LinkRemark-0.4.0

Changes are almost entirely related to forced transition to another API version for Chrome extensions. Minor fixes:

• Earlier zero-width space characters U+200B were added after timestamps. You may want to remove them from your notes, use search and replace for

  :LAST_MODIFIED: [2021-09-18 Tue 01:23]<200b> 09/18/2021 01:23:46
  

• Only first <script> element with JSON-LD metadata was taken into account.

• In Chrome tab group may be captured in addition to highlighted tabs. Use menu for the extension in the browser toolbar (context menu if the icon is pinned).

As to Manifest V3 API, it required significant amount of work. New bugs may appear due to more complex initialization. I have no idea if smaller RAM footprint of browser is noticeable. Despite some permissions are optional now, I do not think the add-on has become more safe. Multiple tabs and cross-origin frames scenarios still require most dangerous <all_urls>. From my point of view, security model for browser extensions is still far from being consistent. Firefox version uses Manifest V2 API as in earlier releases due to bugs in mv3 implementation. I agree with the opinion that primary goal of forcing Manifest V3 API is to restrict ad blockers, not user safety.

LinkRemark-0.3.1

Install LinkRemark browser extension to

• Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mgmcoaemjnaehlliifkgljdnbpedihoe
• Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/linkremark/

Features and fixes in version 0.3.1:

• Enable capture of highlighted tabs in Chrome.
• Capture tab group in Chrome.
• Open preview tab next to active one in Chrome.
• Use short extension name to avoid long label of context menu group, etc.

Current version for Firefox is still 0.3 since changes are mostly related to support of Chrome.

LinkRemark-0.3

LinkRemark extension is available in Google Web Store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mgmcoaemjnaehlliifkgljdnbpedihoe

Changes since 0.2.1 version:

• More flexible handling of DOI URIs.
• More configuration options for org-protocol export method. New settings allow to launch external scheme handler without preview tab on privileged pages and experimental feature to detect problems with desktop-wide org-protocol handler may be enabled (it is better to switch it off when debugging is finished in Firefox, Chromium on Linux always uses xdg-open to launch handler, so extension has no chance to notice an error).
• Pre-selected export format and methods on preview and debug info page are adjusted. For some combination of values behavior was confusing.
• Copy to clipboard from background page in Chrome.
• Some files were missed in the Git repository.

LinkRemark-0.2.1

Firefox extension is available from https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/linkremark/

New features since version 0.1:

• Capture group of highlighted (selected) tabs.
• Experimental feature to check if URL is already present in notes. Native application https://github.com/maxnikulin/burl is required.
• Some metadata can be extracted from schema.org microdata embedded into HTML code.

Formatter output and semi-internal communication protocol are changed without attempts to keep backward compatibility.

Initial release

Released with hope that could be already useful however there are a lot of things to polish.