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.
0.3.33 still ships blank screenshots because the whole toolbar-menu → auto-
open-editor path can't be made race-free: the moment the editor tab opens
it becomes the active tab, and a snapshot of the editor's own tab (before
its canvas has drawn from storage) is a valid-looking 24 KB all-white PNG.
The lastCapturableTabId fallback I added in a279864 catches the second
click, but the first click can still land on the addon-owned tab whenever
the user re-triggers before setActive has settled.
Rebuild the UX so this class of race can't happen at all:
- Drop the toolbar-menu capability. Manifest is back to sidebar-panel +
capture-tab + open-tab, so the dock icon opens the panel (never the
editor directly). No dropdown, no clip-under-tab-view issue, no auto-
jump into an addon-owned tab.
- Sidebar has the three capture buttons + a preview <img> + a "Open in
editor tab" button. The preview is fed a data:image/png URL returned
straight from api.captureTab, rendered inside the sidebar's own
document — same origin, no file:// cross-directory gotcha, and the user
can see immediately whether the shot actually landed.
- Editor.html tab opens only on an explicit "Open in editor tab" click.
The addon rewrites __pending at that moment (so the editor always sees
the just-selected capture even if a prior editor tab drained the entry),
then api.openTab("editor.html", {name}). The editor's storage-based
load path is unchanged.
- Recent captures ring is kept and now exposed as a horizontal thumbnail
strip in the sidebar; clicking a tile re-previews that capture and
arms "Open in editor tab" for it.
Editor page (editor.html/js/css) unchanged — same crop / arrow / rect /
ellipse / pen / text / mosaic-redact / undo / redo / copy / save.
Bundled but not shipped — leaving version bump + deploy to the parent
session.
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.
Users reported Theseus being uninstalled by the auto-updater and never
coming back. Reproduced on 0.3.31:
The 'Install & restart' handler was spawning the NSIS setup with
just [\"/S\"]. Our config is oneClick:false + perMachine:false +
allowToChangeInstallationDirectory:true, so NSIS in silent mode:
1. runs the old uninstaller (wipes install dir + registry path)
2. hits the install phase, which in wizard mode expects UI to pick
the install directory
3. silent mode has no UI, registry path is gone → exits without
installing anything
Result: browser gone, nothing left, no error surfaced to the user.
Fix: pass --updated alongside /S. electron-builder's NSIS template
treats --updated as 'this is an auto-update, reuse the existing
install directory from registry, don't rerun the uninstaller'.
--force-run relaunches the app after install.
Users stuck on 0.3.31 need to manually install 0.3.32 once (from
dl.silentmode.st) — the auto-updater in 0.3.31 will not recover on
its own. Their %APPDATA%\theseus-navigator profile is untouched by
the uninstall so vault, addons and settings survive the reinstall.
Reported: the Screenshot dropdown produces a blank white PNG "every time".
Verified end-to-end via CDP: the FIRST capture on a real page (silentmode.st)
worked (221 KB, real pixels). Every capture after that came back as a
uniform-white 1920×899 PNG (~24 KB, all bytes 255/255/255/255 confirmed by
canvas getImageData in the editor tab).
Root cause: api.captureTab reads activeTab(), which after the first successful
run is the editor.html tab the add-on just opened. CDP Page.captureScreenshot
on the editor's own tab happily snapshots its still-blank canvas, and the
addon writes that white PNG into scratch → opens a new editor showing it →
next re-capture snapshots THAT editor → all-white feedback loop.
Fix: track the last active tab that isn't an add-on-owned page (or the
Settings tab) in setActive(), and have captureTab fall back to it when the
current active tab has an addonId or settings flag. Last resort: the first
non-addon non-settings tab in the list. If none exists, throw a clear "open
a page you'd like to shoot first" error instead of returning white pixels.
No new capability; no manifest change; addons keep calling
api.captureTab({mode}) exactly as before. Ships in the next Theseus release.
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.
Screenshot showed Registries > Collision policy rows rendering as
solid dark bars in light mode — .polrow hardcoded background:#10151f
with no light override, so the whole card blob-ed dark on the white
page and the text disappeared. Same story for .segseg, .engcat,
select/input backgrounds, .ctxmenu, .themeCards etc.
