Skip to content

Releases: anthonycr/Lightning-Browser

Version 5.1.0

01 Oct 21:56
aebda85
Compare
Choose a tag to compare
  • Made copy link action available in incognito mode.
  • Fixed bug with bookmark and tab drawer transparency.
  • Added feature to freeze old tabs until they are accessed if the app restarts.
  • Added button to search suggestions layout that inserts the suggestion rather than searching for it.
  • Added support for full sandboxed incognito mode on Android Pie (API 28) and up.
  • Updated translations (thanks to @iKirby)

Version 5.0.2

07 Sep 19:39
1433e98
Compare
Choose a tag to compare
  • Target Android 10 API 29
  • Update desktop and mobile user agents
  • Fixed segfault that occurred when some URLs were clicked
  • Added dialog to show SSL certificate info when SSL icon is tapped

Version 5.0.1

02 Sep 03:03
50c0e14
Compare
Choose a tag to compare
  • 64 bit support for I2P

Version 5.0.0

01 Sep 01:59
88313b7
Compare
Choose a tag to compare
  • Minimum SDK Version 19
  • Target Android 9.0 - API Version 28
  • Converted project to Kotlin
  • New icon
  • Fixed bugs
    • Deleting an item from history now reloads the page
    • Downloads are now ordered by the time they were downloaded
    • Typing spaces in search suggestions no longer causes problems
    • Playing a video in full screen will now default to landscape orientation
    • Adding a shortcut now works on Android O
    • Search Suggestions no longer allowed in incognito for security
    • Pasting text into the search bar no longer keeps text styling
  • Ad blocking
    • Added support for allowing/disallowing ads on per site basis via allow list mechanism
    • Added support for ad blocking on Lite version
    • Rewrote ad blocker to support new hosts file sources (only available on Plus version)
      • Default Hosts file
      • Hosts from URL, supports force reload
      • Hosts from local file
    • Improved ad blocker loading performance
  • UI Improvements
    • Improved button backgrounds and enable/disable buttons when they don't do anything
    • Improved start up performance
    • Support re-opening tabs via long press on new tab in incognito
    • History is now opened in a new tab
    • Adding a bookmark now shows a dialog prompt to allow folder selection and a toast on confirmation
    • Added ongoing incognito notification to notify you there is an incognito window open
  • Updated translations (thanks to @ali-demirtas, @pan93412, @limerainne, @iKirby, @cagatayldzz, @ma1uta, @JumpingYang001, @m4sk1n, @badener95, @eauland, @TKMankind, @lnddyl)
  • Browser now handles web search intents
  • Ignoring an SSL warning now ignores it for the duration of the session
  • Option to send 'save-data' header with requests (thanks to @SkewedZeppelin)
  • Support for Naver search engine (thanks to @limerainne)
  • Support for WebRTC (Added permissions, camera + microphone, which are asked for at runtime only when WebRTC is enabled) - disabled by default

Version 4.5.1

29 Jun 02:30
Compare
Choose a tag to compare
  • Fixed bug with folders disappearing on bookmark homepage
  • Updated history page
  • Updated bookmark page
  • Updating target to Android O
  • Updating default bookmark favicons
  • Fixed occasional bug with bookmark long press
  • Updated downloads page design
  • Enhanced keyboard shortcuts
  • Fixed bug in google search suggestions for certain languages

Version 4.5.0

08 Jun 23:51
Compare
Choose a tag to compare
  • Translation updates
  • Memory leak fixes
  • Basic keyboard shortcut support
  • Improved browser dialogs
  • Improved ad block efficiency
  • Improved bookmark storage
  • Added setting for black status bar
  • Added downloads page
  • Baidu search suggestions option
  • Updated bookmark page UI
  • Updated history page UI
  • Fixed numerous bugs

Version 4.4.1

05 Nov 17:16
Compare
Choose a tag to compare
  • Fixed bookmark/tab drawer crash
  • Fixed search suggestions crash on start up
  • Fixed bug where links wouldn't open in the browser if you had the "restore lost tabs" option disabled

Version 4.4.0

31 Oct 00:55
Compare
Choose a tag to compare

Features

  • Android 7.0 support
  • Improved long-press menu
  • Bookmark and tab drawers can be swapped
  • Improved downloading of files
  • Improved link handling for apps
  • DuckDuckGo powered search suggestions
  • UI improvements for readability

Bugfixes

  • Text selection bugs in URL bar
  • Find in page bug
  • Image sync problems with bookmarks
  • Various crashes (thanks for reporting!)
  • Search suggestion bug

Version 4.3.3

23 Apr 14:35
Compare
Choose a tag to compare

Features

  • added: option to request "Do Not Track"
  • added: option to hide X-Requested-With header
  • added: option to hide X-Wap-Profile
  • added: language support in google search suggestions
  • added: home screen widget
  • added: new tab button on tablet UI
  • added: tab add/remove animation on both tablet and phone UI
  • changed: close tabs dialog (long-press back button)
  • changed: number icon instead of hamburger icon for better usability
  • changed: back/forward arrows change color in tablet UI to indicate that you can go back/forward
  • changed: search bar color now matches rest of UI
  • changed: smoothed drawer/open close experience

Fixes

  • intent handling vulnerability
  • downloading crash (marshmallow)
  • various bugs related to settings, settings not getting remembered, etc.
  • bugs that happened when browser went to the background
  • bugs with search bar size changing/not changing when supposed to
  • updated ad block definition (Lightning+)
  • started to improve app architecture (affects me not you)
  • LOTS of other bugs (see git diff)

Version 4.2.3

01 Oct 02:45
Compare
Choose a tag to compare

4.2.0 - Marshmallow

  • Tablet UI (optional)
  • Support for Marshmallow
  • Improved Reading Mode
  • Added animations between screens
  • Fixed some memory leaks
  • Added bookmark folder support!
  • Improved full-screen mode
  • Settings revamp (thanks community)
  • Updated icons + UI cleanup
  • Added actions to the bookmarks drawer