✨ Improvements
• Wallpaper startup now reuses saved poster previews more consistently in Performance Mode.
• Video wallpaper previews stay available sooner while playback remains deferred.
• The search engine selector has a tighter, steadier first-paint size.

🛠 Fixes & Refinements
• Performance Mode no longer drops cached poster previews before Homebase can reuse them.
• Async wallpaper preload avoids fallback flashes when a saved poster preview is available.

✨ Improvements
• Performance Mode now disables video wallpaper playback, animations, blur, and cinema mode to reduce CPU/GPU use.
• Startup is lighter in Performance Mode by skipping heavier wallpaper poster, gallery warmup, and accent-color work.
• Video wallpapers now show a poster or fallback image instead of playing while Performance Mode is on.
• Performance diagnostics now show skipped video work and clearer startup timing.

🛠 Fixes & Refinements
• No-blur glass and dock surfaces keep clearer contrast and borders in Performance Mode.
• Performance Mode avoids starting video and wallpaper work it will not use.

✨ Improvements
• Wallpaper previews now appear sooner while video backgrounds finish loading.
• Video wallpapers now transition more smoothly from poster image to playback.
• The performance report now includes clearer startup, script, and drag setup details.

🛠 Fixes & Refinements
• Oversized saved poster previews are cleaned up so startup remains reliable.
• Startup wallpaper fallback avoids repainting the same cached image.

✨ Improvements
• Dock shortcuts now include clearer labels and states for assistive technology.
• Dock and picker tooltips now appear more precisely with smoother motion.
• The next-wallpaper button now communicates its loading state more clearly.

🛠 Fixes & Refinements
• Firefox now shows shortcut guidance for browser-only dock destinations instead of trying unsupported internal pages.
• Dock navigation now avoids duplicate setup and shows a clearer fallback if a browser page cannot be opened.

✨ Improvements
• Weather now restores the last saved forecast when offline or when a refresh times out.
• Cached weather now shows clearer offline and cached status labels.
• Wallpaper gallery loading now reuses saved media data while refreshing in the background.

🛠 Fixes & Refinements
• Slow weather requests now time out and fall back to saved weather more cleanly.
• Empty or failed gallery media requests now recover with the saved gallery list when available.

✨ Improvements
• Added a Settings toggle to turn external search suggestions on or off while typing.
• Search engine defaults and remembered choices now stay aligned when engines are reordered or disabled.
• Search startup restores the selector more smoothly and avoids unnecessary first-load animation.
• App Settings rows now fit narrow panels more reliably.

🛠 Fixes & Refinements
• Bookmark grid arrow, page, Home, and End keys now scroll bookmarks when the empty search box is passive.
• Temporary bang searches no longer replace your active search engine after clearing the query.
• Suggestion caching now stays bounded and clears when suggestions are disabled.

✨ Improvements
• Performance Mode now shows a richer diagnostics panel for startup, bookmarks, grid rendering, widgets, cache, and health.
• You can copy a privacy-safe performance report when troubleshooting Homebase startup or widget behavior.
• Weather styling now follows the selected glass appearance more cleanly.

🛠 Fixes & Refinements
• Bookmark and gallery recovery paths are easier to spot from diagnostics.
• Oversized saved wallpaper poster previews no longer interfere with loading the original wallpaper.
• Grid and widget timing details are recorded more consistently for troubleshooting.

✨ Improvements
• Bookmark loading is faster when Homebase can reuse your saved Homebase folder.
• Large bookmark folders now render more smoothly.
• Wallpaper gallery poster caching now avoids unnecessary repeated checks.
• Homebase Tips now load more smoothly during new-tab startup.

🛠 Fixes & Refinements
• Invalid saved weather or search startup data no longer interrupts instant widget rendering.
• Oversized saved wallpaper poster previews no longer interfere with startup wallpaper loading.

✨ Improvements
• Todo actions now stay available when keyboard focus is inside the widget.
• The task input now has a clearer accessible label and a sensible length limit.
• Todo changes from another Homebase tab now refresh the visible list more reliably.

🛠 Fixes & Refinements
• Tasks with missing or duplicate IDs are repaired instead of being skipped.
• The completed-task filter now shows a clearer empty state when no active tasks are visible.

✨ Improvements
• Quote settings now use clearer rotation wording and a cleaner category picker.
• Saved quotes now load more safely during instant new-tab startup.
• Quote rotation now uses a consistent default across startup and settings.

🛠 Fixes & Refinements
• The quote widget now falls back to a saved or built-in quote if local quote loading fails.
• Manual quote refresh and category changes no longer rely on obsolete quote cache state.

✨ Improvements
• Redesigned the weather widget with a larger condition icon and compact detail cards.
• Weather details now include wind, humidity, rain chance, clouds, sunrise, and sunset.
• Refreshing weather now shows a clearer loading state.

🛠 Fixes & Refinements
• Cached forecasts and weather load errors now show clearer status and recovery options.
• The weather setup prompt now fits the refreshed widget style.

✨ Improvements
• Weather pressure, humidity, cloud cover, and rain chance now use the hourly reading closest to the current weather time.
• Weather detail matching now follows the API current time instead of always reading the first hourly slot.

🛠 Fixes & Refinements
• Temporary weather refresh failures now restore the last saved forecast instead of immediately showing an error.
• Cached weather data is no longer cleared after refresh errors, helping the widget recover cleanly.

