Vieb

Added

• Darkreader with many settings like "darkreader" and "darkreadercontrast" to toggle and control darkreader theming
• Sponsorblock with settings "sponsorblock" "sponsorblockcategories" to toggle and control blocking

Changed

• Reduced the amount of mouse movement events while inside pointer mode, greatly reducing CPU usage
• Setting "useragent" is now separated by tildes ~ instead of commas , as to allow commas to appear in useragents
• Settings with , separator with each entry having a ~ separator can now be removed with just the part before the first ~
• Explore mode suggestion logic should now be faster after first search by caching page titles

Deprecated

• Extension support, see this Github issue to learn more

Fixed

• Compact layout overflowing below the visible window, now uses grid layout
• Shifted space and backspace not working in navbar as a regular space/backspace
• DOM issue when trying to send iframe details before DOM is ready

Versions

• Electron 19.0.6 (was 19.0.3)
• Chromium 102.0.5005.115 (was 102.0.5005.63)

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

Added

• Setting "useragent" to use any number of custom useragents (either one, or a list that is randomly used per page load)
• Settings "encodeurlcopy" and "encodeurlext" to control the percent encoding/decoding of the urls
• Script-based blocking of ads in the adblocker, for example to block Youtube and Twitch ads
• Support for "prompt" dialogs, and thus "show" and "notifyshow" are now valid values for "dialogprompt"
• Mouse option named "movepointer" which moves the pointer to the click location
• Actions "toggleSourceViewer" and "toggleSourceViewerNewTab" to toggle the new theme supported "sourceviewer"
• Actions "toggleReaderView" and "toggleReaderViewNewTab" to toggle the new theme supported "readerview"
• More default themes: numberedtabs and compact (thanks to @stevkazt)

Changed

• Setting "windowtitle" now accepts a custom string with variables instead of hard-coded formats (linking to password managers should be easier now)
• Dialog settings are now all blocked with notifications by default
• Duplicate download numbering now starts from (1) instead of (2)
• Duplicate download name for files that end in "tar.something" will now have the counter before the ".tar"
• Iframes are now isolated properly, making them faster and more secure (no more infinite loop to set listeners for them)
• Privacy overrides are now always done with a preload, making them faster and more secure (no more infinite loop to patch them)
• Increase default timeoutlen above Vim's level because it makes more sense for Vieb
• Rename "fontsize" to "guifontsize" to make it more clear where the font size applies
• Url detection logic to be more in line with the actual spec, resulting in simpler implementation
• Downloadpath is now empty by default and will read XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR/xdg-user-dirs (with the same fallback to ~/Downloads as before)
• Give "storenewvisits" new options for "sourceviewer" and "readerview", and rename "builtin" to "special" to make more sense

Removed

• Action "toLastUsedTab" in favor of using ":buffer #" in line with other buffer-like commands that support "#"
• Startup option to enable strict site isolation, it is now strictly isolated at all times
• CSS transitions from default theme (specifically on the mode selector)

Fixed

• Command "reloadconfig" did actually reset the settings instead of just reload them
• Urls prefixed with a protocol not being checked if they are navigable urls at all (possibly resulting in broken tabs if navigated to)
• Race condition on unsuspending tabs and opening tabs with a url directly that led to empty pages
• Composing keyboards typing out the keys in addition to the composed keys on macos
• Internal errors for looping over pages when some of them are suspended (in case of zooming, page capturing, or save page)
• Follow links (or their labels) not being visible if an element continues outside the visible section of the page

Versions

• Electron 19.0.3 (was 18.0.1)
• Chromium 102.0.5005.63 (was 100.0.4896.60)

