Phi 2.12.0

Phi Browser 2.12.0 has been baking in the oven for a while. The main course is a standalone Phi Chat window, joined by experimental sync, smarter widgets, and a little less of the internet asking for your attention.

Chatting now has a window of its own. You can talk to your assistant without opening a sidebar or visiting the New Tab Page. Website conversations stay with their browser Profile and page context, while standalone chats are available across Profiles. It's a new way to work with Phi, and the foundation for more to come. For now, your assistant has moved out of the spare room.

We've also made conversations easier to manage. Find recent and older chats from the sidebar, select several to move or delete at once, and return a conversation to its original page and sidebar when you want the context back. A thought may wander; finding where it started shouldn't require detective work.

Experimental sync is here, too. Sign in with a Phi account and head to Settings > Sync to securely sync supported preferences across devices. Not everything syncs yet, and this is still early work. Feedback and bug reports are very welcome, especially from anyone whose devices have developed strong individual opinions.

The AI-powered widgets on the New Tab Page can do more, look better, and offer smarter recommendations. Skills now support browser use, and Chat with Tabs can include page content that hasn't loaded yet, giving your assistant more of the material you actually asked it to work with.

Away from chat, we've added ad / tracker / cookie-popup blocking. Reading a page should involve slightly less negotiating with it. You can configure this on a per-profile basis under Settings > Profiles.

Finally, we've fixed an issue preventing downloads of agent-generated files, disconnects when large images appear in ongoing chats, and problems dragging tabs into Split View. We've also addressed the occasional Google Meet crash when entering picture-in-picture from a Kiosk window - meetings can find their own reasons to end early.

More room for your assistant, more continuity between devices, and fewer things interrupting either of you. Quite a bit went into this one. We hope you'll notice the useful parts and promptly forget the annoyances ever existed. A rather thankless definition of progress, but we'll take it.