- Security popover redesigned to resemble Firefox's site-info panel:
lock/shield hero, "Connection secure" status, host, plain-language
subtitle, and a details grid; the overlay view auto-sizes to content.
- Search-engine picker returned to the toolbar with an "Add / edit engines…"
entry that opens Settings; added Ecosia, Mojeek, Presearch.
- Custom search engines: add (name + URL template with %s) / remove in
Settings > General; used by address-bar search.
- Address-bar placeholder: "Ask a search engine or enter web address".
The chooser page was two audience-labelled panels ("For people" / "For
developers"). Rebuild as two acts of two pills each, describing the systems
rather than the reader: the web you browse (stay / step outside), the web you
build on (rent / own). The paid name+hosting service gains a name here —
Sirius.x — and it appears on the developer red pill and its destination.
The privacy claim tightens across all three pages to the version that is
actually true: anonymous by default, not by exception.
- The default path binds a domain to a verified legal identity via WHOIS/RDAP,
ICANN accreditation, and the card. Privacy-forward registrars (Njalla,
MyNymBox) exist and behave well; paired with Tor/VPN they give genuine
real-world privacy. But they hold the identity ON YOUR BEHALF and can be
compelled to produce it. A bank card undoes any of it.
- Sirius.x has no card support and no account, so there is nothing to compel
out of a provider that never held it.
- Honestly noted on the red side that no stack removes your IP — the network
layer (Tor/VPN) is a separate question. Two independent questions, two
independent answers.
Also: /register.html#hosting was a dead anchor; fix in a follow-up commit.
Third-party sessions are concurrently editing TheseusNavigator/; not touched here.
- Performance: cache the chain index (was rebuilt on every navigation) and
warm it at startup — .bch pages open near-instantly after the first.
- Loading indicator: indeterminate bar under the toolbar, per-tab spinner,
and reload⇄stop button (driven by did-start/stop-loading + BNS resolve).
- Chrome cleanup: removed the bottom status bar and the redundant search
box; security padlock now always present at the front of the address bar;
minimal ICANN/BCNR pill at the end; favorites bar shows only on new-tab.
- Search: added Yandex; engine picker moved into Settings > General.
- Settings redesigned with a left sidebar (General / Performance / Privacy /
Anti-fingerprinting). Anti-fingerprinting now Show/Hide/Spoof/Manual for
timezone, language, AND location (geolocation coords overridden in-page).
Theseus Navigator:
- Firefox-style toolbar: SVG back/fwd/reload/home buttons
- security padlock badge in the address bar opens a floating site-info
overlay VIEW (on top of the page, never pushes content down)
- Edge-style favorites bar (shown only on the new-tab/home page)
- search-engine picker (DuckDuckGo/Google/Bing/Brave/Startpage)
- Theseus logo moved right, opens Settings; native menu removed
- address bar doubles as search; bottom resolver status line
Argus:
- BNS-only indexer: an electrum endpoint over a bare BCHN node
(watches just the beacon, caches txs so no txindex needed) + test
- registry lifecycle / portfolio / name-index modules
Site restructure (nav/apps/store/hermes/choose) + runbook notes.
