dia Release Notes

What we're building, unfiltered

Starting today, we're rededicating this space to highlighting the newest and most exciting features that we're building. Some of you are already using these features. Some of you have heard whispers. Some of you typed in a secret code and never quite figured out if it was on.

The industry is selling a life with nothing left in it for you to do. An agent to work on your behalf, an assistant to decide on your behalf, a day smoothed down until it asks nothing of you and gives nothing back. We were founded on a different premise.

We believe in making good work feel good, and that life is better when you demand more from it, friction and all, rather than having it automated away. That's why we're showing you our latest, unfiltered, sometimes-rough-around-the-edges features this summer.

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Starting with better mornings...

Mornings are their own small defeat. You open the laptop and it's all already waiting: the forty tabs you left for some better-rested version of yourself, the thread that reached a decision without you, the email you've put off so long that answering it now is practically a confession. It makes you want to scream. We think it shouldn't have to feel like that, so we built the Morning Brief.

It remembers what slipped through the cracks, what deserves your focus, and quiets the storm long enough for you to start the day on your terms.

Get your Morning Brief

Get your Morning Brief

Go into Settings > Apps and turn New Chat on. Connect your tools and you'll receive your first one tomorrow. (We need Slack at a minimum, but connect more for a richer brief!)

Things may not be perfect, they may break, and crash, and give you wonky outputs, so we're excited to explore the friction with you.

More next week!

Stash your PiP out of the way

We’re all constantly doing the dance. You’re multitasking in a meeting (or watching a video) with our nice picture-in-picture window, you go to read something underneath it, and then you spend the next five minutes dragging that window around the screen trying to find a spot where it isn't in the way.

Now, you can stash it. Drag a video or meeting PIP window off to the side of your screen and it sits neatly out of the way, still one click (or drag) from coming back into view. Keep your video close by, without sacrificing the screen real estate.

Shipped by
Adam

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Other ways to stay focused with Dia

⌘-S to zone in.
In case you didn’t know, using the keyboard shortcut command-s hides your tab bar, so you can really zone in on whatever you’re working on. Tap command-s again to bring it back!

⌘-Click to stick together.
The next time you’re diving deep on a research kick, use command-click to select all the tabs you just opened, and then right click to turn them into a tab group. Once the group is opened, Command-Option-T creates a new tab inside the group, so you can keep all your research in one place!

Meeting Tab Groups reduce the scatter.
When you join a meeting (from a calendar preview or meeting reminder), Dia auto-creates a dedicated tab group for that meeting and keeps the meeting tab anchored so it’s easy to find.⁠⁠ As you open meeting-related links (invite links, agenda/docs/boards/tickets, etc.), Dia drops them into that same meeting’s group so everything for the call stays together.

Off the clock

I’m from Minas Gerais, Brazil — the state Brazilians themselves will tell you has the best food in the country. Living in the US, I’ve held onto that identity the best way I know: by throwing parties. Every year, my birthday has become a tradition where nearly a hundred friends and family show up for a full spread of Brazilian music, food and drinks — my wife makes the feijoada (the national dish of Brazil), I’m on caipirinha duty, and between the two of us, nobody leaves hungry or thirsty.

Braised by
Renato

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A few more updates

Every Chrome bookmark makes the move.
Dia now imports bookmarks from Chrome's account file too, so managed and enterprise Google users bring all of them along automatically.
Shipped by Seb

Tab groups stick around.
We fixed a bug where tab groups could unexpectedly get deleted if you’re using sync.
Fixed by Luan

Close tabs in a snap.
Dia handles closing tabs in a more performant way, so that when you close out a tab, you can instantly move on with your day!
Improved by Seb

Behind the design

Last week, our designer Christine shared a bit about her process this Spring. We think you’ll enjoy following her journey as she attempts to design the polar opposite of AI-generated design.

Everything in Its Place

Your browser should feel like a clean desk. Everything where you need it, and nothing in the way. This week, we tuned how Dia handles your tabs.