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

Vieb

• Added setting suspendplayingtab to control if tabs playing media should be suspended by suspendtimeout
• Added settings "dialogalert", "dialogconfirm" and "dialogprompt" to control if dialogs should show and/or be logged at all
• Added permissions for serial and other human interface devices (permissionserial, permissionhid, both blocked by default, same as before)
• Added default mappings that make use of the last used tab argument (for example "close #") of buffer like commands (prefixed with "B")
• Useragent was modified to the upcoming reduced/simplified version of the final phase of https://www.chromium.org/updates/ua-reduction/
• Battery API now returns fixed "no battery" values instead of being undefined
• The SSL error filter now includes more ERR codes by looking for "CERT" and "SSL" instead of using a fixed list
• Attempt to delete blocked navigator properties from navigator object completely instead of returning undefined
• Disable useragentdata client hints API completely (previously only in Firefox mode)
• The last used tab variable will now as a fallback pick the first tab instead of opening a new search tab with "buffer" and "Vexplore"
• Removed plugins and mimeTypes overrides in favor of default hard-coded PDF plugin and mimetype lists (as per Firefox and Chromium)
• Fixed reloadconfig command not resetting permissions (and other webview/main thread settings) in some cases
• Fixed crash when pressing cancel in the print dialog (fixed by upgrading Electron)
• Fixed interaction with other pages not working when the debugger is paused (due to overlay, which is now disabled by default for new sessions)

Other

• We have Telegram channels and a Matrix space!
• Electron 18.0.1 (was 17.0.1)
• Chromium 100.0.4896.60 (was 98.0.4758.82)

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

Vieb

• Fix split resize actions (increaseWidthSplitWindow etc.) not being able to resize multiple times in the same direction
• Fix rare tab crashes for some sites by updating Electron

Other

• We have Telegram channels and a Matrix space!
• Electron 17.0.1 (was 17.0.0)
• Chromium 98.0.4758.82 (was 98.0.4758.74)

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

Vieb

• Fix AppImage builds

Other

• We now have Telegram channels and a Matrix space!
• Electron 17.0.0 (unchanged)
• Chromium 98.0.4758.74 (unchanged)

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

Vieb

• Add setting "newtaburl" to set a custom url for the new tab page
• Add actions "p.mediaDown" and "p.mediaUp" to lower or raise the volume of media elements (audio or video)
• Allow "search" to be empty to disable searching completely (also fixes the same ":mkviebrc full" warning of followelement-type settings)
• Fix custom btoa and atob implementations not working if the argument is a number (even if that's technically more correct)
• Fix unclickable follow mode link if it's the only link on the entire page
• Fix warning when running a ":mkviebrc full" config (because the followelement-type settings didn't allow an empty value)
• Fix white background for XML documents
• Fix first page in history always being the new tab page
• Fix focus element action failing to get the length of elements that don't have a value (textarea, contenteditable div, etc.)
• Fix argument issue with scriptnames command preventing it from working

Other

• Electron 17.0.0 (was 17.0.0-beta.4)
• Chromium 98.0.4758.74 (was 98.0.4758.11)

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

Vieb

• Add range prefix support for many different commands
• Add actions "startFollowNewSplit" and "startFollowNewVerSplit" to open links in splits with follow mode
• Add setting "inputfocusalignment" to align input fields consistently on focus from follow mode
• Add command "runjsinpage" to run any JavaScript inside the current page or pages matching a range
• Add context menu options for opening any link in a split of vsplit, such as "split audio link" or "vsplit selected text"
• Add pointer mode actions for opening splits of media urls, hovered urls or selected text, such as "splitAudio" or "vsplitText"
• Add two new types of links in follow mode: media (audio/video elements) and images (img, svg and background images)
• Add setting "followelementpointer" to control which elements should appear in follow mode when used to move the pointer
• Add setting "notificationforsystemcommands" to enable or disable notifications for successful or failed system commands
• Add setting "followchars" to specify exactly which characters should be used to select elements on the page
• Add setting "followfallbackaction" to control what happens on pressing chars not part of followchars (new default is to filter results)
• Add command "tabnew" and "tabnewcontainer" to open a new tab programmatically optionally with a custom container name
• Add setting "containernames" to control which container names should be used for new tabs with a specific url (based on regex patterns)
• Buffer-like commands now accept "#" to specify the last used tab
• Desktop capture API is now called from main thread and shows the app icons
• Command "reload" to "reloadconfig" to avoid confusion
• Actions "reload" and "reloadWithoutCache" are now called "refreshTab" and "refreshTabWithoutCache" to avoid confusion
• Consistency between menu items and reduced the amount of words in them for easier scanning
• Override for atob and btoa functions so they accept a wider range of characters instead of throwing errors (fixes Protonmail login issue)
• Removed longtime workaround for electron-builder to manually create the mac zips (they are now valid zip archives instead of being broken)
• Removed compatibility linter plugin compat, as it's no longer needed due to widespread release of newer node verions
• Fix resolve file paths with query param characters in them and update the url accordingly
• Fix background color override not checking for background images before applying
• Fix mouse forward and back buttons not working on Windows
• Fix rare crash when the devtools would remain after deleting the webview and you would then interact with it, they are now closed along with the page
• Fix potential switch to insert mode after clicking on multiple links before leaving follow mode (by using Shift or right-clicking)