The light-media block gains a proper mapping keyed to the user's
BCH palette (#0AC18E / #253A49 / #F8FDFF):
- --bg → #F8FDFF (BCH white), --ink → #253A49 (BCH dark)
- .polrow → #f4f8fb card on white; hover #eaf0f5; SELECTED row
gets an acid-green tint via :has(input:checked) so BCDN-first
reads as the chosen option without an ugly dark bar
- .segseg, .engcat, .themeCards, .ctxmenu, select/input all get
the same treatment — subtle off-white surfaces on top of the
panel, dark-navy text
- Sidebar (.side) already had a light override; refined the border
and hover states to use rgba(37,58,73,X) so they match the ink
Verified via CDP: --bg=#F8FDFF, --ink=#253A49, .polrow color=
rgb(37,58,73), engcat bg=rgb(244,248,251), theme card bg=white.
Two follow-ups from the on-device test.
Two Aegis addons showing up (bchwallet + aegis):
- migrateAegisRename previously only ran when addons/aegis/ didn't exist,
which meant any bchwallet copy the signed OTA update endpoint reinstalls
after the first migration stays there forever, and AddonHost loads both
as separate wallets. Rewritten to always retire addons/bchwallet/ when
it's present, regardless of whether aegis/ is already installed. The
storage-copy (bchwallet.json → aegis.json) still only runs the first
time so a downgrade doesn't clobber fresh 0.4+ state.
- Also flushes any stray addons/siawallet/ that comes back the same way.
Sidebar dock and Extensions list icons showed the raw 🛡 emoji:
- chrome.html's dock-button renderer and settings.html's extensions-list
renderer now accept `data:image/svg+xml…` values for manifest.icon and
render them as <img> instead of text. Emoji strings still render as
before.
- aegis addon.json's icon is now the exact hex-aspis mark from
aegis.x/brand/favicon.svg (URL-encoded inline). Version bumped to
0.4.1 so seedBundledAddons reseeds the new addon.json on next launch.
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.
Lockfile's top-level version field lagged at 0.3.16; npm install
during the last dist cycle bumped it to 0.3.22. Committing so the
lockfile matches the source of truth in package.json (currently 0.3.28
per the last ship). No dependency changes.
CDP test surfaced two shape mismatches:
- cfg.listAddons() returns {installed:[...], sidebarPanels:[...]} — my
destructure treated it as a plain array, so .find() blew up with
'installed || []).find is not a function'.
- cfg.checkAddonUpdates() returns {report, skipped, staged:[...]} —
same problem, .find on an object.
Both call sites now normalise (installed = listRes.installed || [],
staged = res.staged || []) before finding the aegis entry. Verified
via CDP against a fresh install: card renders 'You're on v0.4.0.
Updates arrive over-the-air…'; clicking Check for updates keeps
that status (no staged update live); Restart-to-apply stays hidden.
Cleans up the naming that leaked from the wallet's origin story (BCH-only)
into the actual bundle layout. Aegis is one integrated addon now:
- Bundle folder: TheseusNavigator/bundled-addons/aegis/ (was bchwallet/).
- Addon id: "aegis" (was "bchwallet"). Vault-derive still accepts
legacy "bchwallet/*" and "siawallet/*" paths via the
absorbs list, so no on-chain funds move.
- Version: 0.4.0 (bumped to trigger seedBundledAddons's reseed).
- Retired: TheseusNavigator/bundled-addons/siawallet/. Sia is
folded into Aegis as a chain adapter (lib/sia/*.js
already in-tree) and Aegis's manifest lists siawallet
under absorbs so pre-Aegis SC keys derive identically.
main.js migrateAegisRename() runs before seedBundledAddons on every
launch. First run does the move; subsequent runs are no-ops:
- addons/bchwallet/ -> addons-backups/bchwallet-migrated-<stamp>/
- addons-data/bchwallet.json COPIED to addons-data/aegis.json (kept
copied not moved so a downgrade to 0.3.x can still boot).
- addons/siawallet/ -> addons-backups/siawallet-migrated-<stamp>/
(addons-data/siawallet.json left untouched — its walletdUrl is
per-user config Aegis's Sia wallet takes fresh via Settings).
settings.html Aegis update card now matches either "aegis" (new id) or
"bchwallet" (pre-rename) so upgraders coming from 0.3.x see the same
one card while the OTA endpoint's next signed bundle catches up.
Internal purpose paths inside index.js/chain-*.js are unchanged —
LEGACY_BCH_PURPOSE stays "bchwallet/mainnet/0" and every purposePrefix
still starts with "bchwallet/*". The addon absorbs its own former id,
so those paths keep resolving to the same seed the shipping Aegis has
been using since 0.3.14.
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.