Switching, closing, and jumping between tabs all feel snappier this week. We reworked how Dia tracks open tabs and moved cleanup work into the background so nothing stutters when you’re in the middle of things. It’s faster when you’re moving and quieter when you’re not.

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Did you know?

Tab Search

Press ⌘ + ⇧ + A to search every open tab in your current Profile by title or keyword. It’s also where you’ll find Recently Closed tabs and groups (including anything Tidy Tabs cleaned up). One search, full recovery.

Tidy Tabs

You set the rules. Go to Dia > Settings > Tabs and pick your window: 12 hours, 24 hours, 3 days, or 7 days. Tabs you haven’t touched get quietly moved to a “Cleaned up” group, one click from coming back. Want a manual sweep? ⌘ + ⌥ + K.

Quick Switch

Hold ⌃ + Tab to flip between your most recent tabs instantly. It’s the fastest way to bounce between two things you’re actively working on.

Want to try what we’re building before it ships? Join our Early Birds program and get first access to new features while they’re still warm.

One Last Thing

Hi from a not-so-cold Oslo (it’s been 20°C/70°F the past several days). Despite the warm weather, my D&D group isn’t taking any outdoor breaks. We’re facing down Acererak, the big bad evil guy, in a campaign that’s now three years running. Here’s me rolling dice during a guest session where a mind flayer met its end. You can also spot our battle map in the photo, a neat contraption built by a friend that projects the board right onto the table.

Dice rolled by
Miko

Stop opening PRs blind

You know that feeling. A PR lands in your queue… and before you even open it, you're covering your eyes. Is it three lines or three hundred? Did CI pass? Is there a merge conflict hiding in there?

Now you can tell before you click. Hover over your PRs in your Github Live Group and Dia shows you CI status and any merge conflicts so you can get a rough read on how big the diff is. Open the ones that need you. Ignore the ones that don't (we didn’t officially say this).

Shipped by

Vardhan

Off the clock

My 2026 goal was to needlepoint Christmas stockings for me and my fiancé. After finding out finishing delays can take up to 5 months, I’ve been on the clock to finish these by end of May to have them back before Christmas. Clock is on, but they're almost done!

Crafted by

Clare Bergman

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A few more updates

Confluence joins the table.

Confluence is now supported in Live Groups, so you can see the Confluences docs that need your attention alongside Notion and Gmail in your Docs Live Group.

Shipped by Vardhan Mudunuru

One emoji to rule them all.

Tab groups now get an automatically selected emoji that represents what’s inside, making them easier to scan and recognize at a glance.

Shipped by Philip Massey

Dia checks Notion now, too.

Notion mentions, comment threads, and share invites all surface in chat, so it’s easier to stay caught up without context switching.

Shipped by Ali Juma

Want early access to features like these? Join our Early Birds program.

Keeping Tabs Tidy

We used to open Dia and ask ourselves: “when did I open all of these tabs?” But now, when tabs pile up, Dia handles the cleanup.

If you have a large number of tabs that haven't been touched in a while, Dia asks if you want to clean them up. One click and they're gone, but not gone forever. Get them back from the overflow menu (that little caret in the corner of your window). Heavy tab users can choose “Clean-Up Daily”, and it will run automatically every morning.

To turn it on, and set how quickly tabs get marked stale, go to Settings > Tabs > Tab Cleanup.

FYI, no tabs harmed in the making of this feature.

Off the clock

I've been having a blast on Facebook Marketplace—it's been a really fun way to get hard to find items and get face to face time with other humans, who are happy to share the story of their things. Recently, I sourced a pair of Panasonic RF-60 [also called Studio II FM Stereo Headset] from 1969, and after needing somewhere to put them, an antique mannequin head.

A few more updates

Sometimes, thine work overfloweth. Dia’s overflow menu got a full re-haul. It now shows open and recently closed tabs/groups, plus submenus for Chats & Files and synced devices.

Shipped by Julia Roggatz

Pictures (and PDFs) are worth a thousand words. Dia opens and reads Slack file attachments (screenshots, images, PDFs) so no context gets lost if it’s not typed out.

