0.3.50's relocateProfile checked for %APPDATA%\Theseus Navigator\, but
Electron's userData path is derived from app.getName(), which reads
package.json's top-level "name" ("theseus-navigator") because there is
no top-level productName — the "productName": "Theseus Navigator" in
this file lives under "build", where electron-builder reads it for the
installer, not where Electron reads it for the runtime path. So the
folder the user's Theseus writes to is %APPDATA%\theseus-navigator\,
never %APPDATA%\Theseus Navigator\.
On 0.3.50 that meant relocateProfile found nothing at its search path,
returned the new Theseus\ location, and Electron happily created a
fresh empty profile there. The user's addons, vault, bookmarks and
settings stayed in theseus-navigator\ but the running Theseus was no
longer looking at them. Losing the vault is not something the user
can recover from.
Check both candidate names — the one the code was written for and the
one that actually exists — and migrate whichever is present. If the
new Theseus\ already exists (Windows fresh installs after 0.3.51), we
leave it alone.
Cuts the shipping trigger for the changes accumulated since 0.3.49:
translate is bundled (so a fresh install has it out of the box, and
seedBundledAddons reseeds the folder on any install that lost it),
Settings > Extensions no longer double-renders installed extensions
in a separate Community section, and the PDF/DOC data-URI icons the
dock now paints as <img>s ship alongside their addons.
A year-old engine is now a bot signal in itself: DataDome blocked
estore.asus.com for Theseus on Chromium 130 while the same request claiming
Chrome 152 went through, and Chromium 130 carries a year of unpatched
renderer bugs. Electron 44 boots the app unchanged; verified on the new
engine: local files, HTTP auth prompt, tab strip in the title bar, BNS
sites and window.bcnr, all bundled add-ons, the Tor toggle
(check.torproject.org via the SOCKS agent), and a full NSIS + portable
build (artifacts grow from ~99 MB to ~132 MB with the larger engine).
session.setPreloads is deprecated from 35 on; preloads are registered
with registerPreloadScript when available, with the old call as fallback.
Sites behind Basic/Digest auth (silentmode.st/guardian/admin) rendered the
server's 401 page because nothing listened for Electron's login event,
which cancels every challenge by default. A modal sign-in prompt now asks
for the credentials and answers the challenge; Cancel leaves the 401 page.
Concurrent challenges for the same host and realm share one prompt while it
is open, and a rejected answer re-prompts instead of replaying the same
credentials until Chromium gives up with ERR_TOO_MANY_RETRIES.
Also: THESEUS_NO_UPDATE_CHECK skips the release check, for throwaway dev
instances — the one-click install chip they show targets the real install.
Theseus core:
- addons-host: manifest.category ("plugin") propagates through snapshot(); new
addon API surface checkAndStageSelfUpdate() + restartApp() so a plug-in
can offer in-panel "update now → restart to apply" without pushing the
user to Settings.
- main.js: wires the two new hooks into the AddonHost constructor.
- settings.html: Extensions listing filters out category==="plugin"; those
add-ons live in Plug-ins instead, single source of truth.
Aegis 0.6.31:
- BTC picker trimmed to Signet only; testnet3 hidden (adapter kept so any
existing wallet still loads).
- Wallet strip groups by chain, not chain:network; ticker gets a ▾ chevron
and a dropdown listing every subnetwork with its own totals. Mainnet
reads as the plain ticker; testnets carry a small Chipnet/Signet/Sepolia
pill inline.
- Per-unit price sits directly under the ticker; amount + fiat mirror on
the right — one glance covers name/price/holding/value.
- + Add and ⋯ More promoted from the strip into the header's action row,
next to the new ✎ chip (was the redundant top ⋯). Duplicate "Manage
current wallet" entry removed from the More menu.
- Footer update chip is a two-step flow via the new API: stage → restart.
Falls back to opening Settings on any Theseus that lacks the hooks.
- Manifest declares "category": "plugin".
Cloudflare Bot Fight Mode / Turnstile flag 'UA claims Chrome but client
hints don't confirm it' as bot. Electron's default sec-ch-ua reads
'Chromium';v='130', 'Not(A:Brand';v='99' — no 'Google Chrome' brand
(that's closed-source Google branding open Chromium doesn't carry).
Combined with a UA that's already stripped of the Electron token
(stockChromeUA), the mismatch itself is the fingerprint. This is what
whybitcoincash.com and other CF-fronted sites tripped on: server
returned 503 to Theseus while returning 200 to any curl variant.
Brave, Vivaldi and Opera solved this the same way — ship their own
sec-ch-ua that INCLUDES Chrome-family brands so CF's allow-list catches
them. New applyClientHintsSpoof() registers a session-wide
onBeforeSendHeaders that rewrites the sec-ch-ua family on every
outbound request:
sec-ch-ua: 'Google Chrome';v=<major>, 'Chromium';v=<major>, 'Not?A_Brand';v='99'
sec-ch-ua-full-version-list: same trio with real Chromium version
sec-ch-ua-mobile: '?0'
sec-ch-ua-platform: actual OS name (Windows / macOS / Linux)
Major comes from process.versions.chrome so the story stays internally
consistent — nothing to fingerprint from a Chrome/version mismatch.
Runs alongside applyEmbedCookieShim which uses onHeadersReceived; the
two hooks are separate so no listener collision.
Toolbar drag handle now clamps both bars to at least 30 % of the
.urlsearch budget (URL: 30 %–70 %, search fills the rest). The
existing absolute mins (URL 220 px, search bumped from 140 → 180 px
so the 'Search' placeholder always fits) still apply — the tighter of
absolute vs 30 %-of-container wins at any width. .urlsearch also gets
margin-right: 10 px so the search bar has visible breathing room from
the trailing dock (Downloads / extensions / ⛓ Theseus).
Bookmark brand-case now uses a canonical map for multi-word Silent Mode
names so all-caps sources come out correctly cased: SILENTMODE.X →
SilentMode.X, silentmode.x → SilentMode.X, coinspectrum.x →
CoinSpectrum.X. Single-word brands (Theseus, Sirius, Deviant, Aegis,
Ariadne, Argus, Hermes, Prometheus, Hephaestus, Helios, Atlas,
Katalogos, Game, Poutakidis, Syskypo) are in the same map for
consistency. Unknown names fall back to Title-case (foo.x → Foo.X)
— the ALL-CAPS preserve rule is gone, so GAME.X → Game.X now,
matching the user's ask.
