macOS 26 Tahoe Brings a Fresh New Look for Fire

This week, Apple is releasing macOS 26 "Tahoe," the next major version of its Mac operating system. Tahoe brings a huge visual design change to macOS, and we've taken this opportunity to do some visual refinements to Fire, our Mac development environment for Elements, as well – both to make Fire fit in well with the changed aesthetics of Tahoe, but also just to give it a fresher and more modern look in general.

Personally, I think Fire has never looked more beautiful! 🤩

The new unified status bar now extends across all three panes at all times, and of course, still changes color based on what's currently happening in Fire – building, debugging, or if the last build failed.

Cleaner, SF Symbols-based icons have been added throughout the IDE, including for common actions on the toolbar, round building/running status icons that perfectly fit the new pill shape of the Tahoe tabs, as well as fresh icons for all objects in the application.

And Code Completion and other editor popups now show in beautiful Liquid Glass:

We've also added a few fun new themes, alongside tweaks and improvements to the existing ones. For example, here's the awesome new Pink Dream theme...

...and for the old-skool Pascalers among us, the Turbo Pascal theme will make you feel like you're back in the 80s, hacking away at Nicki the Robot in Turbo Pascal 2.0. Without losing any of the cool features that Oxygene has added to Pascal since those days, of course :).

Water

While not related to Tahoe of course, Water – our environment for Windows – has also received some GUI love, with all new toolbars, and other tweaks.