stasharr 1.5.0

Added

• ✓ on every scene card you already have. Performer, studio, tag and search pages, and the
  scene list, mark each scene that's in your Stash with a ✓ and its resolution (✓ 1080p,
  or ✓ In Stash if Stash doesn't know it). A click on the mark opens the scene in Stash; the
  rest of the card still goes to StashDB. All cards of a page are looked up in one request,
  answers are kept for 10 minutes while you page around, and a Stash that's down is asked again
  only once a minute. Needs Stash 0.31 or newer, which can look up a list of StashDB IDs at once.

Changed

• The performer sidebars are twice as wide (360px), with thumbnails to match and slightly
  larger text. Since they now cover more of StashDB, they start folded below 1800px window width
  (was 1400px).

stasharr 1.4.0

Added

• Her other scenes, at a glance. With StashApp set up, a scene page shows a sidebar for each
  of its first two female performers — the first on the right edge, the second on the left —
  with up to 4 of her other scenes in your library, newest first, each with its thumbnail and a
  link into Stash. If there are more, a link takes you to the performer in Stash. Performers are
  matched by their StashDB ID, so one that isn't linked in Stash, or has no other scene there,
  gets no sidebar. On windows narrower than 1400px the sidebars start folded to their header.
• Thumbnails are fetched by the extension, not linked: an http:// Stash couldn't be shown on
  the HTTPS StashDB page, and the API key stays out of the page.

stasharr 1.3.1

Matching fixes for names outside plain ASCII, and a round of hardening. The first release to
arrive through auto-update: if you installed 1.3.0, you don't have to do anything.

Fixed

• Accented names match again. "Zoë Doll" was reduced to zodoll, so a release named
  Zoe.Doll… never counted as a Performer hit. Accents are now folded before comparing, for
  performers, studios and titles alike.
• Non-Latin studio names no longer match everything. A studio written in, say, Japanese
  normalized to an empty string, and every release "contained" it — one free hit that let
  unrelated releases past the ≥ 2 filter. Such names now only match releases that carry them.
• "✓ Sent" no longer forgets a release when two Download buttons are clicked in quick
  succession. Both used to read the stored list at the same time, and the second write dropped
  the first. Sent releases are now recorded by the background script, one at a time.
• Error messages can't inject markup into StashDB. Failed searches showed Prowlarr's error
  text as HTML inside the stashdb.org page. Every message that carries outside text is now
  inserted as plain text.
• The DOM fallback reads the right title and date. When StashDB's API is unreachable, the
  title came from the tab title (with "| StashDB" attached) and the date was the first date
  anywhere on the page. Both now come from the scene header; if there's no date there, the
  search runs without one instead of guessing.
• Connection tests report every failure on the options page, instead of hanging on
  "Testing…" when the extension couldn't be reached.

Changed

• Scene changes are picked up instantly by reacting to page changes, instead of checking
  the URL every 600 ms around the clock.
• The license notice no longer says "no tests", which stopped being true in 1.3.0.

stasharr 1.3.0

Sharper scoring, a panel that remembers, and an extension that finally updates itself.

Added

Auto-updates. Installs now check this repo for new versions and update themselves like any
other add-on, instead of you downloading and dragging in each signed .xpi by hand. This kicks
in from 1.3.0 on: see Upgrading.

Searches are remembered per scene. Come back to a scene within 30 minutes and the panel
picks up exactly where you left off — same stage, same results, same Details — without querying
your indexers again. That matters when every search fans out to every indexer and private
trackers ration their API calls. A search that was still running or had failed queries is re-run
instead of restored, and the new ↻ button in the panel header always searches fresh.

A test suite. node --test covers the scoring, sorting and text cleanup, plus checks that
catch the version, update manifest and settings drifting apart. Nothing to install.

Changed

• "✓ Sent" is now permanent. Previously it only lasted as long as one panel: searching the
  same scene again offered every release for download again. Sent releases are now remembered
  for 90 days across new searches, tabs and reloads.
• Every alias counts. Scoring used to check only a performer's first alias, so a release
  using any other alias scored no Performer hit. All aliases count now, plus the name she's
  credited as in this specific scene. Short single-word aliases are skipped, since something
  like "Mia" would match half the index.
• The whole cast beats part of it. A release naming one of three performers used to rank
  the same as one naming all three. Cast coverage now breaks ties within a resolution group, and
  rows show it: 3/5 hits (Studio, Performer 2/3, Date).
• Truncated titles match. The Title criterion needed the complete title verbatim, which
  fails on the shortened titles common in release names. At least 60 % of the title's
  significant words now counts too.

Fixed

• The stage label above the results lagged a stage behind: after 🍆 Try Harder it still said
  "Stage 1", and after 🍑 Last Chance... it said "Stage 1 + 2".
• Going straight from one scene to another (e.g. via a related scene link) kept the previous
  scene's results panel and "Already in Stash" badge on screen, and never checked Stash for the
  new scene — so a scene could claim to be in your library when it wasn't.