Other

• Electron 17.0.0-beta.4 (was 15.3.1)
• Chromium 98.0.4758.11 (was 94.0.4606.81)

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

Vieb

• Add actions "pageTitleToClipboard", "pageToClipboardHTML", "pageToClipboardMarkdown", "pageToClipboardRST" and "pageToClipboardEmacs" for easier pasting in editors
• Add setting "followelement" to filter which kind of elements should be shown in follow mode
• Scriptnames command will now print the script index before the file path
• Automatic suspend timers of "suspendtimeout" will be restarted when the value is updated
• Searchwords now support multiple %s replacements in a single comma-separated query
• Fix alignment of calculated elements that relied on fixed numbers when using custom stylesheets
• Fix default mapping for previous tab using CtrlShift-Tab not working
• Fix audio and video control labels in context menu not being updated for elements with sourcesets
• Fix incorrect media type being used for the context menu media controls in some cases, such as a video element playing only audio
• Fix index for the buffer-like commands being shifted if the results are filtered
• Fix target blank links opening in new tab when using the mouse to click on them
• Fix relative urls opened using the window.open proxy doing a web search instead of navigation
• Fix privacy overrides now override the prototype getter instead of the function directly

Other

• Electron 15.3.1 (was 15.0.0-beta.7)
• Chromium 94.0.4606.81 (was 94.0.4606.31)

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

Vieb

• Added mouse feature "screenshotframe" which allows you to drag the screenshot frame to a specific position
• Added visual feedback for follow feature of the mouse using new highlight on hover
• Make special mouse button dragging resize the screenshot frame by changing the width and height instead of position arguments
• Examples with custom commands are now in a separate example file that isn't used by default, due to it's explicit and non-native nature
• Fixed crash on uploading files due to Electron bug in beta 4
• Fixed characters with different naming in Electron compared to JavaScript and Vim not being recognized as such in mappings

Other

• Electron 15.0.0-beta.7 (was 15.0.0-beta.4)
• Chromium 94.0.4606.31 (unchanged)

