Removed the Nebot chat plugin and its files, and added the Return YouTube Dislike plugin with main process logic, renderer preload, and manifest. Updated plugin manager and main process to support internal plugin pages and improved plugin event handling. Minor updates to renderer and documentation.
Introduces optional 'categories' and 'authors' fields to plugin manifests, updates plugin-manager.js to normalize and expose these fields, and enhances the settings UI to display plugin tags and authors. Also updates documentation and an example plugin manifest to demonstrate the new fields.
Introduces a plugin architecture, including a PluginManager, plugin loading in main and renderer processes, and a sample plugin demonstrating menu, IPC, and context menu contributions. Adds a Plugins tab to the settings UI for managing plugins (enable/disable, reload), and updates preload.js to load renderer preloads from plugins. Documentation for plugin development is included in README-PLUGINS.md.
Implements a full downloads manager with Electron main process handling, IPC APIs, and renderer integration. Adds a dedicated downloads page, a mini downloads popup in the navigation bar with progress ring, and controls for pausing, resuming, canceling, opening, and showing downloads. Updates styles and navigation to support the new downloads features.
Significantly updates renderer/style.css to introduce a modern, glassy chrome look with gradients, blur, and accent colors. Adds accessible focus rings, improved button and tab styles, and enhanced visual contrast when the Home view is active. Also increases the overlay z-index in home.css to ensure popups appear above other UI elements. Updates site-history.json with recent YouTube URLs.
Introduces checkboxes in the edit toolbar to toggle visibility of the greeting, bookmarks, and 'At A Glance' widgets, persisting user preferences in localStorage. Refactors the search bar and search engine selector for a unified, glassy pill appearance and improved responsiveness. The clock now displays hours and minutes only, updating precisely at the start of each minute. Draggable elements are clamped to remain within the viewport, and visibility changes are applied immediately and on save/cancel.
Introduces an edit mode on the home page allowing users to drag and reposition the greeting, search bar, top sites, and 'at a glance' widget. Adds persistent storage for these layout preferences and a settings panel for fine-tuning positions and widget corner. Updates CSS, HTML, and JS to support edit UI, drag logic, and settings integration.
Introduces a dynamic greeting, live clock, and weather widget to the home page. Adds a 'Reset' button for bookmarks, refines the bookmarks card UI, and updates CSS for new widgets and improved layout. Settings page now includes a weather unit preference (auto, Celsius, Fahrenheit) that syncs with the home page weather display.
Adds early enabling of WebAuthn and platform authenticator features in Chromium via command line switches, and injects diagnostics to check availability in the renderer. CSS z-index values are increased for navigation and menu elements to ensure proper layering above <webview> surfaces. Updates Electron to 37.3.1 and expands site-history.json with additional authentication-related URLs.
Updated window options in main.js to use a hidden, transparent title bar on macOS, allowing for a custom header in the renderer. Added CSS to designate draggable regions and opt-out for interactive controls, improving window drag usability while maintaining clickable elements.
Introduces a 'Save Image As...' option to the context menu for images. Implements IPC handlers in main and preload scripts to save images from URLs, data URLs, and file URLs. Updates renderer logic to handle saving images from various sources, including blob URLs via webview conversion.
Replaces the custom HTML context menu with a native Electron menu for webview and window areas. Adds context menu handling in main and preload scripts, relays commands to renderer, and updates renderer logic to support new menu actions. Improves integration and user experience by leveraging platform-native menus.
Introduces a dialog to open local HTML files via Ctrl+O/Cmd+O, converting file paths to file:// URLs for navigation. Also improves input handling by stripping quotes and better detecting local file paths. Updates bookmarks and clears site history.
Introduces a unified icon picker supporting Material, Lucide, Tabler, Phosphor, Remix, Bootstrap, Heroicons, Feather, Simple Icons, and Radix, with category navigation and search. Adds option to use site favicon for bookmarks, updates bookmark rendering to support SVG and image icons, and refines popup and icon grid UI. Includes new iconSets.js for icon set management and updates CSS/HTML for improved icon selection experience.
Refactored window.open and new-window logic to better support OAuth/SSO popups and preserve POST bodies, removing deprecated event handlers that broke login flows. Updated user agent handling to append Nebula branding to the real Chromium UA for improved compatibility with anti-bot systems. Enhanced webview event handling for Cloudflare challenge detection and refined tab/popup heuristics. Cleaned up site-history.json.
Introduces hard reload and fresh reload buttons to the UI, allowing users to reload pages while ignoring cache or with a cache-busting parameter. Refactors session and browser data clearing logic to handle multiple sessions and resets history JSON files. Adds per-section clear buttons for site and search history in settings, improving user control over stored data.
