Netflix Auto Skip v1.1.3

Added

Changed

Fixed

• Playback Startup Recovery: Detects watch-route transitions that bypass the History API and waits for player visibility/class changes during startup, so Skip Intro is handled without reopening the extension.
• Bootstrap Startup Race: Retries the initial engine start briefly when Vivaldi restores a Netflix tab before the extension runtime is ready.
• Player Re-render Recovery: Rebinds playback observers and media listeners when Netflix replaces the player root during autoplay or episode transitions.

Netflix Auto Skip v1.1.2

Added

Changed

• Start-of-Episode Reliability: Revalidated explicit Netflix intro/recap selectors before generic text matching, even when a reused video element briefly reports the previous episode's progress.
• DOM Re-render Recovery: Reacquired the current action button after local statistics persistence so Netflix can replace the overlay without losing the skip.

Fixed

• Skip Intro at Episode Start: Fixed visible Skip Intro controls being ignored during episode transitions and at the exact start of playback.
• Stale Button Race: Added a route-safe retry when Netflix re-renders a Skip Intro control while the pre-click local counter write is pending.

Netflix Auto Skip v1.1.1

Changed

• Production-Code QA: Replaced copied-logic tests with DOM-fixture tests that call the production playback engine.
• Lifecycle Ownership: Added singleton instance replacement, history-wrapper restoration, listener cleanup, media hook cleanup, and owned timer/frame teardown.
• Playback Scoping: Restricted execution to exact Netflix watch routes with a recognized player-root video; catalog and unrecognized preview videos are ignored.
• Episode Identity: Switched one-shot state to canonical watch-route identity so transient title DOM changes do not reset episode state.
• Storage Contract: Centralized settings/statistics behavior, serialized local counter increments, and added migration for settings written during sync fallback.
• Release Verification: Added static release audits and deterministic ZIP metadata/content verification.
• Release Automation: Added tag-driven CI/release workflows, synchronized version preparation, and changelog-backed GitHub release notes.

Fixed

• Prevented history pushState/replaceState wrapper stacking after repeated injection or extension reload.
• Prevented stale in-flight actions from clicking DOM belonging to a later SPA route.
• Replaced absolute privacy wording with behavior-based network, storage, and data-handling disclosures.

v1.1.0 — Production Hardening & Resilient Selectors

Production Hardening & Product Polish

🛡️ False-Positive Protection & Targeted Selectors

• Control Bar Guard: Excludes standard bottom playback control buttons (control-next, control-play-pause, control-fullscreen-enter, .watch-video--bottom-controls-container).
• Episode Picker & Menu Guard: Excludes episode selector drawers (.episode-list, [data-uia*="episodes-"]), audio/subtitle menus, and non-skip postplay buttons ("Watch Credits", "Back to Browse").
• Targeted Selectors: Replaced overly broad postplay catch-all queries with verified explicit button targets.

⚡ Performance & Route Scoping

• Route-Scoped DOM Monitoring: Scans and MutationObserver callbacks strictly activate on watch pages (/watch/*) or when video elements are mounted, dropping idle CPU overhead to near zero during catalog browsing.
• Fast-Bail Visibility: Prevents redundant getComputedStyle layout reflows on high-frequency DOM mutations.

🔄 State Machine & Cooldowns

• Episode Lifecycle: Single-execution lock per episode key (Watch ID + title) for Intro, Recap, and Next Episode.
• Multi-Prompt Cooldown: "Still Watching" pause prompts use a 4-second cooldown instead of a permanent episode lock, ensuring recurring binge session prompts are automatically dismissed.

🔒 Privacy & Clean Storage

• Settings: Synchronized across user browser profiles via chrome.storage.sync with local fallback.
• Stats: Maintained strictly in chrome.storage.local to prevent sync quota exhaustion and network thrashing.
• 100% Offline: 0 telemetry, 0 analytics, 0 external network requests.

📦 Build & Release

• Added reproducible build packaging script (scripts/build-zip.py).
• Pre-packaged release archive: netflix-auto-skip-v1.1.0.zip.

v1.0.7 — Instant Next Episode Countdown Bypass

🎬 Netflix Auto Skip v1.0.7

⚡ Critical Improvements in v1.0.7

• Instant Next Episode Countdown Bypass: Expanded post-play & seamless draining button selectors ([data-uia*="seamless"], [data-uia*="postplay"]) and simplified progress validation so the end-of-episode countdown is clicked instantly at 0ms.
• Full Compatibility with Scrubbing & Seeking: Next Episode triggers seamlessly whether watching naturally or seeking to test the end of the episode.

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📦 Direct Installation

1. Download netflix-auto-skip-v1.0.7.zip below.
2. Extract the archive into a folder.
3. Open vivaldi://extensions (or chrome://extensions, edge://extensions, brave://extensions, opera://extensions).
4. Turn on Developer mode and click Load unpacked.
5. Select the extracted folder.
6. Open Netflix and enjoy seamless streaming!

v1.0.6 — Instant Skip Intro Fix

🎬 Netflix Auto Skip v1.0.6

🛡️ Critical Fixes in v1.0.6

• Instant Skip Intro & Recap Execution: Fixed button click suppression caused by premature element disabling before native click execution, restoring instant intro and recap skipping.
• Cross-Instance Zombie Killer: Dispatched nas:terminate_instance event to automatically shut down any previous content script instances running in the tab.

