0.3.80 shipped with the Settings left menu squeezed into a short centred
box (a .app class clash from the Apps list, fixed in 882b6fb). This is
0.3.80 plus that fix.
- Theseus ID: window.theseusId.signIn lets Silent Mode projects (and sites
whose own origin list allows it) sign the user in with an ID derived from
the vault: private per project by default, or one shared ID. Settings ›
Theseus ID lists the projects, changes or renews an ID, revokes, and shows
the recovery key. The login service is https://id.theseus.x.
- BNS sites on an ip record get the page's own POSTs, headers and cookies,
so forms and sign-ins on hephaestus.x and id.theseus.x work.
- Vault: PINs of 6 to 8 digits set up step by step on a keypad; the unlock
prompt is centred and its keypad no longer jumps under the cursor.
- Logins: after a sign-in or sign-up, Theseus offers to save the password
(optionally behind a PIN check), offers saved logins on login forms, and
keeps sign-ins for vault sites when cookies are cleared on quit.
Ships 0279b91 (the left panel resizes from its edge, per app, and hides
when a new tab or the right sidebar opens), d113c6d (a page click closes it
unless the app is pinned) and 6a2f6fe (an installed web app can be closed
and removed; Settings lists apps).
Web apps in the left panel were a fixed 380 px, too narrow for WhatsApp,
and add-on panels a fixed 400. A grip on the panel's right edge now
resizes it, each app keeps its own width (settings.leftPanelWidths), a
double-click resets it, and the page always keeps at least 320 px. The
grip is a small view of Theseus's own laid over the edge, since the panel
may be a third-party page; while dragging it covers the window so the drag
keeps its events.
Like Opera's sidebar, the left panel now hides when a new tab is opened or
the right sidebar opens. It is only hidden, so reopening lands where the
user left off.
Add-on panels on the left used to get the right sidebar's grip on their
left edge, where dragging resized the right sidebar; that grip is hidden
there and its drags are ignored.
Pages of Silent Mode projects can now sign the user in with their Theseus
ID instead of a wallet phrase typed into the page. Theseus writes the
sign-in message itself, takes the origin from the committed top frame, and
signs as a project only on an origin that project's list includes, so a
phishing page cannot get another project's signature and no page can use
the ID key to sign anything else.
- lib/theseus-id.cjs: the policy (first sign-in always asks and lets the
user pick a private or One ID; Silent Mode projects are silent after
that while the vault is open; per-site "always"; 10 silent signatures per
minute per origin), the per-project record encrypted under a key derived
from the vault, origin-list fetching with a 1 h cache and a 7-day stale
fallback, and ID moves that send a proof signed by both keys and only
finish once the project confirms.
- A locked vault is unlocked only for a page the user just clicked or typed
in: navigator.userActivation alone is true on load for pages opened with
loadURL, which would let a page pop the vault prompt by itself.
- Settings › Theseus ID: default mode, One ID, automatic sign-in toggle,
signed-in projects (always, change ID, new ID, revoke) and a recovery key
behind a fresh PIN / password check.
- TheseusID/registry/projects.json is the first-party list (Hephaestus,
Sirius, Pithos); it and TheseusID/lib ship as extraResources.
- Token-aware cashaddrs (BNS owners) now decode for owner-signed lists.
Verified on a scratch profile against a local test project whose server
checks signatures with TheseusID/lib/verify.mjs: locked vault on load gives
"locked" with no prompt, first sign-in prompt, silent second sign-in, a
claimed foreign project refused without a prompt, an ID move that keeps the
project's account, and the recovery key behind the confirm prompt.
Settings > Plug-Ins > Ariadne's Thread now switches the daemon on and off
on every install scheme. The toggle used to look for a scheduled task
named 'BNS Resolver Daemon' (and 'BNS Sia Bridge') -- the compat names
from before Ariadne 0.2.0. A fresh 0.2.0 install under the Just-me scope
registers the daemon as 'Ariadne BNS Resolver (<user>)' instead, so the
toggle silently did nothing. The handler now walks every scheduled task
whose name matches the Ariadne pattern -- the pre-0.2 compat names,
the 0.2.0 All-users names and the Just-me scoped names -- and starts or
stops each one. Unrelated 'BNS Indexer'-style tasks on the box are left
alone.
