[6.1.0] - 2026-04-08

Fixed
React-Safe Display-Ad Cleanup - Post-ad cleanup now hides and resets Twitch-managed display-ad nodes instead of removing them, preventing the player from collapsing into the large ? placeholder during live and VOD navigation.

SDA Teardown Compatibility - Stale display-ad shell cleanup now keeps Twitch-owned nodes attached under #root until Twitch unmounts them, avoiding SDAContextManager Node.removeChild errors after ad recovery.

[6.0.9] - 2026-04-08

Fixed
Console Log Noise - Silenced repetitive Fetch intercepted exception: NetworkError logs that could flood the browser console during certain network conditions.

Debug Logging - Updated the global logger to suppress debug-level messages by default.

[6.0.8] - 2026-04-08

Fixed
Ad Detection Parity - Faster detection for stitched ad variants and improved recognition of Turbo ad-break promo surfaces.

Worker Bridge Stability - Improved worker-bridge stability during ad-cycle transitions for more reliable impression burning.

[6.0.7] - 2026-04-08

Fixed
Post-Ad Native 360p Lock - Ad recovery no longer rewrites the native PlaybackAccessToken to force autoplay during the recovery window, fixing an issue where the player’s resolution menu could remain stuck at 360p after an ad was blocked.

Pre-roll Recovery Loops - Added background simulated ad-impression tracking through headless fetching of blocked ad segments. This now clears Twitch’s backend pre-roll state properly, preventing infinite reload loops during pre-roll recovery.

[6.0.5] - 2026-04-08

Fixed
Post-Ad Native Quality Recovery - Recovery reloads now prefer the forced native PlaybackAccessToken player type before any remembered backup type, preventing post-ad reloads from getting stuck on a reduced-quality autoplay ladder.

Delayed Native Return After Backup Ads - Backup-stream ad exits now trigger native player reload and access-token refresh immediately instead of waiting for the later stall watchdog, helping normal quality return sooner.

[6.0.3] - 2026-04-08

Fixed
Native Recovery Warmup - Now waits for consecutive clean native popout probes before ending ad recovery and reloading the player, preventing early exits that could drop playback back into another Twitch ad cycle.

Native Recovery State Reset - Clean-probe tracking now resets correctly on ad-marked, failed, and fresh-ad paths so guarded ad exit only applies to the current recovery window.

hotfix

[6.0.2] - 2026-04-07

Fixed
Backup Recovery Stall - Fixed an issue where Firefox could get stuck spinning on a stale backup stream when native recovery was still ad-marked. Backup playback is now refreshed and re-checked so playback can continue until native recovery is ready.

Worker Recovery Helper Injection - Completed the guarded native-recovery helper injection path inside the Firefox worker, preventing recovery gaps between worker startup and the main recovery flow.

[6.0.0] - 2026-04-07

Fixed
Counter Reliability - Improved Ads Blocked and DOM Ads Blocked accuracy across startup, tab closes, route changes, and multiple Twitch tabs so valid counts are less likely to be lost, delayed, replayed, or overwritten.

Navigation / Worker Stability - Fixed stale worker, route, and playback-context issues during Twitch SPA navigation so old events, reloads, resume actions, or recovery callbacks no longer leak into the wrong stream or page.

Post-Ad Recovery - Improved post-ad recovery behavior for longer ad pods, replay-style loading states, and backup-stream exits so playback is less likely to remain paused, stall on loading, or fall back into repeated recovery loops.

Pause / Resume Handling - Better preserves real user pause intent while still allowing Twitch-owned ad pauses to recover correctly, reducing cases where playback resumes when it should not or stays paused when it should recover.

Display Ads / Popup Detection - Expanded detection for newer Twitch display-ad and anti-adblock popup variants, including CTA-only and banner-text-only layouts, while making cleanup more reliable when multiple ad UI patterns appear at the same time.