Shipped by Ali Juma

Goodbye Brendan. Hello Ben. Dia now pulls your real contact names instead of guessing from email addresses. Morning Brief (and every mention of attendees) will get your teammates right.

Shipped by Jane Kelly

Your Drive keeps you posted. See your Google Drive notifications, like shared docs, comments, share requests directly in Dia. Try asking: "what's been shared with me recently?"

Shipped by Ali Juma

Want early access to features like these? Join our Early Birds program.

Sync unpinned tabs

Ever open a bunch of tabs on one laptop, then switch to a different one and wish they were there too? Now they are. All your unpinned tabs sync automatically across every device you're signed into.

Just open the Tab Overflow menu and you'll see a section with tabs from your other devices. No setup, no extra steps. Just your tabs, there when you need them. To setup Sync, go to Settings > Account and toggle on!

Off the clock

I’ve always been a bit of a tinkerer, with a long-running passion for building and refurbishing lamps. A few months ago I discovered laser cutting, and it’s completely changed how I think about building things. My latest project is a set of pendant lamps for my kitchen counter, built entirely from laser-cut wood pieces. It’s deeply satisfying to design a shape on screen, then watch it become something that lights up your home.

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Your extensions, everywhere. Dia now syncs your extensions, their pinned order, and enabled/disabled state across devices, per profile.

Never miss a new item. Closed live groups now show an unread badge when they contain new items, and it clears once everything's been read.

A new sidebar drag. The sidebar now rubber-bands when you drag it past its max or min size, for a small touch, but satisfying update.

Tab switching, improved. With the removal of a legacy system, tab switching is snappier and more performant.

PiP is back where it belongs. Clicking "Back to Tab" in a PiP window now brings Dia to the front, every time.

Tidying up multi-select. Right-click outside to clear a selection. The context menu is clearer when you've got multiple tabs selected.

Want early access to features like these? Join our Early Birds program.

A closer look

Open Dia this week and it might look the same. But take a closer peek, and you'll notice—things are tidier, quieter, more considered. This week’s updates don’t announce themselves, but once you start noticing them, your Dia experience is that much better.

A more scannable sidebar

Spacing is tighter, labels are clearer, and the font size is a bit bigger and easier to read. It’s the same sidebar you know, just cleaner, calmer, and easier on the eyes.

A refreshed Tab Switcher

The Tab Switcher got an updated layout with new colors and shadows. The switcher now hides tabs you haven't visited in a while. So when you press Ctrl+Tab, you flip through what you're actually using, not every tab ever opened

A browser that blends in

Dia should feel less like a frame around your content and more like an extension of it. The top band of your browser now picks up the color of the site you're visiting, and keeps up as the page changes beneath it, even after you scroll.

Preferences that travel with you

With Sync, your settings now follow you. Set your Tabs, Privacy, Profiles, Memory, Shortcuts, and more on one machine, and they're already waiting on the other. One Dia, every device.

Sometimes the best updates are the ones that make everything feel a touch better. Drop us a line on Twitter and tell us what you notice.

One Last Thing

Somehow my Beanie Baby days are not behind me? We're in a Juju craze over here. Forever inspired by artist CJ Hendry; we're really obsessed with collecting and coveting these immaculately packaged and super soft, elevated 'labubus.' We're setting timers for the drops and hoping for a rare one in the next!

Your work comes to you

You’re in a meeting, and someone asks, “did you see the doc I shared?” You didn’t.

We’ve all been there: a comment you missed, a page you never saw, a doc you made weeks ago that’s suddenly back in play.

What if you didn’t have to go looking for that work at all? What if it came to you?

We started with GitHub, but today, Live Work goes beyond code.

Introducing Live Docs

Live Docs is a new Live Tab Group that surfaces your active Notion pages and Google Docs in one place. Live Docs pulls in comments, suggestions, mentions—all the “hey, can you look at this?” moments—and brings them to you. One group, no tab wrangling.