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

Vieb

• Added setting "suspendbackgroundtab" to toggle if tabs opened in the background should be suspended (on by default)
• Added setting "tabopenmuted" to control if new tabs should be muted (default off, can also be set for background tabs only)
• Added setting "tabreopenmuted" to control if reopened tabs should keep their muted state (default is "remember")
• Added startup option to control the autoplay policy of media in webpages (default changed to require document interaction)
• Added make "!" behind close commands (close, lclose, rclose) also close pinned tabs regardless of the "closablepinnedtabs" setting
• Added DOM attribute "focus" that gets set on body, this can be used in themes to change styling when (un)focused
• Added action "toggleAlwaysOnTop" to toggle the always on top state of a window, will try to use the native method for it
• Added suspend toggle option to the contextmenu when right-clicking on a tab
• Added command "nohlsearch" to hide the search but not clear the query (as done with emptySearch)
• Added support for zooming the page with the mouse by scrolling while holding Control (similar to regular browsers) if mouse is enabled
• Added double clicking on a tab (or the tabbar) now opens a new tab, at the end or next to it, depending on tabnexttocurrent
• Added action "p.moveToMouse" to start pointer mode at the current mouse position
• Added setting "permissioncertificateerror" to ask or even allow custom/invalid certificates (default remains to block them)
• Added actions "menuTop", "menuBottom", "menuSectionUp" and "menuSectionDown" to give more flexibility of movement inside the menu
• Added setting "searchpointeralignment" to control where the pointer should align to when moving between searches in pointer mode
• Added actions "nextSuggestionSection" and "prevSuggestionSection" to jump between section in the explore mode suggestions
• Added setting "menusuggest" to control if suggestions for explore and command mode should have a dropdown menu
• Added feature "copyselect" to the "mouse" setting for automatically copying selected text to the clipboard (disabled by default)
• Added actions "scrollLeftMax" and "scrollRightMax" to scroll the page to the absolute maximum left or right
• Added command "screenshot" to save screenshots of the page to the downloads folder or a custom location, optionally of a specific page region
• Added command "screencopy" to copy screenshots of the page to the clipboard, optionally of a specific page region
• Added actions "moveTabStart" and "moveTabEnd" to move a tab all the way to the start or the end of the tabbar
• Added many default mappings common in other browsers to the default mappings (if they don't conflict), including numpad mappings
• Link color is now also taken from the current colorscheme for unstyled pages, making links more readable by default
• Setting "startuppages" now accepts optional container name, pinned status and muted status options using "~"
• Unsupported startup arguments are now passed to Chromium, which makes running Vieb on wayland possible
• Logo is now an SVG image with a slightly bolder font for the letters
• Strip packaged builds of unused assets by only including files using opt-in filters
• Search actions are now applied to all visible splits
• Use workarea instead of entire screen for detecting snapped windows
• Improve reliability of the mousefocus and top of page hover actions
• Make "nextSearchMatch" and "previousSearchMatch" move the pointer to the search match when called from pointer mode
• Newtab related actions in pointer mode are now prefixed with "t" instead of "n" to make room for searching with "n" and "N"
• Firefox release versions in firefoxmode to more realistic numbers because of recent Firefox release date delays
• Same domain check was improved to strip subdomains if needed (for both firefoxmode=google and the new certificateerror caching)
• Improved scroll position detection when searching which supports auto scrolling before finding the match and after (Electron doesn't do this in a fixed order)
• Improved algorithm for finding a matching tab based on text now matches the suggestions more accurately for buffer-like commands
• Setting "commandhist" and "explorehist" now optionally and by default store commands/navigations persistently
• Changed native clipboard actions to custom JavaScript actions which also translate spaces to "%20" for cutting and copying urls
• Mouse setting now accepts a list of features to enable instead of being a boolean toggle for all features
• Action "menuOpen" now opens the menu of the current tab when called from normal mode instead of the page menu
• Action "menuOpen" now opens the suggestions menu when a suggestion is selected instead of the url menu
• List-like settings can now be emptied using the "no" prefix, such as ":set noredirects"
• Selecting text inside an input field will now also switch to insert mode, if "toinsert" is enabled by the mouse setting
• Action "p.insertAtPosition" now also checks parent nodes to work better with SVG images
• List-like settings will no longer accept duplicate identical values in the list
• Buffer commands can now wrap from the end of the tabbar by providing a negative index
• Spellcheck suggestions should now also work for elements that are not input fields (but still not on Windows due to Electron bugs)
• Numbers with actions bound to them that are pressed when there is already a count will no longer execute the action but append the count
• Changed setting "search" to a list of search urls instead of a single url, which will be selected at random each time
• Fixed numpad keys not typing out numbers in navbar related modes
• Fixed special page navigations sometimes prompting to open externally when stored in the history
• Fixed settings that affect special pages not applying in realtime when there are suspended tabs
• Fixed media playing indicator not being cleared when the page is suspended
• Fixed suggestions for suspend command showing already suspended tabs
• Fixed pointer mode help commands not always working
• Fixed visual mode activating when only moving the scrollbar if "mousevisualmode" is set to "activate"
• Fixed numpad keys not being recognized as such when entered inside the page using insert mode
• Fixed write command path bugs due to previous code rework in 5.x.x releases