The blocklist consumer existed in the resolver library and the gateway, but
the browser opened a flagged name without comment. Now the indexer process
reads the subscribed lists from the chain every ten minutes and hands the
flags to main. A flagged name loads a warning page naming the reason, the
list and the report; the user may continue, and that is remembered per name.
Two gates, because content is reached two ways. loadBns shows the real
interstitial. serveBns refuses with an inline page on every path that skips
it: reload, back and forward, bns:// links, web app windows. The inline page
has no button, since a page at the site's own origin must not be able to
approve itself; only blocked.html may ask to continue, checked by file URL.
Settings › Naming has the policy: warn (default), never open, or ignore the
lists. The csam reason is never offered a way through. A list that cannot be
read keeps the last known flags and never stops a name from resolving.
The gateway put its own warning in front of flagged sites, which this
browser could not get past: it fetches files itself, with no cookie jar. It
now sends x-bns-policy: client and the gateway stays out of the way for a
client that says it decides for itself.
dev/blocklist-selftest.js runs the real protocol handler and decision
functions against a scratch profile.
- Settings → Language gets a Translator engine radio: pick between
LibreTranslate (hosted — current default) and Bergamot (on-device —
WASM engine, bundled in a later release; falls back to LibreTranslate
for now with a one-time notice). See bergamot.x for the plan.
- Bundles Pithos 0.3.13: menu reflows in setup order with the account on
top, files waiting to upload are shown and go up on their own, s3d
one-shot commands never open the database at once.
- Error page handles Cloudflare Bot Fight 503s: branded page explains the
Electron TLS fingerprint and offers a one-click retry to a .bch mirror
when one is published (path preserved).
- Fixes did-fail-load suppression: a cert error during the HTTPS fallback
now surfaces the branded error page instead of being swallowed.
Built-in extensions can answer paths under a name they ship with, so
Pithos opens at pithos.sia/<user>/<drive>/<folder> instead of a
loopback address, signed in only while the vault is unlocked. A tab
playing sound is no longer frozen in the background, so music keeps
playing when you switch tabs. A widened left panel covers the page
instead of squeezing it and the right sidebar. The tab that was open
at close loads on launch. Bundles Pithos 0.3.10 (views, compact sidebar
layout, music player, updater footer, Account page) and Aegis 0.31.0
(the audit fixes).
Ships 2437506 (the restore setting was a no-op with the default quit
clear), the first-use loader for extensions with Aegis 0.29.0 bundled
(~0.7 s less main-thread work at launch, ETH/SOL bridge fixed), the
language picker as an overlay, Pithos 0.3.4 and the Ariadne status row.
The globe-chip menu was a native Electron menu — square corners, system
font, no theming beyond the OS's own context-menu paint. Replaces it with
a floating overlay WebContentsView (lang-picker.html + preload),
following the same pattern the engine picker and the popover already
use: rounded 12px surface, acid-tint accents on the current pin, soft
shadow, dark + light scheme, flush under the chip's bottom-right.
The content is organised around the user's intent — translate first,
pick a language second. The "Translate this page" row sits at the top
when it is actionable (web tab + supported source + supported target),
with the detected source and the target under the label so the user can
tell what the backend will do before they click. Once a page is
translated, that row flips to "Show original (<source>)". Below the
action strip is Automatic + the six supported languages, each with a
two-letter code chip in the left slot and a ✓ on the current pin.
Unsupported languages are hidden by default inside a collapsible "More
languages (translator coming later)" group — click to expand, click to
collapse; a pinned-unsupported auto-expands so its ✓ stays visible.
Plumbing matches engine-picker: deferred-load WebContentsView,
closeOnClickAway, setBounds anchored under the chip, picker renderer
reports its own content height after each render so the overlay
contracts and expands with the "More languages" toggle. State pushes
come from emitTranslateState (so the Translate / Show-original row
updates when a page finishes auto-translating with the picker open)
and from broadcastSettings (so a Settings-side language change
re-paints the ✓).
Verified end-to-end: picker loads, shows Automatic + 6 supported in the
default list and 18 greyed in the "More" group, repaints to "⟲ Show
original (Spanish)" after an auto-translate completes.
Ships 08b101f (a quick-unlock PIN for the vault, shared with extensions
through api.vault.requestUnlock), 3fd0fe3 (extensions can open from the
left edge, beside the quick links), Pithos 0.3.0 bundled (c2df6e3: guided
setup, PIN gate, recovery phrase from the vault, on the left) and e1c5d91
(one language chip with "Translate this page" and automatic translation).