Jump in, then move on

Your docs appear when there’s activity, like a comment, a mention, or a share. Plus, they link straight to the change, not the top of the page so you can jump right in. Once you’ve handled it, the doc fades out. Clear the last one, and your group goes quiet. That empty state? You earned it.

Know when your work is landing

When your doc starts getting traction, you’ll know. Live Docs shows viewer counts on shared pages—so when your proposal has “5 viewers today,” you know it’s making the rounds.

Live Work is expanding

With GitHub, we brought live work to engineers. With Live Docs, we’re bringing it to everyone whose work lives in documents.

Your work comes to you, stays in your line of sight while it matters, and cleans up when it’s done.

One Last Thing

I took photography classes in high school and recently decided to get back into it! I purchased a refurbished Pentax K1000 film camera and have been having a lot of fun testing out different film. I normally take digital photos, but film really makes you pick your shot, and it has been really refreshing. I recently took a bunch of photos while traveling in Kauai; the one here is of the Napali Coast!

Snapped by Molly

v1.16.0 deepens Dia's tab story with new ways to make your workspace feel settled, organized, and tailored to how you actually work. Pin the projects that matter most, grow into Tab Groups with a familiar click, and tune tab behavior from a dedicated home in Settings. Here's what's new:

What's new

• Pin the tab groups that anchor your day. You can now pin tab groups to the top of the sidebar or the leading edge of the tab strip.

• Command‑click into a tab group. Command‑clicking a link from a tab now opens that link in a new tab group, instead of just a standalone background tab. The original page and the new tab live together in that group, so a simple "open in new tab" gesture quietly becomes a lightweight project space.

• Shortcut to open a new tab in a group. Option‑Command‑T now opens a new tab inside your current tab group instead of next to it so you can keep related work together.

• A Tabs pane in Settings. Tab‑related preferences now live together in a dedicated Tabs pane in Settings. Switch between sidebar and top bar layouts, and adjust Tab Group behaviors like automatic meeting grouping from one place.

• Recently closed groups are easy to restore. When you close a tab group, it now shows up in the Recently Closed section in Tab Overflow and History menus. If you close a project group a bit too aggressively—or just want to revisit yesterday's setup—you can bring it back in a couple of clicks.

• Profile indicators and menus that feel more at home. The profile indicator now lives more subtly inside the pinned tabs tray and sidebar header, with refined theme colors that make windows feel cohesive without shouting for attention. Context menus for empty spaces in the sidebar and top bar have also been standardized, so common actions are easier to find no matter where you right‑click.

• Default profiles are easier to set. Making a profile your default is now a clear, first‑class action from the Profiles pane in Settings.

• Manifest V2 extensions are phasing out. Starting in v1.17, Dia will no longer supports legacy Manifest V2 extensions. With a built‑in ad blocker in place and the ecosystem moving toward Manifest V3, this keeps Dia aligned with modern extension standards and improves security and stability over time.

Dia v1.15.0

Dia v1.15.0 is a polish-heavy release focused on the small upgrades to the features you use every day. Here's what's new:

• Google Meet PiP share fix. Clicking Share in Picture‑in‑Picture now returns you to the Meet tab so the share dialog is accessible.
• Automatic reload after turning off ad block. Pages now automatically reload when ad block is disabled to avoid stale content.
• Option to delete Chats. You can now Delete chat conversations from Chat history with the right click context menu.
• Slack scraping improvements. Dia now reads more structured content for channels and threads when you attach Slack to a Chat.
• New Tab Page theming. The New Tab Page now uses your profile color, with a theme‑colored gradient animation under the command bar that fades in and shimmers.
• Tahoe Liquid Glass designs. Refined visuals for macOS Tahoe with polished corners and a new glass‑style app icon.
• F12 opens Developer Tools. You can now open DevTools with F12 and bind function keys (F1–F12) as shortcuts.
• Tab Handoff. Open tabs from your iPhone directly in Dia on Mac via macOS Handoff.
• Confirm dialog loop protection. Tabs stuck in repeated confirmation dialogs can now be closed without locking the entire window.
• Bookmark Bar menus auto‑size. Dropdown menus now auto‑size up to 600px, making long document titles easier to read.
• Select and copy dialog text. You can now select and copy text from dialog titles and messages for debugging and support.