Other

• Electron 15.0.0-beta.4 (was 13.1.4)
• Chromium 94.0.4606.31 (was 91.0.4472.106)

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

Vieb

• Added actions "increaseFirstNumber" and "decreaseFirstNumber" for modifying the first number of the url
• Added actions "increaseLastNumber" and "decreaseLastNumber" for modifying the last number of the url
• Added actions "increasePortNumber" and "decreasePortNumber" for modifying the port number of the url
• Added actions "nextPage" and "previousPage" for going to the next or previous page based on website pagination
• Added actions "nextPageNewTab" and "previousPageNewTab" for going to the next or previous page in a new tab
• Added actions "toParentUrl" and "toRootUrl" for removing levels/directories at the end of the url (separated by "/")
• Added actions "toParentSubdomain" and "toRootSubdomain" for removing subdomains from the url (separated by ".")
• Added support for certain numpad keys in recursive insert mode mappings
• Added funding link to my personal Github sponsors page: Jelmerro
• Mappings * and tx etc. in visual mode now return to normal mode, similar to Vim
• Non-recursive insert mode mappings can now refer to a key with native functionality (if supported by Electron)
• Follow mode can now click on JavaScript links without reloading the page
• Actions "increasePageNumber" and "decreasePageNumber" now only read the page query parameters, use the new actions for old functionality
• Fixed text copy and download actions not doing the right thing when called from the context menu
• Fixed splits being swapped in the grid if splitting directly to an already open page
• Fixed menu actions being cancelled if parent mode has a multi-key mapping
• Fixed folders with many items not being scrollable in the file explorer

Other

• Electron 13.1.4 (was 13.1.2)
• Chromium 91.0.4472.106 (was 91.0.4472.77)

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

Vieb

• Add action "repeatLastAction" to repeat the last called action or mapstring
• Add action "p.restoreSelection" to restore the previously selected text in visual mode
• Add mapping to execute the last executed command again (requires commandhist to be on "useronly" or "all")
• Add cheatsheet for default mappings and general usage of Vieb to the help page, website and readme
• Add example config for Vivaldi, Surfingkeys, Pentadactyl, Saka Key and Vim Vixen
• Add support for numpad/keypad keys in mappings, such as k3, kEnd or kPlus
• Add actions for visual mode to search, open, open in new tab, open externally or download selected text
• Add setting "mousevisualmode" to control what happens when you select text with the mouse in relation to visual mode
• More consistent opening of splits when many tabs are open
• Further improvements to the encoding and decoding of urls
• Keycodes for popups are now acquired the same way as regular keys, so that they work on different keyboard layouts
• Action "editWithVim" can now also be used to edit text in search, explore and command mode (besides just input fields in insert)
• Action "nop" is now a regular action, old name "Nop" will continue to work due to recent case-insensitive action names rework
• Window state is now also saved after a series of actions, instead of only before it and on quit
• Fix missing help docs for media related actions, such as pausing, muting and looping
• Fix all actions being reported as countable even though some of them aren't
• Fix call command and custom mappings not always executing first part of the mapping from normal mode
• Fix uncountable actions being executed multiple times when not recursively called
• Fix broken symlink for Linux installers in /usr/bin

Other

• Electron 13.1.2 (was 13.1.1)
• Chromium 91.0.4472.77 (unchanged)

