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## 0.11.0
### GeckoView 150.0.1
**Extension Management**
- **Redesigned Extensions System** — The entire add-on system has been rebuilt, replacing the legacy native Android screens with a smoother in-app experience. Browse, search, install, and manage extensions all within the app.
- **Add-on Store** — Discover recommended extensions directly in the app with segmented categories and a streamlined install flow.
- **Add-on Detail Screens** — View permissions, internal settings, and popups for each extension without leaving the app.
- **Pinned Add-on Bar** — Quick-access bar in the browser toolbar for your favorite extensions, with bottom-sheet popups.
- **Update All Extensions** — One-tap button to check for and install updates for all your installed extensions at once.
- **uBlock Origin Filter List Management** — Browse, enable, and disable individual uBlock Origin filter lists. Add custom external filter lists and apply recommended hardening filters for extra privacy.
**Privacy & Security**
- **Intent Gatekeeper** — When another app tries to open a link, WebLibre can now ask whether to allow or block it. Manage per-app permissions and respond from notifications without opening the browser.
- **Screenshot Protection** — New privacy setting to block screenshots and screen recordings of the browser. Find it under Settings > Privacy & Security.
- **Permission Shield Indicators** — The shield icon on your tab now uses colors to show your privacy status: green means enhanced protection, yellow means you've loosened settings for this site, and it's hidden when everything is at default.
- **Third-Party Redirect Blocking** — Enabled by default to protect you from malicious redirects.
- **Smarter Onboarding Defaults** — New users automatically get recommended privacy defaults, including uBlock Origin with optimized filter lists and engine-level privacy hardening.
- **Fixed Site Data Clearing** — Clearing cookies or site data now properly closes affected tabs first, preventing old data from reappearing immediately.
**Tab Management**
- **Tree View Everywhere** — View your tabs in a hierarchical tree structure in List and Grid views too, so you can always see which tabs opened from which.
- **Reorder Tabs in Groups** — Manually reorder tabs within groups for full control over your browsing layout.
- **Auto-Scroll to Active Tab** — The active tab now smoothly scrolls into view when you open any tab view (list, grid, tree, or quick switcher).
- **Pinned Tabs Respected Everywhere** — Pinned tabs now stay at the top in the quick tab switcher and grid view too, not just the list.
- **Quick Tab Switcher Always MRU** — The quick-switcher bar always shows your most recently used tabs first for consistent muscle memory.
- **Container Tab Colors on Title Bar** — When browsing in a container, the address bar now shows a subtle colored border matching your container's theme.
- **New Sorting Options** — Choose whether new tabs appear at the top or bottom (or left/right) of your tab lists.
- **Stronger Session Restore** — A new internal system reduces the chance of duplicate tabs appearing after restart.
- **Isolated Tabs Persist** — Isolated tabs now properly survive quitting the app (only private tabs are cleared on exit).
**PWAs & Home Screen Shortcuts**
- **Custom Names for Shortcuts** — Give your home screen shortcuts any name you want instead of being stuck with the website's default title.
- **Storage Context for Shortcuts** — Choose how each shortcut handles logins and data: normal storage, share with an existing container, inherit your current isolated session, or create a fresh isolated context — perfect for using multiple accounts on the same site.
- **Multiple Shortcuts Per Site** — Pin the same website multiple times with different names and storage contexts (e.g., personal account and work account).
- **Better Shortcut Icons** — Shortcuts now always get an icon, even for sites that don't provide one.
- **Smarter PWA Launches** — Opening a PWA that's already open now brings it to the front instead of starting a duplicate.
- **PWA Session Recovery** — PWAs that lose their session (e.g., after the browser is killed) now automatically recover instead of crashing.
**Export & Sharing**
- **Export Page as Image** — Save any webpage as a PNG image to your device.
- **Copy Images from Image Menu** — Long-press any image to copy it directly to your clipboard.
- **Smarter Text Sharing** — When sharing text or URLs into WebLibre from other apps, they now properly route through containers and custom tabs.
**Search & Navigation**
- **History Toolbar Button** — Optional quick-access button for your browsing history, available from the toolbar customization screen.
- **Better Search Without a Default Engine** — Highlighting text and choosing to search now opens the search screen with your text pre-filled, even if no default engine is set.
