SmoothBoost v2.2.0

SmoothBoost v2.2.0 Release Notes & Changelog

Overview

SmoothBoost 2.2.0 fixes text readability bugs on glassmorphic web pages, removes layout thrashing during backdrop blur detection, safeguards live audio/video calls, and introduces a dedicated multi-device installation guide.

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What's Changed

Bug Fixes & Rendering Safeguards

• Fixed washed-out text on glassmorphic sites: When backdrop-filter optimizations stripped blur layers on sites like Taplink and Linktree, translucent white card containers were previously forced to an opaque white background (rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.92)). This made white text and icons completely unreadable. Added perceived luminance checks in the blur inspection engine to preserve contrast on light-on-light glass cards.
• Eliminated synchronous DOM reflow lag: Replaced full-tree document.querySelectorAll('*') queries in scanBackdropBlurTargets with stylesheet rule analysis and targeted glass selector sets, capped at 150 candidate nodes per scan. This stops layout thrashing on heavy pages.
• Protected background and ambient canvases: Canvases using position: fixed, position: sticky, or full viewport bounds (e.g., falling rain, ambient particles, interactive backgrounds) are no longer marked as offscreen or paused while scrolling.
• Protected WebRTC and live video calls: Added source detection for video.srcObject and platform checks for Google Meet, Discord, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams so active webcams and screen shares are never paused as background media.
• Eliminated image layout loops: Replaced synchronous getBoundingClientRect() loops on initial page images with deferred intersection scanning, preventing micro-stutters during page load.
• Preserved canvas and drag event controls: Interactive targets (<canvas>, draggable items, and contenteditable inputs) are now explicitly exempted before applying passive touch and wheel event listener wrappers.

UI & Mobile Improvements

• Decramped mobile header: Replaced overflowing header button text with responsive labels (Get Extension on desktop, Install on mobile) and hid the secondary GitHub button on viewports $\le 768\text{px}$.
• Standardized touch targets: Header buttons and the mobile navigation drawer toggle now share a consistent 38px height and click target.
• New device installation tutorial: Added tutorial.html with platform-specific instructions for:
  • Titanium Browser (Android)
  • Chrome, Helium, Brave, Edge, and Opera (Desktop)
  • Firefox Desktop (Temporary add-on loading)
  • Firefox for Android (Custom add-on collection setup)
  • Kiwi Browser (Android)

Tests & Internal Build

• Added automated test suites for color luminance contrast safety and WebRTC stream isolation (tests/content-settings.test.js).
• All 61 automated tests are passing across Chromium MV3 and Gecko targets.
• Rebuilt all distribution packages under dist/.

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Release Packages

• Universal Release: SmoothBoost-2.2.0.zip
• Chrome / Chromium / Helium: SmoothBoost-Chrome-2.2.0.zip
• Titanium Android: SmoothBoost-Titanium-Android-2.2.0.zip
• Firefox Desktop: SmoothBoost-Firefox-2.2.0.zip
• Firefox Android: SmoothBoost-Firefox-Android-2.2.0.zip

SmoothBoost v2.1.0

SmoothBoost v2.1.0 — Cross-Browser & Mobile Edition

SmoothBoost v2.1.0 expands beyond desktop Chromium to bring intelligent web acceleration to Titanium Browser on Android, Firefox Desktop, and Firefox for Android.

Highlights

• 📱 Titanium Browser for Android Support: Dedicated mobile build for Titanium Browser on Google Play. Features a touch-optimized responsive layout with ≥44px touch targets and full Android background-lifecycle compliance.
• 🦊 Firefox Desktop & Android (Gecko MV3): Fully functional Firefox release utilizing event page scripts, Firefox 128+ world: "MAIN" content scripts, and CSP-aware injection fallbacks.
• 🔋 Battery Saver Profile: Aggressive power savings for mobile devices and laptops on battery power. Applies offscreen DOM content-visibility, pauses background media, and throttles idle animations while preserving UI responsiveness.
• 🛡️ Interactive App Safeguards: Classifies page archetypes (interactive-canvas, media-stream, infinite-feed, game-canvas, standard) and protects Figma, Google Docs, Canva, Monaco code editors, and WebGL games from throttling.
• 💾 Settings Backup & Restore: Export your profiles and per-site configurations to JSON and import them seamlessly across all your devices and browsers.
• ⚡ Compositor Scrolling & Font Swapping: Automatically upgrades wheel and touch listeners to passive: true (while protecting map pan/zoom) and applies font-display: swap to eliminate invisible text.
• 🎨 Redesigned 100% Vector UI: Fluid dark glass design (320px–420px), zero emojis, real measured metric counters, and an instant "Site looks broken" recovery button.

