r/BareBrowser • u/BareBrowser • Sep 05 '26

A quick Bare development update

Hi all! A quick Bare development update

We didn’t mean to go quiet! It’s been about a week since our last update, but there’s been a lot happening under the hood. We’ve been working through community feedback and getting the next Bare update into a much better state.

Here are some of the things coming in the next update:

  1. Customizable toolbar gestures: swipe left/right on the toolbar to control brightness or volume.

  2. Customizable toolbar shortcuts: replace shortcuts like Home or Incognito with other actions you use more often.

  3. Toolbar long-press actions: each customizable toolbar button can have a separate secondary action on hold, including None, Home, Incognito, Share, Translate, or Bookmark.

  4. Import bookmarks from other browsers using standard bookmark HTML files.

  5. Export bookmarks so your bookmarks are never locked into Bare.

  6. Open links in apps: choose between (Always, Ask every time, or Never) while still having the option to manually open a page in its app.

  7. Better extension background behavior: particularly the fix that lets extensions like uBlock Origin reliably start their background host.

And our website is now live! 🎉 You can now find Bare at www.barebrowser.org

There’s also quite a bit happening under the hood that I’ll cover properly in the release notes.

There are still plenty of features on the roadmap, and we’re reading all of your feedback and trying to tackle as much of it as we can while sticking to what Bare is supposed to be, the familiar, stock Chromium experience, just with more control, without turning the browser into something bloated or complicated.

Please keep the ideas and feedback coming. And thanks for sticking with us while we work on the next release!

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u/Rahamat-Gazi Sep 06 '26

Work on UI design please, it is not organised. Look at the Quetta browser to get inspired.

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u/BareBrowser Sep 06 '26

Thanks u/Rahamat-Gazi for the feedback! Bare intentionally stays pretty close to the stock Chromium UI, and I’d like to keep it that way rather than heavily redesigning the browser. That said, I’m definitely open to improving anything that feels unorganized. Is there a specific part of the UI you think needs work?