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Tabs & windows

The tabs you actually want.

Egg ships a real tab system — vertical layout, color groups, drag, pin, mute, duplicate — and persists everything across restarts.

Vertical sidebar tabs

Stack tabs in a left sidebar with a wide preview hover. Drag-to-reorder works the same as horizontal mode.

Tab groups with color stripes

Right-click any tab → Add to New Group. Auto-color from an 8-color palette. Top stripe in horizontal mode, left stripe in vertical mode.

Tab thumbnails

Each tab is captured once when it’s rendered — reused across boots and tab-switcher views. No periodic snapshotting, no off-screen crawling.

Pin, mute, duplicate

Standard tab-strip actions, plus per-tab idle override so a backgrounded tab can keep working.

Right-click anywhere

Save As, Print, View Source, Inspect, Idle Override, Add to Project. Link context menu adds Add to Project and Open in Background.

Multiple windows

Drag tabs out, open isolated profile windows, run two windows side-by-side.

Address bar & navigation

Type less, find more.

The address bar autocompletes from history and bookmarks, with frequency-weighted scoring so the page you want is the first suggestion.

Frequency-weighted suggestions

Suggestions blend domain completion, history, and bookmarks. Pages you visit more bubble up.

Folder bookmarks

Cascading bookmark menu in the toolbar with theme inheritance and adaptive height. Import from Chrome and Firefox in one click.

Persistent history

URLs, visit counts, timestamps. Searchable. Synced once on first device pairing (see Sync below).

Custom new-tab page

Dark/light aware, fast cold start, no third-party trackers.

Replaced error pages

No Edge or Chromium branding when a page fails to load — just a clean Egg error screen.

Service worker bypass

Bypasses site service workers during feed and content extraction so you always get fresh data.

Profiles

Full identity sandboxes.

Switch between work, personal, and burner identities. Each profile gets its own cookies, passwords, history, color, and avatar.

Isolated containers

Each profile is a separate data directory. No cross-contamination of cookies, sessions, or storage.

Profile windows

Open dedicated windows per profile. Clear visual identification via avatar and accent color.

Customizable

Avatar, color, description, default email, default workspace directory.

Per-profile defaults

Pin a search engine, tracking level, or LLM key per profile. Switching changes everything.

Passwords & passkeys

A vault that travels with you.

Built-in WebAuthn authenticator and an encrypted password vault. Import from Chrome and Firefox. Synced E2E across paired devices.

Self-authored WebAuthn authenticator

ES256 keys, vault-encrypted at rest. Two AAGUIDs — one for synced, one for device-bound. Sites that accept passkeys work natively.

Encrypted local vault

Master-password protected. Auto-fill on form recognition. Vault-locked imports park encrypted and drain on unlock.

Win + Mac

Touch ID for user verification

On macOS, passkey UV uses Touch ID. Windows UV is pending packaging work.

Mac today · Win pending

Import from Chrome & Firefox

Elevated import on first launch reads native vaults. Brings credentials over without re-authenticating each site.

Auto form-fill

Multi-profile autofill for names, emails, phones, addresses. Right-click any field to fill from a saved profile.

Native autofill suppressed

WebView2’s built-in password and autofill UI is disabled, so the only fill UI you see is Egg’s.

End-to-end encrypted sync

Sync without an account.

Pair two devices with a 6-character invite. Bookmarks, passwords, passkeys, settings, and firewall rules sync continuously, end-to-end encrypted. No account, no central cloud store — the relay only ever sees ciphertext.

Device pairing

6-character invite codes with a 15-minute TTL. Short Authentication String verification on first connect. Pairings are device-to-device, not account-based.

AES-256-GCM, X25519 ECDH

Per-pair derived keys. Replay protection via monotonic counters. Cloud holds opaque blobs only.

Continuous categories

Bookmarks, passwords, passkeys, app settings (allow-listed), firewall rules. Last-write-wins on per-row timestamps.

One-time transfer

Browse history and current open tabs are transferred once during pairing — not continuously, since they bloat fast.

Vault-aware delivery

If the receiving vault is locked, encrypted password and passkey batches park in a pending queue and drain on unlock. Nothing is lost, nothing is decrypted prematurely.

Settings allow-list

Only keys explicitly marked syncable cross devices — theme, search engine, ad blocking, tracking level, LLM provider, etc. Local-only keys (file paths, install state) stay put.

Extensions

Bring your Chrome extensions.

Paste any Chrome Web Store URL, or point at an unpacked folder. The extension APIs are supported by the engine itself, not faked through a compatibility layer. Windows today.

Install from Web Store URL

Paste any Chrome Web Store link. Egg fetches the .crx, validates it, and installs.

Windows

Unpacked folder load

Point at a local directory for development. Reload from the Extensions page.

Windows

Toolbar icons + popups

Extension action icons appear in the toolbar. Popups render in their own native panel.

Native extension APIs

54 Chrome extension APIs are built into the engine itself, not shimmed. Storage, tabs, runtime, scripting, webRequest, declarativeNetRequest, and more.

Network & privacy

Privacy at the protocol layer.

Always-on tracker blocking, parameter stripping, and prefetch suppression — below the page, before content even loads.

Ad & tracker blocking

~90 ad/tracker domains blocked at the network layer via Network.setBlockedURLs. Per-site whitelist available in the address bar shield.

Tracking prevention levels

None, Basic, Balanced, Strict — matching the WebView2 setting. Strict breaks some sites; Balanced is the default.

Tracking parameter strip

40+ tracking params (utm_*, fbclid, gclid, …) stripped from URLs on load and on copy. Bounce-tracking redirects bypassed.

Prefetch & preconnect blocked

Browsers ping ad networks before you click. Egg blocks that.

Clipboard gating

Sites can’t silently read your clipboard. Pasting requires your action.

Optional WebRTC leak prevention

Hide your local IP from sites that abuse WebRTC’s ICE candidates.

Downloads & media

Save anything.

Standard file downloads, plus a video saver that knows about every site.

Download manager + page

Persistent list of every download with progress, cancel, open file, open folder. Available at egg://downloads.

Video save via yt-dlp

Bundled yt-dlp resolves stream URLs and saves the actual video file. Works on YouTube, Vimeo, Twitter, TikTok, and a thousand other sites.

DownloadBar

Mini progress bar across the bottom while downloads run. Click any item to open or reveal in folder.

Widevine DRM

Inherited from WebView2. Netflix, Spotify, and other DRM-protected media play.

Polish

The little things.

The settings power users care about, mostly hidden until you need them.

Accept-Language ranking

Drag languages into your preferred order. Sets the HTTP Accept-Language header and JS navigator.languages.

Per-tab mute

Right-click a tab to silence the audio without leaving the page.

Idle override

Tell a tab the page is "always active" so background timers don’t throttle.

Custom user agent

WebView2 default UA gets a custom suffix — sites that gate features by browser still work.

View source · print · save as

The basics, in the right-click menu.

Background download for links

Right-click any link → Download Linked File. No surprise navigations.

The browser, done right.