- **Fixed Address Bar Ghost Text** — Backspace and delete no longer cause suggestion text to glitch or get corrupted.
**Onboarding & Setup**
- **Restore Backup During Onboarding** — Import an encrypted profile backup right from the welcome screen, before creating any profile.
- **Alpha & Stable Side by Side** — You can now keep both the stable and alpha versions installed at the same time as separate apps, so they don't interfere.
- **Optimized Defaults** — When installing uBlock Origin during setup, you can opt in to recommended privacy filter lists automatically.
- **Automatic Preference Migration** — A new system keeps your settings up to date automatically when new features are added.
**UI & Polish**
- **Redesigned Toolbar Customization** — Toolbar settings now separate buttons into "Enabled" and "Disabled" sections for a clearer overview.
- **Long-Press Menu for Settings** — Long-press the menu button (...) in the toolbar to jump directly to Settings.
- **Quick Quit on Long Press** — Long-press the "Quit" button in the profile menu to exit immediately, skipping the confirmation dialog.
- **Clearer Site Data Options** — The site data cleanup screen now shows Cookies and Cached Files as sub-options under Site Data, making it easier to understand what you're clearing.
- **Unsaved Changes Warning** — Editing a container and pressing back without saving now asks whether to save, discard, or keep editing.
- **Better Keyboard Handling** — The bottom sheet now adjusts to the keyboard height so content is never hidden.
- **Improved URL Display** — URLs are formatted more cleanly with better special character handling.
- **Addon Store Screenshot Viewer** — Tap a screenshot in the addon details page to view it in a zoomable overlay.
- **Proper Quick Action Icons** — The Android launcher long-press shortcuts now show proper icons instead of blank tiles.
**Bug Fixes**
- Fixed ghost text and clipping artifacts in the address bar
- Fixed PWA launch duplication when the app was already open
- Fixed overlapping UI elements when the floating action button is visible
- Fixed tab bar long-press interactions
- Fixed small web mode handling of isolated tab types
- Fixed toolbar preview layout overlapping with the action button
## 0.10.1
### GeckoView 149.0
**New Features**
**Small Web Discovery**
A brand new browsing mode to discover personal blogs, indie creators, and handcrafted websites from around the internet.
- **Kagi Small Web** — Browse curated content from community-vetted sources in 5 modes: Web, Appreciated, Videos, Code, and Comics
- **Wander Network** — Explore a decentralized network where personal websites recommend each other, forming a web of serendipitous discoveries
- **Topic Filters** — Narrow discoveries by 22 categories including AI, Programming, Science, Art & Design, Gaming, Travel, and more
- **Discovery History** — Track and revisit pages you've found, with smart avoidance of recently seen content
**PWA (Progressive Web App) Support**
- Install websites as standalone apps and create home screen shortcuts for quick access
- Enhanced PWA installation dialog with more options
- Fixed PWA display mode detection
**Custom Backup Directory**
- Choose where to store your profile backups — any folder on your device or external storage
- Backups stored outside the app survive reinstallation
- Old backups are automatically migrated when you select a new location
- New "Skip Cache Directories" option significantly reduces backup file size
**Permanent "Allow Unsigned Extensions" Setting**
- Enable unsigned extensions permanently from Settings > Extensions > Security, instead of confirming each time
- Includes security warnings and a confirmation dialog
**Quality of Life**
- Long press on tab bar URL to copy it to clipboard
**Updates**
- **Upgraded browser engine to Gecko 149.0** — Latest performance improvements and security fixes from Mozilla
- **Updated bang data** with spec-enforced bang naming
- **Consolidated bang groups** — The separate "assistant" bang group has been merged into the "kagi" group for simpler management (existing assistant bangs are automatically migrated)
**Bug Fixes**
- Fixed Small Web session occasionally showing stale/empty state after app restart
- Fixed PWA display mode detection
- Thumbnails are no longer captured while in fullscreen mode
- Restored certificate requirement for installing unsigned extensions (security)
- Fixed long press actions incorrectly forwarded in custom tabs
- Show minimal context menu in PWA/custom tabs
## 0.10.0
### GeckoView 148.0.2
**Major New Features**
- **Progressive Web App (PWA) Support** - Install compatible websites directly to your home screen as standalone apps. PWAs open in their own window with their own icon, and remember which profile and container they belong to.