The Settings > Extensions "Check for updates" button used to report
one of two lines: "N updates staged; restart to apply" or "All
extensions are up to date". The second collapsed several distinct
outcomes into one indistinguishable line, so a user seeing "up to
date" couldn't tell whether the check actually reached the endpoint
or the fetch had silently failed.
checkAndStageUpdates now returns { report, skipped? } with one entry
per installed add-on and a status of:
no-update-url — addon.json doesn't declare updateURL
fetch-failed — DNS / connection / HTTP error on updates.json or the tarball (detail carries the message)
up-to-date — endpoint reached, no version strictly newer than installed
signature-invalid — offered version's sig didn't verify against any baked-in pubkey
sha256-mismatch — downloaded tarball's hash didn't match the signed one
extract-failed — tar could not extract (detail carries the message)
manifest-mismatch — extracted addon.json didn't match signed id/version
staged / already-staged — success
The Settings UI now renders one row per add-on with that status, so
a "no update" outcome is never mistaken for a silent fetch failure.
Return shape is back-compat: if a caller expects a bare array, the
UI normalizes.
Two additions:
1) Aegis (bchwallet) update card lands in Settings > General beside
the Ariadne one. Same look, different substance: Aegis is a
bundled add-on, not a system service, so no Install/Uninstall
buttons — the checkboxes there are 'Check for updates' and (only
when an update is staged) 'Restart to apply update'. Reuses the
existing signed OTA endpoint (addons-check-updates IPC) and
addons-list-staged for the pending-update surface, so new wallet
versions ship without a Theseus release.
New app-restart IPC (app.relaunch + app.quit) does the promotion
handoff — addons-host promotes staged updates on next boot.
2) DevTools (F12 / Ctrl+Shift+I) opens docked to the right of the
tab view (mode: 'right') instead of popping a detached window. A
user debugging a page gets the tools alongside it, matching stock
Chrome; anyone who prefers detached can still drag it out via the
DevTools own toolbar.
Two fixes off the first-launch feedback: users didn't see how to add a
wallet, and the branded shield from aegis.x/brand hadn't landed in the
panel.
- panel.html + panel.js: swap the ad-hoc shield SVG for the exact mark
from aegis.x/brand/favicon.svg — hexagonal aspis with dark fill +
acid stroke + boss ring + centre point. The panel's tab favicon
(<link rel="icon">) and the "Aegis" fallback badge in the header
now render byte-close to what a user downloads from the brand kit.
- Add-wallet discoverability: an always-visible "＋" chip lives in the
header next to the picker caret; clicking it opens the picker with
the coin list pre-expanded. When the panel is genuinely empty (a
vault Aegis hasn't seen before), the gate now shows a big primary
"＋ Add your first wallet" button plus copy that spells out the
seed source — Aegis derives every wallet from the Theseus password
vault, no separate seed to import.
- addon.json bumped to 0.3.1 so seedBundledAddons() picks up the fresh
panel files on the next Theseus launch (bundleVer === userVer would
otherwise skip the reseed and users would keep loading the old
panel from their addons/ dir).
DuckDuckGo's icons.duckduckgo.com/ip3/… service was returning 404 for
Brave, Bing, Yandex and a few others in the SEARCH_ENGINES catalog —
so the settings row would fall through to the hardcoded emoji sym
(🦁 lion, 🔍 magnifier, etc.) instead of the real brand mark.
Two-part fix:
1) main.js: faviconUrl() switched from DDG's icons.duckduckgo.com to
Google's www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=…&sz=32 as the primary
source. Google's service is materially more reliable — returns a
real 32×32 PNG for essentially every host.
2) settings.html: the engIcon renderer now stacks a two-source
fallback. If Google's PNG fails, retry with DDG's ico URL; if that
also fails, THEN drop to the emoji sym. Row is never blank, and
real brand favicons win over emoji whenever either service resolves.
The <option> in the dropdown still uses emoji because <option> can't
render <img> — that's a native <select> limitation, not fixable here.
Blank editor + broken buttons root cause: index.js was writing the
capture to <userData>/addons-data/screenshot-scratch/<name>.png and
passing "?src=file://<that path>" to editor.html. The editor lives at
file:///<userData>/addons/screenshot/editor.html — different directory
tree under file://. Chromium's file:// origin policy treats those as
different origins and quietly refuses the <img> load, so init()'s
loadImage() rejects, the canvas never gets an image, and every tool
after that operates on a still-empty 300×150 default canvas — the
tools appear to work but produce no visible output because the base
image never landed. The sidebar version we replaced set
`previewImg.src = dataUrl` (a base64 data URL) directly, which has no
origin and just worked; the tab version regressed by adding the file
hop.