Bookmark chip labels now normalise the .x TLD family to <Name>.X on
render:
theseus.x -> Theseus.X
deviant.x -> Deviant.X
Sirius.x -> Sirius.X
foo-bar.x -> Foo-bar.X
Names that were already ALL-CAPS keep their form so the visual weight
carries through:
GAME.X -> GAME.X (unchanged)
SILENTMODE.X -> SILENTMODE.X (unchanged)
Non-.x titles are untouched (CoinSpectrum, navigate.st, etc.). The
transformation runs after the descriptor trim, so titles like
'theseus.x — the browser…' also come out 'Theseus.X'.
Two visible fixes from the same 2026-09-09 screenshot:
Right-click a tab was building a DOM menu and then growing the chrome
view height so it would fit under the tabstrip. That opened a
visible gap between the toolbar and the tab body while the menu was
up. Now the tab context menu goes through a new IPC
"tab-context-menu-popup" (main.js) that pops an OS-native Menu at
the click point, floating above every WebContentsView — no layout
change, no gap. Preload exposes tabContextMenuPopup(id, {x, y});
chrome.html's tab contextmenu handler now calls it directly and the
DOM openTabContextMenu / openGroupSubmenu / growChromeForMenu path
is bypassed for tabs. (The bookmark bar's own ctxmenu still uses
the DOM path — its short 2-3-row menus don't grow chrome enough
to be visible.)
Bookmark chips were too small (130px max-width, 11px text, 22px row).
Now every chip is a fixed 150px × 28px cell so the row reads as a
uniform grid, 12.5px text, 14px favicon. Labels drop the descriptor:
"GAME.X — Bitcoin Cash game platform" renders as "GAME.X". The
trimmer splits on the first em-dash / en-dash / hyphen that's
surrounded by whitespace, so single-word titles and hyphenated
compound names ("Foo-Bar" with no spaces) come through intact. Full
title still shows on hover.
install-update-now was spawning setup with ['/S'] alone since the
0.3.31 rewrite. That installs correctly (E2E-proven multiple times
this week) but leaves the user without a running browser after the
install completes — the setup exits, and the user has to click the
Start-menu shortcut to get Theseus back.
--force-run is electron-builder's NSIS convention for 'start the app
when the install finishes'; it makes the whole update feel like a
seamless in-place restart. --updated stays out (was proven not to
affect the install itself on our config).
Reported by user 2026-09-09 after 0.3.37 → 0.3.39 auto-update ran
cleanly but silently, with no post-install relaunch.
New settings.devToolsDock (default 'bottom') read by the F12 handler
in main.js on each open. Values:
bottom - Chrome's own default, docked under the tab
sidebar - right-side dock (mode:right). Add-on sidebar tucks
out of the way while DevTools is up.
two-sidebars - right-side dock with the add-on sidebar left in
place, so both share the right area.
Settings > General > Developer tools now hosts a 3-option radio group
(same .polrow style as the collision policy). Changes apply instantly
- the F12 handler reads settings.devToolsDock every time it opens, so
no relaunch is needed.
Two changes shipped together (main.js touched by both this session and a
parallel session in different regions):
Scrollbars — from the "empty white space should be grey, thumb should
be Bitcoin Cash green" ask:
* new SCROLLBAR_CSS constant + styleScrollbars(wc) helper injects the
theme on every dom-ready
* thumb #0AC18E (BCH primary), track rgba(120,130,150,0.18) subtle
neutral grey so it works on both dark and light surfaces without
hardcoding either; 6px radius, 2px inset via background-clip:padding-box
* modern scrollbar-color on <html> for Chromium 121+; ::-webkit- rules
with !important as the fallback / override for sites that theme
their own scrollbars — scrollbar-width intentionally left alone so
a page that hides scrollbars entirely keeps that behaviour
* hooked into every wc we own: createTab, chrome, popover, enginePicker,
downloadsPop, addressPicker, pwFillPop, linkStatus, sidebar (so every
add-on panel like Aegis picks it up), approvalPop
* fires once immediately if the wc is already past dom-ready when we
attach — fixed views load fast during startup, we'd otherwise miss
captureTab full-page — from the parallel session's screenshot work:
* before Page.captureScreenshot with captureBeyondViewport we now
override Emulation.setDeviceMetricsOverride to the window's full
content width so an open sidebar (or other on-screen chrome that
narrowed the tab view) doesn't clip the shot — capture comes back at
the page's natural full width, not the visible width
* attach the debugger for the call if it isn't attached, detach on
return; clear the metrics override in finally so the tab returns to
its normal layout regardless of success
The two independent drag handles (right edge of URL bar, left edge of
search bar) are replaced with ONE handle sitting between them, wrapped
in a new .urlsearch flex container that owns the URL-bar-plus-search-bar
budget between the nav buttons on the left and the trailing dock on the
right.
Zero-sum semantics: dragging the handle right grows the URL bar and
shrinks the search bar; dragging left inverts. Nothing else in the
toolbar moves — nav buttons, Downloads, extension dock and the
⛓ Theseus logo all sit outside .urlsearch's flex parent.
When the window shrinks below the responsive breakpoint the search
bar (and the drag handle) hide as before, and the URL bar grows to
fill the .urlsearch budget on its own (added flex: 1 1 auto in the
data-responsive rules for .urlwrap).
Verified static rendering: url=700px → search=157px, url=300px →
search=539px, url=default → 60/40 split, narrow window → search
hidden and url fills.
Old settings (urlBarSize / searchBoxSize / searchBoxWidthPx) are
ignored by chrome.html but kept in main's SETTINGS_DEFAULTS so an
older chrome.html could still read them on a downgrade. Only
urlBarWidthPx is used going forward.
New sidebar tab between Privacy and Extensions. The two long
system-scoped cards (Ariadne's Thread system-wide resolver, Aegis
built-in wallet) were bloating the General section; they cluster
naturally as "components that live alongside Theseus, each with
install/update/on-off controls of their own" and now have their
own home.
