Major improvements as Aera approaches its first official release.
What's new
- Chrome Web Store support — install extensions directly from the store or import them from Chrome.
- Expanded extension APIs (some OAuth extensions not fully functional yet).
- Message queues — queue follow-up messages while the agent is still running.
- Find-in-page (Ctrl + F) inside embedded browser views.
- Mainstream browser shortcuts — the majority of standard shortcuts now work.
- Permissions manager — per-website permission access with proper passthrough for all permission types.
- Better tab navigation for the agent — it now moves between tabs instead of opening new ones.
- Loading animations for tool calls, much faster tab resizing, flicker-free inline completions, visible "in-use" tabs for scheduled tasks, removed legacy page caching, and an Electron security update.
Fixes
A long list, including: correct tab switching, search focus on launch, downloads button visibility, global shortcut conflicts with other apps, OS notification titles, chat restoration opening the right chat, bidirectional scrolling for the scroll tool, network requests returning null, scheduled tasks ending correctly, and focus_tab never returning responses.