Fix keeps the scratch file for the recent-captures ring but hands
the raw capture through the add-on's per-add-on kv store
(`__pending` key). Same store, same origin scoping, no
cross-directory read: index.js writes via api.storage.set from main;
editor.js reads via window.silentmode.storage.get through the tab
preload (packaged since 0.3.27). Fallback path retained for
"openRecent" callers still passing ?src=… — those will need their
own fix in a follow-up.
Bumped to 0.2.4 and signed for the OTA endpoint — first real
independent add-on ship: no Theseus release needed to fix this,
0.3.27 installs pick up 0.2.4 via the boot-time signed-update poll.
The Updates card was placeholder-dashed until the user clicked Check
for updates. Show 'You're on v<current>' immediately on load using a
new app-version IPC (app.getVersion, no network) so the user can
answer 'which version am I on?' without a click.
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.
Standard browser Ctrl+F support:
- main.js: Ctrl+F caught in the shared before-input-event handler (same
place as F12 / reload shortcuts) fires 'find-open' to chrome.
Two new IPC handlers proxy to activeTab().view.webContents:
find-in-page(query, {forward, findNext, matchCase})
find-stop
Each tab's webContents listens for 'found-in-page' and forwards
{activeMatchOrdinal, matches, finalUpdate} back to chrome via
'find-result' — only when it's the active tab so the bar doesn't
update from a background tab's stale match count.
- preload.js: exposes onFindOpen / findInPage / findStop / onFindResult.
- chrome.html: adds a .findbar strip below the bookmarks bar (part of
chrome-view height like .tordisc / .bcnrbar, so syncHeight picks it
up). Input + "N of M" counter + prev/next/close buttons. Enter jumps
next, Shift+Enter previous, Esc closes. Typing runs findNext:false
(fresh search); pressing Enter runs findNext:true (walk matches).
No-match state paints the input border red.
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.
Three tied-together fixes:
1) captureTab moves from WebContents.capturePage() to CDP
Page.captureScreenshot for every mode (visible / full / region).
Blank-screenshot symptom: after a toolbar-menu selection, the OS
popup teardown left the tab view marked occluded for a few frames
on some Windows setups, so capturePage() snapshotted a
stale/transparent frame at the correct dimensions — no 0x0, no
retry hit. CDP forces a fresh composite regardless of occlusion
state (same path the "Full page" mode was already using) and
returns a base64 PNG directly; PNG dimensions come out of the
IHDR chunk (bytes 16-24). Attach only when nothing else has, and
detach after only if WE attached, so an open DevTools stays
attached.
2) Editor gets a Discard button. Toolbar picks up an "×" glyph next
to Save/Copy that closes the editor tab and drops the working
screenshot. Top-level Escape now falls through the same path
after unwinding an in-flight text placement or crop rectangle. A
new "addon-tab-close" IPC lets an add-on's own tab close itself
(main matches the sender's webContents id against the tab list,
so a page can only close its own tab); window.silentmode.closeTab()
exposes it from addon-tab-preload.js.
3) Manual update controls in Settings > Extensions. New "Check for
updates" button at the top of the Extensions surface calls the
same signed-update polling the boot timer runs; the result is
surfaced inline ("All extensions are up to date" / "N updates
staged; restart Theseus to apply"). A "Pending updates" box
below lists what's in <userData>/addons-updates-staged/ so the
user knows what will be promoted on next restart.
Toolbar-menu popup settle bumped from 120 ms to 250 ms with an
explicit win.focus() in the popup close callback — the previous
window wasn't enough on slower Windows setups. CDP capture no longer
depends on this delay anyway, but the settle still helps any add-on
that does DOM work in its click handler before capture.
Screenshot add-on bumped 0.2.2 → 0.2.3 (Discard button; capture
fixes come from the host, not the add-on).
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.
The sections array in showSection() still listed 'naming' — the id I
deleted when Registries got folded into General in 0.3.21. Clicking
Performance / Privacy / Extensions in the sidebar looked up
getElementById('naming'), got null, and threw a TypeError setting
.hidden on it. The loop crashed before the target section was
un-hidden, so nothing appeared to happen — the currently-shown
section stayed visible and the click looked like a no-op.
One-line fix: drop 'naming' from the sections array. Also documented
why it's absent so no one puts it back.
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.
BCH-teal #0AC18E is ~2.9:1 on white — great for filled backgrounds and
tints, marginal for small text. Introduce --acid-text (dark mode: same
as --acid, light mode: #253A49 BCH-dark = ~12:1 on white). Rewrote
every text usage in settings.html to var(--acid-text):
- .brand (⛓ Theseus in sidebar)
- .side a.active (selected section)
- .btn text (Check for updates / add engine)
- .engcat .cat .add:hover text
- inline <b style="color:var(--acid)"> in the Ariadne status + Update
status renders
Fills, borders, and background tints stay var(--acid) so the BCH-green
brand splash is preserved everywhere it works. Also drops the manual
.brand override in the light-media block — no longer needed since the
variable does the job.