Thank you for continuing to use Dia! We're already looking forward to bringing you more updates next week.

Dia v1.14.0

Here's what's new:

• Tab Groups for Meetings. Tab Groups for Meetings ship in this release, keeping your meeting tabs and related links together. Now when you join a meeting, Dia automatically creates a Meeting tab group to keep your call anchored and your meeting resources together. As you open meeting-related links, Dia drops them into the meeting's group, and the group can show how much time is left when you're close to the end. After the meeting ends, it becomes a normal tab group, with auto-cleanup behaviors so meeting groups don't turn into clutter.

• Mention Tab Groups in Chat. You can @-mention Tab Groups in assistant queries to attach all the tabs at once. Think of a tab group as a context container for bringing your work to Chat.

• Tab Group refinements. Close out tab groups in sidebar mode with a click of the X and right click to copy all URLs in a group.

• Profile-wide Tab Search. ⌘-shift-A now searches across all windows in the current profile, not just the current window.

• Customize your tabs with emojis. Choose a custom emoji/icon for any tab so it's easier to spot.

• Default profile management. Change which profile is default and delete any non-default profile (including the initial one).

• Cleaner assistant links. Links in assistant responses now show favicons, cleaned-up titles, and informative hover tooltips.

• More reliable search fetching. Assistant Google search scraping now uses rate limits and delays to avoid triggering reCAPTCHAs.

• YouTube summaries in Chat. Open Chat on any YouTube video for a pre-generated summary of the video.

• New status page. Visit status.diabrowser.com to check the status of Dia.

• Extension search engines fixed. Extensions that provide custom search shortcuts work properly again.

• Duplicating pinned tabs. Duplicating a pinned tab now opens a normal tab instead of another pinned one.

• Popups behave more like tabs. Popups now support printing, Find in Page, and ⌘+shift+C copy.

• This week includes a bump to Chromium 144, which includes improvements to security, stability, and performance.

Tab groups improvements

Dia v1.13.0 kicks off the new year by tidying up the everyday details in Dia.

Tab groups improvements. Closed tab groups now overflow into a simple button instead of crowding your strip. Group menus show icons and colors to make destinations easier to spot, and new groups drop you straight into renaming so you can label projects in the moment. Command‑click‑created single‑tab groups automatically ungroup once only the original tab remains, so quick one‑offs don’t linger.

A calmer side panel

The side panel has a refined look and no longer flickers when you move between tabs with different side panel states, keeping context changes feeling smooth and steady.

Better ad block coverage

Ad blocker blocklists have been updated to give you better coverage while reducing odd breakages on the sites you rely on.

No more missing favicons

Dia now pre‑warms the favicon cache on launch so icons appear right away as you restore tabs and windows. A Notion‑specific favicon bug has also been resolved, so workspaces show up with the right identity.

Bookmarks that are easier to file

When you save a bookmark, the interstitial now shows the full folder tree inline, making it faster to drop links into the right place without digging.

Lists in Chat that read cleanly

Chat now renders bulleted and numbered lists with correct markers and indentation, avoids hard‑to‑read lists‑in‑tables, and can auto‑correct slightly off list formatting so your writing and pasted content stay legible.

More resilient Notion attachments

We've shipped a series of page scrapping improvements for more reliable attachments from Notion and other tools.

A cleaner look for meeting reminders

Meeting reminders now use richer, platform‑specific branding.

Dia v1.10.0

Dia v1.10.0 is all about tying up loose ends—from long‑requested support, to polish on new features, to fixes that keep day‑to‑day work feeling smooth. Here's what's new:

What's new

• Chromium Side Panel support. Extensions that use the Chromium Side Panel can now render their side-panel UI directly in Dia.

• Tab groups get easier to scan and name. New tab groups derive their color from the site's favicon or URL bar theme color, and when you create a new group with tabs on top, Dia now drops you straight into renaming so you can label projects while you're in the flow.

