Release Notes of Vimium C

ReadMe: https://github.com/gdh1995/vimium-c/#readme .
说明文档: https://gitee.com/gdh1995/vimium-c#readme , https://github.com/gdh1995/vimium-c/blob/master/README-zh.md .

v2.12

update minimum browser version to Chromium 109 and Firefox 115 in the public released packages
- they are the last versions supporting Win 7 and Win 8 series

v2.11.3

fix broken LinkHints.activateCopyImage
FindMode: prefer browser's built-in scrolling on Chrome; scroll=manual to disable it

v2.11.2

fix new bugs

v2.11

Upgrade to the Manifest V3 web-extension platform
Update the minimum version of Chromium to 102
tons of changes and some are not backward compatible

v1.99.993

Marks: fix the mistake that .prefix was enabled by default and matches wrong URLs (breaking)
- now align with philc/Vimium's in common situations
- .parent: boolean is added to re-enable the old behavior
fix usages of inner clipboard
fix conflicts of runKey and the $retry counter
LinkHints: add newtab=inactive to always switch back to a current tab, whatever a page script does
LinkHints: add .autoChild: boolean | css-selector to click not a hinted element but its topmost or matched child
editText: add a new action of blank to trigger .$else if a when condition is mismatched
focusInput: now try updating its hinting rectangular after focusing
fix some small usages
fix support for Chrome before version 52

v1.99.992

fix broken long key sequences in ke mappings
a try to fix Vimium C might be freezed by browser
some Ctrl/Alt shortcuts of Vomnibar are removed if in conflict with system's default usages
fix some tip text
basic support for popover on Chrome 114+
autoCopy now supports .type=tab-url/tab-title and other type values of copyWindowInfo

v1.99.991

FindMode: fix some issues when highlighting all matches
Firefox: fix broken scrolling when a page is pinch-zoomed
key mappings: env now supports incognito: boolean
fix some UI issues on macOS, Ubuntu or Firefox

v1.99.99

v1.99.99: fix broken h and b in visual-caret mode
fix Vimium C hangs in some situations on Chrome 110+
key mappings: support map! and #if/#else/#endif and even nested pairs
- use map! and run! to make a mapping work in both normal and plain insert mode
- support unmap <esc> and unmap <c-[> to disable them in normal mode
- change how runKey and run rules gets parsed
- use \\<LF> to merge two lines and strip whitespace prefix characters of a second line
text substitution: add a inner temporary clipboard and then
- substitution and runKey mask can read/write it,
- so that command may create complex runKey task from text in system clipboard easily
now when <*-modifier> works as a first prefix key, it will end in 3 seconds
- the key will be passed to web page scripts, to work better with *+Letter
LinkHints: support more usages including LinkHints.activateOpenUrl
- LinkHints.activateCopyImage supports .url to copy URL instead
Vomnibar: de-duplicate tab and history suggestions if possible
- now also list closed browser window sessions
- change what's copied on Ctrl+C and Ctrl+Shift+C
- v1.99.99: fix support for macbook touchpad
Scroller: fix checks of whether an area should be scrolled or not
VisualMode: fix the logic of scrolling caret into view
- Now f and F can open Find bar and then extend selection to a match
nextTab/.../visitPreviousTab: support blur: boolean | host-matcher-string to grab focus from input again
focusInput now supports clickable and clickableOnHost
editText: add when clause to control what to do
confirm: will show a prompt dialog; parameters are ask: string, $then, minRepeat=1
fix quite a few edge cases

v1.99.96

UI: on macOS, prefer Menlo and Monaco in monospace fonts by default
fix exclusions rule changes can not be saved on options page (#811)
FindMode: fix compatibility with scroll-behavior: smooth (#819)
VisualMode: line mode: try its best to make moving work (#813)
- tested on Chrome 107 and Firefox 106 only
now the word block list also applies on bookmark paths (#824)
improve detection of browser version to support 360 eex (#814)
fix some other bugs and usage issues

v1.99.90

Marks: rewrite logic again (and add parameters) to fix bugs since v1.99.4
work around broken KeyboardEvent.repeat of Firefox in Wayland mode
LinkHints: now show hints for SVG icons with a cursor of pointer
reload and Marks.activate: auto go to a parent frame from an about: frame