- Adds <a data-sec="plugins">Plug-ins</a> to nav.side
- New <section id="plugins"> with a short lede
- Ariadne + Aegis row blocks moved from General to Plug-ins verbatim
- sections array in showSection() extended with "plugins"
- Tab-switch handler clicks ariadneRefresh so status is never stale;
Aegis card auto-loads on page-init and its "Check for updates"
button stays user-initiated (avoid firing a network request every
time the user opens the Plug-ins tab)
Version bump only, no code changes. Published to prove the just-shipped
0.3.34 install can auto-update itself using the reverted-to ["/S"]
spawn code.
E2E test result — the real D:\Program Files\Theseus Navigator install:
BEFORE: v=0.3.34, hash e59d6da2..., mtime 09/08 22:02:46
AFTER: v=0.3.35, hash 420b7320..., mtime 09/08 22:31:18
Registry updated at same D:\ path
Post-install proc count 0 (no --force-run in the current code, as designed)
Second confirmation this session that install-update-now's ["/S"]-only
spawn (unchanged since 0.3.1) does the right thing against a real
install at a path with spaces.
Installer: 4a7bd82f30a00a6795670d0a48cf590832fd077d84726966d8fbea04fc23be1b
Portable: 138c03ad21cb6fb2a6a7f89cc726adee618622c11eb58177857fa24afa955e47
Bundled revert of six commits:
9bacdcb Ship 0.3.34
aef7864 0.3.34 UI (grey chrome, DnD bookmarks, chip colors)
c2da8bb Ship 0.3.33
9b92224 fix(updater) verify SHA-256
4e932e0 Ship 0.3.32
4e695c4 fix(updater) --updated flag
Reason: the real-install E2E test (turn N-1) showed silent update
against the user's custom D:\Program Files\Theseus Navigator location
returns exit 0 without upgrading anything — every flag combination
tried (/S alone, --updated /S --force-run, /S /currentuser,
/S /D=<install>) exits successfully and no files change. The 0.3.32
flag fix and 0.3.33 hash-verify fix were defensive improvements but
did not address the actual "browser vanished" symptom, and 0.3.34
inherits the same broken silent-update path so its UI improvements
never reach anyone still on 0.3.33+ with a non-default install path.
Rolling manifest back to 0.3.31 so the update chip stops appearing on
installs that can't complete the update. Users on the default
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\theseus-navigator location are unaffected —
0.3.31 is still their canonical shipped version.
package.json reset to 0.3.31 explicitly (git revert stopped one bump
short on the merged diff).
Screenshot 0.3.0 (8ca5ac3) preserved — unrelated parallel work.
Chrome strip: light-mode --bg/--surface/--surface2/--active retuned to a
soft neutral grey. Flat #ffffff tabs disappeared into light Windows
title bars and the top strip read as one bright rectangle; now the
tab row sits on #e6e8ec, inactive tabs are #f2f4f7, active tab is
white so the current one still pops.
Bookmarks: chips down to 130px max-width, 11px text, 12px favicon,
tighter padding, 22px row (was 26). Fits ~40% more saved pages in
the same width. Chips are now draggable — dragstart/dragover/drop
mirror the tab strip's reorder pattern, dropping before/after by
which half of the target chip the pointer is on. IPC bookmark-move
splices the array; a missing entry or self-drop is a no-op.
Tor + Theseus (⛓ logo) chips in light mode: white-on-#253A49 was
below legible at 12-13px on real light Windows themes. Both now use
#eef1f5 with #253A49 ink and a subtle border — same footprint, dark
letters read cleanly. .tor.connecting/.on keep amber/purple hue but
in light-appropriate fills with dark text. .upchip picks up the
same treatment for consistency.
The in-app updater fetched the setup .exe via
session.defaultSession.downloadURL and marked updateDownloadState="ready"
on any DownloadItem `done` with state === "completed", then handed
that path to install-update-now to spawn. No hash check against the
manifest — the same manifest that already carries a SHA-256 per file
and that the Ariadne addon updater verifies at ariadneDownloadInstaller
in this same file.
Consequence: a mid-stream truncation the runtime swallowed as
"completed" (a wrong Content-Length, a CDN cache truncation, an
interrupted TLS session, a corrupted mirror) armed install of a
half-file. install-update-now then ran the corrupt setup silently,
NSIS integrity check failed, uninstaller wiped the app first, and
Theseus was gone with nothing to click.
Now the completion handler streams the saved file through
crypto.createHash("sha256"), compares against updateAvailable.setupHash
from the manifest (already captured in checkForUpdate), and refuses to
arm install on mismatch — deletes the corrupt file and marks the
download failed so the retry loop can pick a fresh one up.
Companion fix to 0.3.32's --updated /S --force-run flags. Both
symptoms landed users in the same "browser vanished" state; 0.3.32
covered the spawn-side, this covers the download-side.
Setup 32c4abea9f2f15bb319e355b2cda747fc7d25eac350f7b9512b92894bae97c30
Portable 47af67894b389174f034dd15a2d2c99605bfcb941fccd084242fc0c52cc6e90a
Fixes since 0.3.28 (all riding this ship since 0.3.29/0.3.30 site
files never reached LIVE):
a279864 - Root cause of the "screenshot is still blank white"
symptom: captureTab reads activeTab(). After the first capture the
editor tab BECOMES active, so every subsequent shot snapshotted the
editor's own still-blank canvas — that white PNG got written to
scratch, fed into a new editor, and the next re-capture snapshotted
THAT. A self-referential feedback loop. captureTab now skips
add-on-owned and Settings tabs, falling back to the last real page
tab tracked in setActive(); if none exists, a clear "open a page
you'd like to shoot first" error rather than white pixels.
4c55f04 - Aegis card in Settings > General crashed on load because
the IPC handlers used a different response shape than the UI
expected. Reads corrected on both sides.
df10884 - Aegis retires the legacy bchwallet folder on every launch,
and Aegis gets a branded dock/list icon.
1574545 - Every dark-hardcoded surface in Settings light mode (.polrow
collision-policy rows, .segseg, .engcat, .ctxmenu, select/input
backgrounds) now maps to a BCH-palette equivalent — no more solid
dark blobs on the white page.
ea9bcab / 4ed55b7 - Site release-notes text updated to include the
per-add-on diagnostic report already in the 0.3.28 build.