Introduces an About tab in the settings page displaying app, runtime, and system diagnostics. Adds IPC and preload bridge for about info, clipboard copy functionality, and external navigation for GitHub and Help links. Updates site-history.json with relevant links.
Implements FLIP (First, Last, Invert, Play) animations for tab reordering, opening, and closing in the tab bar. Tabs now animate smoothly when added, removed, or reordered, improving visual feedback and user experience. CSS classes and keyframes for enter and exit transitions are introduced, and the tab rendering logic is updated to measure and animate tab positions.
Site history items in settings are now clickable links that request navigation in a new tab, preserving the settings view. Renderer logic updated to handle 'navigate' events with a 'newTab' option from both webview IPC and postMessage.
Enhances the tab strip with ARIA roles, keyboard navigation, and improved drag-and-drop reordering. Refactors tab rendering for better accessibility, adds dedicated new-tab button, and updates styles for a more modern look and clearer tab controls.
Moved site and search history management from the main process to the renderer for better performance and reliability. Updated settings UI to use a sidebar tab layout with improved accessibility and responsive design. Refactored tab rendering in the browser to use efficient scheduling and added a robust tab label function. Cleaned up context menu code and improved async file operations for bookmarks and history.
Updated Electron window and session configuration to enhance Google OAuth sign-in compatibility, including user agent spoofing, session partitioning, and webview security settings. Added debugging for cookie changes and improved request headers for OAuth flows. Updated renderer code and index.html to use the new session partition and user agent. Added oauth-debug.md to document changes and troubleshooting steps.
Refactored createTab to properly set webview attributes (id, src, allowpopups, partition, preload) for correct loading and management. Updated site-history.json with recent search and navigation entries.
Enhanced inter-process communication for theme updates and navigation between home, settings, and main browser pages. Theme changes in settings now propagate to home via Electron IPC and postMessage fallback. Navigation requests from home and other webviews are handled more robustly, supporting both Electron IPC and postMessage. Also refactored tab creation and improved event handling for better reliability.
Ensure the webviews container is visible when converting a home tab to a webview, and activate the converted tab in the UI. Also, update webview CSS to set width and height to 100% for better layout consistency.
Added support for a dynamic 'Custom' theme button that appears when user settings diverge from predefined themes. Improved theme state management by tracking the active theme name in localStorage, updating button states, and refining the preview to better reflect customizations. Also updated the settings page layout and styles for better user experience and fixed the preview to always show the custom title.
Introduces seven new built-in themes (cyberpunk, midnight-rose, arctic-ice, cherry-blossom, cosmic-purple, emerald-dream, mocha-coffee, lavender-fields) with corresponding JSON files, updates the FEATURES documentation, and enhances the settings UI to display and select these themes. Also updates theme loading logic in theme-manager.js and improves the theme selector layout for better usability.
Introduces a full browser customization system with support for theme presets, live editing, import/export, and non-destructive design. Adds new documentation for customization, updates the features list, and implements a ThemeManager for loading and managing themes at the application level. Updates home and settings pages to support live theming and preview, and adds four built-in themes (default, forest, ocean, sunset).
Eliminated the custom site history dropdown UI and its related event handlers from script.js. Updated Electron to version 37.2.4 in package.json and package-lock.json. Cleared entries from search-history.json and site-history.json.
Introduces a comprehensive GPU configuration and fallback system to resolve GPU process launch failures (Error 18), including new modules for GPU management and performance monitoring. Adds a GPU diagnostics HTML page, optimized CSS for rendering, and a diagnostic startup script. Updates main and preload scripts for improved stability, async file operations, and enhanced API exposure. Site history and bookmarks handling are optimized for performance and reliability.
Site history is now managed in localStorage for faster access and better cross-tab experience, with file sync for persistence. Added a dropdown for quick site history access in the address bar, updated settings page to display and manage site history from localStorage, and improved history recording logic in both main and renderer processes. Also added debug info and test data utilities for development.
Introduced a search engine selector dropdown in the search bar, allowing users to choose between Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo. Updated the search logic to use the selected engine and added corresponding SVG icons. Adjusted CSS and HTML structure to accommodate the new selector.
Updated the add bookmark popup with a more modern Material card style, clearer field labels, and improved layout. The icon picker now fetches the full list of Material Icons asynchronously from Google Fonts, with a fallback to a minimal static set for immediate use. Enhanced the icon grid UI and selection logic for better usability.
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