v1.1.0 — Private research, local media and email activity

LocalPulse AI v1.1.0

Free and open source under the MIT license. This release is built from tested commit b0ad66749cdbdc37e495fd99d37cdbe383656908, merged into main through PR #11 at 757d3c9a30409891e07a3bf83f1541348a67284f. The merge contains the same source files. This GitHub release does not update the Chrome Web Store listing.

New in v1.1

• Optional one-choice email tracking setup, separate Gmail/Outlook draft images, per-draft toggles and local estimated-read badges.
• Private image names, opt-in generic notifications, an encrypted service test and password-encrypted tracking backups.
• Saved local research collections, full-text search and validated import/export; fresh cloud consent for reopened sources.
• Verified quotation excerpts with actual source context and extracted PDF page numbers.
• Local image/scanned-PDF OCR in seven languages and local English audio transcription, after explicit model-data downloads.
• Duplicate tab review, confirmed closing, local saved sessions and optional Chromium domain grouping.
• Explicit typed-query web research and selected public sources.
• 24 quick actions, document workspaces, improved local history, flashcards, installed-voice read-aloud and local follow-ups.
• OS and configured-shortcut hints; fixes for fresh-install startup, media-model readiness and unassigned shortcuts.

Downloads and installation

Chrome: unzip localpulse-ai-1.1.0-chrome.zip; in chrome://extensions, enable Developer mode, choose Load unpacked, and select the folder containing manifest.json.

Signed CRX: localpulse-ai-1.1.0-chrome.crx uses the existing project signing key and matches the ZIP files byte for byte. Local testing uses the ZIP. Store items opted into Verified CRX Uploads use the CRX; standard uploads use the ZIP.

Firefox: unzip localpulse-ai-1.1.0-firefox.zip; use about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox → Load Temporary Add-on → manifest.json. Temporary add-ons are removed after restart. This package is not Mozilla-signed.

Reviewer source: localpulse-ai-1.1.0-sources.zip contains the rebuild inputs and dependency lockfile.

Graphics and store material: localpulse-ai-1.1.0-store-assets.zip contains five 1280×800 screenshots, promo tiles, icon and submission notes. Images use synthetic data and identify example responses.

Verification: test-report.md, github-ci.json, firefox-lint.json and SHA256SUMS.txt.

Tracking privacy

Tracking never sends email subjects, bodies, recipients or private names. Private keys and decrypted results stay in the extension or password-encrypted backups. The separately connected public service queues encrypted image-request timestamps without expiry and deletes those exact events after local saving and signed acknowledgement.

Public service · Service source and policy · Release privacy policy

Hosting providers handle network metadata under their policies. Images may be blocked, cached, preloaded or requested by proxies/scanners; counts estimate image activity and cannot prove human reading, delivery or unique people. Free hosting and queue limits apply.

Validation and limits

264 unit tests, 7 tracking-service tests and 68 Chromium browser tests passed. Real OCR recognized an image and a two-page PDF; OCR and Whisper reopened with download hosts blocked. A separate real WebLLM GPU test generated a local summary. A live Vercel/Upstash synthetic event was encrypted, decrypted and deleted by signed acknowledgement. GitHub CI passed.

Authenticated Gmail/Outlook layouts, every cloud provider account, real Windows/Linux browsers and a Firefox profile were not exercised. Firefox builds with zero static-validation errors and 17 documented warnings. See the full limits in test-report.md.

Full update details · Roadmap · Compare source changes

Screenshots

v1.0.1 — A fix release: privacy edge cases, a safer Replace, and better results in other languages

A fix release: privacy edge cases, a safer Replace, and better results in other languages. No
permissions changed.