Deployed. Verified LIVE 0.3.31.
Setup 12442cf39f29dcc5775910cd9e7c24d1224f247c7bea245b1ab3147860bfc447
Portable a71282ea82465b4edc6012a21464de58a2d980892fb3eaf018a26312c11b54bb
One bundled fix since 0.3.29:
1574545 - Every dark-hardcoded surface in settings.html now maps to a
BCH-palette equivalent in the light-media block: --bg #F8FDFF,
--ink #253A49; .polrow / .segseg / .engcat / .ctxmenu / select /
input backgrounds all get a subtle off-white and dark-navy text; the
selected .polrow gets an acid-green tint via :has(input:checked)
so the chosen option stands out without a black bar. Registries
> Collision policy is now readable in light mode. Dark mode unchanged.
Verified via CDP: --bg=#F8FDFF, --ink=#253A49, .polrow color
=rgb(37,58,73), engcat bg=rgb(244,248,251), theme card bg=white.
Deployed. Verified LIVE 0.3.30.
Setup ea51507c94b4ccb1a2e9048aea21a433803d3ac41ea31531c86efef75d9d27dc
Portable 571a31046abc83eef6b23494bbd38e98bb79a1b51812d2c0e1cc303aadbc8e12
Bundled since 0.3.28:
4c55f04 - Aegis update card in Settings > General was showing 'Status
check failed: installed.find is not a function'. Two IPC shapes had
changed under the card's assumption of flat arrays:
cfg.listAddons() → { installed:[…], sidebarPanels:[…] }
cfg.checkAddonUpdates() → { report, skipped, staged:[…] }
Both call sites now normalise to arrays before .find(). Verified via
CDP on a fresh install: card renders 'You're on v<current>', Check
for updates keeps that when nothing's staged, Restart-to-apply stays
hidden.
920febb - package-lock.json version-field bumped 0.3.16 → 0.3.22 to
match what npm install had already written (housekeeping, no deps).
Also lands in this deploy (via sia + scp, not part of the Theseus
binary):
b043d15 - Sirius portal drops the modal launcher and renders the
sign-in tabs inline via siriusRenderSignInInline(). One flow, no
popup, refresh-safe.
Deployed. Verified LIVE 0.3.29.
Setup 5d15508bba929f1f074c052ac933863eadf6eb8e56984ebd5a1af75e80626643
Portable a5d346b97f5a13d85fa3bd301a72075ddb82fe636d7b1a51840ffd5a16d879f4
Bundled since 0.3.27:
32d4b75 - Aegis (bchwallet) gains its own update card in Settings >
General beside Ariadne. Check for updates hits the same signed OTA
endpoint the boot timer uses; Restart to apply appears when a signed
newer version is staged. Uses the existing addons-check-updates + a
new app-restart IPC. New Aegis versions ship without a Theseus release.
32d4b75 (same commit) - DevTools (F12 / Ctrl+Shift+I) opens docked to
the right of the tab (mode: 'right') instead of a detached window.
Matches stock Chrome. Users who prefer detached can drag out via the
DevTools own toolbar.
b71c925 - Search-engine favicons in Settings > Search now use Google's
/s2/favicons service — DuckDuckGo's ip3 source returned 404 for enough
hosts (Brave, Bing, Yandex, etc.) that half the list was falling
through to the emoji placeholder.
Deployed. Verified LIVE 0.3.28.
Setup 0eeda6d9030e6127a605b6a1254747e3072f8974797142944d43cbcfe00f3bab
Portable a4f96d9040c398c68696ee414e48817b9587faf19fe766ccf68a5753f09c7919
One fix since 0.3.26:
038095f - The preload for full-tab add-on pages (addon-tab-preload.js)
has been in the source tree since 0.3.19 but was never declared in the
electron-builder file list, so every packaged Theseus build shipped
without it. Symptom, reported on 0.3.25: the screenshot editor tab
opens with a DevTools ENOENT error, window.silentmode comes out
undefined, and the toolbar buttons (Copy, Save, Discard) misfire.
The 0.3.26 CDP capture fix WAS landing correctly at the main-process
side; the editor was just missing its add-on API surface. Packaging
the preload closes the loop — combined with 0.3.26's capture fix,
the screenshot pipeline works end to end.
Deployed. Verified LIVE 0.3.27.
The preload for full-tab add-on pages (opened via api.openTab, used by
the screenshot editor) has been in the source tree since 0.3.19 but
was never declared in the electron-builder `files:` list, so packaged
Theseus builds shipped without it. Symptom: an add-on tab loads with a
DevTools error 'ENOENT, addon-tab-preload.js not found in app.asar',
window.silentmode is undefined, and any button that uses the API
(Discard's closeTab fallback, future closeTab / DOM helpers) either
misfires or falls back to a partial no-op. The image-loading path
itself does not depend on the preload, so this is orthogonal to the
'blank screenshot' bug (that one is fixed in 0.3.26 by the CDP capture
switch); a user on any build 0.3.19 – 0.3.26 needs BOTH the CDP capture
fix (already in 0.3.26 main.js) AND this preload packaged, which is
why 0.3.25 still surfaced a broken editor.
Setup 4715efd47bcee3ab026417f055ca8fe13d80efafaba433b3f52d21040acd85c5
Portable 536fb98b715a581751000ddc14e2cd2a219ea1fee2c414fa52df206e7c36ed29
Three fixes since 0.3.25:
1799a09(a) - Screenshot toolbar-menu captures no longer come out blank
on Windows. capturePage() intermittently returned a stale/transparent
frame at the correct dimensions when the tab view was still marked
occluded after the native menu popup closed — no 0x0 result to retry,
just an unusable image. captureTab now uses CDP Page.captureScreenshot
for every mode (visible / full / region), which forces a fresh
composite regardless of occlusion state and returns a base64 PNG
directly. Attach the debugger only when nothing else has, detach only
if we attached — a page's open DevTools stays attached.
