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.
Improves perceived performance by creating the window hidden, showing it after first paint, and maximizing on Windows after display. Defers non-critical tasks and session configuration to avoid blocking UI initialization. Adds high-resolution startup timing markers and refines session/user agent handling for OAuth compatibility.
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.
Replaced Google and GitHub bookmarks with a Portfolio entry in bookmarks.json and added a backup file. Updated YouTube icon and modified site-history.json to include new entries and reorder existing ones.
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.
Changed the icon paths for macOS, Windows, and Linux builds to use the new Nebula-Favicon assets. This ensures each platform uses the appropriate icon format.
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).
Added detailed documentation files for code of conduct, contributing guidelines, core concepts, features, and project structure in the documentation/ directory. Updated README.md to reference new documentation, expand feature descriptions, and clarify setup instructions.
Updated the window icon path to use a .icns file on macOS and a .png file on other platforms. This ensures proper icon display across different operating systems.
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.
Added a documentation section to the README with links to the MIT license and GPU Fix documentation. Moved GPU-FIX-README.md to the documentation directory for better organization.
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.
Changed the project license reference in README.md from ISC to MIT and added a detailed MIT license file under documentation/MIT.md. This clarifies the licensing terms and provides users and contributors with explicit information about their rights and obligations.
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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