Auto-intercept

• Each file type now has its own minimum file size
• Added an “Add current site” shortcut -- It adds the active tab's hostname to the currently selected domain list, so you don't need to copy or type it manually.
• Added Inclusion mode: You can now choose to intercept only selected sites (Inclusion list) or intercept everything except selected sites (Exclusion list).
• Auto-intercept domain filtering is now simpler:

example.com matches that exact host only.
*.example.com matches example.com and all of its subdomains.
Your existing lists are converted automatically to keep matching the same sites. Old subdomains-only entries (*.example.com) now also match the root domain. The #host prefix is no longer used.


Improved Desktop Notifications

• Consolidated multiple download failure notifications into a single notification when several downloads fail together.
• Introduced a global notification limit to prevent excessive desktop alerts: maximum 5 notifications per 60 seconds.
• Added a 2-minute notification quiet period when the limit is reached, followed by one consolidated summary of suppressed events.
• Consolidated multiple queued downloads, duplicate detections and submission failures to reduce notification clutter.
• Improved notification summaries with counts of failed, completed and queued downloads.
• Clicking consolidated notifications opens the relevant extension view and attempts to highlight the associated downloads.
• Preserved individual download records, error details, retry options and status badge updates.
• Improved notification handling across the popup, sidebar and background processes.

• Queue bar at the top of the popup. The offline-retry queue is displayed just below the topbar, matching the sidebar's layout. When the queue is empty the bar is hidden, so it never takes up room you don't need.
• Popup layout stays tidy when the queue is visible. With the queue bar shown (and especially when expanded to list its items), the popup now grows as needed so the "Start a download" hero block stays centered in the space below the queue, instead of being pushed down or clipped at the bottom edge.
• Queued downloads show as "already selected" in torrent search. If you've queued a magnet — for example, while your NAS was offline — and later search for it from either the popup or the sidebar, its result row now shows the gold checkmark instead of an add button. Removing the item from the queue flips it back to addable.
• Faster startup on both surfaces. When the NAS is slow or unreachable, the popup and sidebar now display their content in about half a second instead of one-and-a-half to five seconds. No more blank pane while the extension waits for the network.
• Sidebar reconnects promptly. Once your NAS becomes reachable again, the sidebar clears its connection message within a few seconds instead of remaining on screen for up to half a minute.
• Torrent search works while the NAS is offline. The connection status message no longer covers search results. Searching public indexers doesn't require the NAS, so results are visible and clickable even when the download list can't be fetched.
• Sidebar connection status is now readable. The offline notice in the sidebar displays as a proper card — icon, title, explanation, and an Open Settings button — instead of an oversized graphic. The button takes you straight to the settings panel so you can correct the connection.

Also in this release

• Faster row removal in the popup. Removing a download from the Downloading or Paused tab now clears the row promptly once the undo countdown ends, matching the sidebar's behavior. Previously the popup showed "Removing…" for several seconds.
• Popup errors now render in red. Failures such as an admin-permission refusal on a bandwidth-limit change are shown in red, so they're immediately distinguishable from success states.
• Auto-intercept hover no longer mimics its active state. Hovering the toggle when it's off now brightens the icon neutrally rather than tinting it in the same blue as its "on" state, so the current state is always unambiguous.
• Sidebar footer now includes Open Download Station, Bandwidth Limiter, and Auto-Intercept alongside Open Popup and Settings — the same five controls as the popup's topbar.
• Settings gear in both surfaces now toggles: click to open settings, click again to return to your downloads.
• Bandwidth limiter is available in both surfaces with instant cross-surface sync.
• Torrent search source badges abbreviated

🔍 Search and Add are now the front door
The popup and sidebar both lead with two clear buttons — Search and Add. Tap either to reveal its input; tap again to hide it. Only one panel is ever open, and switching between them is instant with no layout jump. No more hunting for a small search icon buried next to the tabs.

🔍 Torrent search now queries indexers directly, not your NAS
Since 2.97, HTTP/FTP//torrent search ran through your QNAP NAS's own Download Station search add-ons -- those had gone stale and search was breaking. You asked us to fix it. As of this version, search queries go straight to three public torrent indexers (Pirate Bay via apibay.org, YTS, and Nyaa) instead. Nothing is downloaded automatically -- you still choose which result, if any, to send to your own NAS. As requested, we'll soon add GitHub, npm registry, and Hugging Face Hub to the search results.

No dead tab strip
When there are zero downloads, the Downloading / Paused / Completed tabs disappear entirely instead of sitting there disabled. They animate back the moment a download arrives.

🔍 Torrent search now runs direct
Torrent search no longer depends on Download Station add-ons (which break as their target sites change). It now queries three public indexers directly — Pirate Bay (general), YTS (movies), and Nyaa (anime) — merges the results, and ranks them by seed count. Every row shows which site it came from. Search works even when your NAS is offline; if offline, added items are placed in to the queue for automatic submission when the NAS is online.

⚡ Faster bulk actions
Pause All, Resume All, Clear All, and Remove Selected now run up to 4× faster on large lists by processing requests in parallel instead of one at a time.

🔕 Smarter intercepted-download notifications
Clicking several magnet links or triggering multiple intercepted downloads in quick succession now produces one grouped notification — "4 downloads intercepted" — instead of a stack of separate ones. Open it to see every item in the batch and exclude all their sites in a single click. Single clicks still fire their own individual notification as before.

📊 Live status on the toolbar icon
Hover the extension's toolbar icon during a download to see a live status line below the extension name:
Example:
Send To QNAP++
2 downloading · ↓ 8.4 MB/s · next 2m 15s

🔒 Clearer removal state
When a removal's Undo countdown runs out, the row now stays visibly marked "Removing…" until the NAS confirms it's gone — no more normal-looking row that silently ignores input while waiting.

🐛 Fixed: sidebar console error
Adding downloads from the sidebar's + Add Download button no longer throws a one-off JavaScript error in the browser console.

📥 Queue empties immediately when the NAS reconnects
Previously, if you added downloads while the NAS was unreachable, the offline queue would drip them back one at a time — each waiting out its own countdown before the next. Now, the moment the extension confirms the NAS is back, the whole queue is retried in one pass and drains straight away. If the NAS drops again mid-drain, the remaining items go back to their normal backoff.

[ Sidebar ]
Firefox Sidebar support — access Send To QNAP++ from Firefox's sidebar, so downloads stay visible while you browse.

[ Completed file action ]
↪ Previously named 'Custom URI Handoff' — decide what happens when you click a completed download's filename:

🠺 Copy its path to the clipboard — copies the file's location to your clipboard.

🠺 Open with an app — hands the path off to a protocol you've already registered with your OS.

🠺 A custom path format lets you tailor both the copied path and the handoff URI to your own OS folder structure.

[ Retry failed downloads ]
🠺 Retry failed downloads — click the retry icon on any failed entry, or use the new Retry Failed bulk action to retry every failed download at once.

[ Clickable notifications ]
🠺 Clickable desktop notifications — completion and failure notifications open the Completed tabs page. Auto-Interception notifications open an action panel with "Don't intercept this site" and "Open Extension" buttons.

[ Connection status location ]
🠺 Connection status moved into Settings — the Download Station connection indicator now sits beside the Test button/