Vieb

Added

• Settings of type list and object, that can also be set with lists or objects with ":set"
• Setting "loadingindicator" to control where the page load status should be shown
• Setting "passthroughkeys" to send keys to the page per site/domain/regex without leaving normal mode
• Option to write command to save pages as MHTML instead of just HTML
• Setting "windowfullscreen" to allow the fullscreen state to be kept after restart (default "restore")
• Setting clear syntax from booleans ":set noexample", to work for objects, arrays and numbers too

Changed

• Default value for "dialogconfirm" to "notifyallow"
• Default value for "nativetheme" to "dark"
• Disabled favicons to be empty instead of showing the broken image indicator
• Mapsuggest and notification alignment in default colorscheme
• Table of contents to be always open, it is either opened and shown or not shown at all
• Table of contents to remember the scroll position on hide, until the page is reloaded, for easy toggling
• Default theme suggest position to be below the tabs
• Setting "mousevisualmode" now works with double and triple click selections
• Default screenshot suggestions, highlight behavior and styling to be more prominent
• Setting "modifiers" to use full key names: for example <Ctrl> instead of just Ctrl

Removed

• Setting "suspendplayingtab" in favor of "suspendtimeoutignore" with the right range
• Option "system" for "nativetheme"
• Option "ask" for "permissionmediadevices"
• Setting "restorewindowmaximize" in favor of "windowmaximize" with value "restore"
• Setting "restorewindowposition" in favor of "windowposition" with value "restore"
• Setting "restorewindowsize" in favor of "windowsize" with value "restore"

Fixed

• Download success notification showing in info color instead of success color
• Occasional error popup when viewing SVGs directly because of style injection refusal
• Markdownviewer not supporting local images due to file access limits
• GUI-related settings not hiding after follow and pointer actions due to pointer being in mouse override position
• Mapped insert mode inputs with shifted keys sending the keys twice or not at all when unshifted variant exists
• Non-recursive insert mode special keys not always being called with the correct name (hence arrows not working)

Versions

• Electron 28.0.0 (was 27.1.0)
• Chromium 120.0.6099.56 (was 118.0.5993.144)

For more details see the CHANGELOG.
For startup help see the frequently asked questions.

Added

• Settings "windowmaximize" to replace "restorewindowmaximize" and allow fixed defaults
• Settings "windowposition" to replace "restorewindowposition" and allow custom positions
• Settings "windowsize" to replace "restorewindowsize" and allow custom sizes

Changed

• Revert deprecation of "tocpages", current empty default wil remain in 11.x.x
• More setting related errors to show the incorrect value

Deprecated

• Setting "restorewindowmaximize" (will be removed in 11.x.x) in favor of using "windowmaximize" with "restore"
• Setting "restorewindowposition" (will be removed in 11.x.x) in favor of using "windowposition" with "restore"
• Setting "restorewindowsize" (will be removed in 11.x.x) in favor of using "windowsize" with "restore"

Fixed

• Nativetheme not updating correctly because of incorrect deprecation statement in previous release

Versions

• Electron 27.1.0 (was 27.0.4)
• Chromium 118.0.5993.144 (was 118.0.5993.129)

For more details see the CHANGELOG.
For startup help see the frequently asked questions.

Added

• Setting "suspendtimeoutignore" to specify ranges to exclude from the "suspendtimeout" setting

Deprecated

• Setting "suspendplayingtab" (will be removed in 11.x.x) in favor of using "suspendtimeoutignore" with the right range
• Default value for "dialogconfirm" being "notifyblock" (will change to "notifyallow" in 11.x.x)
• Default value for "nativetheme" being "system" (will change to "dark" in 11.x.x, "system" will be removed)
• Default value for "tocpages" being "" (will change to "vieb://help" in 11.x.x)
• Option "ask" for "permissionmediadevices" (will be removed in 11.x.x)

Fixed

• Table of contents background being transparent
• Cache not being cleared correctly on quit on Windows resulting in background processes remaining

Versions

• Electron 27.0.4 (was 27.0.0)
• Chromium 118.0.5993.129 (was 118.0.5993.54)

For more details see the CHANGELOG.
For startup help see the frequently asked questions.

