This release adds multi-language support (including RTL layouts) and improves capture stability during settings changes and background restarts.

New Features:
* Localization & RTL Support: Added localized browser menus and popup text for all supported languages, including right-to-left (RTL) layout support for Hebrew and Persian.
* Clearer UI States: Improved popup feedback for setup, connection, capture, and update situations.

Improvements:
* Settings Change Safety: Automatic captures are no longer interrupted if a site is disabled or capture settings change mid-handoff (addresses Firelink #28).
* State Persistence: Service-worker restarts and setting adjustments are now less likely to leave downloads paused or in an unclear state.
* Action Feedback: Enhanced menu, popup, and handoff messaging so failed actions explain what went wrong instead of failing silently.

Fixes:
* Firefox Download Handling: Prevented Firefox downloads from being prematurely paused before the extension confirms it should handle them.
* Capture State Tracking: Ensured automatic-capture state remains accurately tied to the correct download during worker lifecycle and settings changes.

This patch release makes browser captures safer during startup, restarts, and multiple simultaneous handoffs.

New Features:
* Batch Link Download: Add option to batch selected links from the context menu, passing the page title to Firelink so related files can be grouped in an optional folder (completes browser side of Firelink #27).

Improvements:
* Filename Resolution: Automatic captures pause while their filename settles before forwarding the final useful name to Firelink.
* Service Worker Reliability: Remembers in-progress automatic captures across service-worker restarts and retries only safe handoffs.
* Launch Queueing: Queues concurrent launch handoffs and waits for old launch tabs to close before starting a new session.
* Ambiguity Handling: Keeps ambiguous handoffs paused with a clear notification instead of risking a duplicate download.
* Title & Error Handling: Ensures batch names are safe for long and Unicode page titles, and reports context-menu handoff failures clearly.

Fixes:
* Capture Stability: Prevents automatic captures from being lost, duplicated, or resumed too early when Firelink is starting, unavailable, or responding ambiguously.
* Cookie API Recovery: Recovers captures gracefully when browser cookie APIs are unavailable without forwarding invalid cookie headers.
* Targeting Accuracy: Prevents state cleanup, filename updates, and worker-restart recovery from acting on the wrong browser download.

This patch release improves browser captures that pass through authenticated redirects.

Improved:
* Redirect Handling: Preserves the final filename and correct browser authentication through redirects (including Gmail attachments and Incognito/Private sessions). This addresses the download issue in Firelink #21.
* Security & Verification: Local handoff responses are now clearly authenticated, allowing the extension to securely distinguish Firelink from unrelated local services.
* Compatibility: Kept Firefox and Chromium package checks aligned for the latest release.

Fixed:
* Redirect Bug: Fixed an issue where the extension would accidentally save sign-in pages or use cookies on the wrong host when a browser download was redirected.

Improved:
* Make browser-to-Firelink handoffs more reliable when Firelink is still starting or several requests arrive together. Each request now keeps its own startup deadline.

Fixed:
* Show invalid pairing tokens as authentication errors and avoid mistaking unrelated local 403 responses for the Firelink desktop app.

Fixed
Keep explicit media fetches on Firelink's configured yt-dlp cookie source instead of forwarding a potentially oversized raw browser cookie header.
Keep ordinary captured downloads able to use their browser session while preventing explicit media requests from carrying stale or oversized cookies into metadata fetching.

New
* Add Fetch media actions in the popup and page/video/audio context menus.
Improved
* Compact the popup layout so pairing, capture, per-site controls, and media fetch fit without long guidance text.
* Require Firelink local protocol v4 for explicit Fetch media handoffs so older desktop builds do not silently treat them as normal downloads.
* Forward container-aware cookies only for explicit single-page media fetches and automatic single-download captures.
**Fixed
* Fall back to selected-text URL parsing when the browser cannot expose a tab for the selected-link context menu.