1799a09(b) - Editor grows a Discard button (and top-level Escape) that
closes the editor tab and drops the working screenshot. Previously if
capture came out unusable there was no way out but the tab close
button, and any in-progress unsaved crop/annotation had no cancel
path. New addon-tab-close IPC lets an add-on's own page close its
own tab; window.silentmode.closeTab() exposes it. Escape now unwinds
progressively: text placement → in-flight crop rect → whole editor.
1799a09(c) - Settings > Extensions grows manual controls for the
signed add-on update endpoint. A "Check for updates" button runs
the same polling the boot timer runs, and reports the outcome
inline ("All extensions are up to date" / "N updates staged;
restart Theseus to apply"). A Pending updates box below the
buttons lists what's in <userData>/addons-updates-staged/ so the
user knows what will be promoted on next restart. The endpoint was
already live (boot timer), just not previously surfaceable.
Toolbar-menu popup settle bumped 120 → 250 ms with an explicit
win.focus() in the popup close callback. CDP capture no longer
depends on that delay for the screenshot addon, but any add-on that
does its own DOM work in the click handler before capture still
benefits.
Screenshot add-on bumped 0.2.2 → 0.2.3 (Discard button; capture
comes from the host, not the add-on).
Also carrying forward everything committed in 0.3.22 – 0.3.25 that
had not reached LIVE:
- 0.3.25 (497bbb4): Settings > Performance / Privacy / Extensions
sidebar links were dead — the section switcher's sections array
still listed 'naming' after Registries folded into General in
0.3.21, and the null lookup threw before switching. One-line fix
(cbdc755).
- 0.3.24 (310a367): slimmer installer + light-mode readability
(Ariadne is no longer bundled into the Theseus installer — it's
fetched from silentmode.st when the user asks for it — dropping
~20 MB of the installer size), plus Settings light-mode visible
button text and Theseus brand color.
- 0.3.23 (9c15ff7): BCH-palette light mode + user-agent strip.
Deployed. Verified LIVE 0.3.26.
Setup 0fd8c7c3b93d906a85fc1adfce9d1910b1f40e1062cd81e9ba3043236b29a4a4
Portable 84f6c67d767dc82dc61ccab78909741bd30cd2cfa0d431f30fceef7dcb779679
One bundled fix since 0.3.24:
cbdc755 - Settings > Performance / Privacy / Extensions sidebar links
were dead because showSection()'s sections array still listed 'naming'
(deleted when Registries folded into General in 0.3.21). The
getElementById('naming') null lookup threw before switching, so the
click looked like a no-op. Dropped 'naming' from the array.
Deployed. Verified LIVE 0.3.25.
Setup f24d16a43021cea1b7317ae5e0aa24fe7c9b1264332dfba92b82d1a2057deb67
Portable d5e64ab5e9e038b658692eb9c615f0189c2547f91d96d50044fb0f7dbc39a0d3
Bundled since 0.3.23:
a730b56 - Ariadne 0.1.1 fetched from silentmode.st on demand instead of
bundled with Theseus. Installer size drops ~24 MB; Ariadne can update
independently.
3e780eb - Light-mode fix: .btn text (Check for updates, Add engine
button) and .brand (⛓ Theseus in sidebar) were rendering as an
invisible pastel #eaffb0 / marginal BCH-teal against the light sidebar.
Route through var(--acid) with a light-media override for .brand.
fc37525 - Introduces --acid-text: dark mode = --acid (bright), light
mode = #253A49 (BCH dark navy, ~12:1 on white). Every text role in
settings.html now uses --acid-text — .brand, .side a.active, .btn,
.engcat hover, inline <b style> in the Ariadne + Update status
renders. Fills / borders / tints stay --acid for BCH-green identity.
Deployed. Verified LIVE 0.3.24.
Setup 9dfd5a6ceb36b7d34216cfae3bff58c612c641cefbc9cd784182fdb1797d0e95
Portable 222628d481d4f46b2ebfd0bbd104cbafb27c125bfc7fc64cb216c04f871c72d4
Two bundled changes since 0.3.22:
7893635 - Light-mode --acid → #0AC18E (Bitcoin Cash primary from
whybitcoincash.com's palette). User-Agent stripped of theseus-navigator/
and Electron/ tokens so Cloudflare's WAF stops returning HTTP 503 on
sites like whybitcoincash.com; Theseus now identifies as vanilla
Chrome (same practice as Brave / Vivaldi / Slack).
89b8485 - Full acid sweep: every hardcoded #d6ff3d and rgba(214,255,61,X)
in the chrome + every addon panel now routes through var(--acid), so
the light-mode swap actually takes effect everywhere. Theseus button
(.logo) + update chip (.upchip) become dark BCH-navy #253A49 chips in
light mode so the toolbar has a visible accent surface instead of
white-on-white.
Deployed. Verified LIVE 0.3.23.
Setup fc779af12d55224e3d5eafdde3feabfc616b56b2737f953e7ecb32ef90461cea
Portable 046526f2e73c2026d3243ca9e4639374631cc66924b247feb92f224c9520af4b
Two bundled changes since 0.3.21:
a0c96fe - Light-mode --acid swaps from #3a5c00 (olive) to #088A66, a
darker variant of Bitcoin Cash's #0AC18E primary. AA-passing on white
(~5:1) AND reads as 'Bitcoin Cash green' instead of an off-brand
olive. Applied across chrome / settings / error / home / approval /
messages / bchwallet / siawallet / screenshot editor. Dark mode's
#d6ff3d is unchanged.
4dacd8f - Settings > General > Updates card gains a Check for updates
button. Un-dismisses any lingering session chip and re-fetches the
release manifest immediately (rather than waiting for the boot / 6h
auto-check). Renders 'You're on the latest (v0.3.22)' or 'vX.Y.Z is
available — the update chip will offer it'.
Deployed. Verified LIVE 0.3.22.
Setup a2e25a80ad2300e79cf5e7de1337bbc986b48e6bda9c13f497caf5b66c90edb9
Portable 173d376aa23e6cb28f8a353206a15144f8a04d9817f531902b4ba93039101742
One bundled change since 0.3.20:
509b32f - Settings > General drops its Toolbar dropdowns (drag handles
have covered that job since 0.3.15). Registries is folded into General
as a subheading: collision policy + reset-remembered + full Ariadne
card (Turn on/off / Install / Update / Uninstall / Refresh). Sidebar
entry 'Registries' removed. Underlying settings + IPC unchanged.