v1.99.8

fix support for sandboxed about:blank iframes
fix broken goNext in v1.99.4-v1.99.7
Vomnibar: move caret if there're wheel and touchpad events on its input
fix other bugs

v1.99.5

v1.99.7: fix imported bugs on key mappings
experimental: auto release resources on inactive pages, to prepare for Manifest V3 of extensions
fix broken copying images on Chrome 107
fix it may cause initing of big pages very slow (#751)
Vomnibar: fix a second run is too slow on Chrome 102+
- fix unexpected white background color on Firefox 106+
- change labels for tabs and now support :active and :new
- vomnibar options: styles field: support wheel-speed=<number>
- v1.99.6: work around dark reader's Filter(+) mode on Firefox
LinkHints: improves "tooHigh" mode and support longPage=true to disable it
- v1.99.6: add bubbles=true to bubble mouseenter and mouseleave events
VisualMode: caret mode: allow aw and as to select a range, but not unconditionally collapse into one character
plain insert mode: now allow mapKey x <v-xxx> to create shortcuts like : + xxx
runKey: change the way of parsing nested runKey commands to work with .mask better
- vimium://run in search engines: queries are joined by %20 by default
add/open bookmark: add path and support both folders and URL nodes
dispatchEvent: add trusted=true to make Vimium C itself handle the simulated keys
now can detect focused editable boxes in more edge cases
fix many small bugs and add more parameters for command

v1.99.3

fix broken mapKey <*-*> <f1_xxx> in Insert mode (since v1.98.0)
fix broken mapKey <*-*> <v-***> in Normal and Insert mode on v1.99.1/2
Firefox 96+: use a new way to bypass Firefox's popup blocker

v1.99.2

fix a bug of not recognizing old configuration about Ignore keyboard layout
<v-***> sequences: now work even in Find HUD
LinkHints.click: now apply .exclude on all candidates

v1.99.1

<v-***>: fix issues and now support key sequences starting with <v-***>, even in command modes
- for example, with mapKey <Y:v> <v-copy> and map <v-copy>" autoCopy sed="s@\"(.*?)\"@$1@,matched",
- Y" in VisualMode will extract a string between quotes from selected text and then copy it
fix some other bugs

v1.99.0

VisualMode: fix as (selecting a sentence) on Firefox
sync settings: fix it would almost never sync from the cloud
Vomnibar: fix settings of Ignore keyboard layout and Allow mapping one-hand modifier keys were not obeyed
keyboard layout support: now ignore non-ASCII letters when in some commands by default
- if a key is not in ASCII (e.g. but a Greek letter), then try ignoring its keyboard layout
- to support inner shortcuts in those modes even in a non-English layout
- you may apply this behavior to all modes including Normal and Insert on the Options page
- Options: add a test box to show key names directly received from a browser
add LinkHints.activateCopyImage to copy images into the system clipboard
- Chrome and Firefox will always convert an image to PNG; Firefox will drop transparent effect
- if it fails on a website, please try adding a parameter of richText=safe
Vomnibar: tabs mode: recognize :xxx filters even if there're other query words
- add :group to show tabs in a same group (#671)
FindMode: add highlight: boolean | number to show outline boxes for "near" matches (to work around #554)
goNext: fix some wrong targets on twitter.com (#559)
- improve the logic to detect clickable elements and their titles
- add avoidClick to avoid simulating click if possible (#608)
open URLs: now support reuse=reuse-in-cur-wnd to only reuse tabs in a same window
add an experimental feature to auto restart Vimium C on pages using document.open and document.write
fix some other issues

v1.98.3

fix some bugs in v1.98.1 and v1.98.2
- fix a scrolling target might change unexpectedly on a second scroll*
- Vomnibar: fix broken Ctrl+C on Firefox when the input box is focused
- fix VisualMode may fail to init
- fix broken mapKey xxx <v-xxx>
VisualMode: fix as and ap didn't work
fix a bug of losing nested parameters in run key xxx
now unmap + 0~9/- will make such keys passed by default
- and unmap 0 will make a following map 0 xxx valid

v1.98.2

fix X (restoreTab) doesn't work in v1.98.1
fix v1.98.1 scrolls much longer on a screen of 95-149 FPS
fix Marks.activate fails to scroll pages in v1.98.1

