Website language, offer-to-translate and the translator peers list used
to sit as three sub-sections inside General, and Privacy › Anti-
fingerprinting duplicated the language picker on top of them — three
places to edit the one languageMode/languageValue setting. Settings
grows its own Language entry in the sidebar now; everything about
language — the preferred-language picker, the auto-offer toggle, the
peer list, the API key — lives there, and the Privacy duplicate is
gone. The chip in the URL bar still edits the same setting, so the
toolbar surface is unchanged.
The copy for the picker ("Your language") now says what the setting
actually drives: it's sent as Accept-Language and it's the translator's
target. Legacy "hide"/"spoof" language modes migrate to Automatic on
first open of Settings (the picker only has Automatic / a tag / Other),
so a profile that still carries one of those from an older release
lands on a valid state the first time Settings opens.
Greek (el-GR) was already in the picker; this release's silentmode.st/
libre backend added `el` to --load-only so the translator now has real
en↔el support — the picker and the backend are in step.
The browser — the consumer face of the stack. Native .bch support with the
resolver built in, so a user installs one app instead of modifying their
operating system. Named for the thread through the labyrinth: the chain is the
thread.
Scope
Electron shell (Chromium engine, no forking): tabs, address bar, history.
In-process .bch resolution — no system daemon, no NRPT, no OS
trust-store changes; reuses bns.js from the BNS repo as a library.
Record handling: h render, ip connect, p/s3 via in-app gateway,
u redirect.
TLS via cert-verify hook (Electron setCertificateVerifyProc) against the
BNS root / on-chain tls fingerprints — no OS store touched.
Provenance indicator: shows whether a page came from the chain / Sia / a
direct server, with NFT category and record type — the decentralized padlock.
Status: not started
Build it in its own session/repo. The ready-to-paste brief is
BROWSER-PROMPT.md (a reference copy in this folder; canonical source is
D:\Dev\NameCoin\BROWSER-PROMPT.md — if they diverge, NameCoin wins). It points
here and reuses the resolver core. theseus.bch is registered and should
eventually serve the browser's own homepage over the protocol it implements.
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