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

Vieb

• Add open command to navigate to a website or search term directly with a command
• Add permission for motion sensors, previously grouped as unknown, default remains blocked
• Add permission for preventing screen dimming, previously grouped as unknown, default remains blocked
• Add "mapsuggest" and "mapsuggestposition" to show and control the suggestions for multi-key mappings
• Add "modifiers" setting to control which keys should not be registered on their own, but only when used as a modifier
• Add "smartcase" setting to make searches with capital letters case sensitive while remaining case insensitive by default (setting on by default)
• Add ":scriptnames" to print the list of config files loaded at startup (and optionally those sourced by them using "!")
• Add ":source" to load other config files either relative to the current one or by an absolute path at runtime
• Add small indicator for links on special pages to show which ones will open an external web page
• Add actions and context menu options for controlling audio and video playback, such as toggling controls/loop/mute
• Vertical tabs theme now displays multiple pinned tabs horizontally with wrapping
• Redirects are now saved to correctly set the favicon and page title in those cases
• Call command now accepts any valid mapstring instead of only simple actions
• Help command now accepts different types of punctuation and casing to find the right section (which is now escaped as well)
• Action names are now case-insensitive and optionally without the "action." prefix, or with the shorter "a." or "p."
• All action names get sanitized to the shortest name possible with the new system, old names are still completely supported just not shown
• Blobs are now recognized as valid urls, just like other common URI schemes
• Default styling of notifications and the new mapsuggest across all themes
• Mappings with multiple keys that get aborted by starting another mapping will now both get executed similar to Vim
• Notification popup text can now be selected and will show all lines completely (last one was sometimes hidden)
• More broad selectors for finding pagination on the page to make page number actions work for more sites
• Help command now accepts any mapped sequence of keys and will open the first action or command those keys are mapped to
• Fix split commands not switching to the tab directly, which meant that mappings with splits didn't work properly
• Fix recursive mappings with multiple keys for a single action not being interpreted correctly in all cases
• Fix context menu actions for navigation history and refresh always being listed even if not available
• Fix empty new tabs always having a single history entry for the same empty page
• Fix pointer modes being exited when opening the context menu
• Fix screensharing throwing a Promise error in 5.0.0
• Fix media keys being off by default in 5.0.0 (they should be on by default, just as documented)
• Fix twitter not loading due to media keys overwriting Chromium arguments to fix COOP issue in 5.0.0
• Fix suggestions for write command not working recently
• Fix mouse clicks and context menu sometimes throwing errors due to missing DOM api for detecting matching selector on some elements
• Fix background image urls not always being correctly detected if there are also other types of backgrounds present such as gradients
• Fix commands with dashes breaking the check for valid keys and therefor not being recognized
• Fix help command showing suggestions for custom commands (which don't have help)
• Fix custom commands not having suggestions for existing commands (command and delcommand)
• Fix encoding issues when navigating to urls with asian characters in them

Other

• Electron 13.1.1 (was 13.0.1)
• Chromium 91.0.4472.77 (was 91.0.4472.69)

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

Vieb

• Add setting "suggestorder" that merges all explore mode related settings into one, with additional functionality
• Add suggestions for searchwords using the new "suggestorder" setting by default
• Add default mapping for quitting Vieb with <A-F4> which doubles as the mapping that gets executed for other close requests
• Add pointer action "swapPosition" to switch the current pointer location with the start location of the visual selection
• Add command syntax to cycle fixed-set strings using the "!" suffix, similar to boolean type settings
• Add startup arguments "--config-order" and "--config-file" to better control which config files get loaded
• Add command mapping list to the header of commands on the help page
• Add setting "menupage" to control when the context menu of the webpage should appear, possibly over the website's menu
• Add setting "menuvieb" to control when the context menu should appear for the Vieb elements like the navbar and the tabbar
• Add setting "commandhist" to control which commands should be stored in the history
• Add setting "explorehist" to control which navigations should be stored in the history
• Add prefix "!" to command mode that will run system commands directly
• Add pointer mode actions for most context menu options and rework context menu to be in line with pointer mode actions
• Unsupported startup arguments are now ignored with a warning instead of preventing startup (they could be chromium args)
• Word separator keybindings in the navbar wll now detect separators for non-latin scriptures using a whitelist of separators
• Calling action "menuOpen" from navbar input modes now opens the context menu of the navbar
• Don't load regular tabs on startup, but suspend them (they are not loaded until you switch to them)
• Common URI schemes and IPv6 addresses are now recognized as links by explore mode and when navigating
• Remove side effects of lock keys by mapping them to Nop by default
• Startup argument urls are now resolved as files if possible, both absolute and relative paths are supported (relative to CWD)
• Long urls in popups are now not only wrapped at 50 characters, but also maxed at a 1000, after that the rest is hidden
• Preload scripts for Erwic can still be loaded by tabs even if the file doesn't exist on startup
• Allow more supported characters to be used in container and searchword names
• Fix tempfile for the vimcommand not working on mac due to spaces in filename
• Fix spellcheck languages not working correctly when using multiple containers
• Fix navbar input position not following the caret when text is longer than the input box
• Fix mouse side-effects on Windows
• Fix quotes in settings messing with the :mkv command output
• Fix left-click in pointer mode not clicking on the right location when the page is zoomed
• Fix container color not always being updated if a color rule is removed from the list
• Fix search mode not clearing the url correctly if opened from the mouse dropdown selector
• A long list of miscellaneous fixes

