v2.6.2

UI/UX

• Minimap tooltips now show the full text for multi-span highlights.
• Minimap emphasis now covers every span in a grouped highlight for clearer navigation.

Sync and reliability

• Firefox highlight URLs now strip selection fragments and normalize more consistently during URL-change handling, improving restore behavior on canonical pages.

Architecture/tests

• Replaced a remaining unwrapped console error path in the settings service with structured error logging.

v2.6.1

User-visible changes

• Improved highlight restoration on single-page apps so highlights come back more reliably during in-page navigation.
• Added safer navigation bridge URL validation to avoid handling unexpected navigation events.

UI/UX

• Improved the experience of restoring highlights after SPA-style page transitions.

Sync And Reliability

• Reduced navigation-related restore edge cases by tightening URL validation before processing bridge events.

Architecture And Tests

• Included the SPA navigation handling refinement in this patch release.

v2.6.0

UI/UX

• No direct UI changes in this release.

Sync and Reliability

• Improved Firefox highlight restoration by retrying a failed restore once after page load.
• Removed the delayed follow-up retry so restored highlights settle more predictably.
• Simplified the restore flow in the content script to reduce duplicate recovery work.

Architecture and Tests

• Refined the content-side restore logic in content-scripts/content.js for a narrower, easier-to-maintain recovery path.

v2.5.0

UI/UX

• Added custom color renaming in settings, with updated localized UI strings.
• Fixed mobile highlight controls positioning.
• Fixed minimap hover preview styling on sites that define global tooltip CSS.
• Improved triple-click selection handling so paragraph and standalone heading selections keep the expected visible text.

Sync and Reliability

• Added TextQuoteSelector-based highlight sync/restore to better preserve highlights when DOM structure changes.
• Preserved spans for highlights that do not have selectors and required quote selectors when spans are empty.
• Improved custom color sync behavior by preserving renamed labels more reliably across first-run merges and synced updates.
• Avoided unnecessary sync writes during custom color cleanup.

Architecture and Tests

• Refactored custom color naming to remove the legacy nameKey dependency.
• Corrected text-model and offset-mapping restore edge cases.
• Stabilized flaky highlight and selection icon tests.

v2.4.0

User-visible changes

• Clarified the popup's delete-all action label so removing highlights from the current page is easier to understand.

UI/UX

• Improved popup wording for the page-level delete-all action.

Sync and reliability

• Hardened in-page controls against a DOM XSS issue.

Architecture/tests

• Added a text quote selector sync storage plan to guide upcoming sync reliability work.

v2.3.0

User-visible changes

• Added a standalone Settings screen for custom highlight colors and keyboard shortcut mapping.
• Improved popup and settings UX across desktop and mobile.
• Fixed multiple reliability issues in color/shortcut refresh and extension-context handling.

UI/UX

• Added a full settings page for managing custom colors and shortcut assignments.
• Hid keyboard shortcut controls on mobile where they are not applicable.
• Disabled the Clear All button when no highlights exist on the current page.
• Refined popup settings icon styling and increased click target size.
• Centered popup windows for more consistent behavior across operating systems.

Sync and reliability

• Fixed intermittent custom-color load race conditions in settings.
• Prevented shortcutColorMap from syncing null values on new devices.
• Corrected command ID prefix and context-menu shortcut lookup behavior.
• Refreshed colors and shortcuts when the settings window regains focus.
• Fixed showSelectionIcon errors when extension context is invalidated.

Architecture and tests

• Refactored command IDs and i18n keys to slot-based naming.
• Updated E2E popup and selection-control tests for settings and loading behavior.

v2.2.0

User-visible changes

• Improved the selection action icon so it stays positioned more reliably on mobile and while scrolling.
• Reduced accidental icon drift around selection handles, making highlight actions easier to trigger.

UI/UX

• Refined selection icon placement logic for touch selections.
• Improved scroll behavior for the in-page selection icon after text is selected.

Sync and reliability

• Updated Firefox minimum version requirements to match support for required manifest fields.

Architecture/tests

• No architecture or test-suite changes were included in this release.

v2.1.2

UI/UX

• Fixed mobile selection controls so tapping the selection icon no longer closes controls unexpectedly.
• Fixed mobile behavior where the floating selection icon could reappear while controls are already open.
• Added a new settings screen flow and updated shortcut-related UX to avoid unsupported chrome:// URL opening patterns.

Sync And Reliability

• Improved context-menu color targeting logic to make highlight actions more consistent.

Architecture/Tests

• Refactored theme watcher logic into a shared utility for cleaner cross-module behavior.
• Removed unused variables in Playwright pages-list tests as part of code-health cleanup.
• Updated project documentation for bookmark sync architecture and settings implementation.

v2.1.1

User-visible changes

• Fixed accidental color activation on Firefox Mobile when selection controls appear, reducing unintended highlight changes.
• Improved selection control interaction behavior to avoid ghost clicks and keep highlight actions predictable.

UI/UX

• Prevent ghost clicks on color buttons when selection controls are shown on Firefox Mobile.
• Scope the justShown timer to the captured controls container instance for safer interaction timing.

Sync and reliability

• No sync protocol changes in this release.
• Added API compatibility documentation for sync storage behavior.

Architecture/tests

• Refactored controls.js to use createHighlightWithColor helper for clearer highlight creation flow.
• Added unit tests for shared/tab-broadcast.js and fixed promise matcher handling in tab-broadcast tests.
• Removed unused findTextNodeByContent function from content scripts.

v2.1.0

User-visible changes

• Improved text selection controls on mobile and desktop for more reliable interaction.
• Better overlay and custom color picker behavior on constrained/complex page layouts.
• Updated footer links and shortcut copy for clearer in-product guidance.
• Expanded multilingual user guide coverage and documentation polish.

UI/UX

• Improved selection icon hit area and desktop icon sizing.
• Added touch drag support for mobile highlight controls and fixed touch drag initialization in cloned controls.
• Fixed overlay visibility issues on TimesLIVE pages.
• Kept custom color picker within viewport bounds.
• Updated footer links to include User Guide and removed FAQ link.
• Corrected default shortcut description to keys 1-4.

Sync and reliability

• Clarified sync-storage behavior and Firefox Android sync guidance in project docs.

Architecture and tests

• Updated E2E coverage for selection icon interaction behavior.
• Repository maintenance updates for release workflow and agent guidance.