Two spots where the light-mode swap didn't take effect because the
color was hardcoded to a dark-mode pastel yellow:
- .btn (used by 'Check for updates' and the engine 'Add' button) had
color:#eaffb0 — pale yellow tinted on top of the acid tint, invisible
on a white ground. Route through var(--acid) so light mode picks up
#0AC18E (BCH teal) with proper contrast.
- .brand ('⛓ Theseus' in Settings sidebar) was var(--acid). In light
mode that's #0AC18E on #f6f8fb — ~2.7:1 contrast. Swap to #253A49
(BCH dark navy) in the light-media block so it matches the Theseus
toolbar chip treatment and reads as the primary UI accent.
Same #eaffb0 sweep applied to the two chrome.html spots that used it
(upchip download button, bcnrbar open button). Dark mode unchanged.
Ariadne 0.1.1
- install.ps1 primary TLD source: HTTPS $Indexer/api/tlds -> advertised[]
(electrum fetchTldList / legacy fetchBcnrTlds / ariadne.config.json /
bootstrap kept as fallbacks in that order). Silent installs no longer
stall when WSS is blocked.
- Persistent transcript at C:\ProgramData\Ariadne\install.log; separate
install-error.log on any uncaught exception. Top-level trap logs the full
stack, then exit 1 so Inno/NSIS silent-install callers see a real failure.
- .iss: SetupLogging=yes; DeinitializeSetup() copies Inno's log to
C:\ProgramData\Ariadne\inno-setup.log on every exit path.
- Version bumped to 0.1.1. sha256=be1fa8841919b321841d90f8147abe1b1d7604fe7fff6c2e271dc47c4c24a2b6
Theseus decoupled from Ariadne
- Removed nsis/installer.nsh (custom Ariadne chain-install page).
- Removed extraResources entry for AriadneResolver-Setup-*.exe.
- Removed build.nsis.include from package.json.
- Settings > System-wide resolver panel now fetches the .exe from
https://silentmode.st/releases-manifest.json, streams the download while
hashing, refuses to spawn on SHA-256 mismatch. 30-min in-memory manifest
cache so opening Settings doesn't spam the endpoint. Offline gracefully
degrades to installedVersion-only / canUpdate:false.
- "bundledVersion" IPC field kept for renderer compatibility; it now
carries "latest advertised by the site's manifest".
Deployed to silentmode.st:
- dl.silentmode.st/AriadneResolver-Setup-0.1.1.exe (25 MB)
- silentmode.st/releases-manifest.json (schema/2, updated 2026-09-08)
- silentmode.st/releases/ + silentmode.st/tools/ show 0.1.1
Local Dev <noreply@localhost>
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.
Two follow-ups on the light-mode acid work:
1) Every hardcoded #d6ff3d and rgba(214,255,61,X) in the browser
chrome and every addon panel now goes through var(--acid), so the
light-mode BCH-teal (#0AC18E) takes effect everywhere — not just
where var(--acid) was already used. Hex-with-alpha (#d6ff3d55 etc.)
converts to color-mix(); rgba() converts to rgb(from var(--acid)…)
for the same alpha with the current --acid hue. Chromium 128+
supports both. Files touched: chrome / settings / error / home /
approval / bchwallet / siawallet / screenshot (html + css).
Screenshot editor.js's #d6ff3d stays — that's the drawing colour
swatch, not UI chrome.
2) The Theseus button (.logo) and update chip (.upchip) become dark
BCH-navy chips (#253A49 background, #F8FDFF text) in light mode.
Previously the .logo hardcoded #d6ff3d text on a bright-acid tint —
invisible on a light toolbar. The dark chip stands out and gives
the light theme a distinct accent using the BCH secondary from
whybitcoincash.com's palette.
Two related visibility fixes:
1) Light-mode --acid → #0AC18E (Bitcoin Cash brand primary, from
whybitcoincash.com's palette per user). Direct swap from #088A66
(darkened variant) to the on-brand primary. Applied across chrome /
settings / error / home / approval / messages / bchwallet /
siawallet / screenshot editor. Dark mode's #d6ff3d is unchanged.
2) User-Agent no longer includes 'theseus-navigator/<ver>' or
'Electron/<ver>' tokens. Cloudflare's WAF was returning HTTP 503
'Service Unavailable' to any request carrying those (verified
directly against whybitcoincash.com — same URL, same headers, only
the UA differed; plain Chrome UA got 200, Theseus UA got 503).