Breaking

• Removed setting "suggestfiles" in favor of the new "suggestorder" setting
• Removed setting "suggestfilesfirst" in favor of the new "suggestorder" setting
• Removed setting "suggestexplore" in favor of the new "suggestorder" setting
• Removed setting "respectsitecontextmenu" in favor of the new "menupage" setting
• Removed action "closeTab" in favor of the ":close" command
• Removed broken FreeBSD build target, it's not supported by Electron or Electron Builder
• Changed setting "storenewvisits" to a list of types that should be stored, instead of a toggle for all forms of history
• Changed setting "nativenotification" to a "Fixed-set string" to allow using native notifications for small messages and show popups for long ones
• Renamed "rotateSplitWindow" to "rotateSplitWindowForward" to be more consistent with the recently introduced "Backward" variant
• Default config parse order is now "user-first", use "--config-order=datafolder-first" to revert to the old behavior
• Default value of "permissionmediadevices" and "permissionnotifications" from "ask" to "block" to reduce the amount of popups
• Startup arguments now accept values separated by = instead of spaces or no value at all
• Container names in Erwic configs will no longer replace special characters, but will report and exit

Other

• Electron 13.0.1 (was 12.0.5)
• Chromium 91.0.4472.69 (was 89.0.4389.128)

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

Vieb

• Fix rimraf errors sometimes being shown on Windows when quitting
• Mostly identical to 4.5.0 release, see previous release or the changelog for details

Other

• Electron 12.0.5 (unchanged)
• Chromium 89.0.4389.128 (unchanged)

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

Vieb

• Add setting "quitonlasttabclose" to quit Vieb when closing the last tab instead of opening an empty tab
• Add Vimium-inspired and Tridactyl-inspired example viebrc configs to the help page
• Add support for video and audio context menu actions
• Add suggestions for typos in the context menu under the new group "Suggestions"
• Add action "menuOpen" to open the menu for the currently active insert mode element (or simply at the pointer location)
• Context menu is now grouped by category to make different types of actions more clear
• Renderer process now uses modules for faster and more reliable code
• Adblocker now updates by making regular web requests from the main partition instead of using the Node request module
• Improve reliability of "clickOnSearch" when zooming or scrolling
• Suggestions will now also appear when commands or urls are typed out using mappings
• Insert mode with multiple keys are now correctly blocked from their native function, and are repeated properly if the mapping isn't finished
• Native navbar actions (such as "End") are now implemented by Vieb itself so they can be referenced by recursive mappings
• Fix for the adblocker updating twice at the startup when it's set to "update"
• Fix windows focus issues on Windows when closing popups or starting Vieb
• Fix missing title and icon for suspended special pages
• Fix mappings containing numbers not being able to override the repeat counter
• Fix file suggestions not working for partial matches for the last two releases
• Fix extension remove command suggesting the full path instead of the id on Windows
• Fix file explorer not working on Windows
• Fix clearonquit-type settings not always working in released builds

Other

• Electron 12.0.5 (was 12.0.4)
• Chromium 89.0.4389.128 (was 89.0.4389.114)