Deployed. Verified LIVE 0.3.21.
Setup 8bc234a69534b7259b059cafab8c93615d41fc804fcdff1144b691c3b3ac9477
Portable e3b0ab8ed62f6172288a9511ff1ecb4e50d7ef9effb06ed4b728e2e7d467a55b
One bundled change since 0.3.19:
763c68d - Home page search box no longer hardcodes 'DuckDuckGo' in the
placeholder. New window.home.getEngines() IPC pulls the current default
from settings; placeholder starts as 'Search the web' and populates
with 'Search the web with <engine>' on load. Fallback URL (never fires
in normal use) swapped from duckduckgo.com to startpage.com to match
Theseus's own default engine.
Deployed. Verified LIVE 0.3.20.
Setup 4830da019914019c5d3575420b490a278bc3ba63606680f84c30d58de5ff9500
Portable 1ef76b5b0fae9ac5a201956f6f3da55b1f1ceec8a035cc0d498147a210491b5f
One theseus change since 0.3.18:
7672ce0 - Signed add-on update endpoint activates. The Silent Mode
operator Ed25519 pubkey (generated 2026-09-07,
732b1263a236b0030383a2376597cfa43c3624b3ca2912a46134f8f2a06e6012)
is baked into addon-update-pubkeys.js, so on every boot Theseus polls
each installed add-on's updateURL 30 s in, verifies the signed
updates.json against the pubkey, and stages any newer signed version
under <userData>/addons-updates-staged/ for promotion on the next
launch. Verification, backup, and promotion mechanics unchanged from
0.3.18. The screenshot add-on already advertises
https://addons.silentmode.st/screenshot/updates.json; publishing a
signed entry there is what activates real updates. No entry is
published yet, so this build's boot-time fetch fails silently until
the operator lands the first signed payload via
scripts/sign-addon-update.mjs.
3be152a - Also in this ship: package-lock.json resynced with
package.json. The 0.3.18 ship inadvertently committed WIP dependency
additions (bitcoinjs-lib, bip32, bip39, ecpair,
@bitcoinerlab/secp256k1) via git commit -o's file-scoped semantics
without a matching lock update. Fresh clones now build cleanly with
npm ci. Deps are unused by shipped code at this time but ride along
in node_modules — installer size grew ~400 KB.
Deployed. Verified LIVE 0.3.19.
Setup b751b5deea997bb7e0e894104dcb7411358728987196cb610f316edacaf9be54
Portable 8a258f29c62a03b745e93ea0265285e6d5df38d4f25cdbdadc20b4d2a54b97d7
Five theseus fixes since 0.3.16:
e90062a - Bundled add-on updates now actually land. seedBundledAddons()
previously copied a bundled add-on only when its target folder was
missing, so the 0.3.14 screenshot editor never reached machines that
already had an older screenshot/ folder from a previous run — Theseus
quietly kept using the stale copy. The seeder now compares bundled and
on-disk addon.json versions and reseeds with a timestamped backup
under <userData>/addons-backups/<id>-<oldver>-<timestamp>/.
ecfd481 + 6117429 - Signed add-on update endpoint, à la Firefox XPI.
An add-on can now advertise an updateURL in its addon.json and be
republished at any time without waiting for a Theseus release. The
client fetches, verifies an Ed25519 signature over
"silentmode.addon-update-v1|<id>|<version>|<tarball-sha256>",
downloads the tarball, verifies the hash, and stages the new copy
under <userData>/addons-updates-staged/ for promotion on next launch.
Dormant in this build — the shipped addon-update-pubkeys.js is empty,
so checkAndStageUpdates() short-circuits and makes no outbound
requests; the feature activates when an operator ceremonies a key in
and ships a follow-up release with the pubkey baked in. Operator
tooling in scripts/generate-update-keypair.mjs and
scripts/sign-addon-update.mjs; full brief in docs/ADDON-UPDATES.md.
End-to-end verified against a local HTTP server: sign, serve, fetch,
verify, download, extract, stage, promote, backup — plus signature
tamper, wrong pubkey, sha256 tamper, and empty-pubkey short-circuit
all rejected as expected. 15/15 checks pass.
bfe5132 - Tab-switch flash is gone. Two independent causes: (a) tab
views were created without an explicit background color, so the first
frame after setVisible(true) showed whatever was underneath the view
until the page painted; a solid theme-tracking ground fills the gap.
(b) setActive iterated tabs in list order, so if the outgoing tab
came before the incoming in the array, the loop hid the outgoing
first and left one frame where no tab was visible; the incoming is
now shown before any hides.
a5a667d - Screenshot toolbar-menu captures no longer come out blank.
The click handler dispatched capture synchronously while the native
Menu.popup window was still on top, marking the tab view occluded and
letting WebContents.capturePage() snapshot a stale/empty compositor
frame at the correct dimensions (which the existing 0x0 retry
couldn't detect). Dispatch now runs from the popup's close callback
after a 120ms settle so the parent window is foreground and the
compositor is live at capture time.
a5a667d also - Ariadne — Install / Update / Uninstall alongside Turn
on / off. The Ariadne toggle card in Settings > Registries grows
three lifecycle actions. Install and Update run the bundled
AriadneResolver-Setup-<ver>.exe silently and elevated (/VERYSILENT
/SUPPRESSMSGBOXES /NORESTART — one UAC prompt, no wizard); Update is
only visible when the bundled version is newer than what's installed.
Uninstall reads Inno's QuietUninstallString from HKLM registry and
runs it elevated. Status surfaces installed version + bundled version
so the user can see what's on disk vs what would land next; buttons
disable during work and refresh after both success and failure so the
UI never lies.
Deployed. Verified LIVE 0.3.18.
Decouples bundled-add-on updates from Theseus releases. An add-on
whose addon.json declares an updateURL can be republished at any time
without shipping a new Theseus installer; existing installs pick it up
on the next boot's +30 s background check.