Strip both tokens via a stockChromeUA() helper called from
applyAcceptLanguage(), which whenReady already invokes at boot.
Standard practice: Brave, Vivaldi, Slack all do the same.
Verified via CDP: navigator.userAgent now reports
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36
(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/130.0.6723.191 Safari/537.36
— indistinguishable from stock Chrome.
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.
Prior light-mode --acid was #3a5c00 (dark olive-green) — legible but
off-brand. The Bitcoin Cash brand primary is #0AC18E (a teal-leaning
green already used in bchwallet's --bch variable). Darken it a step to
#088A66 for AA text contrast on white (~5:1) while staying in the BCH
family — the light-mode accent now reads as "Bitcoin Cash green,
darkened for legibility" instead of an arbitrary olive.
Applied across every chrome page + addon panel that carries the light
override (chrome / settings / error / home / approval / messages /
bchwallet / siawallet / screenshot editor). Dark mode's #d6ff3d
untouched.
New "Updates" card under Startup: a single "Check for updates" button
that hits the release manifest immediately (rather than waiting for
the boot-time and 6h-interval auto-check). Reuses the existing
recheck-update IPC; extended it to un-dismiss any chip the user closed
this session AND to return the current app version so the button can
render either:
- "You're on the latest (v0.3.21)." when nothing newer exists
- "vX.Y.Z is available — the update chip in the toolbar will offer it."
Button disables + shows "Checking…" during the fetch. Silent failures
report their reason ("Check failed: …") so the user isn't left staring
at a dash.
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.
Two housekeeping changes to Settings > General:
- Toolbar block (Address bar size + Search box size selects) removed —
the toolbar drag handles landed in 0.3.15 do the same job in-place,
and the discrete presets were duplicating that. Underlying settings
keys and drag-set widthPx values still live in main; the UI dropdown
was the only thing gone.
- Registries section merged into General as a subheading. Sidebar
navigation entry "Registries" removed; the naming section is now
reachable from Settings > General. Collision-policy radios + reset-
remembered-choices + Ariadne install/turn on/off/uninstall/update
card all move as-is. No IDs changed, so the JS wiring (radios,
ariadne buttons, collision summary) rebinds against the same nodes.
The naming section stub stays commented so the section-nav JS doesn't
crash if it looks up the old id.
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.
Bundled screenshot addon bump:
- version 0.2.1 → 0.2.2
- palette grows from 5 to 8 colors: adds Orange (#ff9500), Blue
(#0a84ff), Purple (#bf5af2) alongside acid/red/yellow/white/black —
common annotation colors that were conspicuously missing
- updateURL swings from the aspirational addons.silentmode.st (which
never resolved) to the live gateway URL
https://navigate.st/bns/theseus.x/extensions/screenshot/updates.json,
where the operator's first signed update entry is now published
The gateway URL is deliberate over the bare `theseus.x/...` form: the
add-on updater runs from Node's main-process https module, which uses
the OS resolver. On installs without Ariadne's Thread the OS can't
resolve theseus.x (BNS-only TLD), so the poll would silently fail;
the navigate.st gateway resolves via standard DNS and forwards to the
same BNS-backed Sia content, so every install reaches the endpoint.
First signed update is live at:
https://navigate.st/bns/theseus.x/extensions/screenshot/updates.jsonhttps://navigate.st/bns/theseus.x/extensions/screenshot/screenshot-0.2.2.tar.gz
signed 59a35370fdbc9d1e24834fa26c7765d27e8763fe928bfa23b202ca666a6a6973
by the ops key baked into 0.3.19. End-to-end verified via
scratchpad/decoupling-test/verify-live.mjs against the live endpoint:
fetch, sig-verify, download, sha-verify, extract, stage, promote,
backup — all pass.
Installs polling the previous updateURL (addons.silentmode.st) get
this new URL only after their bundled copy is refreshed to 0.2.2,
which means either a Theseus release with 0.2.2 bundled (0.3.20+) or
a signed update at the old URL that carries the URL change (impossible
because addons.silentmode.st doesn't resolve). Ship a Theseus release
that bundles this 0.2.2 to activate the update path on existing
installs; from then on the endpoint self-perpetuates via the theseus.x
URL.
Home page's search-box placeholder was hardcoded "Search the web
(DuckDuckGo)", but the browser's default engine has been Startpage
for a while and any user can switch to another in Settings. The
"DuckDuckGo" claim then contradicted the actual engine that would
run the query (main.js routes through settings.searchEngine).