v1.98.1

fix configurations were hardly ever synchronized
Firefox 96+: fix LinkHints may open a link twice
Firefox: fix it could not find some clickable elements
Chrome 102+: fix Vomnibar has a wrong white background in system-level dark mode
enable Auto reduce UI motions following your system settings by default
<v-***> mapped by mapKey now works in almost all command modes and will trigger its mapped command
key mappings: improve support for the \ character
LinkHints: show hints for "newly listened" elements if in queue mode
LinkHints/Scroller/focusInput/goNext: now support clickableOnHost and excludeOnHost
- e.g.: excludeOnHost="\\bgoogle##.g;\\bbing\\.com##.b_algo"
Vomnibar: refresh suggestions immediately on a new space character
Vomnibar: now can substitute a suggestion URL before opening it, following sedKeys and itemSedKeys
Vomnibar: rewrite actions of some shortcuts with Ctrl / Alt
FindMode: now support multiline queries in its history
Scroller: now auto select page center if nothing has been scrolled
enterInsertMode: show a tip if hideHUD is enabled, instead of running silently
add more parameters and usages to some commands
better support for many edge cases like fullscreen mode

v1.98.0

FindMode,VisualMode: support mapKey <xxx:f> <v-xxx> (and :v) to trigger commands
LinkHints,dispatchEvent: support xy="x[,y[,scale]]" and x/y can be "count"
- "count" will be replaced by count * scale (0.01); an empty value of x / y means 0.5
- if abs(x) <= 1, x will be rect edge size * x
- so xy="count" means [count * 0.01, 0.5]
- also fix selection of target element, and now run rules in order
fix a bug affecting suggestion order in Vomnibar
fix logic conflicts in per-mode mapKey
fix broken prevent browser from caching images, NewTab Url and Vomnibar page
LinkHints: add .retainInput to reuse old text query when in filter and queue mode
LinkHints: now simulates contextmenu on button="right"
support the <contextmenu> key (when a browser supports)
text substitution: support base64 (as base64-encode), base64-decode, json and json-parse
Vomnibar: add an option of itemKeyword which works after itemSedKeys
copyWindowInfo: add type="host"
fix some found bugs and compatibility issues

1.97.0

Vimium C has switched its setting storage into browser.storage.local completely since v1.97
- items in localStorage will be auto imported and then cleared
Firefox: fix opening duplicated tabs on a latest Firefox ESR 91
Firefox: work around Ctrl and Shift detection if privacy.resistFingerprinting is true
LinkHints: on Chrome, now a quick Tab when it's just activated will make it try to find more clickable items
- the quick Tab works only if "Use link name" is off
- add showUrl=true to simulate browsers' URL HUD for activate and activateHover
Vomnibar: add itemSedKeys to apply text substitution onto suggestion URLs on Enter
- in omni mode, now :i AbCd means abcd by default
VisualMode: fix crashes that Firefox doesn't support some granularities
Scroller: now guess the refresh rate of your monitor, so that scroll more smoothly
openUrl: now trust URLs built using search engines and text substitution rules
joinTabs: filter supports != and more keywords
sortTabs: order supports negative fields like -time
text substitution: for a string list, now apply rules once a line, but not join them firstly (breaking)
- and auto parse google.com/url?url=<URL> into target URLs when copy and paste
passNextKey: now it still works even if triggered it in InsertMode
- also add normal="force" to work even if no exclusion rules matched
many other improvements and bug fixes

1.96.6

better support for Firefox 96+ and fix detection of Firefox version
LinkHints: better support for privacy.resistFingerprinting on Firefox
Scroller: change the default duration from 100ms to 120ms, and make it configurable
- and then it can scroll by only expected pixels (#518)
fix some other bugs

1.96.4

fix some found bugs, like LinkHints on Google search results
LinkHints:
- add activeOnCtrl for Firefox to switch meaning of Ctrl and Ctrl+Shift
- fix some issues since Firefox 96
- use then: string as a following command in most modes

1.96.3

fix some bugs
LinkHints.activateCopyLinkText and copyWindowInfo: support ${field1 || field2}
map yv to LinkHints.activateModeToSelect by default

1.96.2

darkMode and reduceMotion: add a new state to be always enabled
scroller: fix support of child frames
focusInput/switchFocus: also modify a wholly-selected range when .select is not null
add SalaDict and EdgeTranslate into the default value of Allow list of other extension IDs
fix some small bugs