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

Vieb

• Add command "only" to hide all splits and only show the current tab fullsize
• Add action "toFirstSplitWindow" to switch focus to the first (top-left) window split
• Add action "toLastSplitWindow" to switch focus to the last (bottom-right) window split
• Add action "toNextSplitWindow" to switch focus to the next window split by appearance order (top to bottom, left to right)
• Add action "toPreviousSplitWindow" to switch focus to the previous window split by appearance order (top to bottom, left to right)
• Add action "exchangeSplitWindow" to exchange the current window split with the one next to it in the current position
• Add action "rotateSplitWindowBackward" to rotate window splits counter-clockwise (as opposed to clockwise with the existing rotate action)
• Add action "toLastUsedTab" to switch between the two last used tabs or window splits (uses timeoutlen for determining used tabs)
• Add default mappings for all the new actions and also the quit command: ZZ
• Rework help docs introduction chapter
• Fix missing favicon bug for sites that quickly switch between them
• Fix incorrect url sometimes being stored for an element at the same position in follow mode
• Fix settings "splitbelow" and "splitright" being swapped in functionality
• Fix installing extensions not working in last release due to rework and electron-builder bugs
• Fix action "editWithVim" not working in last release due rework and missing filename argument
• Small styling improvements and bugfixes

Other

• Electron 12.0.4 (was 12.0.2)
• Chromium 89.0.4389.114 (was 89.0.4389.90)

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

Vieb

• Added "rclose" and "lclose" to easily close tabs to the right or the left of the current one
• Rework internal structure of Vieb to better re-use code (should be faster)
• Fix for follow mode not being able to click on elements that previously worked
• Fix for broken fullscreen alignment when using splits
• Leave media fullscreen when switching between tabs
• Minor improvements due to code rework

Other

• Electron 12.0.2 (unchanged)
• Chromium 89.0.4389.90 (unchanged)

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

Vieb

• Fix broken builds due to electron-builder requirements/constraints
• Mostly identical to 4.2.0 release, see previous release or the changelog for details

Other

• Electron 12.0.2 (unchanged)
• Chromium 89.0.4389.90 (unchanged)

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

Warning

• Contains major bugs that are fixed in 4.2.1

Vieb

• Startup argument "--disable-media-keys" to disable Vieb from capturing media keys for player controls
• Environment variables for the datafolder and Erwic configuration (can be overridden with CLI arguments)
• Notifications for the final step of loading an extension (either success or failed due to Electron incompatibility)
• Context menu actions, map commands and default mappings (mmap etc.) to navigate and select menu items
• Test coverage report is now generated while testing which is useful to make sure you test all scenarios
• Follow and pointer mode logic for switching to insert mode, should make input focus more reliable
• Delcommand now shows suggestions for user commands that are added
• Select all option of the contextmenu is now listed for shadow roots and iframes
• Action "editWithVim" now works for input elements within shadow roots and iframes
• Map command listing now groups mappings that are the same for all modes into a single :map command
• Search is no longer cleared when navigating to a new page
• Require modules and specific functions only when needed (should be faster)
• Extension zip and folder are now deleted when the installation fails, so it can be retried
• Follow mode now remembers link positions even when returning to other modes, thus keys are more consistently assigned
• Clipboard actions in contextmenu and visual mode now work in shadow roots and iframes
• Download image pointer action now works in shadow roots and iframes
• Fix examples not loading on the help page for released builds
• Fix side effects for Tab key in normal mode by setting it to Nop by default
• Fix extension path removal bugs on Windows due to backslashes
• Fix second instances not ignoring datafolder argument when started in certain ways on Windows
• Fix action "clickOnSearch" not working if the page was scrolled
• Fix follow mode and related actions not working on chrome:// pages due to querySelectorAll oddities
• Fix follow mode not focusing input field correctly when holding Shift on keydown

Other

• Electron 12.0.2 (was 12.0.0)
• Chromium 89.0.4389.90 (was 89.0.4389.69)

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