Installation Packages

• Chrome / Helium: Download SmoothBoost-Chrome-2.1.0.zip → Unpack in chrome://extensions with Developer Mode.
• Titanium Browser (Android): Download SmoothBoost-Titanium-Android-2.1.0.zip → Load in Titanium Browser extensions.
• Firefox Desktop: Download SmoothBoost-Firefox-2.1.0.zip → Load Temporary Add-on via about:debugging.
• Firefox for Android: Install via Web-Ext / Custom Add-on Collection (smoothboost@binifn.github.io).

v2.0.0

SmoothBoost v2.0.0 — Speed & Architecture Overhaul 🚀

SmoothBoost v2.0.0 is an intelligent web performance optimizer that eliminates frame drops, unbloats heavy pages, and accelerates scrolling.

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⚡ What's New in v2.0.0

• Smart Auto Heuristics: Automatically inspects page archetypes (media-heavy, canvas/WebGL, text, animated apps) during idle time and applies the safest optimizations without breaking web apps like Google Docs, Figma, or Maps.
• Hardware-Composited Scrolling: Enforces passive wheel/touch listeners and GPU layer hints for stutter-free scrolling, with built-in exceptions for interactive maps and canvas controls.
• Offscreen Canvas & Animation Throttling: Pauses hidden canvas rendering and offscreen CSS keyframe animations, dramatically lowering CPU and GPU load on multi-tab browsing.
• Native Tab Memory Saver: Discards background tabs after 30 minutes of inactivity using native browser tab discarding, safely skipping pinned tabs, active audio, and forms with user input.
• Universal Settings & Cross-Site Memory: Your chosen mode (Smart Auto, Balanced, Maximum, or Custom) applies seamlessly across all websites.
• One-Click Site Recovery ("Site looks broken"): Instantly disables SmoothBoost on the offending domain, clears its cache, and reloads the page.
• Clean Single-Screen UI: Redesigned modern, unbloated interface with crisp vector SVG icons and zero emojis.
• Reliable Update Checker: Multi-tier update verification with rate-limit fallback and one-click in-app update banner.

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📥 Installation Instructions

1. Download SmoothBoost-2.0.0.zip from Assets below.
2. Unzip the file to a folder on your computer.
3. Open your Chromium-based browser (Chrome, Brave, Edge, Helium) and navigate to chrome://extensions.
4. Enable Developer mode (toggle in the top-right corner).
5. Click Load unpacked and select the unzipped folder.

SmoothBoost v2

SmoothBoost v2.0.0 — Major Architecture & Speed Release 🚀

SmoothBoost v2.0.0 is a complete overhaul engineered for blazing-fast, unbloated, and hardware-accelerated web browsing. It introduces Smart Auto heuristics, universal cross-site profile memory, compositor-threaded passive scrolling, offscreen canvas throttling, native tab RAM saving, and a clean single-screen UI.

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What's New in v2.0.0

🧠 Smart Auto Mode & Page Classifier

• Automatically categorizes websites in requestIdleCallback (interactive-canvas, media-stream, infinite-feed, standard) without taxing the main thread.
• Automatically bypasses canvas throttling on web apps and editors (Figma, Google Docs, Canva, Google Maps, Photopea, Desmos) so tools always stay 100% responsive.
• Bounded 500-entry LRU archetype cache with a 7-day TTL.

🌐 Cross-Site Profile & Settings Memory

• Whichever profile you choose (Auto, Turbo, Balanced, or Custom) is now remembered globally across all tabs and websites.
• Custom tuning toggles (passive scrolling, offscreen canvas throttling, blur bypass) persist from site to site.
• Independent per-site exceptions: turning SmoothBoost off for one domain (#site-toggle or "Site looks broken") isolates that site with enabled: false while keeping your chosen mode running everywhere else.