DOM / Scan Performance - Reduced unnecessary whole-page scans, heavy synchronous cleanup passes, and over-aggressive popup fallback checks during normal playback, helping lower overhead and improve responsiveness on Twitch.

Playback Context Handling - Fixed cases where non-player Twitch pages or subpages could inherit the wrong live playback context, causing stale timers, reload markers, or worker events to affect another route.

Worker / Bridge Isolation - Worker control and recovery messages are now more tightly scoped to the correct stream context, reducing the chance of stale or unrelated events interfering with active playback.

Startup / Recovery Performance - Reduced worker bootstrap and recovery overhead so the extension feels smoother during initialization, navigation, and post-ad cleanup.

Backup / Recovery Routing - Improved backup-playlist and recovery-path handling so unknown or mismatched playlists are less likely to trigger stuck loading states, broken recovery routing, or repeated fallback selection loops.

[5.1.4] - 2026-04-05

Fixed
Counter Persistence On Navigation / Close - Bridge-side ad and DOM-ad counter updates now survive Twitch SPA navigation and flush on tab close, preventing blocked-ad totals from being lost during channel switches or page unloads.

Reserved Twitch Route Parsing - Playback-context parsing now correctly recognizes Twitch popout, embed, and moderator routes instead of misreading reserved path segments as live channel names.

Bridge Session Rebind Hardening - The page bridge now binds to a per-session token and rejects unrelated later port swaps, reducing unwanted page-side event injection into counter and toggle state.

Buffer Recovery Pause-State Guard - Buffer recovery now checks the player wrapper, core state, and media element together before attempting pause/play or reload recovery, avoiding false interventions on already paused playback.

Media-Clock Drift Correction - Live-edge drift repair now uses the actual HTML media clock instead of stale core position snapshots, preventing unnecessary seek jumps during healthy live playback.

Backup Playlist Playability Gate - Ad recovery no longer promotes non-empty but unplayable backup playlists; candidate backups must contain real media segments before replacing the current stream.

Playlist URL Alias Matching - Worker-side stream-info and resolution lookup now normalize playlist URL aliases so token/query churn and current-live VOD transport mismatches do not break backup recovery routing.

Metadata-Only Strip Empty-Playlist Recovery - When Twitch marks an ad playlist only with metadata tags, the strip path now restores stripped segments instead of returning an empty playlist if no clean backup is available.

Post-Ad Spinner Recovery - Post-ad recovery intent now survives Twitch’s false “not paused” loading state, and unhealthy playback after fallback or backup ad exits now escalates to one guarded native-player reload when needed.

Hidden-Tab Monitor Backoff - Playback-intent and live-buffer watchdog loops now respect Twitch’s native visibility state and back off sharply in hidden tabs, reducing background CPU usage across multiple open Twitch tabs.

Popup Fallback Scan Scope - Anti-popup cleanup no longer scans every button, link, heading, paragraph, and span in the document, and now inspects bounded popup-root candidates instead.

MutationObserver Hot-Path Trimming - DOM mutation prefiltering no longer performs subtree-wide selector checks inside the synchronous observer callback, and hidden tabs now defer rescan bursts until visible again.

Cross-Tab Counter Fanout Reduction - Storage-driven Ads Blocked restores no longer rebroadcast absolute totals into every worker in each open tab; worker-side totals now reconcile from event deltas instead.

[5.1.3] - 2026-04-04

Fixed
Post-Ad Recovery Without Buffer Fix - Fixed a regression where disabling Buffer Fix could leave live playback stuck on a loading spinner after ads because post-ad recovery exited too early to resume or reload the player.

Ad-Recovery / Buffer-Fix Separation - Kept Buffer Fix limited to normal live-buffer interventions while preserving the dedicated post-ad resume and reload fallback so ad blocking still recovers cleanly after ads.

Less Aggressive Buffer Fix - Tightened live stall detection so Buffer Fix no longer triggers just because Twitch is intentionally running a low-buffer catch-up window while future data is still available.

