Search

# Search

A small, fast, quiet web browser for the Mac, by [Office Commun](https://officecommun.com).

![Search, with its tabs down the left and a page taking the rest of the window](.github/screenshot.png)

**[Download for macOS →](https://searchbrowser.app)** · macOS 14 or later · free · about 10 MB

Or with [Homebrew](https://brew.sh): `brew install --cask driceroland/tap/search`

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## What it is

Search is a browser with nothing in the way. A row of tabs — across the top or down the left, your choice — and the page. There is no toolbar, no start page, no sidebar of suggestions, no account to sign into, nothing that wants your attention. You type an address or a few words in one field and you are on the page.

It uses **WebKit**, the engine already inside every Mac (it is what Safari runs on). That is why the whole app is about 10 MB on disk and opens instantly: there is no second copy of Chromium to download, update and keep in memory.

It was built by a design studio that spends its whole day in a browser and was tired of the ones that had become products. This one is a tool.

## What it does

- **One field.** Type an address and you go there; type words and you search. It finishes addresses from your own history and never sends what you type anywhere until you press Return.
- **Tabs that stay out of the way.** Pin the pages you keep open all day and they shrink to a letter or their icon. Tabs from your last session come back instantly and cost nothing until you click them. `⌘K` lists your open tabs by name.
- **Keep an important site running.** Enable Keep selected sites awake in Settings › Tabs, then choose Keep This Site Awake in the site card. It prevents sleeping and automatic closure, even under memory pressure, at the cost of more memory. Private choices last only in that tab; manual closing still works.
- **Two pages side by side.** Turn on Split View in Settings › Tabs, then drag a tab onto a page or choose Tabs › Split Current Page. Drag the divider to resize the panes; the outlined pane receives page commands. Pairs and their widths come back with their Space, including after a restart.
- **Reading mode.** `⇧⌘R` strips a page down to the article.
- **Hide anything, for good.** `⇧⌘H`, then click a cookie banner, a newsletter overlay, a rail of "related" nonsense — it goes, and it is still gone on that site next time, before the page has drawn a single frame.
- **An ad blocker that runs before the page.** Third-party trackers and ad networks are stopped at the network level, so there is nothing to render and nothing to slow down. On by default, off per site if something breaks.
- **Video that follows you.** `⇧⌘P` lifts the video out of the page into a small window that stays above everything, including other apps.
- **Passwords, in your keychain.** Search offers to save a sign-in once it has actually worked, and offers your saved accounts, and the Mac's passkeys for the site, under the field when you click it — the way Safari doe