- **Custom Tabs Integration** - Other Android apps can now open links in WebLibre using a lightweight browser overlay. Includes a close button to instantly return to the calling app, with support for private browsing mode.
- **Built-in Page Translation** - Translate any webpage into your preferred language - locally on your device. The browser automatically detects the page language and offers translation options.
- **Firefox Sync** - Connect your Firefox account to sync bookmarks, open tabs, and browsing history across all your devices. Set up via QR code or direct sign-in. Send tabs to your other devices and view tabs open on synced devices.
- **URL Cleaner & Unshortener** - Automatically removes tracking parameters from URLs and reveals the final destination of shortened links. Based on ClearURLs rules with automatic weekly updates.
- **Isolated Tabs** - A new tab type that runs in complete isolation from your other browsing, perfect for sensitive tasks like banking.
- **New Browser Home Screen** - The empty tab screen is now a proper home experience with inspirational quotes, quick actions, and container-aware content.
- **Dedicated Extensions Settings** - New screen to install extensions from local .xpi files and configure custom Mozilla addon collections.
- **Tor Country Picker** - New searchable country picker with flags for selecting Tor entry and exit node countries.
**Search & Navigation**
- **Top Sites Grid** - Your most-visited sites in a customizable grid. Pin favorites, edit titles, drag to reorder, and hide unwanted sites.
- **Customizable Search Modules** - Reorder and toggle search sections (Top Sites, Recent Tabs, History, Bookmarks, Containers).
- **Bookmark Search** - Search your saved bookmarks directly from the search bar.
- **Animated Tab Type Switcher** - Smooth pill-style selector for regular, private, and isolated tabs.
**Export & Share**
- **Print & Export Pages** - Print any webpage or save as PDF. Export page content as Markdown (clean reader content or full page), or copy as Markdown to clipboard.
**Tab Management**
- **Tab Filtering & Sorting** - Filter by type (regular, private, isolated) and sort by title, URL, or date range.
- **Drag-and-Drop Container Creation** - Drag one tab onto another to create a new container with AI-suggested names.
- **Tab List Options** - Show favicons instead of thumbnails, show/hide tab titles in quick switcher.
**Privacy & Security Hardening**
- **Certificate Transparency** - Enforce CT checks and CRLite for certificate revocation.
- **WebGL Privacy** - Spoof renderer and vendor information.
- **WebRTC IP Leak Prevention** - mDNS obfuscation, relay-only mode options.
- **Safe Browsing** - Toggle malware and phishing protection.
- **Geolocation Privacy** - Uses BeaconDB instead of Mozilla's service.
- **API Restrictions** - Battery API, Reporting API, and WebGPU disabled by default.
**New Settings**
- **UI Scale Factor** - Adjust overall interface size.
- **Font Size Control** - Scale web page text from 50% to 300%.
- **Disable Animations** - Reduce motion for accessibility.
- **Experimental Process Isolation** - Isolated content process and App Zygote for enhanced security.
- **Reset All Preferences** - One-tap button to restore all settings to their defaults.
**Customization**
- **Configurable Toolbar Buttons** - Reorder, enable/disable, reset to defaults.
- **Long-Press Actions** - Additional actions on toolbar buttons.
**Improvements**
- **Improved Keyboard Handling** - Better height calculation prevents hidden content.
- **Unified Bottom Sheet Menu** - Navigation drawer replaced with consolidated bottom sheet.
- **Settings Reorganization** - Clearer categories: General, Browsing, Web Content, Search, Extensions, Privacy & Security, Advanced, Experimental.
- **Enhanced Onboarding** - DNS over HTTPS, toolbar customization, and privacy hardening options.
**Removed**
- Navigation drawer (replaced by bottom sheet menu)
- Auto-launch docs after onboarding
- Dismiss confirmation on bottom app bar
## 0.9.32
### GeckoView 147.0.2
**Bug Fixes**
- Fixed bookmarks routing issue
## 0.9.31
### GeckoView 147.0.2
**New Features**
- Added per-site tracking protection controls
- Site-specific tracking protection exceptions
- New tracking protection exceptions management screen
- Per-site permissions management (location, camera, microphone, notifications, autoplay, etc.)