Safer Live-Edge Drift Correction - Limited automatic live-edge seeks to cases where the media element still reports future-ready playback data, avoiding forced jumps during active rebuffers.

[5.1.2] - 2026-04-03

Added
Buffer Fix Toggle - Added a new Buffer Fix toggle to the popup so experimental buffer recovery can be enabled or disabled without reloading the page or extension.

Toggle UI Redesign - Updated the popup with a more compact dual-toggle layout so Ad Blocking and Buffer Fix have equal prominence without increasing popup size.

Fixed
Ad Cleanup Zero-Width Obfuscation - Hardened DOM ad detection against zero-width Unicode obfuscation Twitch was using in Ad labels to evade cleanup.

Ad Cleanup Pipeline Optimization - Refactored DOM ad and shell cleanup so direct media stripping, display-shell flattening, and promoted-page collapsing now run in a single sweep instead of stopping after the first match.

Buffer Recovery Stability - Buffer recovery now re-fetches the active Twitch player instance before applying unpause intent, preventing crashes or recovery attempts against recycled React fragments.

Cross-World Bridge Plumbing - Added full isolated-bridge support for the new buffer toggle so live toggle changes sync reliably into the page context.

[5.1.1] - 2026-04-01

Fixed
Post-Ad Pause Intent Preservation - Ad-end cleanup no longer clears a real user pause, and delayed resume now only runs when playback was actually active before the ad cycle started.

Buffer Lifecycle Reset Hardening - Buffer-fix counters, cached player references, and recovery cooldown state now reset on reloads, route changes, and disable transitions so new playback sessions do not inherit stale recovery state.

Live-Edge Buffer Guard - The buffer monitor now distinguishes a truly frozen player from a temporary empty live edge, skipping the old pause/play recovery in that state and only escalating to a reload if live-edge starvation persists.

Toggle-Off Recovery Cleanup - Disabling ad blocking now immediately clears page and worker recovery state, restores suppressed media, and stops stale post-ad resume behavior without waiting for another playlist transition.

Stream State Isolation - Stream-info fallback now prefers the active media key, stream pruning now evicts the oldest inactive entry instead of the first inserted one, and per-stream resets no longer clear the shared ad-segment quarantine cache for unrelated playback contexts.

[5.1.0] - 2026-04-01

Fixed
Infinite Buffer Fix Loop - Resolved a race condition where the extension’s buffer recovery logic could be ignored by Twitch’s player, causing the stream to get stuck paused and repeatedly trigger EventEmitter memory leak warnings.

Buffer Fix Reload Failsafe - If a stream buffer stall is not recovered after 3 consecutive lightweight recovery attempts, the extension now escalates to a full playlist reload to restore playback.

[5.0.9] - 2026-04-01

Fixed
Buffer Fix Pause Freeze - Fixed a race condition where the extension’s programmatic playback pause during buffer recovery could be mistaken for a user-initiated pause, which could block later resume attempts and leave the player stuck paused.

[5.0.8] - 2026-04-01

Fixed
Post-Ad Player Pause Fix - Expanded the programmatic-pause detection window and made pause-intent suppression null-safe so Twitch’s native ad-transition pauses are no longer mistaken for user intent, preventing the player from getting stuck paused after ad recovery.

Post-Ad Audio/Video Desync Fix - After an ad-recovery player reload on a live stream, playback now explicitly seeks to the live buffer edge when video drifts more than 2 seconds behind, preventing the audio-ahead and video-behind desync that could persist after ad breaks.

Live Playback A/V Drift Correction - Live playback now continuously checks for audio/video sync drift and auto-corrects by seeking to the live edge when video falls more than 4 seconds behind the buffered head, catching desync that develops gradually after ad transitions.

[5.0.7] - 2026-03-27

Fixed
Firefox Parity Hardening - Ported the latest recovery and bridge hardening updates into the Firefox version while keeping Firefox-specific MV3 packaging and build behavior intact.

