Media Battery version history - 6 versions
Media Battery by Milo
Media Battery version history - 6 versions
Be careful with old versions! These versions are displayed for testing and reference purposes.You should always use the latest version of an add-on.
Latest version
Version 1.8.0
Released Oct 14, 2026 - 74.45 KBWorks with firefox 140.0 and later, android 142.0 and laterThe questions at the gate now cost about the same whichever one comes up: no more a trivial power of two one time and a seven number sort the next. A wrong answer keeps the same kind of question with new numbers, so retrying is no longer a way to fish for an easy one. And how many questions a gate asks is now a setting, one to five, the same for the unblock gate and the settings gate and shared across devices; asking for fewer goes through the gate. Also fixes the battery turning up empty, in the morning or at random, with the extension on Firefox for Android. Android holds a backgrounded Firefox still, and a sync reply the server sent in the evening could be read the next morning as if it had just arrived. That set the extension's clock back by the whole night, so last night's charge counted as the current one and sync carried it to every device. A reply that took longer than it possibly could no longer sets the clock. Also on the phone: a video blocked in fullscreen now leaves fullscreen, so the block is visible and the page can be left; before, the only way out was closing the app. And a tap made before the phone went to sleep no longer counts as fresh use when it wakes.Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0 only
Older versions
Version 1.7.2
Released Sep 11, 2026 - 72.37 KBWorks with firefox 140.0 and later, android 142.0 and laterWith sync on, leaving a site or app on one device no longer leaves the others a little lower. The stop used to be missed on the other devices, which kept draining in step for up to a minute and a half; now it ends the moment the stop arrives. Also fixes a rare case where the phone app woke up to a dead battery after a restart and passed it on to the browser.Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0 only
Version 1.7.1
Released Aug 7, 2026 - 74.84 KBWorks with firefox 140.0 and later, android 142.0 and laterFirefox can quietly drop a site permission (the per site toggle in the extensions panel does it without a word), and without the grant the blocking layer never loads while the popup still works, which is the worst way for a self control tool to fail. The extension now watches its grants: losing one puts a red ! on the toolbar badge and a Restore button in the popup that asks for it back. Also, loosening a setting now asks one question instead of two, the same flat toll as the unblock gate.Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0 only
Version 1.7.0
Released Aug 6, 2026 - 73.46 KBWorks with firefox 140.0 and later, android 142.0 and laterThe extension now runs on Firefox for Android: same battery, same sync code, so the phone's browser and the desk drain one charge. The popup and settings fit a phone screen, and the charge badge stays a desktop thing, since Android has no toolbar to put it on. Instead, opening a tracked site now shows the time left in the corner for a moment, on every device; settings can turn it off. Also carries the sync fixes since 1.6.0: a settings save only touches what actually changed, so it can no longer overwrite another device's choices with a stale copy.Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0 only
Version 1.6.0
Released Jul 30, 2026 - 70.72 KBWorks with firefox 140.0 and laterHour rules: set windows that block sites, exempt them from the battery, slow or stop
the charging, or lower the capacity. Sites can also be blocked outright from
settings, and any block can be opened for five minutes through the question gate.
The gate itself is flat now: an unblock always asks one question, a settings change
always two, because a predictable toll gets paid and an escalating one invites the
off switch. Rule windows follow the clock on your wall on every device, and a long
list of small edge cases around sync, clocks, and the block overlay got fixed on
the way.Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0 only
Version 1.5.0
Released Jul 22, 2026 - 63.09 KBWorks with firefox 140.0 and laterSource code released under GNU General Public License v3.0 only