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Nebula 2.0.0

The biggest release so far: Nebula now supports browser extensions, and a long list of window, notification, download and password problems found in daily use is fixed.

Highlights

🧩 Browser extensions

  • Extension catalog with install-time compatibility checks that tell you, by name, which features an extension needs that Nebula does not support yet.
  • Isolated extension host. Once you install your first third-party extension, Nebula runs the app shell and the browsing tabs in two separate WebView2 environments, so extensions never run inside Nebula's own interface. Turning this on needs one restart; Google sign-in stays in the trusted shell (one fresh sign-in after the switch). If anything goes wrong, Nebula rolls back to a single environment automatically.
  • Extension popups open at the size of their content, extension windows follow clear rules, and a crash when a popup opened a window and closed itself is fixed.
  • VPN and proxy extensions (chrome.proxy) now route your tabs, and the error page names the extension that is routing the connection when a site cannot be reached.
  • uBlock Origin Lite is built in and does not count as a third-party extension.

🪟 Window layout

  • A built-in layout audit detects and repairs a window whose layout is stale after it is brought forward, after Win+D, or after a monitor is switched off and on (display scale changes are handled too).
  • The chrome overlay is click-through except over its own controls, and the Semi-Lunar menu is never sized to a collapsed window.
  • Forward button: appears only when the page can really go forward.
  • Camera / microphone indicator: shown in full the first time, then shrinks to a small green microphone or red camera mark that no longer blocks the top of the page.
  • New tab from a page: the Semi-Lunar menu opens for about two seconds and highlights the new tab's icon.
  • Side-menu panels (notifications, history) no longer bring the Semi-Lunar menu back over the toolbar when they close.
  • History rows show each site's logo.

🔔 Notifications

  • Instagram: replies, reactions (heart, emoji) and shared reels, posts, photos and videos are announced for what they are, instead of every message arriving as "replied to you". Old messages are no longer announced again, and spam is bounded.
  • A notification shows the site's own logo before it falls back to the Nebula logo.

⬇️ Downloads

  • A finished download that Windows has no program for now opens Windows' "Open with" dialog instead of failing, and is shown in its folder as a last resort.
  • A tab that a page opened only to start a download is closed automatically; the download continues and you are back on the page you came from.

🔑 Password autofill

  • One shared field detection for saving and filling: Turkish field names, userid/user, a lone text field before the password, and logins inside open shadow roots are recognised.
  • A password change saves the new password (not the old one), and sign-up pages are not offered a saved account.
  • A login is offered for saving only after the sign-in succeeded, so a mistyped password is not offered. Private tabs never offer to save.
  • A dismissed fill offer stays dismissed for that site; after a page reload a filled page is offered again.

🛡️ Protections and errors

  • The cookie-banner shield no longer hides ordinary dialogs of a site (for example a product details window).
  • When your computer has no internet, Nebula no longer suggests turning the protections off for the site you could not reach.

✨ Smaller improvements

  • Address bar suggestions rewritten: better ranking, inline completion and local site icons (dock, shortcuts, tabs and history use the same icon cache).
  • A YouTube watch page stuck on 0:00 / 0:00 is reloaded once automatically.
  • The address you were typing is kept when the window loses focus.

Known limitations

  • The password fill offer is still a dialog, not an inline list next to the field, and logins inside iframes are not detected.
  • A few features that extensions may call are not supported yet; the install-time check lists them.

Install and update

  • Existing installations update automatically through the in-app updater.
  • New installs: run Nebula_2.0.0_x64-setup.exe below.
  • SHA-256 of Nebula_2.0.0_x64-setup.exe: 7fb7637d9ae6b5f119ccc56d63a5d7a06d3402e2b05361f7025b9c4de21996ad
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