LaunchBar 6.23

What's new in this version:

New Features and Improvements:
- This release brings substantial improvements to VoiceOver support throughout LaunchBar. For details see the “Accessibility & VoiceOver” section below.
- Pasting a URL onto a web browser app that’s currently selected in LaunchBar now opens that URL directly in that browser
- Improved System Settings indexing to include the “Menu Bar” and “iCloud” panes, and to show the correct icon and name for the “Apple Intelligence & Siri” pane
- On macOS 26, menu icons have been added to the menu bar and to context menus of both LaunchBar and the Action Editor
- The menu icons are now larger and easier to read
- The icons in the menu bar of LaunchBar in macOS Tahoe can be hidden via the HideMenuIcons user default in the command line
- If a custom action returns a single item with alwaysShowsSubtitle set, the item list will be opened automatically
- Refined Default theme appearance
- Improved Music library indexing
- Improved performance of accessing an application’s recent documents
- “Previous Recipient” has been renamed to “Previous Email Recipient” for clarity
- The keyboard shortcut for the “Open” action in the action menu has changed from Return to Command-O, so that pressing Return while navigating the menu with arrow keys correctly selects the highlighted item rather than triggering Open
- Improved compatibility with the latest version of MindNode for accessing MindNode documents via LaunchBar
- Music items now consistently use the term “song” rather than “track”
- A new option in Settings > Advanced lets you specify the default sort order of folder contents when browsing folders with the Right-Arrow key

You can also enforce a certain sort order on the fly while browsing with modifier keys:
- Command-Right: Sort by Modification Date
- Shift-Command-Right: Sort by Date Added
- Option-Command-Right: Sort by Name
- Option-Shift-Command-Right: Sort by Name, folders on top

Accessibility & VoiceOver:
Descriptions & Item Types:
- Albums now include the album artist in their VoiceOver title
- Song descriptions now include the duration of the song
- Contacts and contact detail items have improved VoiceOver descriptions
- Birthday items have improved VoiceOver descriptions
- Folders without read permission are no longer wrongly described as “empty folder”
- Certain file types (web apps, services, framework header files) now have accurate type descriptions
- The “Computer” item now speaks the number of mounted volumes
- Containers now have more concise descriptions (the word “contains” has been dropped)
- Items whose contents can be browsed via Right-Arrow have an improved default VoiceOver content description
- Single-word text items now speak the number of characters
- Info Browsing items have improved VoiceOver descriptions
- “Hidden Folder Contents” and “Package Contents” now provide a VoiceOver title
- Added missing VoiceOver title for grouped document items

Navigation & Interaction:
- The VoiceOver-Space keyboard shortcut now opens LaunchBar’s action menu
- VoiceOver output updates dynamically when modifier keys are pressed or released, which is particularly useful during Send-to operations, where the available action (move/copy/make alias) changes based on which modifiers are held
- The Send-to target item now has an improved VoiceOver description
- Instant Info Browsing now works correctly when VoiceOver is enabled
- A confirmation alert is now shown before moving items to the Trash when VoiceOver is on
- The VoiceOver description for the “Clipboard History” action now suppresses the redundant “Action” suffix and speaks the number of items in the history
- Indexing rule items now have an improved VoiceOver title
- Preventing hotkey input fields in Setting window from incorrectly receiving keyboard focus via VoiceOver
- Improved VoiceOver output on Instant Send
- Improved accessibility of the Welcome and License windows

Fixed:
- Fixed an incompatibility with macOS 26.4 that caused the LaunchBar window to appear without a drop shadow
- Fixed the “Compress (ZIP Archive)” action, which failed out of the box due to missing permission to run third-party Automator actions
- Fixed intermittent Clipboard History and ClipMerge failures
- Fixed certain file types (.md, .patch) being incorrectly described as “Package”
- Fixed indexing rule subtitles to correctly show the number of visible items rather than all items
- Added missing localizations for Info Browsing labels and the German localization for the “Documents” suffix (e.g. “Numbers-Dokumente”)