1.96.1

openUrl: now can run simple javascript: URLs whose code looks like JavaScript, even on web-extension pages
- Warning: Vimium C DOES NOT check whether your code is safe or not
- a 3rd-party extension may also inject VimiumInjector.eval to disable this or do whatever it likes
add a new option Compatibility of Escape to allow pages to hide their popup dialogs on Escape (philc/vimium#3917)
text substitution:
- fix broken rules which have lower-case keys
- add a built-in key of u to substitute URLs from pages
- add an action of latinize (aka latin) (#495)
- openUrl: now substitute words after filling masks
runKey: when mask, support $c to refer command count
- for a single "key node", add a new prefix of $l to avoid waiting for a new tab loading
enterInsertMode, now support $then to run on exit (#493)
scroll*: add wait: number | boolean to specify a precise and fixed delay and override Keyboard settings (#518)
VisualMode: fix some bugs about its own key mappings
- and mapkey <...:v> <v123> will make visual mode run a action of id=123
- see https://github.com/gdh1995/vimium-c/blob/master/background/key_mappings.ts#:~:text=visualKeys_
search engines: now ${s:...} will work just like $s{...}
key mappings: remove support for $key and $desc

1.95.0

Firefox: fix the Options page would break in a tab container
- it may cause bugs on Firefox and Chromium. For example the process of updating settings may be affected
- if any potential problem is found, please file a new issue on https://github.com/gdh1995/vimium-c/issues
fix some key handlers didn't support composed keys, like LinkHints autoUnhover=<esc> (325 (comment))
LinkHints: use then={...} to configure following Vomnibar / Visual Mode
Scroller: support scrollable=host-regexp##css-selectors;hostRe2##selectors2 to select default scrollable elements
.filter of tab commands: add limit=number|"count" and discarded=false
captureTab: add copy and download=false on Firefox
Custom CSS: add a new section named #find:selection to render selection areas (#481)
add vimium://urls/key1|key2:query words, to open multiple URLs in one command
- for example, vimium://urls/g|bing:$S will open Bing and Google search results
dispatchEvent: now can dispatch to <body> if no element is focused (still call $else though)
fix some other bugs and issues

1.94.0

runKey now support mask=true|""|<placeholder>
- in run <v-lh> LinkHints.activate$s mask= \n run Fq lh WithQueue, Fq works like LinkHints.activateWithQueue
fix Vomnibar may fail to switch to another tab on Firefox
fix broken moveTabToNewWindow and moveTabToIncognito on Firefox
fix the extension icon was never updated to represent current working status
improve openBookmark: if .mask then fill .title with one unknown key
- runKey now treats unknown options as command options (o. can be stripped)
- in map <v-ob> openBookmark title="v:$s" mask \n run ot ob 1, ot works like openBookmark title=v:1
improve editText: its replace command supports placeholder and URL-encoding text
- e.g.: editText run="replace,_$s%20%s_" will replace "abc" with "_abc abc_"
add more options to moveTabToNewWindow and moveTabToNextWindow
search engines: add some famous engines to the default list
text substitution: now allow numbers and underscore in keys
the settings template is update to demonstrate latest syntaxes in key mappings
fix some found bugs

1.93.1

fix a compatibility issue with extensions which use CustomElement on Firefox
fix visitPreviousTab may ignore .filter
LinkHints: add .suppressInput to prevent IME from affecting selection
Vomnibar: now can open a background tab and hide by <a-c-s-enter>
Scroller: better support for scrolling in iframes

1.93.0

better compatibility
- keyboard: with some system-level shortcuts of composed keys
- with some extensions with card-style UI
- avoid reporting issues on latest Chromium browsers which recommends userAgentData
URL matching: support new URLPattern in W3C spec.
key mappings: runKey supports inline options which look like #a=b&c=d%20e (wiki added)
- key mappings: add a new syntax of run key otherKeys as an alias of runKey key keys="otherKeys"
- add openBookmark and vimium://run/<key-tree> to run long command sequences with complicated options
- now support nested calls (but still refuse to call itself directly)
LinkHints/focusInput: always add elements matching .clickable even in other modes
LinkHints: improve autoUnhover (#325) and add a trick to copy image URLs (#399)
Vomnibar: support mapKey from keys to <v-*> (trigger commands) or <enter>
dispatchEvent: add a new mode: key="Key,keyCode[,Code]" in which a default Code is its Key value
text substitution: remove old /[dDr]/ keywords in "flag" parts
improve .filter in tab-related commands
fix some other small bugs