- Added clear browsing data per domain
- Added custom tracking protection policies
- Granular tracking protection configuration
- Configurable blocking categories and levels
- Custom tracking protection settings screen
- Added external download manager support
- Option to use external download managers instead of built-in handler
- Configurable in tabs behavior settings
- Added extension installation from local XPI files
- Install browser extensions from local .xpi files
- Added QR code scanner
- Built-in QR code scanning integrated into search field
- Quick access for scanning URLs
- Added Tor entry/exit country selection
- Configure specific countries for Tor entry and exit nodes
- Enhanced Tor settings UI with country picker
- Added "Open in App" feature
- Native app link handling for compatible apps
- Configurable app links behavior
**Major UI/UX Improvements**
- Complete browser UI scaffold replacement
- Better keyboard handling with bottom sheets
- Improved content overlay management
- Top bar now hides on scroll
- Navigation drawer reorganization
- New dedicated navigation drawer
- Reorganized button placements
- Unified toolbar icon colors
- Improved profile selector bottom sheet
- Converted dialogs to bottom sheets for better mobile UX
- Delete data, folder selection, profile selection, and feed selection
- Address bar merged into search screen
- Unified search and URL input experience
- Tab editing integrated into search interface
- App color system reorganization
- Consistent color scheme across entire app
- Improved visual hierarchy
- Movable tab bar restore button
- FAB can be repositioned by user
- Drag to preferred location
**New Settings**
- Settings reorganization with new categories:
- General Settings
- Privacy & Security Settings
- Search & Content Settings
- Tabs & Behavior Settings
- Appearance & Display Settings
- Fingerprinting Settings
- Advanced Settings (renamed from Developer Settings)
- Disable automatic clipboard access for improved privacy
- Auto-clear unassigned tabs after configurable duration
- Configurable search history entry count with automatic cleanup
- Control swipe-to-refresh gesture
- Disable double back to close tab gesture
- External download manager toggle
- App links handling control
**Container & Tab Management**
- Container assignment improvements
- Fixed container assignment for private tabs
- Container selection in new tab screen
- Better container data synchronization
- Tab closing logic improvements
- Check for parent tab first when closing (fixes #155)
- Close assigned tab when history is empty
- Improved tab bar dismiss logic (fixes #157)
- Tab view enhancements
- Improved initial scroll position
- Hide "Add New Tab" button on scroll
- Better grid/list scroll behavior
**Bookmarks & History**
- Bookmark all tabs dialog with fast/detailed options
- Hide empty root folders by default
- Long press for history navigation
- Edit mode respected in history search
**Search Enhancements**
- Configurable search history entry count
- Automatic search history cleanup
- Case-insensitive suggestion matching
- Autocomplete suggestions on tap
**Tor Improvements**
- Migrated from Arti to libtor implementation
- Country selection for entry/exit nodes
- Improved Tor UI and notifications
- Custom onion icon in notifications
**Developer & Debugging**
- New dedicated error logs screen
- Improved error logging and handling
- Log filtering capabilities
**Performance & Resource Management**
- Improved image caching and disposal
- Better widget icon caching
- Proper image disposal to prevent memory leaks
- Screenshot timer management improvements
- Better database provider lifecycle management
- Longer disposal timeout for improved resource cleanup
**Visual Improvements**
- Permission badge indicator in address bar
- Better find-in-page widget with debouncing
- Progress bar positioning based on toolbar location
- Fixed PlatformView overlap issues on affected devices running old Android versions
- Improved keyboard visibility handling
**Bug Fixes**
- Fixed container assignment issue for private tabs
- Fixed tab bar dismiss logic (fixes #157)
- Fixed parent tab check when closing tabs (fixes #155)
- Fixed provider access errors on dispose
- Fixed loading progress visibility issues
- Fixed color issues with new app colors
- Fixed PlatformView overlap issues
- Fixed content overlay issues
## 0.9.30
### GeckoView 146.0.1
**New Features**
- GitHub and Google Play releases are using libre Fennec-style Gecko builds from now on (on par with F-Droid)