The vault re-locks on every restart and only the master password opened
it, so every extension that needs it (Aegis, now Pithos) either asked for
the master password itself or grew its own PIN. Theseus now owns one:
- Settings > Passwords sets, changes or removes a 6-digit PIN. The PIN
wraps the master password (PBKDF2-SHA256, 600k iterations, AES-256-GCM)
and the result is sealed with the OS keystore (safeStorage: DPAPI /
Keychain / libsecret), so a copied vault-pin.json cannot be brute-forced
elsewhere. Every unlock still ends at the master password.
- Three wrong PINs in a row require the master password. The strike count
lives in the same file, so a restart does not reset it; a successful
master-password unlock does. A PIN whose password no longer opens the
vault (password changed) is dropped.
- unlock.html is Theseus's own prompt, over the whole window: PIN pad, or
the master password. Extensions call api.vault.requestUnlock({ reason })
(vault-derive capability) and get { ok } back; what the user typed never
reaches them. Settings' locked screen offers "Unlock with PIN" through
the same prompt.
0.3.72 shipped without the Settings › General › Updates copy update:
"Theseus already checks the release manifest at boot and every 6h" is
accurate for a successful first check, but silent about the retry
backoff (8s, 30s, 2min, 10min, 30min) that fires when the startup
attempt is offline — on a slow or captive-portal connection the user
would see several checks in the first 43 minutes and the copy made
that look like a bug. The new wording owns the retry.
Ships 70b7325 (Pithos, the s3d control panel, as a bundled extension:
open it from the dock to run your own S3 gateway on Sia), dae6b9a
(Settings gets its own Language page), f3efae3 (translator served from
silentmode.st/libre with libre.x / lingua.x) and 604a990 (BNS names read
from Ariadne's indexer when it is installed, Theseus's own as standby).
Migration step 3 (DESIGN-bns-indexer-service.md). Ariadne's Thread now owns
BNS indexing on the machine, so Theseus no longer runs a second electrum
indexer beside it.
bns-indexer.js keeps its process and its messages to main.js, but inside
it is now an index host on the shared source chain:
- Ariadne's indexer over its pipe, trusted only after ariadne-helper.exe
has checked the server process on that connection (found through
Ariadne's uninstall key), then pushes;
- the local copies: Ariadne's files for both scopes, Theseus's own raw
copy, the bundled one. The richest wins.
- Theseus's own index copy, written from the pipe data.
The shared core runs as Theseus's own indexer only while Ariadne is
unhealthy. That means: no pipe 4 s after launch, a pipe that fails the
check, a pipe that went silent, or an index not confirmed for 10 min while
Ariadne is not paused. The own indexer warm-starts from Ariadne's
snapshot, so there is no download and no cold sync. It hands back after
90 s of health, so a flapping service does not start and stop it. Economy
is not a failure and never triggers a takeover. With no checkable Ariadne
(portable, not installed, older than the pipe) the own indexer starts at
once, as in 0.3.70. The one thing Theseus does on Ariadne's side is run
the indexer's task at launch when "Launch at start" is off.
main.js passes the shared module paths (packaged as .mjs, which is why the
shared modules no longer import each other) and keeps the host's status.
The Ariadne panel takes its state from the indexer task when one exists,
and the sub-page says where Theseus's names come from.
Ships 057629d — add-on stores kept in memory instead of re-read and re-parsed
on every get (a 7.5 MB Aegis store held the window in Not Responding for
16 s) — plus the in-page translator (4fbfc9e, f54ebd6, b43b180).
The snapshot parse, index builds, electrum sync and snapshot refresh ran on
the browser's main thread at launch. They now run in bns-indexer.js, a
utilityProcess, in two phases: the local snapshot first (no network), then
— once the first page has loaded — the published snapshot (one download)
and the electrum poll. Main keeps a mirror of the name map for its
synchronous lookups; tabs no longer wait for the index to restore.
With no local index yet, a name under a known BCNR TLD gets one lookup of
just that name on the gateway and opens; the full snapshot and the electrum
check follow in the background, and every quick answer is compared with the
verified index when it lands (a mismatch reloads the affected tabs). Plain
web hosts are never sent to the gateway, and the extension-publisher check
only accepts verified data.
