Changelog

Address bar, favorites, quick slots, settings sync

1 October 2026

New

  • UtilEngine in the address bar. Type “ue” and a space, then a command or a bookmark search like “search google lofi beats”, and press Enter. Works on new tabs too. Explore the launcher
  • Favorites. Press Cmd+K (Ctrl+K on Windows) on any launcher row and pick Add to favorites. Favorites sit at the top before you type.
  • Quick slots. Give up to five commands a shortcut of their own and run them from any page, no searching. Pick the command under Shortcuts in Settings, then set its key in your browser.
  • Settings sync. Favorites, quick slots, tool switches, AI models, and the snapshot interval follow you to every browser you sign in on. Shortcut changes follow you between Macs, or between Windows and Linux PCs. Quick slot keys and your OpenRouter key stay with each browser.
  • One Settings window. Tools, AI, shortcuts, and your account now live together in one place.
  • Copy a tab’s link. In Tabs, Cmd+C (Ctrl+C on Windows) copies the highlighted tab’s URL without switching to it.
  • When nothing matches, or you type a long query, Ask AI, Tabs, and Manage Bookmarks sit on top, ready to take what you typed.
  • Open several tabs at once. Select tabs on a saved session or snapshot in the Session Manager and open them together, in a new window or the one you are in. Explore sessions
  • Sessions reopen as you left them. Restoring a session in a new window brings back the window and tab you had in front. Set Active Tab and Set Active Window pick different ones.
  • Incognito stays out. Sessions skip incognito windows, and the AI’s tab and download search skips incognito tabs, until you switch each one on in Settings.
  • New models. GPT-6.1 Sol, GPT-6 Sol, and GPT-6 Luna, each with a Pro version, plus Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Sonnet 5.5, Grok 4.7, GLM 5.3 Prime, and GLM 5.3 FlashX. Gemini 2.5 Pro, Flash, and Flash Lite leave the list. 85 models in total.

Improvements

  • Your OpenRouter key goes in AI Settings, a window of its own, so it is never typed on a web page.
  • HTML Preview renders pasted markup in a sandbox, so its scripts never run on the page you are on.
  • Signing out removes your synced data from that browser, and it all comes back when you sign in. Erase and Deactivate also clears chats and snapshots right away.
  • What’s New. After an update, the toolbar icon, its popup, and the launcher point you to what changed.

Snippets, extensions, unit converter, your own shortcuts

11 September 2026

New

  • Snippets. Save text you type often and insert it into any field by name. Add arguments the launcher asks for, and write {cursor} where the caret should land. Save Selection as Snippet turns highlighted or copied text into one. If no field is focused, or you hold Shift, the text is copied instead. Snippets sync alongside your sessions, bookmarks, and AI commands. Explore snippets
  • Extensions. Type extensions to enable, disable, or uninstall any installed extension, open its options, or see its details, without opening the extensions page. This needs the management permission, so Chrome asks you to accept it once after the update.
  • Unit converter, inline. Type 10 km to miles, 2 GB to MB, or 180 F to C in the launcher. Length, weight, temperature, file sizes, area, volume, speed, and time.
  • The currency converter reads big numbers the way you write them. $125k to INR, 12 crore INR to USD, or 1.5 million dollars in euros.
  • Your own shortcuts. Rebind the launcher’s chords for Save, Actions menu, Select all, Swap input and output, Next tab, Refresh seed, Rename session, and Recapture session from the new Shortcuts page in the popup. Reset any of them to the default in one click.
  • Every AI reply shows its token count, so you can keep an eye on usage.
  • Pin or unpin the tab you are on from the launcher with Pin/Unpin Tab.
  • JSON Parser has four modes. 2 Spaces, 4 Spaces, Minify, and Sort Keys.
  • Base64 Image Encode/Decode turns an image into a data URI and back. JWT Decode reads a token’s header, payload, and expiry.
  • New models. GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6 Astra Pro, Claude Fable 5.1, Gemini 3.8 Flash, and Meta’s Muse Spark and Muse Glimmer. 77 models in total.

Improvements

  • Onboarding is rebuilt around five topics, Browser, Sessions, AI, Bookmarks, and Snippets, with a live launcher scene for each.
  • Jump to any live tab straight from the Session Manager board.
  • History rows show the host, visit count, and last visit on one line.