• Google Sheets support in Chat. The Assistant can now see beyond the first visible slice of a sheet—reading across all sheets and rows in a document so summaries and analyses capture the full picture.

• Retry without attachments. If a query fails because of a problematic attachment, you can now quickly rerun it without that attachment instead of starting from scratch.

• Ask on Page now opens in new tabs. Links from Ask on Page results now open in a new foreground tab, preserving the original context while you jump into the answer.

• Non‑US keyboard shortcuts, fixed. Keyboard shortcuts like ⌘Z now behave correctly on layouts such as AZERTY and Dvorak, so undo and other core commands work the way you expect across apps.

• Fewer dark‑mode flashes. Notion and Slack now honor their dark backgrounds when you switch tabs, preventing distracting white flashes as you move between workspaces.

• More reliable window controls. A speculative fix addresses rare cases where macOS window traffic lights could appear duplicated after unlocking or moving in and out of fullscreen.

• Faster navigation from history. Back, forward, and reload history entries can be cmd‑ or middle‑clicked to open in a new tab, making it easier to explore alternate paths without losing your place.

• Smarter fullscreen on multi‑display setups. Sites using the Fullscreen API can now target another display, so full‑screen experiences land where you want them.

Thanks for using Dia and for all the shared feedback that shapes these releases.

Dia v1.9.0

Here's what's new:

Stay organized with Tab Groups

Organize your work by project, topic, or client with tab groups. Groups are color‑coded, customizable, easy to scan, and stay put so you can return to your work exactly where you left it.

Meetings that stay in reach

A refreshed calendar experience helps you show up prepared: Dia will automatically create an Active Meeting tab group when you join calls, keep "relevant links" pointing to the right docs and boards, and show live badging on the Calendar icon so you always know how long you have until your next meeting. Logged‑out calendar previews now include a clearer sign‑in prompt and update as soon as you log in.

Smarter tool calling behind the scenes

Dia automatically decides when to reach for tools like Gmail, Google Calendar, Slack, or Tabs based on your request, so you can just ask and let the browser handle the wiring.

Create more with shortcuts

We've added support for new wiki, new jira, new form, new meeting, new gist, new Figma and more from the command bar.

Fewer accidental voice triggers

After user reports of voice mode triggering at unwanted moments we've introduced tighter constraints for when it turns on and off.

There was a bug where Resy sometimes would not load correctly

We've fixed that so you can get back to booking your reservations.

Thank you for using Dia!

Please keep the feedback coming.

What's new in Dia v1.8.0

Dia v1.8.0 is filled with simple, team favorite, updates that smooth out daily frictions. Here's what's new:

• Tab renaming. Double‑click any tab to rename it in place.
• Faster, clearer voice input. Voice input gets a refreshed UI plus keyboard shortcuts so it's easier to start dictation from wherever you are.
• More Slack in context. You can now use Slack activity search to see mentions, unreads, and recent workspace activity directly in Dia. It's a quicker way to pull up the details that matter without hunting through channels.
• Create docs without breaking flow. Type "new …" into the Command Bar to spin up a new document, spreadsheet, slide deck, or ticket right from Dia. It's the fast path from idea to artifact.
• Fewer flashes and empty tabs. Closing a tab no longer flashes the background page—Dia simply brings the next site into view. Under the hood, we now protect your last 10 recently used tabs from being proactively discarded (they can still be closed under heavy memory pressure or by extensions).
• Downloads under control. Paused downloads can finally be canceled directly, fixing a long‑standing bug that left them stuck in limbo.
• Meeting PiP fixes. Picture‑in‑Picture for Google Meet behaves more reliably. When you switch around Dia, the PiP window now appears when and where you expect it, so you can move between tabs without losing sight of the conversation.
• Chrome pinned tabs come along. When you import from Chrome, your pinned tabs now arrive in Dia already pinned, so your anchors stay right where you expect them.

Thanks for browsing with Dia. If anything doesn't feel quite right in v1.8.0, tell us—each fix helps keep the browser feeling fast, stable, and ready for real work.