Added

• Clickable headers to the filebrowser to go up multiple directories at once
• Extra CSS color variables names for filebrowser, still using the same default colors
• Entry "top" in the toc to go back to the top of the page
• Argument "--execute" to run arbitrary runtime commands from the CLI and get its output
• Option "allowkind" to setting "permissionmediadevices" to only list the device type/kind without labels or ids
• Startup flag "--devtools-theme" and ENV var VIEB_DEVTOOLS_THEME to control devtools theme (default remains dark)
• Command "buffers" to list all the open tabs as "index: url"

Changed

• Eslint rules to be more strict with better jsdoc and types
• Url modification functions for subdomain and parent urls to be more accurate
• Clicks on tabs while inside navbar modes to switch tab instead of only going to normal mode

Fixed

• Rare error popup on quit on some Linux desktop environments
• Location mock not being accurate leading to broken functionality on Gitlab and other sites
• Command "tabnewcontainer" not opening with the right name if using "containernewtab=s:external"
• Extra horizontal scrollbar on failedload and filebrowser pages since last release
• Some selections with email addresses being encoded as if a url on copy
• Setting explorehist not working since 10.0.0 due to incorrect import
• Potential duplicate ids in toc generation if a page already has the generated id
• Config file read from ENV VIEB_CONFIG_FILE always being changed to lowercase
• Chrome pages not being styled directly when changing colorscheme
• Pages without div or main incorrectly using colorscheme instead of a white background
• Permission mediadevices throwing an error instead of returning an empty list for blocking media device list
• Colorscheme verticaltabs breaking the history page layout due to duplicate ids

Versions

• Electron 27.0.0 (was 27.0.0-alpha.3)
• Chromium 118.0.5993.54 (was 118.0.5949.0)

For more details see the CHANGELOG.
For startup help see the frequently asked questions.

Added

• Table of contents that can be triggered for pages via tocpages or using the <showTOC>, <toggleTOC> and <hideTOC> actions
• Default ozone-platform-hint=auto flag to Linux releases with a desktop file to improve Wayland support
• Command unmap! to remove multiple mappings by using <Any> as a wildcard

Changed

• Failedload and filebrowser pages are now styled with themes like other special pages
• Undo/redo navbar logic to prevent duplicate entries in the edit history
• Commands to list the name and arguments of failing commands more often
• Fullscreen to also toggle when the window is made fullscreen via Linux specific OS fullscreen features

Fixed

• Simple text pages that disable JavaScript blocking the colors and fontsize being applied
• Actions "toParentSubdomain" and toRootSubdomain" not working with dashes in the domain name
• Media device query being denied if done via the allow list with mediadevicesfull
• Navbar selection being cleared when dragging outside of the navbar
• Media indicator not showing in numberedtabs colorscheme
• Domain name function not removing port number resulting in wrong paths for userstyle and userscript if viewing a page with custom port number

Versions

• Electron 27.0.0-alpha.3 (was 25.4.0)
• Chromium 118.0.5949.0 (was 114.0.5735.248)

For more details see the CHANGELOG.
For startup help see the frequently asked questions.

Added

• Setting "permissionidledetection" to control access to the Idle Detection API, default remains blocked
• Setting "permissionwindowmanagement" to control access to the list of screens and their position, default remains blocked
• Use urls and titles in a command with <useCurrentUrl>, <useCurrentOrigin>, <useCurrentTitle> and <useCurrentDomain>

Fixed

• Overflow wrap not splitting words as needed for download title
• Permission check via navigator.permission.query always being allowed, it now uses the permission to correctly inform sites
• USB permission not being blocked in the permissionsasked setting

Versions

• Electron 25.4.0 (was 25.2.0)
• Chromium 114.0.5735.248 (was 114.0.5735.134)

For more details see the CHANGELOG.
For startup help see the frequently asked questions.

Changed

• Stored urls to be of the human readable format to better account for special pages
• Adblocker to show a notification if enabled but not present for all builds
• AppImage builds to better handle special pages for changing runtime folder

Fixed

• Encoding issues since 10.0.0 in markdownviewer, readerview and sourceviewer
• Mappings that send keys to insert mode delayed not working since 10.0.0
• Potential circular reference to parent iframes resulting in freezes

Versions

• Electron 25.2.0 (unchanged)
• Chromium 114.0.5735.134 (unchanged)

For more details see the CHANGELOG.
For startup help see the frequently asked questions.

