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Halo v3.1.0 — real download progress, a Cancel that works, silent auto-update

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@phoseinq phoseinq released this 26 Jul 20:06
v3.1.0
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Downloads got a lot more honest this release, and Halo now keeps itself up to date.

Downloads

  • Live progress in Edge. Edge tells nothing through its file name or its history until a download ends, so the pill used to just say "Downloading" with no percentage. It now reads the browser's own in-progress store, so you get the real name, the real percentage and the real byte count while it is still running.
  • Cancel actually cancels. In both Chrome and Edge, pressing Cancel now ends the transfer instead of only closing the pill. If the button cannot be reached for any reason, your browser's own downloads list is put in front of you rather than nothing happening.
  • Several downloads at once. The pill shows the first one and moves to the next as each finishes, with a count on the icon when there is more than one; the expanded panel has a switcher to jump between them.
  • Byte counts that could not be trusted are no longer shown at all, rather than shown wrong.

Notifications

  • Halo's own alerts — "Screenshot captured", "Bad internet :/", high CPU — no longer draw their text high above the icon beside it.
  • Screenshot and clipboard banners carry a proper badge; before, they were the only banners with no icon at all.
  • The copy button on a verification code is aligned with the title and animates instead of snapping.

Auto-update

Halo checks once a day for a new release and installs it quietly in the background — no prompts, no permission dialogs. If the download fails it backs off (30 minutes, then 6 hours, 12, then once a day) rather than retrying at you, and it will only install a setup signed with the same certificate as this one.

DynamicWinSetup.exe is the signed installer. DynamicWinPortable.zip needs no install — unzip and run.

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