Recently, we’ve been made aware of two issues in Chrome (and probably Chromium and any other Chrome-based browser). The following are both issues in Chrome version 131.0.6778.70, and possibly some slightly earlier releases:
When/if these issues are resolved in Chrome, we’ll update this post. But for now, if you’re a Chrome-using Witch user, you’ll run into both of these issues.
We have always provided new license file download links to customers who have lost their license files. However, due to limitations with our cart provider’s interface, there was no way for a user to ask for a new download link on their own—we had to process every request. And if you live a time zone much different than ours, that meant waiting. And waiting. And waiting. And nobody likes waiting, especially not when the app you want to use isn’t in a licensed state.
So we’re happy to announce that you can now request your own new license file download links. Bookmark this page for future use:
Enter the email address used for purchasing to receive new links for each app you’ve purchased, or if you have the order number (starts with “MAN” followed by a series of numbers), you can enter that to receive just that one purchase’s license file download links. You also have to complete a hopefully-very-simple captcha before submitting your request.
This feature has been oft-requested, but it took us a while to create a solution because our cart provider has no way to do this programmatically. So behind the scenes, your request is being processed right here on my desk, by a five-year-old laptop that watches for inbound email and then runs a macro to replicate the manual tasks needed to send out license file download links. Yes, it’s a bit Rube Goldbergian, but it works quite well, and I love the fact that a Mac is involved in processing requests for Mac software license files!
If you have any troubles with the new tool, please let us know.
Moom 4.1.3 is out, with a number of minor fixes and a more-informative “Layout doesn’t apply” dialog. Full details, as always, can be found in the release notes.
Moom should inform you of the update, unless you disabled update checking. If you did that, select Moom > Check for Updates from the menu. You can also install a fresh copy of the app from our site (you won’t lose your settings), but the update method is definitely simpler.
Although only a minor bump in version number, Moom 4.1.1 contains a good number of improvements, including the biggie: Moom 4 is aware of macOS Sequoia’s snap-related features, and automatically disables them when the corresponding Moom features are active. You can also now drop windows on partially obscured target areas in drop zones, and we improved things in a number of other areas—check out the release notes for all the details.
Moom 4.1.1 can be downloaded from our site (you won’t lose your settings), or you can update within the app itself via the update checker in the gear icon menu in Moom’s Settings window.
Note: We released 4.1.2 to fix a regression in “Move to Other Display” that affected some users.
If you’re a keyboard-oriented Mac user, Moom 4 speaks your language. Every custom action can have its own keyboard shortcut, for starters. And, of course, there’s Keyboard mode, with even more keyboard-centric powers.
One of the new keyboard-focused features in Moom 4 is hiding at the bottom of the Keyboard section of Moom’s Settings window: The “Access custom actions via hot key” keyboard shortcut box.
This feature isn’t enabled by default (and it’s independent of Moom’s Keyboard mode), but in the above screenshot, it has been assigned a Shift-Control-Option-M shortcut.
Moom 4.1 is out with some bug fixes, and adds a couple of oft-requested features—as much as something can be oft-requested after only existing for a week! First off, you can now see your keyboard shortcuts in the Settings window; set their visibility using the Show Hot Keys in Sidebar menu item in the View menu. (There are three states: On, off, and only visible when the window is wider than its minimum width.)
But the big news in Moom 4.1 is the expanded access to drop zones: You can now activate drop zones in three different ways, including by holding a modifier key (Shift, Fn, Command, Option, and Control) down while dragging a window. This means you can quickly access any of five different layouts’ saved window locations simply by holding a key while dragging a window:
You can even combine drop zone modifier key activation with Moom’s Hover feature—if a modifier key has an assigned layout, and that modifier key is used to hover-move windows, then that layout’s drop zones will instantly activate when you start hover-moving a window.
You’ll find the settings for drop zones’ new access methods in the Snap section of Moom’s Settings, and we highly encourage you to read the relevant section in Help for full details on how these new drop zone access methods work.
And as always, you can read the full release notes to see everything that’s new or fixed in this update. And you can get the update via the in-app updater (in the Settings window’s gear icon), or by downloading a fresh copy of the app from our site—don’t worry, you won’t lose your settings.
Moom 4.0.1 is out, and it addresses three small issues:
You can also read the above in Moom’s release notes, of course—which also contains the massive list of what’s new in 4.0, in case you haven’t seen that yet!
You can update within Moom 4 by clicking the gear icon in Moom’s Settings window and clicking the Check Now button, or by installing a new version from our site—you won’t lose your settings.
Moom 4 is available now, and requires macOS 10.13 or newer. Moom 4 is priced at $15, and existing (Mac App Store or direct) Moom 3 users can upgrade for just $8. Please see How Can I Buy Moom 4 for details on purchasing—especially if you’re an App Store customer, as Moom 4 is only available directly from Many Tricks. (New App Store customers who have just bought Moom Classic in the App Store qualify for Moom 4 upgrade pricing. The total of the App Store and upgrade purchase is the same $15 as new direct customers pay for Moom 4.)
It may have been a long time coming—over 12 years since Moom 3’s release—but we think Moom 4 was well worth the wait. During those years, we’ve been listening to all your input, as well as learning more about what we can do with windows on macOS, and Moom 4 reflects that feedback and learning. It’s both the same app you’ve known and used since its initial release in 2011, and an entirely new app that offers a number of new window management tools.
So what’s new? A slew of stuff! If you enjoy reading long lists, take a look at the release notes, which detail all the changes. It’s an extensive list.
Moom 3.2.27 is out now, with just one change: It works around whatever it was that Apple changed in macOS 14.5 to cause slowdowns when using Moom’s keyboard mode (and potentially some other areas, but keyboard mode was the most noticeable one).
Direct users can update in the app or by downloading a new copy from Moom’s web page; App Store users should see the update in the App Store app either now or very shortly.
Psssst: Many other outstanding moves 4thcoming; stay tuned!
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