RELEASE-NOTES.md

Release Notes of Vimium C

ReadMe: https://github.com/gdh1995/vimium-c/#readme .
说明文档: https://github.com/gdh1995/vimium-c/blob/master/README_zh.md .

1.84.1

(the current published version on Firefox Add-ons, Microsoft Edge Add-ons and Chrome Web Store)

• FindMode: better support for regexp queries, like matching \ra(?!nd) in abc and def
• mapped long keys ending with :i always work in a plain insert mode
  • for example, map <c-j:i> editText run="auto,forward,line" will move caret down by a line, only in insert mode
  • not in any global insert mode of enterInsertMode
• fix it could not enter VisualMode if FindMode had never been activated
• LinkHints: a new option newtab=last-window to open links in the other window
• a new command toggleStyle to insert/remove CSS styles to pages
• a new command scrollSelect to switch selection in <select> boxes
• editText: support a new action of "auto", to switch in extend and move according to selection type
• enterInsertMode: support 2 new options of unhover and reset to clear old modes

1.84.0

• LinkHints: better compatibility with Firefox popup blocker in "newtab" mode
• now support the high contrast mode on Firefox and Edge (Chromium) (#191)
• fix some bugs, including a regression of custom CSS and broken Tab during focusInput
• substitution rules: extend its usages
  • support post-actions like decode/unescape/upper/lower/reverse
  • the syntax is s/query/replaced/i,decode,upper,reverse: repeatly append a , and an action
  • most related commands supports sedKey: character to filter pre-defined rules
  • now the prefix of a rule can include up to 6 any English letters, and the rule gets used if only sedKey is in it
• focusInput: add option prefer: CSS selector to choose a desired input
• Vomnibar: use Meta+N to select the N-th item, like Alfred
• Vomnibar: add an option incognito=null/boolean/"reverse" (#195)
• Marks: now allow some host pages to report scrolling position and jump to marks in their own ways (#193)
• the UI of options page: use flat mode
• build: record arguments to be able to reproduce the same package, in order to meet requirements of Firefox Add-ons

1.83.4

• better simulating of mouse events: wait for 1~2 microticks, so that work better with modern frameworks
• fix some bugs about LinkHints and the Display page
• focusInput: follow "Detect whether links are completely covered or not"
  • support an option reachable: boolean to override this behavior
• goNext: now find links in all same-origin frames
• goUp: support an option sed to use substitution rules with prefix=g
• Block list of words: a small change to how to detect comments
• settings: show advanced options and command items by default
• export settings: now support non-English characters in block list of words

1.83.3

• createTab: in an incognito window, now don't open extension pages by default, unless evenIncognito
• Scroller: make keepHover enabled by default; also use a cheaper way to prevent hover effects
• autoOpen/openUrl: add an option testUrl, which is default to false if the option keyword is not empty
• LinkHints: use [aria-label] and support html[data-vimium-hints=ordinal]
• Vomnibar: fix bugs when preferring a web page as the Vomnibar page; fix no favicons on Firefox
• Vomnibar: add an option engines: enum to filter out any engines
• scroller: continue scrolling when irrelevant keys get released
• fix some other bugs

1.83.2

• LinkHints: no hint links on an iframe if it's wholly covered
• FindMode: fix an edge case Ctrl+J may hang at a place
• Vomnibar: fix a bug the currentWindow option may affect a next activateTabSelection command
• settings: fix a crash during auto-recovering when localStorage got cleared
• copy to clipboard: avoid spaces occur in URLs
• export settings: encode the block list of words using base64
• Firefox on Android: highly experimental support
• fix some other bugs

1.83.1

• i18n: support French when showing tips
• releases on the store: increase the required minimum Chrome version to 43
• Vomnibar: fix some bugs when a query starts with vimium://cd
• options page: if there're errors in custom key mappings, show them directly
• mapkey: support $if={os: "win"|"mac"|"linux", browser: int}, just like map
• text substitution: add a prefix of i and two suffixes of r and d
  • i is for vimium://show image to parse high-resolution image URLs
  • r means "reverse", and treats a first matched group as the result
  • d means "decode URL", and it will try to decode result URLs
• LinkHints: show indigenized upper-case characters (experimentally)
• Vomnibar: now expose visit time for customized Vomnibar page (#154)
• autoOpen: add an option of copy (#159)
• fix an error on iframes before Chrome 36 and when #enable-javascript-harmony is on

