WAYFARER GUIDE

Your first minutes with Wayfarer

Practical guidance for the current beta, with clear choices and honest limitations.

Run the Windows beta

Download the current Windows x64 ZIP, extract the entire folder and open Wayfarer.exe. Keep its resources and runtime files together. Windows may warn because this beta is unsigned. Android is a separate early testing APK.

Make it yours

Open Settings to choose a skin and search provider. Home Port lets you arrange blocks, add a background and import CSS. Right-click tabs to pin, mute or organize them. Vertical tab rails expand on hover, keyboard focus or tap.

Keep your tools close

The toolbar shelf holds one selected toolbar. Detach up to three favorites into independent rows. Manage each toolbar and inspect its destinations in Settings > Add-ons.

Ask the goblin

Click Chat to ask Gobsworth about a feature. His local help catalog explains documented behavior and opens highlighted settings. If a question is unclear, he offers choices. He is not an AI model.

Keep your work

Use Destinations for bookmarks and folders, Journeys for groups of page addresses and Field Notes for your notebook. Optional Tab Camp reduces memory by unloading eligible idle tabs. Save important form work before parking a tab.

Stay current

A quiet Update available badge links to Updates. Downloads are verified by size and SHA-256. Close Wayfarer, extract the new ZIP into a new folder and launch its executable. Your local profile is reused.

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