1.92.4

fix a crash during importing settings when browser language is not Chinese
small improvements on runKey
LinkHints.*: .toggle option: accept [+-]?(\[attr[~*]?=.*\]|\.?\S*) to modify attributes and classNames

1.92.3

Chrome: fix Vimium C Options can not show if only setting syncing is enabled

1.92.2

when Local encoding is utf*, fix broken Vomnibar and settings importing/exporting
fix Vomnibar didn't show favIcons on Chrome
fix some other bugs
add a new command of dispatchEvent to simulate dispatching events (options are used to init events)
- if with esc=true, then it will act as "Escape in normal mode"
- in other cases, Vimium C won't consume such events unless before Chrome 46
.filter option: support sub-arguments like url=... and host=...

1.92.1

keyMappings: not treat a line as an error if with $if={...}
- add unmap! to unmap a key sequence when it exists - aka ignoring errros
word around some configurations of Dark Reader
fix settings has no backup in storage.local when syncing is disabled

1.92.0

improved key mappings
Vomnibar: fix URLs with space characters would break
map: fix bugs of $then and $else, and apply them to much more commands
- for example, enterFindMode supports $then="enterVisualMode", and scroll* runs $then when something is scrolled
- most commands operating tabs support $then and $else
runKey command: change syntax of .keys, to support command trees
- see https://github.com/gdh1995/vimium-c/wiki/Auto-run-a-tree-of-commands
env: now host only considers about top frame URL; add iframe: boolean | string to match iframes
mapKey: support <...:n> and they will only take effect in normal mode
LinkHints: image mode: now can open simple SVG images
Firefox: some commands operating tabs will run faster when repeating count is 1
fix w and e in VisualMode on Chrome 90+ on Windows
fix passNextKey on macOS
fix a bug about filter in closeOtherTabs; joinTabs and sortTabs now supports filter
some other improvements and bug fixes

1.90.2

fix broken mapKey
fix simulated mouseenter and mouseleave
improve logic about $then and $else
add a basic support for tab containers on Firefox

1.90.1

fix broken goBack
fix moveTabToNextWindow would create an extra tab

1.90.0

key mappings: now a name of key can include _ ("underscore")
- so a key can be named <v-hint_mode1> - much more readable
- now all directives support $if
- add $then:Key $else:Key for many commands, to run a sequence of commands
  - please search Req.FallbackOptions in source code to find which support them
- runKey: add a simpler syntax: expect="envName1:keySeq1,env2:key2"
open URL: now most options can work together (orthorhombic)
- change meaning of reuse=last-wnd-bg: create an active tab but not activate the last window
- add replace:URLPattern to find (match) a tab by URL and replace it with a target URL
- improve URL detection when open copied URL, and add copied=urls|any-urls to open a list of copied URLs
- most commands to open URL now support options including keyword testUrl replace position sed window
- createTab is now full featured and works just like an alias of openUrl (#344)
- Vomnibar: decode file:/// URLs on Windows system
LinkHints: add lots of options to do whatever needed
- improve in focus (#328), newtab (#340), downloading (#332) and video,audio (#323)
- add .evenIf:enum typeFilter:enum textFilter:RegExp anyText:bool to allow/refuse elements
- LinkHints.click: add an object option directOptions={} to iterate in matches (phlic#595)
text substitution: add some actions and allow non-EN context keys for users to customize rules
Vomnibar: now can remove session items on Firefox
goNext: fix logic of its match option
performFind: add query:string restart:bool to search given query directly
enterInsertMode: allow non-word character as key (#325)
UI: support forced-colors and use thicker borders on a high-DPI screen (scaling >= 200%)
injection: use [data-block-focus] to grab focus on other extensions' pages (#164)
optional permissions: add support for chrome://*/*
fix some bugs