1.81.5

• LinkHints: Filtered hints: use Alt+N to filter by link text (#122)
• LinkHints: add scroll="force" to focus and then scroll some special boxes (#147)
• Scroller: add an option of passPointer to pass pointer events
• Vomnibar: add an option of icase (#131 (comment))
• closeOtherTabs: add filter=""/url/url+hash/url+title (#148)
• Clipboard text Substitution: now accept empty destination strings
• better support for the flag #freeze-user-agent on Chrome 81

1.81.4

• Vomnibar: roll back and prefer visited tabs to newly-opened ones (#60 (comment))
  • support noTabs or ":H" to avoid searching opened tabs in omni mode
  • add autoSelect and enable it by default in history/bookmark/tabs mode (#144)
  • add searchInput=false to prevent default searching
• mapKey: support a new mode ID of e (NExt) and use it when a prefix sequence of count/key has been typed.
• LinkHints: support autoUnhover to unhover a link node once it's clicked
  • on Firefox: press Esc to auto unhover a link node after opening it in a new tab
• focusInput: support act="last"|"last-visible" (#127 (comment))
• goNext: prefer completely matched text (e.g. ">" is preferred to ">|")
• goBack: add an option of local to always use history.go, instead of async going
• popup page: if an extension wants to run Vimium C but not is allowed, show a button to auto allow it
• some bug fixes

1.81.0

• fix that - or software-produced Escape can not be recognized (#129)
• Privacy Policy: update to allow short-term and in-memory cache for Vomnibar suggestions
  • Please see https://github.com/gdh1995/vimium-c/commit/240160ddb931c3fda545e8b7bd06f7c0bba0d56b
• Vomnibar: also match queries in all tabs when in omni mode
• Vomnibar: fix some edge cases and improve performance when matching queries
• Vomnibar: show indexes on Alt and quickly access items with Alt + Number
  • on macOs, use Ctrl + Alt + Number (<a-c-N>) instead
  • keys can be re-mapped: see #135 (comment)
• LinkHints: Firefox: improve reachability detection for scrollable areas
• LinkHints: Filtered Hints: make hint keys follow page numbers
• Scroller: use a lightweight method to deactivate hover effects globally if smooth scrolling is enabled (#133)
• goNext: support aria-label
• switchFocus: add 2 options of select and flash to work like focusInput (#127)
• hooked Function::toString: not convert those whose body includes __VimiumC_ to ()=>1 any more (influence #130)
• Chrome release: mark itself offline-enabled

1.80.3

• macOS: LinkHints now works well even if a page zooms in/out many times
• LinkHints: fix a regression some links were not clickable in v1.80.2 (philc/vimium#3501)
• Scroller: if needed, prevent annoying scroll restoration when a page is still loading
• LinkHints: wait for enter: now can use Backspace to exit
• copyWindowInfo: support join="json"

1.80.2

• LinkHints now detects whether links are completely covered or not, and an option can disable this feature
• macOS: fix broken LinkHints when a page is zoomed in (#119)
• fix a regression some keys were not excluded successfully (#115)
• Chrome: fix a regression the hook for click listeners became unsafe in v1.80.1
• fix some bugs when handling vimium://*** URLs (#113)
• add a new command of editText (#114)
• add an option to stop to show notifications on updates (#116)

1.80.1

• support pre-mode "mapKey" directive: mapKey <`:o> <f2>
• Vomnibar: always parse vimium:// URLs, including vimium://paste [...sed-rules]
• add vimium://cd <level> [URL], and "level" can be .... or /...
• add sed="s/_/_/g\nRule2..." option to those commands which uses Clipboard
• Chrome 55+: now recognize most elements with click listeners, even under Shadow DOM trees
• enterInsertMode drops support for code and stat options, and turns to the key option
• goToRoot: if repeats N times, then only select N-1 section parts of URL path
• Edge: fix support of <c-[>
• some bug fixes