Counter / Bridge Reliability - Queued local ad-counter updates now survive cross-tab storage races, bridge handshakes can reconnect after port drops, and reconnected ports immediately restore the current toggle and counter state.

Playback Context Isolation - Route and media-key changes now clear stale recovery state, worker and bridge events are rejected as soon as navigation leaves the original playback context, and stale worker restarts are skipped after Twitch SPA navigation.

Display-Shell Cleanup Hardening - Removed ad nodes now trigger immediate stale-shell cleanup, residual player-layout wrappers stay collapsed until Twitch fully clears them, and lower-third plus side-inset display-ad layouts are flattened more reliably.

Post-Ad Resume Hardening - Resume intent now survives transient no-player and paused-state windows until playback actually resumes, reducing cases where Twitch leaves the player paused after ad recovery.

Backup Variant Matching - Backup stream selection now numerically matches same-resolution frame rates so 30fps and 60fps fallbacks choose the intended clean variant.

Popup Transition Timing - The popup statistics panel now derives its collapse fallback from the actual computed transition timing instead of a shorter hardcoded timeout.

[5.0.3] - 2026-03-24

Changed
TypeScript Migration - The Firefox version now uses a TypeScript-based codebase, with updated build and packaging changes to improve release consistency.

Fixed
Firefox Bridge / Counter Hardening - Updated the Firefox counter pipeline with newer bridge syncing, route-aware live/VOD filtering, retrying counter persistence, stale-worker restart guards, and safer cross-realm payload handling so Ads Blocked and DOM Ads Blocked stay aligned during Twitch SPA navigation.

DOM Scan / Navigation Hot Path - Reduced repeated full-document scans and expensive dedupe work during popup, display-ad, and direct-media detection. Scans are now more targeted, route-change rescans are deferred briefly, mutation noise is filtered more aggressively, and fewer stale Twitch workers remain alive during SPA channel navigation.

[5.0.1] - 2026-03-23

Fixed
Firefox Twitch Page Stutter - Reduced the popup and display-ad cleanup hot path that could make Twitch pages hitch or briefly freeze in Firefox when ad UI appeared, especially during prerolls, display ads, or popup detection.

Player Overlay Search Scope - CTA, banner, and ad-label detection now searches near the active player instead of repeatedly sweeping the full document, reducing unnecessary layout and selector work during normal playback.

Mutation Scan Noise - Generic button and link churn no longer counts as an ad-scan trigger, so routine Twitch UI updates no longer keep scheduling unnecessary rescans.

[5.0.0] - 2026-03-21

Highlights
VOD Ad Blocking Support - Added /videos/<id> playback-context detection plus VOD usher and token handling so Twitch VODs now use the same ad-strip and backup-stream recovery flow as live streams.

Playback Context Isolation - Worker state, stale-event checks, and post-ad cleanup now track a shared media key, preventing live and VOD routes from leaking ad or recovery events into the wrong player.

Current-Live VOD Event Routing - When Twitch serves an active livestream’s VOD page through the live channel transport, worker ad and reload events now preserve the page’s media key so recovery is not rejected as stale.

Live-to-VOD SPA Player Recovery - Route changes from a live stream into its VOD now trigger a guarded player resync when Twitch leaves the old live player attached, preventing the large static ? placeholder until a manual refresh.

Firefox Counter Sync Hardening - The Firefox page, bridge, background, and popup counter pipeline now tolerates Firefox wrapped cross-context messages and uses a direct background preview path, so blocked-ad counters update as soon as ad blocking begins instead of staying at 0.

Firefox Post-Ad Resume Hardening - Firefox ad-end, buffer-fix, and route-navigation recovery now clears false pause intent, retries guarded resumes, and treats stale media pauses more defensively so playback is less likely to remain paused after ads or channel changes.