- Added encrypted profile backup and restore system with password protection
- Added bookmark import/export functionality
- Support for HTML (Netscape format, Firefox/Chrome compatible) and JSON formats
- Option to merge with existing bookmarks or replace completely
- Added private tab tracking system
- Visual indicator (private icon) in address bar for private tabs
- "Close All Private Tabs" button in tab view
- Added page content export capabilities
- Export current page as PDF file
- Copy page content as Markdown to clipboard
- Save page content as Markdown file
- Added multiple tab view modes
- Grid view: Traditional grid layout
- List view: Compact list showing more tabs at once
- Tree view: Hierarchical display of tab relationships
- View mode preference persists across app restarts
- Added quick tab switcher and contextual navigation bar
- Contextual bottom toolbar showing recently used tabs or ordered container tabs (configurable)
- Dismissible to maximize screen space
- Added container filter for tree view to show container-specific tab hierarchies
- Added ML model download progress reporting with real-time indicators
- Added isolated container data clearing
- Clear cookies, cache, and browsing data for specific containers
- Option to clear container data on exit
- Added quit button to profile selector for complete app exit
- Added address bar auto-focus option for improved navigation UX
**Improvements**
- Complete tab bar overhaul
- Consolidated menu buttons for cleaner interface
- Tab reordering now opt-in via settings (not always enabled)
- Tab bar dismissible to maximize viewing space
- Enhanced container color system
- Tab bar color now matches current container's color theme
- Selected containers use border instead of background color (improved visibility)
- Redesigned search interface
- Improved visual hierarchy and layout
- Better organization of suggestions, history, and results
- Enhanced container chip display
- More efficient use of screen space
- Improved tab handling and state management
- Better tab duplication logic
- Enhanced tab parent handling and hierarchy management
- Refined tab insertion process
- Removed tab deletion cache for simplified architecture
- Enhanced bookmark management
- Assignable folder parents (move bookmarks between folders)
- Improved bookmark entry editing interface
- Better folder management and organization
- UI/UX enhancements
- Tab icons displayed when screenshots unavailable
- Less intense chip background colors for better readability
- Auto-hide "Add New Tab" button for cleaner interface
- Automatic UI reset after 30+ minutes of inactivity
- Updated addon/extension layouts
- Various icon updates throughout the app
**Bug Fixes**
- Fixed search field focus issues preventing proper keyboard interaction
- Fixed disposed provider exceptions that could cause crashes
- Fixed unmounted widget exceptions
- Fixed browser floating action button animation glitches
- Fixed tab container provider lifecycle coordination
- Fixed widget/provider lifecycle timing issues
- Fixed incorrect tab hierarchy when adding multiple tabs (parent ID handling)
- Fixed tab menu incorrectly showing for history items
- Improved animation smoothness throughout the app
## 0.9.29
### GeckoView 145.0.2
**New Features**
- Added container site assignments to automatically open specific websites in designated containers
- Added multi-user profiles with complete separation of browsing data, extensions, and settings
- Added bookmarks feature
- Added support for custom search engines via user-defined bangs
**Improvements**
- Tor now uses built-in bridges as fallback
- Tor data storage migrated from file directory to cache
- Arti logging now outputs to logcat
- Tab overview now defaults to fullscreen mode (configurable in settings)
- Visual indicator added to tab bar for Tor-tunneled tabs
- Reorganized menu structure
- General UI improvements and bug fixes
## 0.9.28
### GeckoView 144.0.2
**New Features**
- Added support for requesting sites in Desktop Mode
**Improvements**
- Enhanced favicon caching
- Tor-related updates and improvements
- UI refinements
**Bug Fixes**
- Fixed URL launch intent issues
## 0.9.27
### GeckoView 144.0
**New Features**
- Added setting to disable internal PDF viewer (pdfjs)
- Added setting to define and select browser locales
**Improvements**
- Migrated from experimental API extension to new Gecko Preference API for most operations
**Bug Fixes**
- Fixed UI issues
- Fixed engine crash after prolonged background inactivity
- Fixed intent stream lifecycle issue