⚡ Hardware-Composited Scrolling (60 / 120 FPS)

• Enforces { passive: true } on non-map wheel and touch listeners, offloading scroll events from the JavaScript engine to the GPU/browser compositor thread.
• Preserves map zooming and panning: interactive map containers (.leaflet-container, .mapboxgl-map, Google Maps) retain preventDefault() functionality.

🎨 Offscreen Canvas Rendering Throttling

• Skips expensive 2D and WebGL render calls on canvas elements outside the viewport.
• Protects detached memory buffer canvases (canvas.isConnected === false), ensuring tools and game engines execute offscreen buffers without skipping.

💾 Native Tab Memory Saver

• Service worker alarm leverages chrome.tabs.discard() to safely reclaim system memory from tabs inactive for 30+ minutes.
• Intelligently ignores active tabs, pinned tabs, and tabs playing audio.

🔤 CSSOM Font-Display Optimization

• Patches web fonts to font-display: swap to prevent Flash of Invisible Text (FOIT) without layout shift.

🔔 Instant Update Pop-Up & Notifications

• Detects new GitHub releases and pops up an update banner on the main screen with a direct one-click ZIP download link.
• Displays an update notification dot on the Help & Updates tab.

💎 Modern Single-Screen UI

• Dark glass aesthetic with 100% vector SVG icons (zero emojis).
• Live measured telemetry counters (actual passive listeners intercepted, offscreen videos paused, blur panels bypassed, canvas draws skipped).
• One-click "Site looks broken" recovery button that disables SmoothBoost on the offending domain, clears its archetype cache, and refreshes the tab.

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Bug Fixes

• Fixed promo banner dismiss button staying visible due to CSS display: flex overriding [hidden].
• Fixed RE:ANIME HERO status label appearing on non-Re:Anime sites (like Roblox).
• Fixed mode settings resetting when moving between different sites.

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Installation Instructions

1. Download SmoothBoost-2.0.0.zip from the Assets below.
2. Extract the ZIP into a local folder.
3. Open chrome://extensions in Chrome, Brave, Edge, or Helium.
4. Enable Developer mode (top right).
5. Click Load unpacked and select the extracted folder containing manifest.json.
6. Reload active tabs to apply optimizations.

SmoothBoost 1.0.8

What’s new

• The popup checks GitHub for the latest stable release and shows a ZIP download when an update is available. Checks are cached for up to six hours.
• Improved release validation and clearer update status.

Update instructions

This GitHub release checker cannot silently replace an unpacked extension. Download and extract the ZIP, replace the unpacked extension folder, then click Reload for SmoothBoost at chrome://extensions. Browser-managed automatic installation requires Chrome Web Store distribution.

Credit: SmoothBoost / Web Lag & Animation Killer was originally created by BiniFn.

SmoothBoost 1.0.7

SmoothBoost 1.0.7

• Reduces background work with viewport-aware handling for muted previews, carousels, and CSS animations.
• Keeps visible video, controls, scrolling, and site navigation working.
• Makes performance controls site-specific and adds page diagnostics, install help, and GitHub issue reporting.
• Includes the Chrome and Helium install ZIP.

Credit: original project by BiniFn.

Install: download SmoothBoost-1.0.7.zip, extract it, open chrome://extensions, enable Developer mode, choose Load unpacked, and select the extracted folder. Reload already-open tabs after installation or updates.

SmoothBoost 1.0.6

SmoothBoost 1.0.6

• Fixes runaway scrolling by removing global wheel-event interception.
• Uses safer Maximum and Balanced defaults to preserve page animations, site controls, and video playback.
• Adds a Help & Bugs tab with GitHub issue links, install instructions, and credit to BiniFn.
• Includes the unpacked extension runtime at the ZIP root.

After loading or updating the extension, reload open tabs so document-start scripts take effect.

Version 1.0

SmoothBoost browser extension release

• Packaged runtime: SmoothBoost 1.0.5 (Manifest V3).
• Maximum keeps page animation frames uncapped; the FPS limiter remains optional in Custom.
• Includes the Re:Anime hero autoplay rule and video playback fixes.
• Install and usage instructions are included in the extension popup.

Install: download and extract the ZIP, open chrome://extensions, enable Developer mode, choose Load unpacked, and select the extracted folder containing manifest.json. Reload open tabs after installing or updating.

Credit: original project by BiniFn.