1.80.0

• LinkHints: Firefox: fix broken Filtered Hints mode (#108)
• LinkHints: change some behavior details
• LinkHints: click mode: check [aria-hidden] on SVG elements (#98)
• LinkHints: click mode: support plain Element nodes
• LinkHints: click mode: add newtab="window" to open URLs on a new window
• LinkHints: hover mode: unhover on <esc>
• add an advanced option: Substitution for clipboard text to replace text before copying and pasting
• URL conversion: now auto replace vimium://paste with real text content in system clipboard
  • Firefox: only for commands like openUrl; not on Vomnibar because of a bug
• copyWindowInfo: add type=tab to copy info of N tabs
• goNext: support id/class selectors
• enterInsertMode: support key: string to declare a (mapped) key as the one to exit
• Vomnibar: dark button: fix it will be overridden when "Auto switch between light and dark mode" is on
• FindMode: apply a new appearance

1.79.3

• fix broken ignoringKeyboardLayout in v1.79.2
• LinkHints: filtered hints: fix a crash
• LinkHints: filtered hints: type Space 3 times to activate a current hint
• clickable targets: add detection for mousedown and dblclick listeners
• clickable targets: detect SVG nodes with [role=button]

1.79.2

• Firefox: fix IME compatibility issues in find mode
• Chrome: fix bugs and IME issues in find mode on old versions of Chrome
• add a new option "mapModifier" to generate keys like <s-modifier>
• fix some bugs (including some on Edge)

1.79.1

• LinkHints: merge logic from Vimium and add new options
  • add "Filtered Hints" mode
    • support filtering by some common non-English letters
    • include a fix for philc/vimium#3103
  • use a new algorithm to assign letters in "Alphabet Hints" mode
  • support and simulate Vivaldi: add boolean options noCtrlPlusShift and swapCtrlAndShift
  • add newtab="force" to skip click and force openUrlInNewTab
  • now support dblclick and button="right" to double click / click the right button
• always hook in-page access keys
  • completely avoid negative influence on debugging experience
  • the option hook access keys which was added in v1.78 is not needed any more
• toggleSwitchTemp: apply on all frames of a tab
• createTab: if url: string is specified, supports host_mask: string
• display image: support Ctrl+C to copy image data on Chrome 76+
• open copied URL: auto convert 0.0.0.0 to 127.0.0.1
• some other bug fixes and enhancements

1.78.7

• Firefox: fix focusInput can not select begin/end of text
• FindMode: try to scroll highlighted text into view
• Vomnibar: show better favIcons for URLs from search engines
• Firefox: a much more efficient way to detect elements with click listeners
  • also fix detection on CSP-protected pages
• vimium://show: notify browser not to cache images from incognito tabs
  • add an option for never writing into caches
• hook access keys: avoid part of negative influence on debugging experience
• fix some other bugs

1.78.6

• Vomnibar: all of its shortcuts, including <esc>, now support mapKey
  • now Normal Mode, VisualMode and Vomnibar supports full-featured mapKey
  • LinkHints and Marks support mappings from single characters to single characters
    • this is enabled by default for LinkHints.*, but not for Marks.*
  • others support mappings to Esc (<esc> and <c-[>)
• fix some bugs

1.78.5

• Edge (Chromium): release its first version
• fix that LinkHints may focus wrong iframes
• fix some other bugs

1.78.4

• Chrome: add a feature to hook in-page "access keys" and enable it by default
• Firefox: support 63+ and more conditions
• VHints: Tab: now only switch visibility in limited ranges
• add zoomIn and zoomOut commands, and use a huge count like 1111 to reset zoom (#83, philc#2978)
• fix some old bugs

1.78.3

• LinkHints: fix a regression since v1.78.0 that Vimium C might fail in clicking targets inside shadow-DOM trees
• image filename extension: add support for .apng
• exitOnClick option: fix a bug so that Vomnibar won't exit on simulated mouse events from page scripts

1.78.2

• LinkHints: touch mode: now disabled by default; use touch=true or touch="auto" to enable it
• Scroller: support visualViewport when computing view size
• Scroller: a try to support scroll-snap-type on Chrome
• goNext: add "上一封" / "下一封" (Chinese words) to the default patterns
• options page: drag-and-drop exclusion rules to reorder them
• fix some bugs

1.78.1

• Firefox: fix broken LinkHints

1.78.0:

• its UI uses Simplified Chinese (简体中文) for all zh-* language regions
• the default value of ignore keyboard layout option rolls back to false again
• the passKeys will only exclude key strokes when the "current key" sequence is empty
• closeTabsOnRight now closes all tabs on the right, just like what Vimium does (so does closeTabsOnLeft)
• LinkHints now uses a single F2 to re-find new page nodes with onclick event listeners
• LinkHints.activateModeToCopyLinkText: add an option join:string/boolean to join selected text pieces
• LinkHints: better support for "weibo.com" and pages using Material Design
• LinkHints: better support for pinch zooming on laptops
• LinkHints.activate button="right": now simulate auxclick events
• add a command copyWindowInfo to copy title and URL info of all tabs
• Vomnibar and Help Dialog now support an option exitOnClick
• Firefox: when browser data is cleared, Vimium C's local data is erased, too, so auto recover those data in time
• Chrome: fix broken importing settings on v1.77.1
• LinkHints.activateModeToCopyLinkUrl: fix not finding those in shadow DOM trees
• fix some other small bugs

1.77.3:

• 1.77.3: only for Firefox; fix that it could not open "about:newtab"
• 1.77.2: only for Firefox; avoid some error logs in the console of background process
• not manage browser NewTab any more in released versions (#53, #51, #42, #28, #14)
• ignoreKeyboardLayout is enabled by default, to support most keyboard layouts by default
• the PRIVACY POLICY has been updated
• translated into Chinese
• some other bug fixes

1.76.8:

• fix Vomnibar might lose focus on YouTube and GMail
• history completer: fix some old items are skipped in prefix matching mode
• Commands: add option $if={"sys":"win","browser":1}/... to filter mappings
  • "sys" can be "win", "mac" or "linux"
  • "browser" can be 1 (Chrome) | 2 (Firefox) | 4 (EdgeHTML)
• now most commands support shortcuts well
• "dark" in vomnibarOptions now overrides the status of autoDarkMode
• some other bug fixes

1.76.6:

• fix a bug Escape can not work when ignoring keyboard layout
• fix a regression of v1.76.0 that in LinkHints mode <c-a> was not treated as a
• Firefox: FindMode now wraps around, like the behavior of Chrome
• FindMode history now limits query words as one line and not more than 99 characters on saving by Enter
• some other bug fixes

1.76.5:

• fix a bug in the popup page (#64)
• extension allow list: allow Vimium C's helpers by default

1.76.4:

• fix that Alt+Shift+F was not translated into <a-s-f> when CapsLock is on
• Now the feature of overriding browser newtab settings is deprecated
• add an option to ignore keyboard layout (fix #39 completely)
  • Most of its logic is the same as philc/vimium:lib/keyboard_utils.coffee:21
• add an option to ignore CapsLock status, which is useful on macOS if using CapsLock to switch IMEs
• most backend commands are allowed for user-customized shortcuts (#55)
• removeTab: add an option "highlighted" to remove those tabs (#58)
• LinkHints: auto enable modal UI when needed (<a-f2> to toggle it)
• Vomnibar: add some text-handling shortcuts on Firefox (#59)
• Vomnibar: disable tab tree mode by default, unless there's an option "tree=true" (#60)
• fix some other edge cases

1.76.3:

• Chrome: fix that Vomnibar can not show favicons

1.76.2:

• fix a regression "Custom CSS" could not work on Vomnibar (#57)
• add a new feature to support user-customized shortcuts (#55 (comment))
  • add 4 shortcuts, and 2 items are to go in a tab's history list, and the other 2 are for user to customize
• support vimium://status toggle ["^" ...hooked-keys] to switch between "enabled" mode and "exclusion-matched" mode
  • for example, map <a-s-v> openUrl url="vimium://status\u0020toggle\u0020^\u0020<a-s-v>" will make <a-s-v> a shortcut to enable Vimium C or disable Vimium C (almost) completely
  • if you have configured global shortcuts, then shortcut userCustomized1 command="openUrl" url="vimium://status\u0020toggle\u0020^\u0020<a-s-v>" will make the shortcut a convenient switch button of Vimium C's working status
• goBack now tries its best to simulate the feature of "duplicate-and-go-back" on older versions of Chrome (before 72)
• the behavior of removeTab goto=previous is changed, and the new logic is simpler and easier to use
• now mapped <esc> and <escape> keys work the same as native <esc> keys
• LinkHints: now <c-f2> will hint all elements with non-null "onclick" properties
• Firefox: now can show a confirmation dialog if a command count is too large
• fix a bug of parsing failures if a line in key mapping rules ends with the \ character

1.76.1 for Firefox:

• fix broken FindMode

1.76:

• add a new command closeDownloadBar to close Chrome's download bar at the bottom
• mapKey: now apply mappings for lower-case characters to every keys including it
  • for example, if mapKey f g, then <c-f> will be translated into <c-g>
  • also work in LinkHints mode (#39 (comment)), unless there's an option of mapKey=false
  • so if your IME is not English, you may map alphabets to the English versions (in Vimium C) using a list of mapKey
• LinkHints: now always search shadow DOMs and the related boolean option is useless and removed
• LinkHints: if press Ctrl in "text"/"url" modes, then it will copy multiple lines to the clipboard
• Vomnibar supports a new mode "bomni" in which bookmarks' priority is higher (#50)
• Vomnibar now shows a "tab tree" when in "current window tabs" mode
• now it can sync much longer (bigger than 8KB) key mapping list and search engines through the browser syncing service
  • all the synced data is still limited under 100KB
• in case you clean all browsing data, now it can recover most settings (at most 5MB) even if syncing is off
• now LinkHints and Vomnibar are faster
• partly work around a bug of Chrome 70+, which affects command toggleCS
• if the confirmation dialog is forbidden by mistake, then now a too large count will be treated as 1
  • the old behavior was to do nothing, which is somehow inconvenient
  • the dialog works again if you reload this extension, or just restart Chrome
• Firefox: fix a potential vulnerability in v1.75.7 and v1.75.8
• update some notes in PRIVACY POLICY about which permissions may be removed safely

1.75.8 (only released on Firefox):

• LinkHints: smarter hinting and now <video> and <audio> are clickable
• on Google Docs, now can press <esc> for a while to move focus from document content to the window
• removeTab command now supports an option of goto=""/left/right/previous
• click listener watcher: fix a vulnerability in v1.75.7
• the options page won't be dark if the option "auto-dark-mode" is unchecked
• Firefox: the options page now shows a tip if the value of New tab URL has a mistake

1.75.7:

• LinkHints: add some new rules to exclude useless hints for container nodes
  • much smarter on Google search result pages
• a global dark mode for Chrome 76+ and Firefox 67+ is now enabled by default
  • include new styles for hint markers, HUD, options page and the help dialog
• Scroller: fix it might scroll too far in some cases (for example, a long page is loading) (#45)
• Scroller: fix a bug of losing current active elements after switching scrolling directions
• Firefox: fix broken FindMode (#48) and some other issues on pages with multiple iframes
• Firefox: fix LinkHints may cause scrollbars to show in some cases
• Firefox: now both auto-dark-mode and auto-reduce-motion can response to system setting changes
• goNext: stricter: not match long text

1.75.6:

• fix that Vomnibar can not acquire focus on the first activation on a new page since Chrome 75
• fix mapKey could not map a key of printable characters to <esc> (only fixed in the Firefox version)
• Firefox: fix LinkHints can not exit itself when clicking an <iframe>
• goBack command supports an option reuse=-2/-1 to open a previous URL in the tab history in a new tab
  • just like you Ctrl+Click / Ctrl+Shift+Click the browser's "Back" button
  • this feature can only work since Chrome 72, and currently not on Firefox

1.75.5:

• support prefers-reduced-motion and prefers-color-scheme media queries
  • be able to auto disable animation and enter dark mode when some options are enabled
  • enable the option "Auto reduce UI motions following your system settings" by default
• LinkHints: add a new option mapKey to translated typed keys to match marker text
  • use a subset of translation rules of Custom key mappings
  • require both sources and targets are single characters (can not map keys like <a-d>)
• LinkHints: by default, detect and use touch mode automatically since Chrome 48
• Vomnibar has a default style named mono-url. Remove it to switch monospace fonts for suggestion URLs
• fix that LinkHints and Vomnibar might fail to switch to other tabs
• fix more issues about passNextKey
• discardTab only discards those auto-discardable tabs which are marked by the browser if count is greater than 1
• vimium://show : upgrade the embed Viewer.js
• Firefox: fix that help dialog may fail to show in rare cases

1.75.2:

• use new icons
• exclusion: make passKeys take precedence over mappedKeys
• now mapKey can map any key to <esc> and map <esc> and <c-[> to others
• LinkHints/Scroller/Vomnibar: activate on a parent frame if needed
• FindMode: auto fill/search with selected text by default
  • a new option selected=false can prevent this behavior
• fix some bugs of passNextKey
• fix some rare edge cases on malformed webpages