## 0.9.26
### GeckoView 144.0
**Bug Fixes**
- Ensure tab bar remains visible when bottom sheet is active
- Handle AI engine errors gracefully
- Fix container assignment when opening links
- Fix settings toggle not refreshing UI
## 0.9.25
### GeckoView 144.0
**New Features**
- Added AI feature to group related unassigned tabs into new containers
- Added setting to control how externally opened links are handled (now defaults to prompt)
- Added DoH (DNS over HTTPS) setting with predefined or custom DNS resolver options
- Added browser history view with options to view and delete history data
- Added tab bar swipe action setting with options: "Switch to last used Tab" and "Navigate Sequential Tabs"
- Added quick actions to open tabs via long press on home screen app icon
- Added developer setting to support third-party CA certificates
- Added support for custom addon collections
- Added developer setting to customize fingerprint protection measures
**Improvements**
- Rewrote large portions of the Tor Plugin with option to route all traffic and fixed potential IP leaks (through browser side effects like loading favicons)
- Increased Tor background service timeout from 15 minutes to 1 hour without interaction
- Localhost URLs now default to `http` instead of `https` for better compatibility
- Display scrollable breadcrumb representation of URLs wherever possible for improved visibility
- Updated built-in Bangs
- Large portions of UI rewritten and improved
**Breaking Changes**
- New database structure for bangs; saved bang frequency sorting has been reset
## 0.9.24
### GeckoView 143.0.0
* Upgraded GeckoView
## 0.9.23
### GeckoView 142.0.1
**New Features**
- Added Tor Bridge support with automatic configuration and bridge updates
- Added setting to display dialog for choosing external link handling behavior
**Bug Fixes**
- Fixed media upload issues on websites
- Fixed hardening settings UI display problems
**Improvements**
- Enhanced bottom sheet user interface
- Improved URI parsing and protocol detection for address bar input
## 0.9.22
### GeckoView 142.0
* Added setting to use third party CA certificates
* Added setting to control tab bar swipe behavior
* Downgraded AGP for F-Droid compatibility
## 0.9.21
### GeckoView 142.0
* Restore previous tab state on undo delete
* Fix Reader Mode issue on back arrow navigation
* Unhide tab bar on app resume
## 0.9.20
### GeckoView 142.0
* Added 'Undo' action for closed tabs
* Added swipe gesture to close tab
* Added compatibility for receiving intents of various MIME types
* Introduced Bounce Tracking Protection
* Introduced Query Parameter Stripping as setting
* Introduced setting to control default tab type for creating new tabs and opening links
* Upgraded Flutter to latest stable version
* Automatic hide tab bar on scroll
* Sort newly created tabs after parent instead of at front
* Set default fallback encoding for Web Feeds to UTF-8
* Take full screen size when in fullscreen mode
* Improved error logging
* Filter out sensitive logs
* Minor UI improvements
* Fix Reader Mode issue on back navigation
* Fix bottom sheet scrolling issues
## 0.9.17
* Reworked Tab UI into bottom sheet
* Adjusted Android permissions
* Improved Favicon handling
## 0.9.16-2
* Fix icon caching issue
## 0.9.16-1
* Fixed drop animation lag
* Allow drop into the unassigned container
## 0.9.16
* Integrated on-device ai for container naming and tab sugegstions
* Improved Tab and container UI
## 0.9.15-1
* Added certificate information title
* Fixed draggable tabs
* Open single tab in tree view automatically
## 0.9.15
* Improved intent handling
* Refactored tab grid
* Several UI improvements
* Optimized build
## 0.9.14
* Bundle bangs and disable auto fetch (sync from repo still possible via settings)
* Fix flickering after returning from home
* Fix UI website title overflow
* Optimize build
## 0.9.13
* Added option to show extensions in tab bar (through "Show Extension Shortcut" setting)
* Added tab menu action to assign tab to container
* Fixed QR code generation issues
* Switched to Mozilla stable builds
* Fixed issues with PiP and fullscreen mode
## 0.9.12
* Reorganized several settings into a new group: "Developer Settings"
* Added a "Get Extensions" menu entry
* Disabled the Cookie Banner Blocker option, as it is deprecated by Mozilla (consider using uBlock Origin instead)
* Updated hardening presets
* Mozilla Components upgraded
## 0.9.11
* Trigger automatic find-in-page when coming from local search results
* Upgraded gecko
* Upgraded GoRouter
## 0.9.10
* Initial public release