Beta 1.0.7

What's New

• Fresh look across the whole extension — the popup, protection tab, settings, and snapshots page now share one consistent design instead of each looking slightly different.
• The guardian tab looks like a proper card now, not just centered text.
• Settings is reachable from every page — previously only the popup could get there.
• Settings sections have icons for clearer visibility.
• Snapshots search now has a clear button and friendlier empty states.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the popup icon endlessly replaying its little "pop" animation every 1.5 seconds.
• Fixed a rare bug where protecting two windows at almost the same moment could lose or corrupt the protection state.
• Fixed a similar issue on the snapshots page where renaming, deleting, undoing, or importing at the same time could conflict. Those actions now happen one at a time.
• Importing a file now follows the same rules as normal snapshots — it can't bring in an empty window or an oversized tab title.
• The rename icon is now always visible (it used to only show on hover, unlike delete).
• Pressing Escape while renaming now truly cancels — it no longer quietly rewrites the unchanged name.
• Fixed a brief flash of the wrong theme when forcing Light or Dark on load.

Notes

• Works on Chrome and all Chromium-based browsers (Edge, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, Aside, and others).
• Load unpacked via your browser's extensions page with Developer mode enabled.
• Protection is opt-in each session: click once per window to arm it.
• Incognito, crash, force quit, and OS shutdown are unsupported.
• Please report any issues in our Discord.

Beta 1.0.6

What's New

• Protect all windows — a button in the popup arms every open normal window in one click. Incognito windows are skipped.
• Search snapshots — a search box on the snapshots page filters by tab title or site name. It narrows both which snapshots show and, inside an expanded one, which tabs are listed.
• Undo delete — deleting still takes a second click to confirm, but now also shows a brief "Undo" toast at the bottom of the page for about 6 seconds, in case you change your mind after the fact.
• Export / import — Settings can export all your snapshots to a JSON file, and import one back in later, on this device or another. Import merges with what's already there and skips anything that isn't a valid snapshot, telling you how many were imported versus skipped.
• Keyboard shortcut for the recovery page — a command to jump straight to the snapshots page. Left with no default key combo, so it can't collide with something you already use — assign one in Settings or at chrome://extensions/shortcuts. Once set, the popup's "All snapshots" button shows it as a tooltip.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed snapshots collapsing when you renamed or deleted one — the list rebuild used to collapse every other expanded snapshot on the page. That state is now tracked and preserved.

Notes

• Works on Chrome and all Chromium-based browsers (Edge, Brave, Opera, Aside, and others).
• Load unpacked via your browser's extensions page with Developer mode enabled.
• Protection is opt-in each session: click once per window to arm it.
• Incognito, crash, force quit, and OS shutdown are unsupported.
• Please report any issues in our Discord.

Beta 1.0.5

What's New

• Theme control — Settings → Appearance now has a Light / Dark / Auto segmented control. Auto follows your OS; Light and Dark stay pinned regardless of OS setting.
• Quick theme toggle — a small icon button in the popup header cycles through the same three states, so you don't need to open Settings for a quick switch.
• Theme applied everywhere — the choice is stored and applied across the popup, the protection tab, settings, and the snapshots page.
• Snapshots: delete — the trash icon requires a two-click confirmation. The first click arms it, the second within ~3 seconds deletes the snapshot.
• Snapshots: rename — click the pencil to edit a snapshot's title inline. Enter or click away saves, Escape cancels. A blank name reverts to the default date-based title.
• Snapshot limit raised to 30 — the settings dropdown now offers 5, 10, 20 or 30 snapshots to keep. Previously the maximum was 20.
• UI polish — smoother buttons, toggle, and animations throughout.
• Project links — Settings now has a Project section with buttons to the source repo and the website.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the black-icon bug on the rename and delete buttons in the snapshots page.

Notes

• Skipping 1.0.4 — 1.0.4 was a testers-only release. It was unstable and bug-heavy, and was never intended for general use. If you're on 1.0.3, update straight to 1.0.5.
• Works on Chrome and all Chromium-based browsers (Edge, Brave, Opera, Aside, and others).
• Load unpacked via your browser's extensions page with Developer mode enabled.
• Protection is opt-in each session: click once per window to arm it.
• Incognito, crash, force quit, and OS shutdown are unsupported.
• Please report any issues in our Discord

Beta 1.0.3

Cordon Protection — Beta 1.0.3

Initial public beta release of Cordon Protection, a free and open-source Chromium extension that asks for confirmation before you close a window, so you don't lose your tabs by accident.

What's new

• Local session snapshots with restore from the popup or snapshots page.
• Bug Fixes and Performance Issues

Notes

• Works on Chrome and all Chromium-based browsers (Edge, Brave, Opera, Aside, and others).
• Load unpacked via your browser's extensions page with Developer mode enabled.
• Protection is opt-in each session: click once per window to arm it.
• Incognito, crash, force quit, and OS shutdown are unsupported.

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