DESIGN-bns-indexer-service.md: Ariadne's Thread as the owner of the one
shared indexer (scope x mode, launch at start, power, and a resolver that
never depends on the indexer).
Session restore no longer loads any page on launch. In 0.3.63 the strip was
built from saved titles + favicons and only the previously-active tab's URL
was navigated at startup, so a 20-tab session cost one renderer load instead
of twenty — but that one load is still a real page, often the heaviest one
in the whole session, and it fought every other startup task for the main
thread while the window sat not-responding. Now every restored tab, the
previously-active one included, comes up dormant: zero page renderers at
launch, no page starts loading until the user asks for a specific tab
(clicks the chip, hits reload, types in the URL bar). The previously-active
tab stays highlighted in the strip so one click brings it back; the content
area sits with the tab's own background colour until that click. RAM-at-
launch is now just the chrome, the overlays and the strip — a 500 MB saved
page never materialises as a renderer the user did not even ask to see.
A pending tab that is navigated explicitly (URL bar, link, search) drops
its saved URL at the top of navigateTab, so a later reload or chip click
can't snap it back.
Quick-links strip default set is now Telegram, WhatsApp, X, YouTube — in
that order. Messenger and Spotify are out of the default; users who want
them can still add them via Settings › General › Quick links. Existing
installs whose list still matches the previous untouched default (same six
ids in the same order) migrate on next launch; any customisation (reorder,
add, remove) is left alone.
Ships fc25e1c and 380ac57: a website loaded into the Settings tab could read
the password vault, add-on updates accepted any publisher's signature, and
the review's follow-ups (stale BNS records, POST replay, background dialogs
stealing focus, update helper on non-ASCII profiles, ...).
Clicking an icon on the left strip now opens the service inside a dedicated
380-px mini-view (quickPanel) next to the strip, Opera-style, instead of a
new full-sized tab. Click the active icon again to close the panel; click a
different one to switch. If the panel is already pointed at the same host,
we skip the loadURL so scroll position, open chat and login state survive
a close+reopen round-trip.
Icons now paint as real brand SVGs (Messenger, WhatsApp, Telegram, X,
YouTube, Spotify) with their official colours, bundled inside quicklinks.html
so no external favicon fetch leaks the fact that the strip is loaded.
Unknown ids fall back to a letter chip. The strip vertically centres the
icons between two flex spacers to match Opera's layout.
Defaults ship Messenger, WhatsApp, Telegram, X, YouTube and Spotify. The
Settings › General › Quick links section still lists / adds / removes
entries and toggles the strip.
New thin vertical column (44 px) on the left side of every page, Opera-style.
Click an icon to open its web app in a new tab; if a tab is already open on
that host, we focus it instead of stacking another one. Hidden in HTML
fullscreen so a video still fills the window; toggle via Settings › General ›
Quick links › Show the strip.
Defaults ship X, Telegram and WhatsApp. The Settings › General › Quick links
section lists the current entries with a Remove button each and a Title + URL
+ Add row that auto-prefixes https:// and auto-fills the title from the
hostname when empty. Edits write the whole settings.quickLinks array; the
strip view and the window layout react through settings-set, so no restart is
needed.
Settings › General › Updates panel also now runs standalone (no longer gated
by anything in the shared cfg.get().then() init), so a thrown exception in an
unrelated feature can't leave it stuck on "Loading…" any more — the version
line reads immediately and Check for Updates stays functional.
0.3.65 wrapped the Updates panel code in try/catch but still left it inside the
big C.get().then((s)=>…) block. If anything earlier in that block throws on a
specific profile — a feature's addEventListener on a missing element, a settings
read that rejects, anything — the panel's code never runs and the user sees
"Loading…" forever regardless of the try. Users reported this still happening on
0.3.65.
Updates panel now runs standalone right after the shared constants, as its own
immediately-invoked function, with no dependency on cfg.get() or any other
Settings init. Everything it needs (appVersion/recheckUpdate IPCs and two DOM
elements) is already available at script time. It will show "You're on vX.Y.Z"
or a specific error, never a stuck placeholder.
Settings › General › Updates used to stay on "Loading…" forever if anything
earlier in the shared C.get().then((s)=>…) init threw, or if the version IPC
rejected — the .catch(()=>{}) on the version fetch swallowed it. Users then
had no in-app way to run "Check for updates", because the button sits in the
same panel.