1.89.1

Firefox: fix breaking before Firefox 79

1.89.0

add new options to request optional permissions like downloads
- with downloads, closeDownloadBar will be able to keep your tab groups unchanged
- if the flag #extensions-on-chrome-urls is enabled, now work on the native New Tab Page on Chrome 85+
  - note: only tested on Chrome, and other browsers like MS Edge may refuses this injection
- contentSettings has been moved to optional, so in a fresh installation toggleCS may not work but show an error tip
fix a compatibility issue about fullscreen on new MS Edge
VisualMode: fix behavior of w on Firefox
LinkHints: support exclude: css-selector to exclude special elements
add vimium://sed, sed-p and sed2
- see https://github.com/gdh1995/vimium-c/commit/41e239654b4652417aec3b9645b2360557842418 for detailed usages
Firefox: allow restoring an incognito tab if incognito="force"
Chrome: moveTab now keeps tab in its group, unless group="ignore"
add some other options to commands like zoomIn, toggleMuteTab
fix some bugs

1.88.2

refuse to open known "harmful" URLs and show a tip: for example, the ...\condrv\kernelconnect will trigger an error
key mappings: env: add fullscreen: boolean to detect element-wise fullscreen mode
LinkHints.click: add direct="element" match=... index=<number>|"count" to directly select any element and click
Scroller: support keepHover=true|"auto"|false|"never"|<number>
- "auto" to detect 3 times of losing frames (interval > 20ms) and then prevent hover effects
- false means to prevent by default, unless there's selected text; never means to ignore selection status
- <number> means a minimum latency for "auto", if it >= 20
Scroller: fix broken scrollPx* and some other issues
Vomnibar: if in domain mode (query starts with :d ), then show a list of matched domains
Vomnibar: fix an order bug on pagedown
goNext: prefer the value of [aria-label] if text is very short (up to 2 characters, like icons)
improved vimium://show #!image

1.88.1

fix ignoreKeyboardLayout didn't work if it had been enabled
fix in FindMode RegExp mode could not match non-English letters
Firefox: LinkHints.activateModeToDownloadImage now opens a plain tab, to support Ctrl+S
vimium://show: add a parameter of pixel=1 to show pixelated images

1.88.0

add map *** runKey expect={env1:key1} keys=<default_key> with env name ...conditions
- now Vimium C can trigger different commands on different websites / for different active elements
- see https://github.com/gdh1995/vimium-c/wiki/Map-a-key-to-different-commands-on-different-websites
add LinkHints.click to click selected text, focused element or the nearest clicked
ignoreKeyboardLayout: add a partly-checked state which requires Alt to ignore layouts
FindMode: use normalize to normalize text before finding and get a more accurate count
when operate multiple tabs, not limit the range to one side if count < 10
gotoRoot: if there're sed rules marked with "r", then use them to learn sub roots
omnibox: move title before URL - just like Firefox/Chrome/Edge
Vomnibar: now can query an encoded URL in browser history
- add noSessions=false|true|always|start (#224, #261)
- also add clickLike to change behaviors on *-Enter (#263)
increase minimum_chrome_version to 47
some other enhancements
fix some bugs including that goToRoot and showTip may break

1.87.2

fix a crash preventing Vomnibar and Scroller from working (#250)

1.87.1

fix crashes in the Firefox / Edge store versions (#251)

1.87.0

new features:

scroll*: support a monitor with a high refresh rate
LinkHints: support clickable=<CSS-selector> to mark any element clickable
- also support match=<CSS-selector> to show hints for matched elements only
- goNext and focusInput also support them
goNext: support substituting a tab URL and jumping to it
- need to convert the index number of URL into ${index[/[min]:[max]:[step]]} first
- the default key when substituting is n, and goNext now supports sed
- the later parts are optional, and the shortest format is ${curIndex}
- goNext will use a new URL of index + step, or find an element as a fallback if a tab URL is not converted
- if absolute, then use command count as the new index
- now can skip checking the rel attribute by noRel
Vomnibar: run sed with a key of "o" on enter if the input line is selected
Vomnibar: math calculator: now support rad, ＋−×÷, 3² + 4² and °
a new command of runKey with keys:string[]: act like another key which is selected in its keys option using command count
a new command of sendToExtension: send messages to other extensions
vimium://status now supports toggle-enabled/toggle-disabled/toggle-reset
- switch in only 2 statuses, still with an optional list of hooked keys
when displaying an image, Ctrl+C will copy a HTML part on a latest Chrome
- then it can be pasted directly in MS Word

breaking changes:

add a timeout of 30 seconds after pressing a prefix key
add a few search engines into the default list
- some of them are default only when browser language is Chinese
keyboard event: not use a code if it looks like Key* while the event.key is long (philc#3317)

bug fixes:

scroll: fix keepHover=false breaks all UI until a LinkHints command
Chrome: the watcher for click event listeners: fix a naive security bug
fix some edge cases