Client flow (main-process only, no UI touchpoints in this commit):
initAddons()
├── promoteStagedUpdates() # promote signed stage if newer
├── seedBundledAddons() # bundle wins over on-disk if newer
└── AddonHost.discoverAndActivate()
30 s later:
└── checkAndStageUpdates() # fetch, verify, download, stage
Signature: Ed25519 over
"silentmode.addon-update-v1|<id>|<version>|<tarball-sha256>",
verified against a hardcoded set of operator pubkeys living in
addon-update-pubkeys.js. Domain-separated so the operator key can't
be tricked into signing a message with a different purpose. Empty
pubkey array is the shipping default — checkAndStageUpdates() then
short-circuits and no outbound requests are made, which is the safe
posture until the operator ceremonies a key in.
Payload: gzipped tar, extracted with the system tar (present on
Win10 1803+, macOS, Linux). Path traversal defended by tar's default
refusal of `..` entries; the extracted manifest's id + version are
re-checked against the signed values before staging.
Staged updates go to <userData>/addons-updates-staged/<id>-<version>/.
Promotion into <userData>/addons/<id>/ reuses seedBundledAddons's
backup dance: existing folder moves to
<userData>/addons-backups/<id>-<oldver>-<timestamp>/ so any local
edits survive.
New files:
- addon-updater.js — client
- addon-update-pubkeys.js — hardcoded pubkeys (empty; edit + rebuild to rotate)
- scripts/generate-update-keypair.mjs — one-time keygen
- scripts/sign-addon-update.mjs — operator packager+signer
- docs/ADDON-UPDATES.md — operator brief + threat model
Wired into main.js at boot; screenshot add-on's addon.json advertises
the reference updateURL for when the endpoint goes live.
Setup f9d0654572e110f6895951dc22ec9fb4549b3a8fb14714770579264b62051259
Portable 7ff7a1501bc7d7407ec0a4974aa26652d6d7ecabcc796584254a8bb463d43b09
Two bundled fixes since 0.3.15:
4f498a1 - Extension dock no longer stacks into a column when dragged
narrow. #extbuttons + .extdock get flex-wrap:nowrap + overflow:hidden;
a second data-extcollapse signal fires when .bar's contents overflow
(alongside the width-based level 3), collapsing the row into the
single 🛡 puzzle button. Hysteresis (cached natural width + 8px slack)
keeps the ResizeObserver from oscillating across the boundary.
e160dac - toolbar-menu popup goes native (Menu.popup from main) so it
escapes the chrome-view height clipping. capturePage retries transient
0x0 results up to 6 times so the screenshot addon doesn't silently
produce a blank PNG right after a navigation.
Deployed. Verified LIVE 0.3.16.
Setup 81b6a8d2a64d20641c4cc448d35627fb3c492ea45adb24fa5c41a9f63663dd2d
Portable 47a22d86a08305536b4d80f4072ad38179a4935f303ac31bcd05dba36d5f4d40
One bundled commit since 0.3.14:
6dae15e - Drag handles on the trailing edge of the URL bar + leading
edge of the search box let the user resize live; widths persist as
urlBarWidthPx / searchBoxWidthPx and override the discrete size preset.
Also fixes the sliding bug the user just flagged: capping the URL bar
via Settings > Appearance was letting the download / extension /
Theseus buttons pack next to the URL bar, sliding leftward. Adding
margin-right: auto to the capped .urlwrap absorbs the slack so the
right group stays pinned to the right edge. Verified via CDP: logo's
rightGap stays at 10px across default / compact / urlBarWidthPx=500 /
reset.
Deployed. Verified LIVE 0.3.15.
Setup 238f0b81afd93d7cef80b9403edef1dc3e1d4c1bf29e29a498115e1185ce1db8
Portable d8877e696ad6425aa6d56cb796048702cfb37b40ff539a8c1af0d08d0a31870c
Three bundled fixes since 0.3.13:
- (Aegis multi-chain wallet, cherry-picked from claude/sleepy-maxwell-251ee6
worktree) — bchwallet add-on turns into a chain-agnostic wallet
manager with BCH + Tron mainnet + Tron Nile testnet; addon id stays
"bchwallet" so vault-derive paths + legacy BCH funds are untouched.
Dapp bridge on any https page exposes window.tronWeb / window.tronLink
matching TronLink chain ids so Tron dapps just work.
- 3d3dfe5 — Screenshot addon reworked: dock icon opens a small
toolbar-menu (Visible / Full page / Region…) instead of a sidebar
panel; captures open in a full browser tab with an editor
(crop / arrow / rect / circle / freehand / text / blur / undo / save /
copy). Two new addon-host capabilities land: toolbar-menu + open-tab.
- dd31b88 — Light-mode --acid went from #4d7300 → #3a5c00 (~7:1 on
white), and the missed addon panels (bchwallet, siawallet,
screenshot editor.css) got their overrides so nothing resolves to
the bright #d6ff3d anymore.
Note on Nile testing: the code paths verified via a running instance —
dock shows 🛡 Wallet, chain picker "🟨 BCH — main ▾" is present. Live
Nile send requires a vault + testnet TRX from nileex.io/join/getJoinPage.
Deployed. Verified LIVE 0.3.14.
Setup 7d88e4c46b02448e40d6075d10f2c6688c6d60c5a9ec41b9cbcb7684f131d6e1
Portable 5a4bcc6abb21c23729d79dd600142df4f171cc3d6bf71716dae1c802ac10e48f
Bundled since 0.3.12:
1514793 - Settings > Registries gets an on/off toggle for Ariadne's
Thread (system-wide BCDN resolver for non-Theseus browsers). Query is
silent Get-ScheduledTask; toggle spawns elevated PowerShell (UAC once
per action). Three states: running / stopped / not-installed.
b16f0a1 - New BCDN 'p' record type in Argus record-picker + Theseus
serving. Reverse-proxies an upstream URL under a BCDN name, keeping
the BCDN name in the address bar; uses upstream's own DNS + public
CA + Host header (unlike 'ip' which pins IP + on-chain TLS fingerprint).
Placed after 'ip' in the apex chain, suppressed under subdomain
inheritance so a 'p' name doesn't silently proxy every subdomain.
cfec253 - Argus registrar gains buildTldRegistrationTx + TLD_BEACON +
normalizeTld exports for minting per-TLD certificates per the TLD-
registry design.
bbfc05c - Bundled Screenshot add-on: capture-tab capability + sidebar
launcher for visible / full page / region modes; saves to Downloads.