Added

• Option "external" to "pdfbehavior" setting to open the pdf with externalcommand automatically

Fixed

• Settings starting with "no" or "inv" not being able to be listed without "?" nor reporting the correct name
• Actions "nextPage" and "previousPage" no longer working for link elements
• Pointer scrolling to search results not working correctly due to Electron's inconsistent API
• Infinite loading issue for unresponsive pages due to loadurl rework
• Newtab actions for pointer mode not working due to tab still loading
• Errors for ipc calls to webview that are still being created by only sending data to webview with ready dom
• First navigation issue that requires a second mouse click to navigate by delaying the useragent reroll
• Relative feed URLs only returning the path (they are now prefixed with the current url as needed)
• Firefox version calculation being ahead of time due to delayed Firefox releases

Versions

• Electron 25.2.0 (was 25.1.1)
• Chromium 114.0.5735.134 (was 114.0.5735.106)

For more details see the CHANGELOG.
For startup help see the frequently asked questions.

Added

• Blocklist uBlock Origin filters to the default list of blocklists
• Setting "requestheaders" to append custom headers to any request
• More default mappings: Firefox/Chromium inspired and mute/pin/internaldevtools mappings
• Settings "userscriptscope", "userstylescope" and "darkreaderscope" to control which pages scripts, styles and darkreader should run
• Suggestions for ranges
• Argument option to the mute command to force a mute state, such as :mute! true
• Argument option to the pin command to force a pinned state, such as :pin! false
• Setting "followlabelposition" to control where the label of follow elements should appear
• Set command syntax to rotate between a custom set of values, such as :set example!value1|value2|value3
• Setting "permissionusb" to list usb devices (default remains blocked, previously grouped as "unknown")
• Types and documentation using JSDoc to most of the source code
• More position options for opening new tabs using "tabnewposition"
• More focus positions after closing a tab using "tabclosefocus"
• Additional flags for ranges to filter suspended/real pages and audio/silent tabs
• Setting "pdfbehavior" to control what happens with PDF files (default changed from viewing to download)
• Support for the context menu key with default mapping to opening the menu
• Setting "historyperpage" to control the amount of history entries to show per page
• Action "pointer.copyTitleAttr" to copy the title attribute of a hovered element
• Action "pointer.copyPageTitle" to copy the page title of the hovered link if in the history
• Full interface scaling startup flag "--interface-scale", which can be combined with custom font sizes to achieve many different ratios
• Setting "notificationlimitsmall" to control how many newlines should be the limit for small/large notifications
• Option "largeonly" to the "nativenotification" setting to only show large ones natively
• Actions "pageRSSLinksList" and "pageRSSLinkToClipboard" to list and copy RSS feed urls found on the page

Changed

• Setting "replacespecial" is now by default set to "special"
• Default mapping <C-c> will now copy in normal, pointer and visual mode as well
• Setting "restoretabs" is now an enum that accepts different options
• Setting "notificationforpermisions" is now an enum that accepts different options
• Example configs to not include as much duplication as before
• Userstyles are now applied even if darkreader fails to apply
• Mapstring splitting to be more accurate when recursively including < and >
• Mappings for recording macros to be more in line with Vim, by mapping and unmapping them on start/stop
• Buffer commands to show all matching commands instead of the first one (especially useful for ranges)
• Pin command to better preserve tab order when using ranges
• JavaScript execution to always allow user interaction APIs
• Svg and "data:" favicons to be used if present in the list, otherwise still pick the first
• History page rendering mechanism to support large history files much better using pagination and background rendering
• Setting "guifontsize" now accepts a much wider range of values to accommodate interface scaling
• Erwic mode permissions to now ask for displaycapture instead of blocking it (Vieb default is still to block)
• Favicon mapping storage now uses a debounce mechanism similar to browsing history to improve performance
• Crashed tabs to allow navigating and reloading by recreating them as a new tab at the same position