DOM Scan Performance Hardening - Popup and display-ad cleanup now coalesces repeated rescans, ignores noisy chat-only DOM mutations, and backs off idle polling so the extension avoids excessive full-page scans during normal playback.

VOD Display-Ad Overlay Detection - Player-side display-ad cleanup now recognizes generic Learn More CTA overlays and the “right after this ad break” banner shell, improving cleanup on current-live VOD pages.

Direct Amazon MP4 VOD Ads - VOD cleanup now detects standalone m.media-amazon.com ad video playback near the main player, suppresses that injected media element, nudges playback back to the actual archive stream, and now requires matching player-ad UI signals so live/VOD transition media is not treated as a standalone ad.

New Lower-Third SDA Banner Variant - Added explicit handling for Twitch’s data-test-selector="sda-frame" and #stream-lowerthird lower-third subscription-display banner so the newer DOM variant is hidden like the older iframe-based SDA banners.

[4.3.6] - 2026-03-19

Fixed
Cross-Tab Counter / Stats Races - Firefox now serializes Ads Blocked, DOM Ads Blocked, daily stats, channels, and achievement writes through a dedicated background script instead of per-tab storage read/modify/write loops, preventing tabs from overwriting each other.

Backup Policy Bypass - Backup stream selection no longer promotes rejected playlists through minimal-request or fallback side paths, so ad-marked candidates remain rejected during recovery.

Token Relay Fallback - Backup token fetches now use a fresh abort path for direct fallback requests, preventing a timed-out relay attempt from poisoning the fallback request with an already aborted signal.

[4.3.3] - 2026-03-18

Fixed
Immediate Blocked Counter Timing - Ads Blocked now increments at the first confirmed AdDetected cycle start instead of waiting for a later AdBlocked relay or cleanup path, so the popup updates as soon as ad recovery begins.

False-Positive Blocked Counter - Firefox no longer preemptively increments Ads Blocked from PlaybackAccessToken ad-capability flags alone. The counter now advances only on playlist-confirmed or DOM-confirmed ad evidence, preventing normal channel switches from inflating totals.

Event-Driven Counter Persistence - Counter updates now carry explicit event IDs and deltas through the page, worker, and bridge layers instead of relying on inferred absolute-total jumps, eliminating hidden replay and drift paths in the blocked-counter pipeline.

Stale Worker Counter Drift - When a stale worker reports an AdBlocked event for the wrong channel, the page now rejects that event and immediately resyncs the worker’s counter state so old background workers cannot silently diverge and later snap totals forward.

Duplicate Audio During Ad Recovery - During backup playback, competing media elements spawned or reactivated by Twitch are now suppressed, re-suppressed when pinned playback is active, and restored after AdEnded, preventing overlapping audio with the primary player.

Channel Comparison Consistency - Counter-related channel comparisons now normalize observed route and event channel names consistently, avoiding silent mismatches caused by case differences.

[4.3.2] - 2026-03-14

Fixed
DOM Ad Cleanup Improvements - Hardened DOM ad counter logic against route-change race conditions.

Post-Ad Player Resume - The extension now tracks pause intent and preserves paused states after ad interruptions.

Ad-End Stability - Ad-end checks are now debounced to survive brief buffering or clean playlist flashes without resetting.

Worker Crash Recovery - Fixed blob URL lifecycle issues so workers can restart successfully after crashing, and scoped ad-reload messages safely.

[4.3.0] - 2026-03-14

Fixed
DOM Ad Counter Timing - Fixed an issue where DOM Ads Blocked could incorrectly increment when navigating between channels on Firefox. _handleRouteChange no longer aggressively resets the deduplication cache, allowing old React layout shells to be ignored correctly during transition states.

Ported Firefox Optimizations - Ported the Preemptive Ad Avoid system and synchronized worker reload logic from the main repository to improve ad mitigation and maintain feature parity.

Overall Stability - Prevented stale React layout artifact signatures from triggering false-positive ad detections more broadly.