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Install

Install Glaze in Chrome, Edge or Brave, Firefox, Safari on a Mac, or on iPhone and iPad.

3 min read4 chaptersBy FrostdevUpdated
GlazeA practical path
  1. 01Enable on your site
  2. 02Choose your palette
  3. 03Make it comfortable

Small steps. A result you can verify.

Chrome

Install from the Chrome Web Store.

Load unpacked (development)

  1. Clone or download this repository.
  2. Open chrome://extensions.
  3. Enable Developer mode (top right).
  4. Click Load unpacked and select the repository folder.
  5. Open your Blackboard Ultra, Canvas or Moodle site and click the Glaze icon.

Firefox

Glaze for Firefox needs Firefox 140 or newer. Until it is listed on Firefox Add-ons, try it from a build: run sh scripts/package-firefox.sh, open about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox, click Load Temporary Add-on… and pick dist/glaze-v<version>-firefox.zip. A temporary add-on is removed when Firefox quits.

The Firefox package is the Chrome package with a rewritten manifest: Firefox has no extension service worker, so the background runs as an event page that loads every script the worker imports. Google Calendar sync needs Chrome’s sign-in and isn’t in the Firefox build; the calendar export is.

For the dedicated Firefox for Android emulator, launcher and validation checklist, see Firefox for Android testing.

Safari on Mac

Download the Mac app: signed and notarized, attached to each release on GitHub Releases. It runs on Intel and Apple Silicon Macs with macOS 12 or newer. Glaze’s styling needs Safari 17.2 or newer; the frosted-glass blur needs Safari 18.

  1. Open the .dmg, open Glaze and click Install Glaze. It copies itself into Applications (your own ~/Applications if you aren’t an administrator) and reopens from there. Dragging it into Applications works too. (A .zip of the same app is there too.)
  2. Glaze opens Safari’s Extensions settings and shows an illustrated guide: tick Glaze, then allow it on your Blackboard, Canvas or Moodle site. The guide ticks off the first step as soon as Safari turns Glaze on.

The downloaded Mac app checks https://frostdev.io/projects/glaze/appcast.xml about once a day while Glaze is in use and downloads updates from GitHub. Sparkle system profiling is disabled. Background checks stay silent and skip updates that need user interaction; opening Glaze yourself can show the standard updater interface. An installation previously prepared through that interface may still show its existing progress window when a background check finishes it. The Mac App Store and iPhone/iPad apps use App Store updates and include no Sparkle updater.

iPhone and iPad

Glaze for Safari on iPhone and iPad needs iOS or iPadOS 18 or newer. It comes from the same App Store listing as the Mac app; buying or installing on one platform covers the other.

  1. Install Glaze and open it. It shows a two-step guide.
  2. Turn Glaze on in Settings › Apps › Safari › Extensions › Glaze by switching on Allow Extension. On iOS 26.2 and newer, the guide’s Open Settings button takes you to Safari’s extension settings, and the guide ticks the step off as soon as Glaze is on.
  3. Open your Blackboard Ultra, Canvas or Moodle site in Safari and tap the extensions button in the address bar (a puzzle piece; on iPhone it can be in the page menu at the left of the address). Tap Glaze, then Always Allow… and Always Allow on This Website, and reload the page.

The popup and the editor are under the same button. The editor also opens from Settings › Apps › Safari › Extensions › Glaze › Settings.

Also on Glaze's GitHub wiki.

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