Removed

• Action "openNewTab" in favor of ":tabnew" command
• Setting "clearhistoryonquit" in favor of "clearhistoryinterval=session"
• Setting "search" in favor of the functionality identical "searchengine" setting
• Setting "tabnexttocurrent" in favor of "tabnewposition" enum
• Setting "tabclosefocusright" in favor of "tabclosefocus" enum

Fixed

• Image and svg follow links not showing since 9.0.0
• Scrollbar styling not working on pages that block custom CSS
• Userstyles not working on pages that block custom CSS
• Display capture styling not working on pages that block custom CSS
• Index-based ranges not working correctly for some commands
• Navigation delay system updating the current page instead of the right one
• Navigation delay system preventing page navigations for new tabs that are not loading
• Favicon not showing or spinner still rotating for suspended tabs
• Insert mode being left if interacting with the page menu
• System clipboard being used incorrectly on Windows and Mac on selections due to selection clipboard not existing on those systems
• Commands "tabnew" and "tabnewcontainer" not converting arguments to a url (preventing searches from working too)
• Mouse hover remaining on follow element when moving the mouse outside of the window
• Mappings being listed as modified when they were overwritten by the very same entry using :map
• Follow links which vary in height/width compared to parent potentially causing follow highlight to switch between them periodically
• Setting "containernames" not updating listed container immediately and not switching at all for new tabs and mouse clicks
• White background on special pages when reloading them multiple times
• Erwic settings not being saved with :mkviebrc if similar to regular Vieb defaults
• Settings "notificationforpermisions" being set to "none" not preventing notifications from being stored
• Keyboard focus being lost when opening pages that do not allow JavaScript to be run
• Suspendonrestore value "none" suspending all tabs instead of none
• Tabs with file paths open not being stored for next startup
• Incremental search sometimes moving two entries when searching the same string

Versions

• Electron 25.1.1 (was 23.2.0)
• Chromium 114.0.5735.106 (was 110.0.5481.192)

For more details see the CHANGELOG.
For startup help see the frequently asked questions.

This is the final release of the 9.x.x series, and merely deprecates a few more settings.
Version 10 should be ready very soon, please look forward to it.

Deprecated

• Setting "tabnexttocurrent" boolean in favor of "tabnewposition" enum
• Setting "tabclosefocusright" boolean in favor of "tabclosefocus" enum

Versions

• Electron 23.2.0 (unchanged)
• Chromium 110.0.5481.192 (unchanged)

For more details see the CHANGELOG.
For startup help see the frequently asked questions.

Added

• Command "clear" to wipe browsing data based on intervals or partial urls (currently only history)
• Setting "clearhistoryinterval" to more finely control the deletion of history on quit by interval
• Option "url" to the list of mouse features to control interaction with the input box while already typing (default on)
• Option "leaveinsert" to the list of mouse features to control if clicking outside the page should leave insert mode (default on)
• Option "notification" to the list of mouse features to control if clicking the download notification should open the file (default on)
• Setting "mousedisabledbehavior" to control if elements with no enabled mouse interaction should optionally drag the window (nothing by default)
• Setting "guiscrollbar" to control if and when the scrollbar should appear on pages (default remains always on)
• Documentation for all modes by mode name instead of just the action name (also means better sorted actions)
• More values to "dialogconfirm" to automatically allow the confirm dialog without needing to show it
• More default mappings that are similar to Firefox/Chromium
• Favicon icons to the buffer command suggestions for better recognition
• Actions "startRecording", "stopRecording" and "runRecording" to record key presses and later execute them (macros/records in Vim)

