Refrax – my Arc Browser replacement I made from scratch

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Open the same tab in two browser windows. In Chrome or Safari, you get two unconnected pages. In Arc, one window shows a placeholder. In Zen, it silently creates a duplicate.In Refrax, the browser I built, both windows show the same page updating live. The same web page, in as many windows as you want.This shouldn't be possible. WebKit's WKWebView can exist in exactly one view hierarchy at a time. With macOS 26, Apple added a SwiftUI API separating WebView from WebPage, so you can end up with multiple views referencing the same page. But if you try it, your app crashes. WebKit source code has a precondition with this comment: "We can't have multiple owning pages regardless, but we'll want to

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