Fixed
- Styled settings button in new YouTube player UI update
- Text was unreadable after YouTube layout update (In dark & light mode)

Improvements
- Clearer warning message with debugging steps when other extensions interrupt the loading process

Fixes
- Pages with multiple embedded videos loaded slowly
- Scrollbar was hidden by default
- Ambient light sometimes crashed when the video was not completely loaded yet
- Updated stylesheet to also include the related playlist en shorts thumbnails for the "Images opacity" setting

Improvements
- Retain scroll position while toggling immersive theater mode
- Also reduce flickering around a low detected black bar percentage when the "Detection: offset" setting is set to a custom value

Fixes
- Moved the comment's like, dislike and liked by channel tooltips above the buttons to prevent clipping
- Prevent an "Cannot read properties of null" error when the video player has been detached
- Fixed the issue that a video scale above 100% crops the video by the player's boundaries at pageload

Improvements
- Display a warning at pageload when not all resources could be loaded due to a extension update or deinstallation

New
- The "Video: size" setting has been split into a size setting per view (small, theater, fullscreen)
- New advanced setting: "Optimize debanding for" with a toggle between "LCD (normal)" and "OLED (overlay)" optimized blend modes
- Styled YouTube's new searchbar layout
- Styled YouTube's new live chat layout
- Support for YouTube's new fullscreen view in a custom fullscreen element experimental layout
- Display a warning when the ambient light cannot not be displayed because the video is DRM protected by YouTube. (This happens on movies you have to buy.)

Improvements
- Unlinked the "Video: size" and "Bar detection: Fill video to removed bars" settings to make filling to a user-specified video size available
- Offloading the bar detection and Energy saver features to a separate thread/process even when the TrustedHTML api is required (Which was introduced by YouTube's 31 July 2024 update.)
- Enhanced bar detection:
- Has now the ability to ignore elements inside bars which are not edges
- Improved detection speed
- Improved precision & stability
- Resets to 0% when the colors at the location of a bar changed, are still filling the whole bar but no new bar is detected (Old bars were sometimes retained when a video changes between scenes.)
- Reduced resizing duration by ~30%
- Prevent size recalculations in VR video's or when toggling YouTube's sidemenu
- Reduced the amount of event listeners to reduce memory usage

Fixes
- Fixed the issue that importing a setting with a slider value higher than 100% was not being restored to it's exported value but capped to 100%.
- The live chat theme did not change anymore in some situations
- Display a download link after exporting the settings as fallback, in case the download was blocked by the browsers
(Vivaldi blocks downloads of blob URLs)
- When enabled, the setting "Video jitter workaround" does not detect a 60hz monitor anymore before it applies the workaround. This resolves an unstable framerate on monitors with a dynamic/variable frame rate. (When the "Dynamic refresh rate" toggle is enabled in the Window's Advanced display settings.)
- The default value for the "Quality > Synchronization" setting has been changed to "Decoded" to workaround a bug in Firefox that limits the framerate to 24fps. Related bugreport: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1935256

New
- Support for /live/<videoid> urls

Fixes
- Fix the endless loading state that displays an "Ambient light loading is paused" message (Which was caused by a recent YouTube update)
- Fixed the undefined error that sometimes happend when the "WebGL renderer" setting is disabled
- Removing bars and "Fill video to screen" did not work on 4:3 videos where YouTube already zoomed in the video

Improvements
- Refactored expensive css selectors
- Improved bar detection reliability

Changes
- The setting "Video artifacts workaround" is now disabled by default. Because those artifacts have now been fixed by Microsoft in Windows 10 & 11.
- The setting "Video jitter workaround" is now enabled by default. Because this is still an problem on monitors with an higher refresh rate than 60Hz.

Fixes
- Fix bar detection error

Fixes
- Prevent errors that happen on an embedded YouTube video webpage that is incompletely parsed at pageload

Fixes
- Prevent errors that can sometimes happen on an embedded YouTube video at pageload
- Added a new setting "Video artifacts workaround" to prevent flickering, checkerboarding and black lines around the video artifacts that are caused by Window's Multi-Plane Overlay feature.

Fixes
- Prevent the YouTube video player from quickly moving down on pageload for some slow devices
- Prevent an infinite loading duration by falling back to the default settings and displaying a warning when the extension cannot load the previous settings. (This happens when the extension is reloaded/updated while the webpage was already loaded.)
- Prevent an half ambient light effect while YouTube is still loading the comments/related videos lists on the webpage
- Prevent a duplicate settings button from being displayed when the extension is loaded twice on the webpage for some reason
- Prevent errors that happend when YouTube replaces the body or html element on the webpage

Improvements
- Display a useful warning in the bottom left of the webpage when the extension fails to load

Fixes
- Fixed the `SettingsConfig.find(...) is undefined` error

Fixes
- Resolved errors in embedded YouTube videos

New
- Setting (advanced): "Remove black & colored bars > Detection: ignored elements"
- Support for embedded YouTube videos

Changes:
- 2 default hotkeys has changed to support rotation via keyboard keys in VR videos: A -> G & S -> H

Improvements
- Styled the new YouTube layout with comments on the right side
- Styled the disclaimer
- When the "Appearance (theme)" setting is set to the "Default" option, it will not change the page theme anymore to the YouTube's theme option after enabling or disabling the ambient light. This is to prevent conflicts with other extensions that customize the page theme.