AI reads the page, tool switches, pick tabs to save

2 September 2026

New

  • The AI can read the page you are on. Ask about “this page” in Chat or Ask AI and it reads the text through a tool, shown as a chip in the answer. It can also read the page’s HTML, down to one CSS selector, your selection, and copied text.
  • Type / in chat to attach the page, your selection, or copied text to a message yourself.
  • A switch for every AI tool in settings. A tool that is off is left out of every request, so the AI can’t call it.
  • Pick which tabs to save. Save Session lists your open tabs first. Enter continues with all of them, Cmd+Enter (Ctrl+Enter on Windows) ticks specific tabs across windows. Name the session and it saves just those.
  • New models. Gemini 3.7 Flash, Grok 4.6, GLM 5.3, and GLM 5.3 Flash. 69 models in total.

Improvements

  • Web search is capped at two searches per answer, so replies come back sooner.
  • Settings panels share one layout, with Cmd+Enter (Ctrl+Enter on Windows) to save.

Sign in, multi-select, tab search

22 August 2026

New

  • Sign in replaces license keys. Click Sign in, use Google or a one-time code sent to your purchase email, and the extension registers the device on its own.
  • Select multiple. In Tabs, History, Downloads, Bookmarks, Snapshots, or a session, press Cmd+Enter (Ctrl+Enter on Windows) to start a selection and Enter to tick more rows, then Cmd+Enter again to act on all of them at once. Shift+Arrow extends the range, Cmd+Shift+A selects all.
  • Search every tab in the Session Manager. Type in the sidebar and matching tabs from all saved sessions and snapshots show up, with where they came from. Pick one and it opens that board with the tab highlighted.
  • Single-letter triggers. Type t, h, or s and hit Enter to jump into Tabs, History, or Sessions.
  • Hide the launcher mid-task and a small pill stays at the top of the page so you can pick up where you left off. Chips above the launcher show the selection and clipboard text it picked up, and which other tabs have it open.
  • View Snapshot. Press Tab on a snapshot to browse its tabs, open a few, or save it as a session. You can also open a single window from any session or snapshot.
  • Sessions now hold up to 25 windows, 250 tabs each.

Fixes

  • Opening a bookmark from a standalone page sometimes did nothing. Fixed.
  • Expired sessions now sign you out cleanly instead of failing on every request.

Improvements

  • Create Session is now Save Session. Typing “create session” still finds it.
  • Every icon on the Session Manager board has a tooltip, with the shortcut where there is one.
  • A searchable Actions menu (Cmd+K) in list views.

AI tools and tab sleep

31 July 2026

New

  • The AI can now use tools while it answers. Web search, calculator, currency conversion, and search across your open tabs, history, downloads, and bookmarks. Every tool call is shown in the chat.
  • Put tabs to sleep from the Session Manager. Sleep one tab or a whole window to free memory without closing anything. One click wakes them.
  • New models. GPT-5.6, Claude Opus 5, Gemini 3.6 Flash, Grok 4.5, and Kimi K3. 67 models in total.
  • Rename chats, delete them with confirmation, and start faster with suggested prompts.

Improvements

  • Smoother chat streaming. The view follows the answer, code blocks got proper headers with working copy buttons, and web search answers show their sources.

Session Manager

9 July 2026

New

  • A full-page Session Manager to view, edit, and restore your sessions.
  • New AI models from xAI and Z.AI. 62 models in total.
  • New AI settings. Pick the model that runs web search and how many results it brings back.

Improvements

  • Every tool now follows one shared design.

Onboarding and snapshots

16 June 2026

New

  • A guided onboarding that takes you from install to first command.
  • Automatic session snapshots. Closed a window by accident? Restore the last snapshot.
  • Restore Last Snapshot reopens the most recent snapshot in one step.

Fixes

  • Sync for AI commands and local storage are more reliable.
  • Tab moves between fields inside the launcher, and its layout no longer shifts.

Sessions and cloud sync

30 May 2026

New

  • Sessions. Save the current window, or all of them, and restore later.
  • Cloud sync. Your sessions, bookmarks, and AI commands follow you across devices.
  • Tabs and Downloads. Search open tabs and past downloads from the launcher.

Fixes

  • Currency converter refreshes its rate cache correctly.
  • The launcher hides itself while a command is running on the page.

Pivot

8 January 2026

New

  • UtilEngine is rebuilt from the ground up, with a new design.
  • Every part of the app works from the keyboard.
  • Calculator, Currency Converter, and History, right in the launcher.
  • Bookmarks with parameters, to open a site with your query already filled in.
  • A redesigned AI tool, with new models.
  • Every tool is redesigned, with new features.