• Require the Firelink 1.0 desktop app and its local protocol v3 for automatic download capture.
• Older desktop builds are rejected before the extension can cancel an automatic browser download.

• Add stronger desktop-server identity checks before trusting localhost responses.
• Add dynamic port discovery across Firelink's 127.0.0.1:6412-6422 listener range.
• Add safer explicit launch behavior through firelink://launch when the app is closed.
• Add clearer offline, invalid-token, and update-required behavior for browser handoff failures.

• Route automatic captures through Firelink's Add window while preserving the browser download unless Firelink confirms acceptance.
• Keep manual context-menu downloads free of browser cookies by default.
• Forward browser cookies only for automatic single-download captures that need the browser session.
• Avoid sharing one site's cookies across multi-link batches.
• Keep the extension package self-contained for Mozilla review by removing remote font loading.
• Update Firefox compatibility metadata and data-collection declarations for the current add-on store requirements.

• Fix event-page startup races so capture settings are respected after the background worker wakes up.
• Fix unsupported Firefox notification-button usage that could prevent capture listeners from registering.
• Fix protocol fallback paths that could open unnecessary tabs or lose the original browser download.
• Fix host permissions and local API port metadata so the extension matches the Firelink 1.0 desktop listener.

Security Fixes:

Upgraded the Firelink app connection protocol to use HMAC-SHA256 signatures, preventing unauthenticated access to the local extension server.
The extension now correctly signs the payload and a timestamp using the pairing token instead of passing it as a simple HTTP header.

Fixes:

Prevented the extension from falling back to deep linking if the pairing token hasn't been set, fully closing a token bypass vulnerability.
Added a silent flag to the payload when capturing background downloads to explicitly differentiate auto-captures from manual context-menu clicks, restoring the intended "Add Downloads" bypass behavior.
**Updated the connection status check in the popup to correctly sign the /ping request, resolving an issue where it incorrectly displayed "App is closed".

**Fixes:
- Fix Manifest V3 service worker/event page state race condition to ensure user settings (like disabling global capture) are strictly respected upon wakeup.
- Pause browser downloads while pinging the Firelink app to reliably prevent duplicate files from being downloaded.
- Remove inline onerror attribute in the popup to ensure 100% compliance with Firefox's strict Manifest V3 Content Security Policy (CSP).

Improvements

• Polish the pairing-token popup UI by moving inline styles into the extension stylesheet and masking the token input by default.
• Document that Firelink app updates now use GitHub Releases while the browser extension remains a separate add-on release.

Changes

• Remove stale references to the old static firelink-extension-v1 token from the background script.

Improvements

**Update connection check to correctly handle empty pairing tokens by displaying a "Setup Required" state.

Fixes

**Fix notification spam by suppressing the "Firelink Setup Required" alert on automatic background downloads when the token is missing.

Improvements

• Preserved the custom protocol fallback for manual "Download with Firelink" actions, ensuring resilience when the local Firelink API is unavailable.

Changes

• Updated release note generation to use the changelog entry for GitHub release page descriptions, ensuring consistency across the source tree and published notes.

Fixes

• Prevented global download capture from canceling or erasing the browser download unless the native Firelink app explicitly confirms the local API handoff.

Version 1.0.7 introduces several reliability and UI improvements:

• Redesigned extension icons for a more modern look and better high-resolution scaling.
• Optimized connection latency and silenced unnecessary interruptions from the native app.
• Improved link interception by using hidden iframes, completely eliminating blank tabs when capturing downloads.
• Added multiple connection fallbacks and port probing to ensure reliable communication with the Firelink native app.
• Enabled "Capture Downloads" by default to provide a smoother onboarding experience.
• Aligned naming and terminology to "Firelink Companion" throughout the extension.
• Various under-the-hood UI improvements, stability upgrades, and backward compatibility measures.

Fixes: Hardened the local Firelink bridge to ensure more secure and reliable communication between the extension and the local download manager client.