Changed

• Resetting focus now happens on every user interaction instead of on a timer
• Url can now be selected from outside explore mode directly (and keep the selection if switching to explore mode)
• History storage is now slightly faster by only wiping empty entries on write
• Settings now have links to documentation about the type of value they can contain
• Naming scheme of setting types is now more streamlined and better documented
• Searchword urls are now filled in with the resolved url in the suggestions while you type
• Seachwords will now also activate if prefixed with spaces
• Filetype suggestions coming from history are now correctly colored in history color instead of file suggest color
• Default theme now shows the default cursor instead of the text cursor on the url box if interaction is disabled
• Locales are now included in regular releases but still excluded from lite builds (see build.js)
• All mouse features now have a "mouse-something" className added to the body if enabled to allow more customization in colorschemes
• Action "menuOpen" will now keep working even if the settings are set to never, this does not affect regular right clicks
• Userstyles are now also applied when the DOM is ready, not just when the page is fully loaded
• Commands "screencopy" and "screenshot" will show the screen highlight even without entering all 4 dimension values
• Single key mapping commands now also combine different modes into one map command if all modes have the same mapping
• Buffer commands now search for matches the same way as explore mode, as do the suggestions

Deprecated

• Setting clearhistoryonquit in favor of clearhistoryinterval=session
• Default value for "replacespecial" being "newtab" (will change to "special" in 10.x.x)
• Setting search in favor of the functionality identical searchengine setting
• Ctrl-c default mapping for the stopLoadingPage action instead of the new Esc
• Boolean toggling restoretabs in favor providing a value (toggle commands will stop working in 10.x.x)
• Boolean toggling notificationforpermisions in favor providing a value (toggle commands will stop working in 10.x.x)
• Action "openNewTab" in favor of running the ":tabnew" command

Fixed

• Vieb right click menu not working due to removed .path in events
• Follow filtering being cancelled when interacting with the navbar using the mouse
• Explore mode history not storing the first change in the Ctrl-z/Ctrl-y history
• Middle mouse paste not updating explore mode's Ctrl-z/Ctrl-y history
• Self closing tabs not being cleaned up correctly due to Electron devtools close call being unsafe
• Text selection still briefly being visible outside explore mode when toexplore mouse feature is disabled
• Websocket connections being blocked when setting custom resourcetypes due to casing error
• Mousefeature history always being on even if not in the list of enabled features
• Mode selector not being as big as it should be and therefor closing the dropdown occasionally
• Sites without a div and without proper background not getting the default white background
• Pointer mode help commands going to the action if they have the same name
• Ctrl-F4 to close tab default mapping not working
• Default text value for prompt dialogs not being used
• Iframe position not being shifted correctly for iframes inside a same origin iframe

Versions

• Electron 23.2.0 (was 23.1.1)
• Chromium 110.0.5481.192 (was 110.0.5481.104)

For more details see the CHANGELOG.
For startup help see the frequently asked questions.

Changed

• Mouse setting "copyselect" is no longer available/needed for copying text by selecting, as it wasn't blocked correctly anyway
• Mouse selections will now copy to the selection clipboard, instead of the default one, and at all times

Fixed

• Userscript domain name not working at all by using an internal url instead of the page url
• Explore, command and search mode not being exited when dragging the mouse

Versions

• Electron 23.1.1 (was 22.0.3)
• Chromium 110.0.5481.104 (was 108.0.5359.179)

For more details see the CHANGELOG.
For startup help see the frequently asked questions.

Changed

• COOP is now enabled again as the old workaround for Twitter navigations is no longer needed
• SharedArrayBuffer is now enabled to make web workers more useful and faster
• Attempting to navigate a page that isn't ready for navigation will now wait until it's ready

Fixed

• CORS issues when using darkreader
• Exception in devtools when using newtaburl
• Middle-mouse pasting not working in command and search mode as it would switch to explore mode incorrectly

Versions

• Electron 22.0.3 (was 22.0.0)
• Chromium 108.0.5359.179 (was 108.0.5359.62)

For more details see the CHANGELOG.
For startup help see the frequently asked questions.

Added

• Startup argument "--unsafe-multiwin" to have multiple windows in the same datafolder and skip the single instance safety check
• Command "translatepage" to translate the page using Deepl API or LibreTranslate
• Settings "translateapi", "translatekey", "translatelang" and "translateurl" to customize translation settings for ":translatepage"
• Setting "permissionclipboardwrite", as clipboard writing was recently moved to a permission by Electron (default remains allowed)
• Settings "replacespecial" and "replacestartup" to control when new pages should re-use/replace the current tab

Changed

• Rpm and deb releases are now symlinked in /usr/bin correctly on updates after this one
• Confirm char "!" for special page commands now opens them in a new tab regardless of the new "replacespecial" setting

