Better Browser History v1.3.1

Changed

• Moved the canonical product, privacy, and support pages to better-browsing-history.opengrounds.org.
• Published Better Browser History as a free Open Grounds Studio project.
• Updated the Chrome Web Store submission dossier.

The extension remains local-first and overrides only the browser History page. New Tab and homepage behavior are untouched.

Better Browser History v1.3.0

Chrome Web Store production candidate

• Adds explicit, versioned consent before any browsing, page-content, or engagement capture.
• Keeps capture off on new installs and lets users pause, exclude sites, export, or erase local data.
• Restricts content capture to HTTP/HTTPS pages and removes the broader tabs permission.
• Removes every New Tab production artifact; the manifest overrides only Chrome History.
• Adds measured-time analytics, public privacy/support pages, and a complete Store submission kit.

Install locally

Download the ZIP for Store submission, or build and load the dist folder from the permanent repository. Review the in-product privacy disclosure before enabling capture.

Verification

92 tests, typecheck, lint, deterministic-core guard, package and launch validators, dependency audit, archive integrity, and GitHub CI all passed.

SHA-256 is recorded in this release command output and can be independently generated with shasum -a 256.

Better Browser History v1.2.1

Production analytics patch release.

Includes all v1.2.0 analytics and reliability improvements, plus removal of Vite modulepreload hints that caused Brave cross-world resource mismatch warnings. Packaged extension HTML is now validated to remain modulepreload-free.

Better Browser History v1.2.0

Production analytics and reliability release.

Highlights:

• Active-time percentages by site and category
• Daily activity trend and weekday/hour heatmap
• Top engaged pages and session behavior metrics
• Responsive accessible analytics dashboard
• Retryable history loading and stale-request protection
• History-only browser override with reduced permissions
• Legacy New Tab auto-recovery removed

Better Browser History v1.1.3

Permanent-install hardening for Brave.

• Keeps New Tab and homepage untouched; only the browser History page is overridden.
• Rejects all New Tab, homepage/startup, and non-History override fields during validation.
• Adds npm run doctor to print and validate the exact unpacked folder.
• Documents a data-safe migration from temporary unpacked folders to the permanent Desktop repository.

A Better Browser History v1.1.2

Completes the Brave New Tab migration. After the cached legacy override is discarded, the service worker replaces the already-open recovery tab with a browser-owned New Tab. The production manifest still contains only the History override and does not control New Tab or the homepage.

A Better Browser History v1.1.1

Fixes the stale New Tab upgrade failure. Existing Brave/Chrome installations that cached the removed New Tab override now receive a one-time recovery page that reloads the History-only manifest. The extension does not register or control the browser New Tab page.\n\nLoad unpacked from /Users/ab/Desktop/better-browser-history/dist or use the attached ZIP.

A Better Browser History v1.1.0

Moves the extension from New Tab to the browser History page, adds capture/privacy/display settings and safe JSON import, and updates the build toolchain with zero known npm audit vulnerabilities.\n\nLoad the unpacked extension from the permanent Desktop repository's dist folder, or download the attached ZIP.

v1.0.0 — A Better Browser History

First release. Load-unpacked Chromium (Chrome/Brave/Edge) extension with a local-first, deterministic history layer: full-text page-content search, dwell time, sessions, journeys, dedup, tags, analytics, and a settings page. See README for install steps. Attached zip is the built unpacked extension.