Refactors tab history management to prevent duplicate entries and ensure correct navigation for internal nebula:// pages. Updates back/forward navigation to use custom history tracking, properly converting between home and webview tabs, and disables navigation buttons based on history state instead of webview methods.
Adds an onerror handler to tab favicon images to hide them if the favicon fails to load, improving the appearance of tabs with missing or broken favicon URLs.
Replaces all occurrences of the 'browser://' internal URL scheme with 'nebula://' across main process, plugin manager, and renderer files. This change standardizes the internal page scheme to 'nebula://' for improved clarity and branding.
Adds a frameless window with custom title bar controls for Windows, including minimize, maximize/restore, and close buttons. Refactors theme color application to use CSS variables and color-mix for improved consistency and dynamic theming across home, settings, and main UI. Updates renderer and styles to support the new title bar, platform detection, and improved color handling. No changes to lock files.
Introduces CSS and JavaScript to normalize scroll speed across all sites by intercepting wheel events and applying a consistent scroll delta. The normalization is injected into webviews on load to ensure uniform scrolling behavior regardless of site-specific overrides.
Introduces a new Big Picture Mode with a controller-friendly, console-style UI optimized for Steam Deck and handheld devices. Adds new renderer files (HTML, CSS, JS) for the mode, updates main and preload scripts to support window management and IPC for Big Picture Mode, and documents features and usage in BIG_PICTURE_MODE.md. Updates settings and navigation to allow launching and exiting Big Picture Mode.
Integrates electron-updater for automatic app updates, including IPC and renderer APIs for update status and controls. Adds display scale (zoom) setting to settings UI, persists user preference in localStorage, and applies it on startup. Updates OAuth popup allowlist logic and upgrades Electron to v39.2.7.
Introduces new color properties for the URL bar and tab strip in all themes, updates the theme system and CSS to support these, and ensures the renderer applies the correct colors to the main UI. This allows each theme to fully customize the appearance of the URL bar and tabs for a more cohesive look.
Window.open and <webview> popups are now intercepted and routed into new tabs, except for OAuth/SSO flows (Google, Microsoft, etc.) which are allowed to open real popups to preserve authentication semantics. Renderer logic is updated to handle 'open-url-new-tab' IPC events and consistently open external http(s) links in tabs, improving user experience and security.
Introduces an insecure.html interstitial page that warns users before navigating to unencrypted HTTP sites, except for localhost and previously bypassed hosts. Updates script.js to intercept HTTP navigations, display the warning, and allow session-based bypasses when the user chooses to proceed.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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