Fixed

• Recursive key mappings not working correctly when the timeout is reached and there are also multi-key mappings
• Cache errors/corruption on Windows upon restart after clearing/disabling cache
• Setting externalcommand is now actually used for opening new tabs externally (fallback remains the default browser)
• Exception popup on Linux when quitting if using window frame borders
• Valid urls without protocol not always being recognized as a startup argument

Versions

• Electron 22.0.0 (was 22.0.0-beta.5)
• Chromium 108.0.5359.62 (was 108.0.5359.40)

For more details see the CHANGELOG.
For startup help see the frequently asked questions.

Added

• Percentage based scrolling when using "gg" or "G" with a count, similar to Vim
• Action "startFollowCopyLink" for copying links of selected elements in follow mode
• Setting "darkreadermode" to switch between light and dark schemes/modes for darkreader
• Settings "resourcetypes", "resourcesallowed" and "resourcesblocked" to control allowed/blocked resource types
• Setting "shell" to control the shell to use for system commands
• Live indicator of current theme preference to the nativetheme help documentation

Changed

• Maximum values of darkreader brightness and contrast settings from 100 to 200 percent
• Buffer-like command suggestions to be in sync with actual behavior
• Buffer-like command suggestions to include the page url
• Check if the entire body is scrollable instead of the window for global scroll actions and scrollpos
• Prevent navigation to invalid urls to make sure a page can always be interacted with
• Shell now reads "$SHELL" instead of defaulting to "/bin/sh" for system commands

Fixed

• Action "openNewTabWithCurrentUrl" not working at all in last release due to unsafe check
• Duplicate downloads due to page restart workaround (which is now fixed by Electron)

Versions

• Electron 22.0.0-beta.5 (was 21.1.0)
• Chromium 108.0.5359.40 (was 106.0.5249.91)

For more details see the CHANGELOG.
For startup help see the frequently asked questions.

Added

• Setting "reloadtaboncrash" to automatically recreate a crash tab with the last known url
• Indicator for unresponsive tabs in the form of a small red border on the left of the unresponsive tab
• Setting "userscript" to run custom JavaScript on pages, optionally using the GreaseMonkey API

Changed

• Modifiers/shifted keys for searching, marks and follow mode now work more reliable
• Tabs will no longer refuse to navigate when there is a beforeunload listener that calls preventDefault
• When the current tab is crashed, you can no longer enter irrelevant modes in it

Fixed

• Initial tab load issues on some devices for specific pages
• Split state not being kept when switching container name based on containernames setting
• Multiple useragents being set sometimes causing duplicate page loads
• BatteryManager errors for insecure pages, since it's an HTTPS-only API
• Follow mode and other main process calls not succeeding when there are crashed tabs present

Versions

• Electron 21.1.0 (was 21.0.1)
• Chromium 106.0.5249.91 (was 106.0.5249.61)

For more details see the CHANGELOG.
For startup help see the frequently asked questions.

Changed

• Enter key will now also send keypress events when executed by a mapping
• Pick first matching rule from permission allow, block or ask lists
• Permission allow list can now include labels for mediadevices using "mediadevicesfull"

Fixed

• Media device requests being mislabeled as display capture permission requests in some cases

Versions

• Electron 21.0.1 (was 21.0.0)
• Chromium 106.0.5249.61 (was 106.0.5249.51)

For more details see the CHANGELOG.
For startup help see the frequently asked questions.

Added

• New themes: light-compact, paper-compact and paper
• Backwards searching if search is started with a shifted key (by default ?)

Changed

• Pinned and mute state are now remembered for tabs affected by "containernames" container switching
• Pinned tabs will now be correctly reopened by "containernames" container switching
• Mouse scrolling on Vieb elements will now scroll the underlying page if the "pageoutsideinsert" mouse feature is on (default)
• Search will now find the next match if searching for the same string again
• Default blocklist urls to use adblockplus instead of easylist due to fetch issues

Fixed

• Follow mode borders showing over labels
• Follow mode mouse hover appearing when not needed
• Backwards searching not working in previous release due to typo
• Special characters not working in custom viewers (markdown, reader and source)

Versions

• Electron 21.0.0 (was 20.1.1)
• Chromium 106.0.5249.51 (was 104.0.5112.10)

For more details see the CHANGELOG.
For startup help see the frequently asked questions.