Upgrading from 1.1.0

• Install 1.3.0 by hand, once. Earlier versions don't know where to look for updates, so
  they can't find this one. Every version after 1.3.0 arrives on its own.
• It installs over your current copy, settings included. The add-on ID is back to
  {1d52423d-161b-4351-834a-d2ba8b3747f8}, the one every signed release has carried. The
  stasharr@brewing8309 ID from 1.1.0 was never signed, and switching to it would have made
  Firefox treat the update as a separate add-on with empty settings.
• Why no 1.2.0. The signed build in the 2026.09.19 release already reported itself as
  1.2.0, and Mozilla signs each version number only once.
• No new permissions. The remembered sent releases live in the extension's existing storage.

2026.09.19

Changelog

1.2.0 — 2026-09-19

The search got rebuilt from the ground up. 1.0.0 fired one query at Prowlarr — studio name
plus performer names, glued together — and showed you whatever came back. If that missed, you
were on your own.

This release turns that into a three-stage hunt that widens on demand, scores everything it
finds, and shows you exactly what it searched for. It also learns to work backwards: select any
text anywhere in the browser and it'll find the StashDB scene it belongs to.

Added

Three-stage search. The button now escalates instead of giving up:

• Stage 1 fires 5 queries in parallel — performers + studio + date, performers + date,
  performers + studio, studio + date, and title.
• 🍆 Try Harder adds 3 more using the parent studio and performer aliases, skipping
  anything already tried or with nothing to fill in.
• 🍑 Last Chance... sweeps on performers alone, drops the quality filter entirely, and
  sorts by how close each release's publish date sits to the scene date.

Results accumulate across stages and are de-duplicated by release GUID — moving up a stage
never throws away an earlier hit.

Result scoring. Every release is checked against 5 known facts about the scene — studio,
parent studio, performer (any cast member or one of her aliases), title, date — and stages 1
and 2 only show releases matching at least 2 of them. Each row shows its own score inline
(3/5 hits (Studio, Performer, Date)), so you can see why something is in the list. Higher
scores rank above lower ones within a resolution group.

Right-click → Search StashDB. Select any text on any page — a torrent filename, a
[Studio] Performer - Title line from a forum, or a half-remembered title — and right-click to
find the StashDB scene it belongs to. Matches appear in a floating panel with thumbnails,
studio, date and cast; clicking one opens the scene on StashDB. The selection is normalised
first (file extensions, 1080p/x264/WEB-DL tags and separators all stripped) without
assuming which format it is.

"Already in Stash" badge. Point the new Stash URL setting at your own StashApp and every
scene page tells you upfront whether it's already in your library, with its resolution and a
direct link — matched on the stash-box ID StashApp records when it scraped from StashDB.

Details pane. A collapsible section above the results shows the scene data behind the
search, plus one expandable block per query with a live status (searching… / failed / N results)
and that query's own raw, unfiltered results. Blocks you expand stay expanded as other queries
finish. Nothing is hidden.

Publish-date proximity on every row (4d from scene date). Informational only — it never
affects scoring or sorting, except in Last Chance, where it is the sort.

Result limit setting, default 200. Raise it if Last Chance seems to be missing hits for a
prolific performer; Prowlarr's per-query cap is what's cutting them off.

A license. PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0: use it, fork it, modify it, redistribute
it freely — you just can't sell it, and you have to keep the attribution and the vibecoded
notice visible. Previously the repo had no license at all, which technically meant all rights
reserved.

Changed

• Queries are smarter. Scene titles get parenthetical asides and punctuation stripped before
  use; dates are formatted YY.MM.DD to match release naming; performer aliases and parent
  studios feed the later stages. Queries that would duplicate one already sent are skipped.
• Download status sticks. A release you've sent shows ✓ Sent for the rest of the panel's
  lifetime — including across stage changes — so you can't grab the same thing twice by accident.
• Partial failures are visible. If some queries in a batch fail but others succeed, a warning
  banner appears above the results instead of that only being discoverable in the Details pane.
• Requests time out after 20s instead of hanging forever on a dead indexer or an unreachable
  instance.
• Buttons disable themselves mid-search, so a double-click can't kick off a second
  overlapping run.
• A stage label above the list always says which stage's results you're looking at.
• The README was rewritten — what it does, how the stages and scoring actually work, an
  architecture diagram, both install paths, a configuration table and a troubleshooting matrix.
• Fixed add-on ID (stasharr@brewing8309) so re-signing updates the installed copy instead
  of creating a duplicate.

Upgrading from 1.0.0

• Firefox will ask for a new permission on update: the right-click search needs
  contextMenus. Everything else uses permissions the extension already had.
• Your existing settings carry over untouched. The new Result limit defaults to 200 and
  the two Stash fields are optional — leave them empty and the "already in Stash" badge
  simply stays off.
• No action needed for the search itself. The button works the same way; it just doesn't stop
  after one try any more.

2026.07.29

initial release