Fix: placeholder starts as plain "Search the web" and populates on
load with "Search the web with <engine.name>" via a new
window.home.getEngines() IPC (reuses the existing search-engines
handler). Silently no-ops if the preload isn't bound.
Also swapped the never-fires no-preload fallback URL from
duckduckgo.com to startpage.com so it matches Theseus's own default.
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.
The 0.3.18 ship (423831f) picked up WIP dependency additions
(bitcoinjs-lib, bip32, bip39, ecpair, @bitcoinerlab/secp256k1) from
the working tree via git commit -o's file-scoped semantics, but the
matching package-lock.json update was left uncommitted. That leaves
master in a state where `npm ci` refuses to install (lock and
manifest disagree) and any fresh clone can't be built without an
`npm install` regeneration first. Committing the in-tree lock puts
them back in sync.
Populates addon-update-pubkeys.js with the Silent Mode ops Ed25519
pubkey generated 2026-09-07. From this build forward, Theseus polls
each installed add-on's updateURL 30 s after boot, verifies the
signed updates.json, and stages any newer version for promotion on
the next launch. The screenshot add-on's addon.json already
advertises https://addons.silentmode.st/screenshot/updates.json;
publishing a signed entry there (via scripts/sign-addon-update.mjs
with the ops private key) is what activates real updates.
No updates.json is published yet, so the client's boot-time fetch
will 404/DNS-fail silently until the operator lands the first signed
entry.
SPL tokens now show up in the Solana wallet — balances on the Receive
card, an asset picker on Send that flips the amount input into the
token's own units. Sends build a TransferChecked + auto-create the
recipient's Associated Token Account (idempotently) in the same
transaction, so the user never has to fund an ATA by hand.
- lib/sol-spl.js: SPL primitives that don't need @solana/web3.js.
TOKEN_PROGRAM_ID, ASSOCIATED_TOKEN_PROGRAM_ID, TOKEN_2022_PROGRAM_ID,
findProgramAddress (PDA loop backed by an ed25519 is-on-curve check
via @noble Point.fromBytes), associatedTokenAddress (matches the
spl-token JS seed layout: [owner, tokenProgram, mint]),
transferCheckedInstruction (discriminator 12, u64 amount, decimals
byte), createATAIdempotentInstruction (associated-token program
discriminator 1). A small known-mint registry ships inline for USDC /
USDT / wSOL on mainnet + USDC on devnet — everything else falls back
to a truncated mint address in the UI.
- Message assembler classifies every unique pubkey into writable-signed
/ readonly-signed / writable-unsigned / readonly-unsigned, sorts the
fee payer first, and serializes header + accountKeys + blockhash +
instructions using Solana's compact-u16 short-vec encoding. Same
wire shape @solana/web3.js produces from Transaction.serializeMessage.
- lib/chain-sol.js: snapshot() now carries a tokens[] array of
{mint, symbol, name, decimals, balance, tokenAccount, tokenProgram,
isKnown, isToken2022}. Fetched via getTokenAccountsByOwner against
both the classic Token program and Token-2022. New planTokenTransfer
+ signAndBroadcastToken handle a full send (TransferChecked +
optional CreateATAIdempotent) in one wire.
- Panel: Send tab gained an Asset dropdown (SOL / <each token>) that
only shows for SOL wallets with tokens. Picking a token flips the
unit picker's big-unit to the token symbol, amount goes in the
token's own decimals, planTokenSend + sendToken take over from
planSend/send. Receive tab gained a Tokens card listing each SPL
balance with a per-row Send button that pre-fills the asset picker.
- Verified in scratchpad: ATA derivation runs the PDA loop
correctly (owner pubkey passes isOnCurve, derived ATA does not —
the definitional property of a Program-Derived Address). Cross-check
the ATA for any (owner, mint) on Phantom / Solscan / spl-token JS
and the value matches.
Known limits:
- No token metadata lookup on-chain — mints outside the built-in
registry show up with a truncated mint address as symbol. Wiring
Metaplex Metadata program reads would let unknown tokens show
their real names.
- Send is single-signer only (the wallet is the fee payer, sender
and sole required signer). Multi-sig SPL transfers work via the
dapp bridge (window.solana.signAndSendTransaction, which already
handles partial signatures).
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.
Extends the Ariadne toggle card in Settings > Registries with the three
lifecycle actions the user asked for:
- Install: runs the bundled AriadneResolver-Setup-<ver>.exe silently
and elevated (/VERYSILENT /SUPPRESSMSGBOXES /NORESTART). Single UAC
prompt, no wizard.
- Update: same installer, run over the top. Inno Setup detects the
matching AppId and upgrades in place. Only shown when the bundled
version is newer than what's installed.
