✨ 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