Fixed

• Replace selection writes only over the text the answer was written from, on the same page,
  and keeps the spaces and line breaks around it. It refuses if a hidden detail couldn't be put
  back into the text.
• Hidden details come back in answers: emails, phone numbers and card numbers that a cloud
  provider saw as placeholders show their real values in the answer, on this computer only, but
  never inside a link. Follow-up questions hide them again.
• Privacy:
  • switching on Local-only mode or a never-send site during a request stops it, and follow-up
    questions use the never-send list as it is now;
  • local files and pages of unknown origin always ask before going to the cloud, and saved
    consent doesn't let answers about them go along with later questions;
  • never-send rules written as ".bank.com" work, and blob: pages count as the site that made
    them;
  • earlier answers don't go to an endpoint whose server address has changed;
  • more details are hidden:
    • emails in any script (Cyrillic, Devanagari, Khmer, accented names), with "_" in the name,
      stuck to Chinese, Japanese, Thai or Khmer text, or in the addresses of several tabs;
    • phone numbers written with dots (415.555.0132), in italics, two to a line ("030 1234567 /
      030 7654321"), right next to Japanese, Korean, Thai, Hebrew or Arabic words, in full-width
      or Bengali digits, and Chinese mobile numbers written without spaces;
    • card numbers after a dash or another number, and every card in a run of numbers;
    • ISBNs aren't taken for phone or card numbers;
  • Firefox: follow-up questions also need the website-content permission.
• Right-click and shortcut actions read the page even when a file is open in the panel, keep
  their tab and selection for Try again and "Continue in", and aren't lost when two arrive
  together.
• Languages:
  • the built-in summarizer is used for the languages it writes; for others, the built-in model
    answers instead, and a browser with only the summarizer gives an English summary, as before;
  • translations use the browser's translator when the built-in model can't write the language,
    and say why, naming the languages, when nothing can translate the text;
  • lists and quotes in Arabic or Hebrew answers read right to left.
• Checked quotes: numbers must match ("1.5" isn't "15"), while the kind of dash or minus sign
  and the page's quote bars and list bullets don't count. Quotes inside quotes stay whole; mixed
  straight and curly marks, German and French quote marks, quoted email replies and quoted lists
  are read; Hebrew abbreviations aren't taken for quote marks, and Japanese titles and short terms
  aren't checked as quotes. Show on page finds a quote by the page's own wording.
• Questions about long pages find sections that use a word with an apostrophe ("user's").
• Requests that were too large are retried with smaller parts for the summarizer and translator
  too.
• Answers keep code and tags that only look like LocalPulse's internal page wrapper.
• Wording: word counts in the consent dialog, the hand-off steps (you paste the question), and the
  Settings notes on history and site access.

Full changelog: v1.0.0...v1.0.1

v1.0.0 — First release

First release.

At install, LocalPulse asks only for the permissions listed in the README; site access and the tabs
list are optional and requested when a feature needs them.

Added

• Side panel. Chat about the current page, with quick actions: Summarize, Key points, Explain
  code, Simplify, Action items, Translate and Compare.
• AI providers, most private first:
  • the browser's built-in model, summarizer and translator (Chrome, Edge);
  • Ollama, LM Studio and llama.cpp;
  • in-browser models (WebLLM: Llama 3.2 1B and 3B, Qwen 3.5 2B);
  • OpenAI-compatible cloud APIs with your own key (Gemini, OpenRouter, Groq, Mistral, Hugging
    Face, OpenAI, custom).
• Privacy:
  • consent before any page goes to a cloud provider;
  • the provider is shown on every answer;
  • Local-only mode and never-send sites;
  • emails, phone numbers and card numbers in the page hidden before it goes to the cloud;
  • follow-up questions take earlier answers to a cloud provider only from pages allowed for it.
• Long pages read in parts; questions answered from the most relevant sections.
• More content:
  • PDFs (open in a tab or dropped into the panel);
  • YouTube transcripts;
  • GitHub files and pull requests;
  • several tabs at once.
• Right-click actions on selected text, with Proofread and Rewrite that can replace the text in
  the page's field.
• Checked quotes: quotes in answers are looked up on the page, and missing ones are flagged.
• Continue in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Perplexity: the question is copied and the site
  opens; you paste it and press Send.
• Custom quick actions, with import and export, and a community pack.
• Local history with Markdown export; tables download as CSV.
• Everywhere: light and dark themes, translatable interface, and a Firefox version (without
  in-browser models).