• Quick Scan video option (new default)

Quick Scan scans only a few frames of the video as a middle ground option for detection. Helps with short-video heavy sites (on sites where video is supported).

Bug Fixes/Hidden Tabs Update
- If you have problems with the hidden tabs, try the new "Background.js WebGL" option! This allows users to optionally go back to the "old way" without hidden tabs, but falls back to hidden tabs if this is not possible. Note that the speed of scanning is also a bit slower, but for some it may be a lifesaver
- Fixed Cloudflare-based DNS blocking support as it had been broken
- Improved character set detection for international users

Minor bugfix version 3.4.0:
- Add support for iso-8859-x and other non-English codepages (thanks Ayaya!) - if you're a non-English user you might find that "older" non-UTF-8 web pages now work for you!

Minor bugfix release 3.3.6:
- Certain special characters like the euro symbol were incorrectly showing up as invalid - thanks Dragodraki for the bug report!

Minor bugfix release
- Improved international charset detection by incorporating meta tag variants from user site submissions as per #194 - thanks Dragodraki!

Bugfix release
- Further improved Linux "hidden tab" stability based on user reports
- Further improved character set detection so more international pages display properly

Targeted bugfix release that may help Linux users with a major issue:
- #185 Tensorflow.js+Linux+Firefox seems to be giving non-deterministic results, causing the integrity self-checker to restart the addon frequently which shows the "Hidden Tabs" prompt
Special thanks to Linux users reporting the issue and Umbrella123 for helping debug the issue!

This is a small bugfix release.
- #182 Fixed issue where some PDF's would load incorrectly because Content-Type was not specified

This is a small bugfix release.
- Fixed issue with private mode where image scanning would not always work

-Handle GIFs as video rather than as one-frame images
-Make the zone selected at startup an option (Thanks Abdullah! https://github.com/abdullahezzat1)
-Improve Tensorflow.js load performance (10s->5s on my laptop)

3.2.0 is a minor update. TF.js (the library that does the number crunching) was updated and provides a scanning speed improvement.

3.1.1 is a minor release. Additions:
- Crash detection watchdog. Important stability improvement! See https://wingman-jr.blogspot.com/2021/08/crash-detection.html
- Video peek scanning for URL range requests - e.g. partial Reddit video support.
- Small YouTube scanning issue fix.
- Mozilla requested strict_min_version to handle proxy permission

3.0.0 has landed with several large updates!
-Video peek - limited video scanning support
-Silent mode
-New model
-Scanning progress indicator
-Advanced - ability to select TF.js backend

More details can be found at the blog post: https://wingman-jr.blogspot.com/2021/02/30-inbound-soon.html

The recent release 2.0 represents a major change in internal architecture.
The change was immediately driven by the need to overcome a performance issue exposed by the release of Firefox 83 that made browsing unbearably slow for some users. See the series of blog posts here: https://wingman-jr.blogspot.com/2020/11/firefox-83-problem.html
However, the change also has potential to better improve performance now and in the future.
Please be aware that a new permission is present in this release for hiding tabs. The addon now creates dummy web pages for processing upon startup and immediately hides them.
The new release, 2.0.1 has bugfixes and a new feedback link on the zones menu.

Release 2.0.0 represents a major change in internal architecture.
The change was immediately driven by the need to overcome a performance issue exposed by the release of Firefox 83 that made browsing unbearably slow for some users. See the series of blog posts here: https://wingman-jr.blogspot.com/2020/11/firefox-83-problem.html
However, the change also has potential to better improve performance now and in the future.
Please be aware that a new permission is present in this release for hiding tabs. The addon now creates dummy web pages for processing upon startup and immediately hides them.

This release is an emergency release in response to the release of Firefox 83 making browsing unbearably slow for some users.

TL;DR - Firefox 83 broke things for some users. While things get properly fixed, I can make it faster again, but not quite as fast as the plugin would be in Firefox 82.

The long version:
This plugin leverages another excellent library, Tensorflow.js, that runs the AI models created for this plugin. Tensorflow.js gives many different ways to run the AI models, called backends. They all give the same prediction, but some backends are much faster than others. The normal fast backend (WebGL) started failing in Firefox 83 for some users, which caused the default slow backend (CPU) to be used instead. For at least two users, this made the browsing experience so slow as to be unusable.
Fortunately Tensorflow.js recently added support for another relatively fast backend (WASM) that I have found does not seem to fail to load in Firefox 83. I am adding in support for that new backend as a fallback. It is not quite as fast, but makes browsing usable once again.

International users - this release is for you!
One of you kindly reported that they were seeing special characters such as "ä", "ö", "ü", "ß" and "€" showing up incorrectly as ¿½. This release should fix most instances of that happening, but please comment at https://github.com/wingman-jr-addon/wingman_jr/issues/70 if you are still seeing problems. Thanks!

New features/fixes:
-A user requested to have an on/off switch easily accessible. This is not visible by default but can be enabled in the options.
-The image score has been broken since the addition of zones. It should now be working a bit more accurately than simply showing "99" most of the time.
-The main machine learning library Tensorflow.js has been upgraded to 2.3.0 from 1.5.1 in order to make sure we don't have compatibility problems going forward. Let me know if you see performance changes, good or bad.
-The AI model has NOT been changed in this release.

The main new feature is the option to turn on DNS-level filtering with Cloudflare. This is not turned on by default to preserve your privacy but it may be an interesting option for some users. See the blog post here: https://wingman-jr.blogspot.com/2020/04/1111-for-families-opt-in-support.html

-Fixed another bug around the first page of Google Images not filtering correctly
-Moved "review mode" to be accessible by developers only
-Upgraded Tensorflow.js

This is a minor release with some nice behind-the-scenes performance improvements! Your browsing experience should be just a bit better.

Woohoo! After well over a year of releases, I'm excited to announce version 1.0!

The big new feature here is "zones". Now you can pick different zones for different levels of sensitivity on blocking. This can either be manual, or it can be automatically managed based on how many images have recently been blocked (the default). The "neutral" zone is not too different from the current blocking level, but the "trusted" zone that engages when not many images have been blocked recently might just provide you a better tradeoff on accidental image blockages. I've found the experience to be better when I'm using it, and I hope you do too.

Also, if you haven't looked recently, I have a blog now! Whether you're curious about new features or perhaps you're a stats/machine learning nerd, I've got you covered. Go check it out! https://wingman-jr.blogspot.com/ I'm looking to gather some feedback there through polls from time to time, too, so check it out to make your voice heard.

Anyways, thanks to those who have given feedback. It's been helpful!

Bugfix release only - another critical bugfix for normal Google search results that caused occasional hangs - the page wouldn't load fully. This was due to a recent change by Google to include icons in the main search results.

For more details, see https://wingman-jr.blogspot.com/2020/01/google-search-results-bugfix.html