✨ Improvements
• Improved the bookmark folder tab experience with smoother folder creation, editing, and navigation.
• Added double-click rename support for folder tabs, making folder editing faster and more intuitive.
• Improved folder tab arrow scrolling so users can move through long folder lists more quickly.
• Improved the new-folder editor with clearer ✓ Save and × Cancel actions.
• Moved the new-folder editor below the folder tabs so Save and Cancel stay visible on narrow windows.
• Added smoother animations when opening and closing the new-folder editor.

🛠 Fixes & Refinements
• Reduced layout shifting when renaming folder tabs.
• Improved rename input sizing so it adapts to short and long folder names.
• Improved folder-tab context menu handling for better consistency.
• Reduced unnecessary folder-tab scroll jumping during tab refreshes.
• Improved folder creation timing to reduce possible video wallpaper stutter during folder updates.
• Removed native browser tooltips from folder-tab controls where custom Homebase tooltips are used.
• Minor folder-tab UI polish and usability improvements.

✨ Improvements
• Added a new first-run Homebase Tips card to help new users discover key features.
• Added onboarding tips for bang search, search engine switching, bookmark actions, wallpapers, and widgets.
• Added a “Don’t show tips” option so users can permanently disable daily Homebase Tips.
• Added a Settings toggle to turn Homebase Tips on or off at any time.
• Improved the Tip of the Day experience with a cleaner card-style design.
• Added helpful shortcuts, including using Alt + Arrow Down in the search box to switch search engines.

🛠 Fixes & Refinements
• Improved Homebase Tips card positioning so it no longer covers bottom-right wallpaper/gallery controls.
• Improved onboarding icon alignment for multi-line tips.
• Removed stale Tip of the Day markup now replaced by the new dynamic Homebase Tips card.
• Reduced leftover console noise from wallpaper gallery controls.
• Improved wallpaper gallery toggle listener handling to prevent duplicate event handlers.
• Refined onboarding copy for clearer feature discovery.
• Minor UI polish and usability improvements.

✨ Improvements
• Added a new first-run Homebase Tips card to help new users discover key features.
• Added quick onboarding tips for bang search, search engine switching, bookmark actions, wallpapers, and widgets.
• Improved the Tip of the Day experience with a cleaner card-style design.
• Added helpful shortcuts, including using Alt + Arrow Down in the search box to switch search engines.

🛠 Fixes & Refinements
• Improved Homebase Tips card positioning so it no longer covers bottom-right controls.
• Improved onboarding icon alignment for multi-line tips.
• Refined onboarding copy for clearer feature discovery.
• Minor UI polish and usability improvements.

⚡ Performance Improvements
• Improved new-tab startup performance by lazy-loading non-startup UI.
• The built-in icon picker, bookmark/folder editor, and wallpaper gallery now load only when needed.
• Optimized quote loading so the local quote catalog is no longer indexed unnecessarily during normal startup.
• Reduced startup work for a faster, lighter new-tab experience.

🛠 Fixes & Refinements
• Improved Firefox Container support when opening bookmarks in selected containers.
• Reduced noisy debug logging during normal use.
• Improved reliability of bookmark/folder editing after lazy-loading editor dialogs.
• Improved wallpaper gallery loading behavior while keeping the current wallpaper available on startup.
• Various internal cleanup, stability, and performance refinements.

Release Notes

⚡ Performance Improvements
• Optimized bookmark and folder editing to avoid unnecessary full grid rerenders.
• Metadata-only updates (such as renaming bookmarks or folders, or changing folder icons) now update instantly without rebuilding the entire grid.
• Improved responsiveness when editing items in large bookmark folders.

🛠 Fixes & Refinements
• Fixed unnecessary grid refresh when renaming bookmarks or folders.
• Improved reliability of inline rename and edit dialogs.
• Various internal performance improvements to bookmark grid rendering.
• Minor UI polish and stability fixes.

⚡ Improvements
• Improved daily wallpaper rotation behavior on new tab startup.
• Smoother wallpaper loading sequence to reduce visual flicker during initialization.

🛠 Fixes & Refinements
• Fixed an issue where the previous day's wallpaper could briefly appear before the next wallpaper loads.
• Fixed a brief fallback wallpaper flash that could occur during daily rotation on new tab.
• Minor performance optimizations for wallpaper initialization.

✨ New Features
• Added a new "Pro Tips" section in Settings to help users discover useful Homebase features.
• Added bang search shortcuts (!g, !yt, !ddg, !w, !gh, etc.) to quickly switch search engines directly from the search bar.
• Added the ability to save the current page directly from the Homebase extension icon.

⚡ Improvements
• Improved widget configuration and discoverability with contextual tips.
• Enhanced bookmark management with drag-and-drop support for folders and grid items.
• Improved performance for large bookmark folders using virtualization.
• Better wallpaper customization including Live/Static modes and quality controls.

🛠 Fixes & Refinements
• Various UI improvements and performance optimizations.
• Minor stability fixes.

✨ Improvements
• Added optional permission flow for Firefox Containers.
• Bookmarks can now open in containers without requiring cookies permission at install.
• Improved container error handling and fallback behavior.

🛠 Fixes
• Fixed “No permission for cookieStoreId” error when opening bookmarks in containers.
• Gracefully falls back to opening in a normal tab if container permission is denied.
• Improved reliability when opening folders in containers.

🎨 UI Improvements
• Improved Weather setup layout:
– Cleaner button alignment
– Better visual hierarchy
– More consistent styling

🔧 General
• Minor stability improvements
• Internal code cleanup and optimizations