What's new in 1.6.1 (since 1.5)

• Translates every picture on the page. Auto-translate now handles all pictures on a page (up to 50 per run), not just the main image.
• Auto-resume. If the browser restarts the extension in the background mid-run, it picks up where it left off instead of starting over.
• Re-runs are fast. Running the extension again on an already-translated page now uses the cache, so it finishes in under a second.
• Cache survives updates. Cached translations are kept when the extension updates.
• Blocked downloads retried. If a site blocks image downloads (HTTP 403), the extension retries in a background tab.
• More bubbles translated. Speech bubbles with no detected text box are now translated too.
• Lazy pictures load without scrolling. Pictures that load as you scroll are now triggered directly.
• Right-click Send works on blocked sites. Sites that block the right-click menu no longer stop you from sending a picture.
• One permission prompt. The extension now asks once for every picture host on the page, instead of one at a time.
• License: the extension's own code is now under the PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0 (no commercial use without permission). Earlier versions stay MIT.

What's new in 1.6.0 (since 1.5)

• Translates every picture on the page. Auto-translate now handles all pictures on a page (up to 50 per run), not just the main image.
• Auto-resume. If the browser restarts the extension in the background mid-run, it picks up where it left off instead of starting over.
• Re-runs are fast. Running the extension again on an already-translated page now uses the cache, so it finishes in under a second.
• Cache survives updates. Cached translations are kept when the extension updates.
• Blocked downloads retried. If a site blocks image downloads (HTTP 403), the extension retries in a background tab.
• More bubbles translated. Speech bubbles with no detected text box are now translated too.
• Lazy pictures load without scrolling. Pictures that load as you scroll are now triggered directly.
• Right-click Send works on blocked sites. Sites that block the right-click menu no longer stop you from sending a picture.
• One permission prompt. The extension now asks once for every picture host on the page, instead of one at a time.
• License: the extension's own code is now under the PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0 (no commercial use without permission). Earlier versions stay MIT.

Firefox 1.5.0 — what's new since 1.4.1

Faster inpainting
- Inpainting is now much faster on Firefox. On the test page, WASM inpainting dropped from about 80 seconds to about 24.5 seconds (69% faster). Total time dropped from about 100 seconds to about 50 seconds.
- The merge now only combines nearby text boxes when the combined patch is predicted to be cheaper, using a cost model. Before, it merged any touching boxes, which chained distant boxes into one huge patch and wasted time.

Romanian UI
- The extension interface now supports 17 languages, including Romanian. It follows your browser's language setting.
- Portuguese (Brazil) is now correctly named pt_BR (was plain pt, which is not a supported locale).

Diagnostic log
- A Copy button is now on the Diagnostic log tab, right of the title. It copies the full log and briefly shows "Copied".

Smarter merge (learns over time)
- The merge spread (1.3) now learns from real runs. It starts at 1.3 and moves 10% toward the measured value after each run with a merged patch, staying between 1.0 and 2.0. On Firefox merges are rare, so it learns slowly.

Text size is better. Translation starts at 1.2 times the size it guesses, then shrinks until it fits. The old smallest and largest size settings are gone.
The engine is updated to onnxruntime-web 1.31.1.
Runs stay alive. Before, Firefox could stop a run in the middle, during background fill, with no clear error. Now the extension keeps the background alive during a run. If it still dies, you get one clean error, not two, and the run does not just hang.
Error log is in the panel. Errors now show in full in the extension's own debug panel, not cut short. On a good run, the panel does not pop up unless debug mode is on. On a failed run, it still opens.
GPU is tried for background fill only. Firefox tries GPU first for background fill. On Mac, GPU fails with a clear Metal error, then the extension falls back to CPU and finishes the run. It does not freeze. Text detection and OCR stay on CPU.
Firefox is slower than Chrome. Firefox extensions cannot use shared memory for multi-threading, so the model runs on one CPU thread. This is a Firefox limit, not an extension bug. On the test page, background fill takes about 80 seconds on Firefox.
Fallback fixes in 1.4.0. If the pool fails, the run falls back to single mode instead of failing. If a run dies, old picture data is cleaned up. Each run has its own panel log, and tab lines do not show page URLs.
1.4.1 itself has no Firefox change. It is the same Firefox code as 1.4.0, only the version number changed. The readyMs log fix in 1.4.1 is Chrome only.

Changes since 1.2.0
Baberu OCR updated to v1.2: sound effects and handwriting read better (sound effects 50% to 74%, handwriting 60% to 67%). If you are coming from 1.2.0, the Baberu models re-download once.
When an update changes the model list, the next popup open leads you to the models download section, so new models get downloaded. Other updates do not lead you there.
In the popup, Translate and Cancel are now two separate buttons: Translate under the engine dropdown, Cancel under Clear cache. Translate is greyed while translating, Cancel is greyed when idle.
Popup and Settings now show just the version number.
The language names in the source and target dropdowns now match your browser's language.
In the popup, the source and target dropdowns are now the same width, with the arrow centered between them.

What's new in 1.2.0
Stuck translations now end with a clear error instead of freezing, and the engine restarts itself, so the next translation works without restarting the browser. Cancel stops work at once.
If a translation engine fails, the extension now tries another one by default.
Errors now show what actually failed, instead of quietly saying cancelled. A real cancel still stays quiet.
The progress pill now says which engine did the work, or that the page came from cache. The debug panel shows the same status and stays visible, and the translate tab shows the real engine after a failover.
Chrome now shows progress during inpainting instead of freezing at 0%.
Firefox translation runs reliably, with no more engine load errors.
Settings save the moment you change them.
Cache stats now count images correctly: one translated image counts as one.