v0.2.7 ​

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This release focuses on power-user ergonomics: a real CLI for launching Nav0 from the terminal, a sharper keyboard-shortcut story across every platform, a stop-loading button in the address bar, and a handful of paper-cut fixes around Gmail attachments, blurry favicons, and the macOS dock.

Command-Line Launcher ​

• nav0 command in your terminal — Launch Nav0 from the shell on every platform. Linux deb/rpm packages drop a /usr/bin/nav0 symlink automatically; macOS and Windows users get a new Install nav0 in PATH menu item that wires up /usr/local/bin/nav0 (with a graceful admin prompt fallback) or a nav0.cmd shim in %LocalAppData%\Microsoft\WindowsApps.
• --private flag — Open a private window straight from the command line: nav0 --private (or -p).
• --url flag with multiple URLs — Open one or more tabs in a new window: nav0 -u https://example.com https://news.ycombinator.com. Combine with -p for a private session.
• Single-instance routing — A second nav0 ... invocation is forwarded to the already-running app instead of spawning a duplicate process. Plain nav0 simply surfaces the existing window.

Keyboard Shortcuts ​

• macOS Back/Forward use Cmd+[ and Cmd+] — The previous Alt+Left / Alt+Right binding collided with macOS's word-by-word cursor movement in text fields. Linux and Windows still use Alt+Left / Alt+Right.
• Tooltips show the shortcut — Back, Forward, Refresh, and the Tab close button now display their keyboard shortcut on hover, with the correct macOS or Linux/Windows variant.
• Tab Switcher badge respects platform — The Cmd+O / Ctrl+O badge inside the tab switcher overlay now matches the OS instead of always rendering the macOS glyph.
• Audited and fixed shortcut bindings —
  • Cmd/Ctrl+W now closes the active tab via the File menu.
  • Alt+Left / Alt+Right are bound to Back/Forward on Linux and Windows under a new "Go To" menu entry.
  • Toggle DevTools shows the correct platform default (Cmd+Alt+I on macOS, Ctrl+Shift+I elsewhere).
  • Removed Bookmark Page and Focus URL Bar entries that were not actually wired up.
• Options menu shortcut hints corrected — New Private Window now shows Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+N (was incorrectly Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+T) and Settings shows Cmd/Ctrl+, (was Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+,).

Navigation Bar ​

• Stop loading button — The refresh icon now toggles to a stop icon while a page is loading. Clicking it cancels the in-flight navigation; the button flips back to refresh on completion. The state is preserved across tab switches.

Bug Fixes ​

• Gmail PDF attachment downloads — Gmail attachments served with Content-Disposition: attachment no longer crash the sandboxed PDF viewer with "object null is not iterable" mid-download. Explicit attachment dispositions now pass through untouched, while inline/missing dispositions are still rewritten so PDFs continue to open in-tab.
• Sharper tab favicons on Retina displays — When a page advertises multiple <link rel="icon"> URLs, Nav0 now picks the largest candidate (preferring 180×180 apple-touch-icons or 192×192 PNGs over 16×16 ICOs) instead of taking the last entry. Tabs no longer render a fuzzy upscaled 16 px icon when a higher-resolution one was available. No additional network requests.
• Legible desktop icon at small sizes — The packaged macOS app icon used to render as a near-blank rounded square in Finder, the Dock, and Cmd-Tab. The compass mark now uses a thicker, higher-contrast ring rendered through sharp's lanczos3 kernel from a 1024×1024 source, and installer/DMG/Squirrel/RPM artifacts all carry the correct icon.
• macOS dock click restores existing window — Clicking the Nav0 dock icon when a window is already open (including minimized) now restores and focuses the most recently active window, matching Safari, Chrome, and Finder. A new window is only created when none exist.

Issue Reporter ​

• Auto-attached version and build mode — In-app issue reports now include the Nav0 version and whether the browser is running in development or installed (packaged) mode, so maintainers can triage against the correct build.
• Optional "Reported By" field — Users who want to be reachable for follow-up can attach a name, email, or GitHub handle. The field stays optional and empty by default.

Repository ​

• Website moved to a dedicated repo — The docs/ VitePress site has been split out to nav0-org/website so the browser repo stays focused on the application code.