1.86.2

fix some bugs

1.86.1

fix losing some hints on v1.86.0

1.86.0

add LinkHints.activateToSelect which uses caret: boolean, visual=true
- it works just like the element_text_select command in VimFx
FindMode: press <c-s-j> and <c-s-k> to flash rects over all visible matched text
FindMode: now enable the multi-line flag when in regexp mode
Marks.clearLocal: add an option all to clear local marks of all websites
Firefox: fix VisualMode might crash when selection met a text box
fix some other bugs
now Marks won't erase Vimium's local marks
now open the command list dialog on a first installation

1.85.2

UI: fix missing borders on Chrome 85+ if a screen is in some special DPIs
LinkHints.activateModeToOpenVomnibar: fix url=true didn't work
copyCurrentUrl with type=frame now works on PDF Viewer for Vimium C
goUp/goToRoot now uses type=frame/type=tab to decide their target
Vomnibar: add a classname of has-dark to <body> when in dark mode

1.85.1

fix LinkHints/Vomnibar could not work in some situations on Google Docs (#211)
options page: fix that it might save key mappings in a wrong syntax
Vomnibar: use a better strategy to replace 。 in Chinese with . in English
PDF Viewer for Vimium C: now only copy the URL of an opened PDF file in copyCurrentUrl
moveTabToNextWindow: now support minimized=false to skip minimized windows

1.85.0

Firefox: fix that Vimium C would break some iframes
Vomnibar: fix a regression which would interrupt inputting by IME
Vomnibar settings: add action=""/"opener" (for #198)
add an option opener to some commands which open URLs, to always set opener
add an option richText to some commands in order to copy HTML content
FindMode: add a cache for 3~6 seconds, so if a page changes rapidly, shown count may be a bit inaccurate
paste from clipboard: now accept a string of up to 20M characters
add a command sortTabs to sort tabs, and support sort=""/create/recency (#207)
LinkHints: add an option position and all position options accept "default" (#208)
add a command captureTab to capture the visible area of a current tab
now open Vimium C Options page on first installation
add some other command options
fix some bugs and wrong usages

v1.84.3

fix broken autoCopy
substitution rules: fix some bugs in text substitution
- now execute actions in their declaration sequence
- add some actions: base64, btoa, encode, eecodecomp
Firefox: Vomnibar: not list hidden tabs by default, unless hiddenTabs=true
goNext: fix some issues
openUrl: add title_mask

1.84.2

Vomnibar: add a style keyword of time to show time string (#154)
add a new command: addBookmark with an option of path: string
toggleReaderMode: now work on Edge (Chromium)
removeTab: now support keepWindow=always
searchInAnother: fix a regression that the default of reuse should be current
substitution rules: add a new filter: ,host=*.example.com
fix some edge cases

1.84.1

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
action 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 per-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~~ (reverted later)
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 action 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

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Release Notes of Vimium C

v2.12

v2.11.3

v2.11.2

v2.11

v1.99.993

v1.99.992

v1.99.991

v1.99.99

v1.99.96

v1.99.90

v1.99.8

v1.99.5

v1.99.3

v1.99.2

v1.99.1

v1.99.0

v1.98.3

v1.98.2

v1.98.1

v1.98.0

1.97.0

1.96.6

1.96.4

1.96.3

1.96.2

1.96.1

1.95.0

1.94.0

1.93.1

1.93.0

1.92.4

1.92.3

1.92.2

1.92.1

1.92.0

1.90.2

1.90.1

1.90.0

1.89.1

1.89.0

1.88.2

1.88.1

1.88.0

1.87.2

1.87.1

1.87.0

1.86.2

1.86.1

1.86.0

1.85.2

1.85.1

1.85.0

v1.84.3

1.84.2

1.84.1

1.84.0

1.83.4

1.83.3

1.83.2

1.83.1

1.81.5

1.81.4

1.81.0

1.80.3

1.80.2

1.80.1

1.80.0

1.79.3

1.79.2

1.79.1

1.78.7

1.78.6

1.78.5