Follow-up task_b9608dc6 will rework this into a full-tab editor.
Deployed. Verified LIVE 0.3.13.
Setup a28b4d2be705069f35fa21c5c3e008627661b6173d1eb3014d001eb81c72761e
Portable 5dab9a17818d263706704ab867b6ab9743c2606eb60e2391d0e00a78604cd26b
Two bundled fixes since 0.3.11:
e7dfa46 - At responsive level 3 the collapsed extension button was a
generic 🧩 puzzle piece. Swap it for the first registered extension's
own icon (📝 / ₿ / Ⓢ / whatever ships first). Puzzle piece stays as the
empty-state fallback when no addons are registered. Click still opens
the same dropdown of all installed extensions.
95cc2c7 - Remove the redundant 32-px extension picker strip that
sidebar-preload.js was injecting at the top of every add-on panel.
The toolbar extension dock is the canonical switcher now; doubling
that inside the sidebar just wasted vertical space and made narrow
panels cramped. Every panel reclaims its top 33px.
Deployed. Verified LIVE 0.3.12.
Setup b08530a69d47c2525a2238bd35542d141c4cf2be09f61f7b6d9bb08166f606cf
Portable b67387c85f6d37df2d2c2055a1773954a2e9019d3d567943d8ed5a39e9ee53a9
One bundled fix since 0.3.10:
beca0fa - A ResizeObserver on .bar sets data-responsive to one of four
levels based on width. CSS reacts: search box auto-hides at level 1,
Theseus button collapses to just the gear icon at level 2, and the
extension dock folds into a single 🧩 puzzle button opening a dropdown
of installed extensions at level 3. User's explicit Address bar /
Search box size settings still win at wide widths.
Deployed. Verified LIVE 0.3.11.
Setup d9801fe6a1ea7d54132db36b2c78311cd5c77912618687fb9cf6476ce75a97f9
Portable ff6ea386752fb3ceeb9d5f385258a6f01f7266c2509f4670419ce6e44e24d442
One bundled fix since 0.3.9:
d1f3347 - The brand acid green (#d6ff3d) was ~1.3:1 contrast on
#ffffff / #f6f8fb, so it went nearly invisible any time the user
flipped Settings > Theme to Light. Every chrome page (chrome, home,
settings, error, approval, messages) now overrides --acid to #4d7300
in its prefers-color-scheme: light block — same hue family, ~5.5:1
on white. Also added the missing --acid: #d6ff3d declaration to
chrome.html's :root (was relying on var(--acid, #d6ff3d) fallbacks,
so the light override couldn't bind). Verified live via CDP.
Deployed: scp + sia-upload of both trees. Verified LIVE 0.3.10.
Two background tasks in progress (screenshot extension, Aegis
multiwallet + Tron/Nile) will land in a later release.
Setup cc676e62057b42c1e1221f0e9b69a55806bab90259bbbb4e6eb64701ab3d420a
Portable 1ab811f7edba74220b452763ee0f3329ba91d84c834d3e38be6426de0b04f1c7
Two changes since 0.3.8:
f1d117e - .extbtn was display:grid, which is block-level, so multiple
extension buttons inside #extbuttons stacked vertically. Switch to
inline-grid — same icon-centering, no forced line break between
siblings. Verified on a running instance: all 4 dock buttons at the
same y-coordinate.
(this commit) - Remove the static Aegis ₿ placeholder button and its
handler. Redundant now that the real bchwallet addon ships in the box
and registers its own dock entry. Also flip the dock-hidden logic to
disappear entirely on a fresh install with no add-ons registered, so
the toolbar doesn't carry an empty slot for users who never install
one.
Deployed: scp + sia-upload of both trees. Verified LIVE 0.3.9.
Setup b2b7819e7a5f1ae1aa7ac79dd8e150f7c11f238eb3ab98a53fae51186dd4dc5b
Portable c971931f380245e44064720b132859917039488c12e0f654a2eeb406cf465d37
Bundled fixes since 0.3.7:
b649398 - User-resizable address bar + search box. Settings > Appearance >
Toolbar now offers urlBarSize (wide/medium/compact) and searchBoxSize
(hidden/compact/normal/wide). Applied as data-attrs on .bar so the flex
basis of .urlwrap and the width of .searchbox swap live. Motivation:
the per-extension dock (0.3.7) needs room to grow as users install more.
Settings-set broadcasts settings-update to chrome so resizing is instant
without a relaunch.
ab87576 - F12 / Ctrl+Shift+I opens Chromium DevTools on the active tab
in a detached window. Wired in the same before-input-event handler that
owns reload / sidebar shortcuts. Always targets the active tab
regardless of which view received the keystroke.
Deployed: scp + sia-upload of both trees. Verified LIVE 0.3.8.
VPS archive step 7: 0.3.6 pair moved to Sia dl-archive/, only 0.3.7 +
0.3.8 remain on /opt/silent-mode/dl/ (per shipping-mirrors memory).
Setup 37fd8db5388cc2486b48d282bf38e1d5b18a40de5b7319950edcc412f3ddb683
Portable befab4c21ef78d7c92eb7d399e163d3e53e202a0bda9fe95f8d8db916db2e242
Bundled fixes since 0.3.6:
1026b08 - Per-extension toolbar dock: replaces the single sidebarbtn with
one button per registered addon sidebar-panel. Notepad (📝) and Silent
Mode Relay (🌐) appear automatically from their manifest icons; a static
Aegis Wallet placeholder (₿) marks the upcoming built-in BCH wallet.
Click a live button → open the sidebar on that panel, click active →
collapse. Preload adds openSidebar(panelId) / closeSidebar() wrappers.
622aaee - Right-click "Search for '<selection>'" in the page context
menu. Uses SEARCH() so it honours the current default engine, opens in
a new foreground tab, and truncates the label at 40 chars.
Deployed: scp + sia-upload of both trees. Verified LIVE 0.3.7.
Ops note: silentmode.st /var/log had grown to 6GB (journal + rotated
syslog), which broke the first portable upload. Vacuumed journal to
500M cap; ~5.9G free after cleanup. Old Theseus builds not touched.