Panel init now wraps in its own try, surfaces the actual error on the status
line (missing IPC / fetch rejection / init failure), and keeps the Check for
Updates button functional even when the earlier version read fails. Toolbar
chip is unaffected either way — the auto-updater runs independently.
Windows's "App is not responding" dialog and Task Manager read FileDescription
from the exe's VERSIONINFO resource, which electron-builder sets from
package.json's description. The marketing tagline sat there, so a frozen tab
produced "Theseus Navigator — a browser that follows the thread. By Silent
Mode, a Deviant project. is not responding". Override via build.extraMetadata
so only the built asar's description is clipped to "Theseus Navigator"; the
source description stays as-is for npm metadata.
(The "not responding" freeze itself is fixed in 0.3.63 by the lazy tab
restore — users still on 0.3.62 will see it until they take 0.3.63.)
Session restore now paints the full strip from the saved titles + favicons and
loads only the ACTIVE tab's page; every other restored tab lives as a dormant
WebContentsView and navigates for the first time when the user clicks it. For
a 20-tab user that drops cold start from 20 renderer loads racing chrome.html
to one, so launch is roughly flat whatever the tab count — fixes the "not
responding" freeze on a session with many restored tabs. session.json is now
v3 ({v:3, tabs:[{url,title,favicon}], active}); v1/v2 session files still
parse (their tabs restore lazy without a cached title, which arrives on first
activation). Reload on a dormant tab materialises it.
Privacy › Anti-fingerprinting › Language is now two modes — Automatic (system
language) and Manual — matching the General › Website language row and the
URL-bar globe chip. The old Spoof-choose top-10 and Hide-en-US modes are gone
from the UI; legacy saved values auto-migrate to Automatic on first open. The
Manual list is the same 24 languages the General row uses, kept in one place
(WEB_LANG_LIST), so all three surfaces stay in sync.
Changing the language via the globe chip or either settings row now reloads
the active tab — the server picked the response body from Accept-Language on
the original request, so an already-rendered page can't adopt the new language
on its own. A reload is what a user clicking a one-click language switch
expects.
The Location row's country dropdown now stacks under the mode dropdown on its
own line when Manual is picked, so an open menu above it can't visually cover
it (the row's flex-row max-60% layout could wrap it where another dropdown's
overlay sat).
Also: the settings-update broadcast now reaches every open settings tab, not
only the chrome — so changing the chip updates both the General Website-
language row and the Privacy Anti-fingerprinting Language row live without a
Settings refresh.
Intl.DisplayNames.of("en-US") returns "American English", which spells out a
distinction the picker doesn't make — one row per language, with English the
UK original. Pass the base code to Intl so the chip tooltip, the "Automatic
(…)" label and the Settings hint all read as the plain language name
(English, Russian, Portuguese, Chinese) regardless of which regional variant
the OS or the saved setting happens to be.
Privacy › Location is three modes now: Show real, Hide, Manual. Manual reveals a
50-country dropdown whose pick becomes the coordinates navigator.geolocation
returns to pages — country-capital granularity, no regions or free-form cities.
Old profiles on the retired "Spoof (region)" auto-migrate to Manual + the
region's representative country on first open, so nothing breaks.
VPN row in Privacy stops opening the wrong add-on: the sidebar now no-ops on a
specific panelId that isn't registered (used to silently substitute panels[0],
which surfaced Aegis whenever the VPN add-on was disabled), and the row hides
itself when vpn:main isn't in the sidebar panel list.
Language picker (globe chip menu + Settings › General › Website language) drops
the BCP-47 tag from every visible label — the tag surfaces only as the 2-letter
chip in the URL bar once picked. "English" is the UK original; the US variant
row is retired (same 2-letter chip, ~same text). Ukrainian dropped from the
quick list too. "Automatic" reads as the OS language name (Intl.DisplayNames)
instead of a raw en-US style tag.
A globe chip next to the URL-bar star shows the language sites see you in
(Accept-Language + navigator.language) — "AUTO" while following the OS locale,
the two-letter code once you pin one. Click opens a 23-language menu; the same
setting has a friendly row at the top of Settings › General. Both write to the
existing languageMode/languageValue and stay in sync with the Anti-fingerprinting
Language row through a settings-update broadcast (settings.html and chrome.html
both react live).
