.

Version 2.1.7

This version fixes an incompatibility that has arisen with the release (on January 21, 2016) of Chrome 48.0.2564.82. This update was breaking all Epichrome apps. If your apps no longer start, install Epichrome 2.1.7 and run them again. Each one should offer you the choice of updating to 2.1.7, after which they should work again.

Thanks to ylluminate, evansthompson, msubel, and everyone else who pointed this problem out. Special thanks to breeden for helping test the solution!

Version 2.1.6

Epichrome should now do its best to run robustly even when Spotlight indexing is turned off. Note that if you do have Spotlight indexing off, your Epichrome apps will not update themselves automatically (because they can't find Epichrome without Spotlight).

Important: You'll need to turn Spotlight on temporarily and run each of your existing apps to get them to update to 2.1.6 (previous versions won't recognize there's a new version installed without Spotlight). Starting with version 2.1.6, your apps will automatically update, but only if Epichrome is installed exactly in: /Applications/Epichrome.app.

Thanks to linusbobcat, TraderStf and breeden for identifying and helping diagnose this!

Version 2.1.5

Added the ability for non-administrator users to create and update Epichrome apps anywhere on the system by entering an admin password using Apple's authentication window. Also made some minor bug fixes.

Version 2.1.4

Fixed a bug in the removed 2.1.2 release that caused error alerts to not be properly displayed on startup. If you installed version 2.1.2, please update to 2.1.4 as soon as possible. Sorry for the inconvenience.

This release also has some under-the-hood improvements to prepare for a coming update to the Helper extension.

Version 2.1.1

Several small bug-fixes to Epichrome.app. See the Change log for details.

Version 2.1.0

Major release!

Aside from the project being renamed Epichrome (and the usual bug fixes), the headline for this release is that it includes the first version of Epichrome Helper, a Chrome extension that's automatically installed with each app. It handles link redirection so the app can have rules for which links it handles itself and which should be sent to the default browser.

Please see the Readme for more information and other changes in this release. And please keep using Epichrome and sending feedback!

Version 2.0.1

Bug-fix release.

Please update to this version! There's a bug in 2.0.0 that will cause your SSBs to not realize when a new version of Chrome has been installed (as happened today, 6/9/2015).

(Thanks to bikeatefoucault and thinkspill for catching this and helping track this bug down!)

This version also includes new Info.plist filtering code rewritten in Python for more robust XML-handling.