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📦 Direct Installation

1. Download netflix-auto-skip-v1.0.6.zip below.
2. Extract the archive into a folder.
3. Open vivaldi://extensions (or chrome://extensions, edge://extensions, brave://extensions, opera://extensions).
4. Turn on Developer mode and click Load unpacked.
5. Select the extracted folder.
6. Open Netflix and enjoy seamless streaming!

v1.0.5 — Atomic Single-Click Engine

🎬 Netflix Auto Skip v1.0.5

🛡️ Root-Cause Fixes in v1.0.5

• Atomic Single-Click Dispatch: Replaced duplicate event firing (PointerEvent + MouseEvent + el.click()) with a single, atomic W3C el.click() and immediate target pointer neutralization (disabled=true, pointerEvents='none'). This resolves the exact root cause where Netflix's React playlist controller received two click events in the same tick and skipped 2 episodes (e.g. 475 ➔ 477).
• Global Action Mutex: Added isActionInProgress lock preventing all concurrent or trailing observer/interval scans from triggering while an episode transition is in progress.
• 60-Second Hard Lockout: Extended the next-episode cooldown to 60 seconds to ensure strict single-episode progression.

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📦 Direct Installation

1. Download netflix-auto-skip-v1.0.5.zip below.
2. Extract the archive into a folder.
3. Open vivaldi://extensions (or chrome://extensions, edge://extensions, brave://extensions, opera://extensions).
4. Turn on Developer mode and click Load unpacked.
5. Select the extracted folder.
6. Open Netflix and enjoy seamless streaming!

v1.0.4 — Start-Clock Confirmation & Context Cleanup

🎬 Netflix Auto Skip v1.0.4

🛡️ Critical Fixes in v1.0.4

• Start-Clock Confirmation Guard: Next Episode skip is now strictly locked until video.currentTime < 60s has been observed for the new episode, completely eliminating previous episode residual video time (e.g. 23:45 / 24:00) causing double skips (e.g. skipping 475 ➔ 476 ➔ 477).
• 30-Second Hard Next-Episode Cooldown: Enforced an absolute 30-second lockout on next-episode actions to prevent rapid chaining.
• Context Invalidation Auto-Cleanup: Added isContextAlive() guards and automatic self-destruction of observers and intervals when the extension is reloaded.

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📦 Direct Installation

1. Download netflix-auto-skip-v1.0.4.zip below.
2. Extract the archive into a folder.
3. Open vivaldi://extensions (or chrome://extensions, edge://extensions, brave://extensions, opera://extensions).
4. Turn on Developer mode and click Load unpacked.
5. Select the extracted folder.
6. Open Netflix and enjoy seamless streaming!

v1.0.3 — Episode State Machine & Race-Condition Fixes

🎬 Netflix Auto Skip v1.0.3

🛡️ Race Condition & Episode State Machine Fixes

• Episode Lifecycle State Machine: Integrated URL-based episode tracking (/watch/<id>) that locks each action (Intro, Recap, Next Episode) to at most one execution per episode, preventing duplicate triggers.
• Eliminated Double-Skip on Native Autoplay: Added a 15-second minimum playback lockout on episode transitions and intercepted HTML5 History navigation (pushState, replaceState, popstate), ensuring that lingering post-play DOM elements from previous episodes are completely ignored.
• Manual Navigation & Scrubbing Resilience: Handled user manual seeks, scrubber changes, and episode list switching gracefully without triggering false skips.

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📦 Direct Installation

1. Download netflix-auto-skip-v1.0.3.zip below.
2. Extract the archive into a folder.
3. Open vivaldi://extensions (or chrome://extensions, edge://extensions, brave://extensions, opera://extensions).
4. Turn on Developer mode and click Load unpacked.
5. Select the extracted folder.
6. Open Netflix and enjoy seamless streaming!

v1.0.2 — Dual-Storage Persistence & Changelog

🎬 Netflix Auto Skip v1.0.2

🛠️ Fixes & Improvements in v1.0.2

• Pre-Navigation Stats Persistence: Reordered execution sequence so skip statistics are stored before button click dispatch, preventing data write aborts caused by Netflix's immediate URL navigation on next episode / skip.
• Dual Storage Synchronization: Stats are now written concurrently to both chrome.storage.local and chrome.storage.sync with multi-area storage change listeners for 100% reliable counter updates.
• Clean Repository Metadata: Removed redundant store metadata and replaced all placeholder clone URLs with the official GitHub repository link.
• Version & Changelog Toolchain: Standardized semantic versioning in package.json, manifest.json, and CHANGELOG.md.

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📦 Direct Installation

1. Download netflix-auto-skip-v1.0.2.zip below.
2. Extract the archive into a folder.
3. Open vivaldi://extensions (or chrome://extensions, edge://extensions, brave://extensions, opera://extensions).
4. Turn on Developer mode and click Load unpacked.
5. Select the extracted folder.
6. Open Netflix and enjoy seamless streaming!