Fixes
- Restore hidden title in theatre mode with "Hide everything in theater mode" enabled after YouTube's redesign
- Workaround a performance regression Firefox introduced in versions 123 & 124
- Styled the emote menu in the reply form to a comment to still be visible when the "YouTube responsiveness fixed" setting is enabled

Fixes
- There was a big white rectangle in the background at the start of videos
- A video with rounded corners had no rounded corners in the shadow
- Buttons were displayed in the wrong theme when the ambient light theme is set to another value than YouTube's settings
- Removed the white background on older browser versions
- Video debanding restored

New
- Settings can now be exported/backed-up to a file or your browser account in the options popup

Fixes
- Stats were not displayed when enabled

New
- Support for YouTube's kevlar_watch_grid (ytd-watch-grid) and kevlar_watch_fixie (ytd-watch-fixie) layouts

Fixes
- Fixed the issue that the settings menu won't open when all css animations are disabled via a custom stylesheet
- Removed the semi-black border around the ambient in YouTube's light theme

Fixes
- Fix flickering video in small view on some videos because of z-index fighting between the video and the ambient light

New:
- New advanced setting: Ambient light > Fixed position

Changes:
- Increased the spread setting maximum to 400%. (Note: If you use a custom stylesheet you might need to update some css selectors/properties. Because the location of the ambientlight div element in the html page has been moved.)

Fixes:
- Restore the left and right side of the ambient light in fullscreen and theater mode after recent YouTube's UI changes
- Sometimes the ambient light was not restored when the browser restores a YouTube tab from a sleep/snoozing/suspended state.
- The "Energy saving" setting was not running anymore when the ambient light was re-enabled.

Fixes:
- Updated styling for compatibility with YouTube's new theater layout
- The video description text and link colors were incorrect after a theme change

New:
- Setting (advanced): Remove black & colored bars > Bar detection average

Changes:
- Reverted the default value of the "Hide scrollbar" setting back to disabled. Because some users use the page scrollbar.

Fixes:
- The bar size never resets to 0% when a bar was detected before the user seeked through the video.

Improvements:
- Quicker bar detection (1 á 2 video frames quicker sometimes)
- Match the page scrollbar color with the page background color

New:
- Setting: Page content > Background greyness
- Setting: Video > Debanding (noise)
- Setting (advanced): Page content > Related videos as scrollable list
- Setting (advanced): Ambient light > Flicker reduction

Changes:
- Removed the outlines/border on the video description and buttons below the video player
- The setting "Page content > Buttons & boxes background opacity" can from now on also be set to a negative value. This makes it possible to have black background colors in the buttons and boxes on a white themed page and vice versa.

Improvements:
- General page rendering performance improvements. A degraded scrolling experience was most notable on low-end devices, but this was also be noticeable on high-end devices with high refresh rate monitors after you had scrolled through 300+ comments. Some interactions where these improvements will be noticeable are: Scrolling and resizing the webpage; Scrolling through lists; Switching between normal, theater and fullscreen views; Scrubbing through the video timeline; Opening/closing the side menu
- Reduced the CPU and GPU usage when the settings "Ambient light > Blur" and "Ambient light > Spread" are both set to 0%
- Reduced the CPU and GPU usage when the video itself fills the screen in fullscreen view

Fixed:
- The automatic page theme switch triggered a refresh of the YouTube watch page because YouTube had redesigned their webpage

New:
- Setting: Quality > Save energy on static videos (Limits the framerate on videos with an (almost) static image)
- Setting: General > Enable in Picture-in-picture mode
- Support for displays with the Display P3 colorspace
- Partial/experimental support for HDR YouTube videos and for displays with the Rec2020 colorspace

Improvements:
- Extended the hotkey tooltip with information on how to disable a hotkey
- Extended the frametimes graph with more data
- Improved the frametimes of the ambient light when the "Limit framerate" setting is enabled
- Decreased the video stutter that was sometimes caused by the bar detection when the cpu or gpu require a lot of time to decode the video
- Better detection of black bars that are slightly off-centered
- Maximize the "Sync video with ambient light" video overlay to the resolution on screen

Fixes:
- Prevent an incorrectly scaled video in YouTube's miniplayer after black bars were removed on the watch page
- If a video was opened in a background tab with the ambient light initially disabled, the ambient light could be enabled but was not rendered
- While the video player was resized and buffering/seeking the ambient light stays black until the video was loaded
- Removed the semi-transparent background behind the channel name and subscription button (YouTube redesigned those elements)
- Restyled the shadows on the buttons below the video player (YouTube redesigned those elements)
- Disable "Synchronized video with ambient light" when the video is in fullscreen and filling the screen
- Update the page theme after the OS theme was changed while a tab was inactive (The memory saver feature of browsers)
- For a small percentage of users the ambient light and settings button was never shown

New:
- Setting: Quality > Energy saver (Limits the framerate on video's with an (almost) static image)

Improvements:
- Faster bar detection when switching between videos

Fixes:
- Fixed the ambient light that stayed black when a video tab was opened in the foreground but quickly moved into the background before the ambient light was displayed