Added

• Settings "searchscope" and "searchemptyscope" to make local tab-specific searches
• Default mapping for emptySearch using Backspace

Changed

• Adblocker can now update custom blocklists by adding a "list.json" file to the blocklists folder
• Failed load error page to include certificate permission setting if related to cert errors

Fixed

• Preload path of adblocker not being correct for all builds
• All remaining runtime error popups related to subframe access issues (they are now shown in the console)
• Erwic datafolder not resolving "~" correctly
• Fixed atob issues by updating to an Electron release with a correct implementation

Versions

• Electron 20.1.1 (was 20.0.2)
• Chromium 104.0.5112.102 (was 104.0.5112.81)

For more details see the CHANGELOG.
For startup help see the frequently asked questions.

Added

• Special type of notification for dialog inform notifications, which can be colored separately
• Setting "suggestbouncedelay" to control the debounce delay of suggestions, to handle fast typing better
• Setting "darkreaderblocklist" to block specific sites (regular expressions) from using darkreader, even if enabled
• Setting "userstyle" to toggle loading of custom CSS files into the page, either globally or per-domain
• Actions "toggleMarkdownViewer" and "toggleMarkdownViewerNewTab" to toggle the new theme supported "markdownviewer"
• Setting "nativetheme" to control the theme to report to pages, used by the "prefers-color-scheme" CSS rule
• Quickmarks to store and reload scroll positions, pointer positions and page urls quickly
• Commands "marks", "restoremark", "delmarks", "pointerpos", "restorepointerpos", "delpointerpos", "scrollpos", "restorescrollpos" and "delscrollpos" to list and delete quickmarks
• Settings "quickmarkpersistence", "pointerpostype", "pointerposlocalid", "scrollpostype", "scrollposlocalid", "markposition" and "markpositionshifted" to control quickmarks
• Actions "storeScrollPos", "restoreScrollPos", "p.storePos", "p.restorePos", "makeMark" and "restoreMark" to add and load quickmarks
• Webpack compilation to the released builds, for better tree-shaking and minified code
• Separate "lite" build/release that does not have any dependency packages installed

Changed

• Only show notification popup for notifications with lots of newlines
• Examples are now downloaded as blobs instead of files to allow them to be bundled in the asar file for releases
• Startup argument "--debug" is now called "--devtools" to avoid nodejs argument conflict
• Give "storenewvisits" a new option for "markdownviewer"
• Logic for staying in follow mode after selecting something is now more consistent in remembering the previous mode
• Main process devtools are now always undocked to prevent window size issues
• Follow mode logic to use the much faster async IntersectionObserver instead of sync API
• Follow mode logic to be faster if fewer element types are queried
• Use Electron's clickOnSearch implementation in favor of Vieb's custom one
• Setting "containernames" now also works for current tab navigation, unless you tell it not to with the "~newtab" suffix
• Use regex to detect SVG favicons instead of relying on "is-svg" dependency
• Use nodejs filesystem API instead of relying on "rimraf" dependency
• All runtime dependencies are now loaded safely, and will show a message when missing (this makes ALL dependencies optional)
• Custom icon and name are now shown on the version page as well
• Only include en-US locale in builds to decrease build size significantly
• Invalid or missing chrome:// pages are now redirected to their Vieb counterpart (if it exists) or the help page

Removed

• Extension support, see this Github issue to learn more
• Setting "firefoxmode" in favor of setting the "useragent" setting to a Firefox useragent

Fixed

• Suspended tabs sometimes failing to wake up correctly
• Commands :rclose and :lclose not working correctly when there are suspended tabs
• Race condition in opening new tabs with urls that would sometimes unsuspend them twice
• White background on some pages that load page styling async and in reloaded iframes
• Error popup from the main thread regarding discarded frames
• White background on pages with dark color-scheme preference and no custom styling

Versions

• Electron 20.0.2 (was 19.0.6)
• Chromium 104.0.5112.81 (was 102.0.5005.115)

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