Darkelf Cocoa v7.1.8

# 🍫 Darkelf Cocoa Browser v7.1.8

Native macOS browsing. Stronger content filtering, refined Browser Lock, and improved stability.

Darkelf Cocoa v7.1.8 builds on its **PyObjC + Apple WebKit** foundation with corrected WebKit content-rule compilation, improved website compatibility, refined native menu behavior, and continued privacy enhancements.

✨ What's New

🛡️ WebKit Content Filtering — v15.33

• Fixed a WebKit content-rule compilation error caused by conflicting trigger conditions that could prevent advertising and tracker rules from loading.

• Updated the Darkelf content-rule engine to **v15.33**, ensuring WebKit compiles a fresh rule list.

• Restored reliable content-blocking initialization in the compiled macOS application.

• Preserved site-aware protection handling for CNN, GameSpot, and Deutsche Welle.

• Retained the isolated Sentry script-filtering architecture.

🔒 Browser Lock Refinements

• Improved Browser Lock interaction with native macOS application menus.

• Refined menu accessibility and locked-state behavior.

• Retained native authentication through **LocalAuthentication**, supporting Touch ID or the Mac account password where available.

• Preserved startup authentication, approximately 10-minute inactivity locking, and Dock-minimization locking.

• Darkelf does not collect or store fingerprints or Mac passwords.

Browser Lock is an application-level access control, not a replacement for full-disk encryption or device security.

🎨 Native macOS Interface

• Improved application-menu interaction and consistency.

• Continued refinements to accent-aware controls, themes, and Darkelf branding.

• Preserved custom window movement, resizing, and arrangement controls.

• Retained the lower-left webpage link preview and native navigation behavior.

• Improved stability across browser menus, tabs, and interface components.

📋 Navigation and Shortcuts

• Retained **Paste and Go** in the address-bar context menu.

• Preserved **⇧⌘V (Shift–Command–V)** for opening copied addresses or searching clipboard text.

• Maintained familiar macOS keyboard shortcuts and the built-in Keyboard Shortcuts reference.

⚙️ Build and Stability

• Corrected content-rule compatibility with WebKit's trigger validation requirements.

• Improved consistency between Python-launched development builds and Nuitka-compiled macOS applications.

• Successfully completed pre-signing smoke testing of core browser functionality.

• Continued compatibility testing for CNN, GameSpot, ESPN, NBA, and NHL.

⬇️ Download

Get the macOS release from **Darkelf Cocoa Browser — GitHub Releases**:

https://github.com/Darkelf-Labs/Darkelf-Cocoa-Browser/releases

**Website:** https://darkelfbrowser.com/

**PyPI:** https://pypi.org/project/darkelf-cocoa/

Notes

• **macOS only.** Darkelf Cocoa uses Apple WebKit, AppKit, and PyObjC.

• Touch ID availability depends on Mac hardware and macOS configuration; the system may offer account-password authentication.

• Reddit feed compatibility and Euronews behavior remain under investigation for a future release.

• Privacy protections reduce exposure but cannot guarantee anonymity, universal website compatibility, or complete removal of system-level artifacts.

• Content-blocking effectiveness varies by website and may change as websites update their advertising systems.

**License:** LGPL-3.0-or-later. See the repository for license and third-party notices.