- Uninstall: reads Inno's QuietUninstallString from
HKLM\...\Uninstall\{7E7A5F1C-...}_is1 and runs it elevated with
/VERYSILENT /SUPPRESSMSGBOXES /NORESTART.
Status now surfaces the installed version + bundled version so the
user can see what's on disk vs what would be installed. Three new IPC
handlers: ariadne-install / ariadne-update / ariadne-uninstall. Every
button disables during work and shows a busy label; refresh runs
after success OR failure so the UI never lies.
Version compare + registry read live in main; both the WOW6432Node and
native uninstall paths are checked so the query works regardless of
which architecture bit Inno picked.
An end-to-end drive of the update flow against a local HTTP server hit
two Windows-only tar quirks that a first-cut MVP wouldn't catch:
1. Git-Bash tar (MSYS2), which comes first on PATH when Git-for-Windows
is installed, treats drive-letter paths as `host:file` remote-archive
syntax. Sidestepped with --force-local (also silently accepted by
Win10's built-in bsdtar and by GNU tar).
2. Even with --force-local, MSYS2's argv-conversion layer mangles
backslashes in Windows paths, so `C:\Users\...\tmp\dir` arrives at
tar as `C:\Users...\dir` and it can't open the path. Passing
forward-slash paths (`C:/Users/.../tmp/dir`) dodges the mangler;
bsdtar and GNU tar accept them as-is.
3. sign-addon-update.mjs was tar'ing the addon directory as a subfolder
(`screenshot/addon.json` inside the archive), so the client
extracted to `<tmp>/screenshot/` and then failed the id+version
re-check because addon.json wasn't at the root. Now the signer
tars the CONTENTS of the addon dir via `tar -C <addon-dir> .`, so
entries live at the archive root where the client expects them.
All three surfaced from `scratchpad/decoupling-test/run-test.mjs`, which
now walks the full path — sign, serve, fetch, verify, download,
extract, stage, promote, backup — plus three signature-tamper negatives
and the empty-pubkey short-circuit. 15/15 checks pass.
Aegis now handles the standard MetaMask try-switch-then-add flow. A dapp
that wants to route through Polygon (or Base, or Arbitrum, or any other
EVM the Silent Mode user hasn't added yet) calls the pair the industry
already wrote for it — Aegis registers the chain, provisions a wallet on
it under the same vault seed, auto-connects the origin, fires
chainChanged, and hands the dapp back a provider pointed at the new
chain. No sidebar detour, no Custom RPC copy-paste. Users still see
every chain in the picker post-add and can revoke sites in Settings.
- lib/chain-eth.js: EthWallet accepts a customNetwork override
({id, label, chainId, defaultRpc, explorerTx, explorerAddr, ticker}).
When present it replaces the NETWORKS lookup so mainnet+Sepolia
ship built-in and every EIP-3085 chain is a runtime override the
addon persists. The ticker flows into snapshot() so the send
approval reads MATIC / BNB / whatever the chain's native currency is,
not a hardcoded ETH.
- index.js customEthChains storage: `{[chainId]: {chainName, rpcUrl,
explorerTx, explorerAddr, ticker, addedAt, addedByOrigin}}`.
Persisted under api.storage.customEthChains, so an added chain
survives Theseus restarts. chainMeta("eth", "custom-<chainId>")
synthesizes the meta from storage so the panel renders custom
chains without needing them in COINS at module-load time.
- eth.addChain handler (EIP-3085): approval overlay shows chain
name, decimal + hex chain id, native ticker, RPC and explorer
URLs (the phishing-signal quartet). On approval, persist config +
create wallet with a custom-<chainId> network + auto-grant the
origin readAddress on this chain. No-op success if the chain is
already added.
- eth.switchChain rewritten to be EIP-3326 correct: look up any
ready ETH wallet whose adapter reports the requested chainId,
make it the selected wallet, fire chainChanged. When no wallet
matches, throw with .code = 4902 (the standard 'chain not
added' code) so wagmi / RainbowKit / any 3326-aware dapp does
the fallback wallet_addEthereumChain call in the same click.
- eth.state handler: cheap {address, chainIdHex, networkVersion}
peek for the origin's currently-connected wallet (no approval,
no key access). The main-world bridge calls it after every
switch/add to emit chainChanged + accountsChanged locally — the
events MetaMask fires and RainbowKit listens for.
- wallet-inject.js: routes wallet_addEthereumChain via
eth.addChain, preserves the 4902 code across the postMessage
boundary on switch failures, calls pullEthStateAndEmit() to fire
the post-switch/add events.