Settings › Plug-ins is now two compact rows — one per plug-in — with the on/off
toggle on the right and the update controls beside it. Clicking a plug-in's title
opens its own sub-page (plugins/ariadne, plugins/aegis) with the full description
and the Uninstall button, so the main list stays scannable and dangerous actions
stop travelling with the everyday ones. The Ariadne toggle and its sub-page
mirror the same scheduled-task state.
The public repos carried no license, so nobody could legally copy or build
on the code, and the whitepaper's "free software" had nothing behind it.
Theseus and its companions take the Mozilla Public License 2.0, the
file-level copyleft Firefox and Brave use, which is compatible with every
component they bundle. The resolver and gateway libraries take Apache-2.0
so that other implementations of the registry can reuse them without
copyleft in the way. The protocol documents and the whitepaper are CC BY 4.0.
A third-party notices file lists what the browser ships and fetches, with
the source offer the GPL sing-box binary the VPN add-on downloads requires;
the matching source archive is now published beside the binaries. The
names and marks are reserved in TRADEMARKS.md, separate from the code
license, so a fork must ship under its own name. Settings › General says
the license and links the three files; the whitepaper says the same.
Every engine icon was an <img> pointing at Google's favicon service, fetched
again each time the picker, the toolbar or Settings rendered. Offline the
whole list collapsed to the emoji fallbacks, and each open told Google
which engines the user has configured. The catalog's icons now live in
engine-icons/<id>.png inside the app; a custom engine's icon is fetched
once (its own /favicon.ico first, the favicon service as fallback), cached
under the profile, and removed with the engine. Settings no longer falls
through to DuckDuckGo's icon service either. Phind ships no icon: its site
serves none through the bot wall.
A bundled add-on that answers cookie consent dialogs, rejecting all but
the essentials by default (or accepting, if the user prefers the banner
simply gone), so pages open without one. Built on DuckDuckGo's
autoconsent (MPL-2.0): its rule bundle covers hundreds of consent
managers, and a reject-button heuristic handles unknown banners in
reject mode. The library runs through the page-inject slot in every
http(s) frame's isolated world; the add-on hands each frame the user's
settings and the rules, and counts what was handled per site for the
panel, which also excludes a site with one click.
build-inject.js assembles inject.js from the library in node_modules
plus the glue, and copies the compact rules and licence into the add-on
so a rule update can ship through the add-on channel.
Host side: page-inject scripts get theseus.evalInPage for the few rules
that need the page's own JavaScript (they already reach the page via
contextBridge, so no new trust tier), and api.tabs is open to
page-inject add-ons as well as request-filter ones.
Theseus had no content blocking at all. Shield blocks requests to known
tracking and advertising hosts on every site, using EasyList and
EasyPrivacy through Ghostery's adblocker engine (the matcher those lists
are written for). The lists ship inside the add-on so blocking works
from the first launch, offline; the compiled engine is cached under the
add-on's data dir (a 22 ms load instead of a 500 ms parse), and the
lists refresh from their publishers about once a day.
The panel shows what was stopped on the current page, a one-click
allow for the site, the global switch, the running total and the rule
versions with an "Update now". Network filters only for now: a blocked
request never leaves the browser, but leftover empty ad boxes are not
hidden yet.
Host side: a "request-filter" capability. Chromium allows one
onBeforeRequest listener per session, so main owns it and consults the
add-ons' filters; a top-level navigation is never blocked, only http(s)
subresources are offered. api.tabs (active tab and a change event) lets
the panel show per-site numbers without seeing page content.
alert / confirm / prompt from a page came up as bare OS message boxes
titled "theseus-navigator" (the package name), with no hint of who was
asking and nothing of the browser's styling — the PDF Editor's "Delete
signature?" was the reported case.
The session preload replaces the page's three functions with wrappers
that hand the call to the isolated world through a DOM event, which
asks main synchronously and writes the answer back; pages see Chrome's
return values (confirm → boolean, prompt → string or null) and no new
global. Main answers from a sheet hanging under the toolbar, in the
same surface as add-on approvals, that names who is asking: the site's
host, the add-on's name for an add-on page or panel (identified by its
path under the profile's extensions directory), or Theseus for its own
pages. The sheet belongs to the tab that asked — hidden while another
tab is in front, back when its tab returns — and a closing tab or
window answers "cancel" so no renderer stays blocked. Windows without
the chrome (installed apps, plain windows) get a native box with a
proper title, and app.name now reads "Theseus Navigator" for whatever
else still shows one.
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.
