What's new in Essentials for KissAnime 2020.5.17.0 (3.5)

Jun 1, 2020
  • Added:
  • Added support for the beta5 and beta6 servers.
  • Added a notice on the login/register page advising against creating a KissAnime account.
  • Added additional elements that can be customized to the Custom Scheme options.
  • Added new keyboard shortcut to toggle the player's mute state.
  • Added the option to set the seek foward/back time for the seek forward/back shortcuts.
  • Changed:
  • Changed season box titlebar text to better reflect the contents.
  • Changed cloudflare page quotes.
  • Updated dependencies.
  • If using the anilist or kitsu integration, you will now be asked if you want to update your list on the completion of new episodes that are in your animelists.
  • Using an actual toast notification for the player custom speed input instead of using the native browser prompt.
  • Changed how keyboard shortcuts are displayed and handled. This may reset some user's shortcuts.
  • Fixed:
  • Fixed mp4upload host support.
  • Fixed issue caused by styling changes made in the previous update where certain elements were not being styled with the Custom Scheme.

New in Essentials for KissAnime 2020.4.1 (3.3) (Apr 1, 2020)

  • Fixed:
  • Some minor stuff you know. Nothing out of the ordinary here.

New in Essentials for KissAnime 2020.3.26.1 (3.2.5) (Mar 27, 2020)

  • Fixed theater mode and auto-fullscreen options not working properly.

New in Essentials for KissAnime 2020.3.26.0 (3.2.4) (Mar 26, 2020)

  • Fixed:
  • Fixed custom player not loading after a recent site change.

New in Essentials for KissAnime 2020.3.18.0 (3.2.3) (Mar 19, 2020)

  • Fixed beta server not having audio. This is due to kissanime now separating the video and audio tracks.

New in Essentials for KissAnime 2020.2.24.0 (3.2) (Feb 26, 2020)

  • Added:
  • Added option to adjust player volume with the scroll wheel.
  • Added toggle to display the season list as a schedule organizing anime by day of the week.
  • Changed:
  • Visited latest episode link in the pinned list will have a different color.
  • You will no longer get stuck on the pinned/history list containers when attempting to scroll while hovering over them.
  • Fixed:
  • Fixed covers not appearing for anime in the history list.
  • Fixed latest episode link not being clickable in the popup.html
  • Fixed issue where hide button was not clickable.
  • Fixed issue where custom playback rate was not visually displaying correctly.
  • Fixed pinned list covers not being updated.

New in Essentials for KissAnime 2020.2.18.1 (3.1.1) (Feb 19, 2020)

  • Added:
  • Added the ability to set a &time= url parameter to set the player's current time on page load.
  • Re-added the pinned list watch history and latest episode check due to popular demand.
  • Added player option and shortcut to set a custom playback speed.
  • Added option to display dubbed links (if available) in the seasons list.
  • Added a method for me to manually match anime on kissanime with the corresponding anilist, kitsu, and mal IDs in the case that the extension is unable to properly detect them.
  • Changed:
  • Made the graphql.anilist.co, api.jikan.moe, and kitsu.io permissions optional. They will only be requested if the associated feature is enabled.
  • Replaced chrome-extension-async library with webextension-polyfill
  • Fixed:
  • Fixed visual bug when logging into Kitsu.
  • Fixed Search for Torrents not returning results in certain cases.
  • Fixed the Advance Time value not being saved in the Keyboard Shortcuts dialog.
  • Fixed Custom Scheme not affecting the background color of the alternating rows in the bookmarks page.
  • Fixed the BG Position Y Custom Scheme option having no effect on the background image.
  • Fixed Reset Defaults button not working.
  • Fixed issue where certain settings were not being saved properly on firefox due to a vue reactivity issue.
  • Updated plyr library which fixed an issue where the video was cropped when fullscreen on 21:9 displays.

New in Essentials for KissAnime 2018.9.24.1 (Sep 25, 2018)

  • Fixed issue with rapidvideo host.

New in Essentials for KissAnime 2018.6.5.1 (Jun 5, 2018)

  • Added: Readded Auto-Fullscreen feature.
  • Added: Readded Theater Mode feature.
  • Added: Added hide buttons to ads that normally did not have them.
  • Added: Added option for one-time donations in the options page since they're been a few people asking for it.
  • Added: Added a close button to the annoucement box on the homepage.
  • Changed: Hopefully prevented popup ads. Almost kms with this one since I was not getting popup ads whatsoever. Turns out Malwarebytes blocks the domain that is causing the popup ads. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
  • Changed: Made beta host loading look less like its having a seizure or something.
  • Fixed: Fixed extension not replacing Openload Player.
  • Fixed: Fixed video restarting from beginning if the video fails to continue playing when attempting to retry.
  • Fixed: Fixed issue where the Reload Video button would reload the video but start over from the beginning.
  • Fixed: Fixed issue where video that was previously watched does not return to the last saved time.

New in Essentials for KissAnime 2018.5.30.6 (Jun 5, 2018)

  • Changed: Ad Blocker will no longer block all ads. Not our choice. We'll see what we can do for future updates.
  • Removed: Removed captcha solver.

New in Essentials for KissAnime 2018.5.30.1 (Jun 5, 2018)

  • Fixed: Fixed white/blank page issue.
  • Fixed: Hotfix for AdBlocker

New in Essentials for KissAnime 2018.5.29.1 (May 30, 2018)

  • Added: Added a link that will search for a torrent for the current anime.
  • Changed: No longer forcing beta host if the user is using their selected default host.
  • Changed: Redirect kissanime.ac to kissanime.ru.
  • Changed: Ads are disabled by default now.
  • Fixed: Fixed issue with the MAL Integration where it was not parsing information properly.
  • Fixed: Maybe finally fixed the auto-captcha. This fix uses async functions meaning the auto-captcha will not work for users using Chrome version 54 or lower.
  • Fixed: Fixed issue where the &time= parameter does not work with the beta and alpha hosts.
  • Fixed: Fixed Reddit Discussions returns no results.
  • Fixed: Fixed issue where page does not open when an anime from the extension icon pinned list is clicked.
  • Fixed: Fixed issue where extension was not replacing the openload player.
  • Fixed: Fixed Auto Captcha not recognizing the new slightly modified images.

New in Essentials for KissAnime 2018.2.23.1 (Feb 24, 2018)

  • Added: Whenever the default or beta host is used, it will automatically use the beta host with pfail=1 set.
  • Changed: Changed how the Last Watched is stored. Using an object instead of an array.
  • Fixed: Potentially fixed an issue that some users were having with the auto captcha solver.
  • Fixed: The Easylist filter used by many adblockers started blocking third-party requests on kissanime. Added a workaround to make sure requests to my server aren't blocked.

New in Essentials for KissAnime 2017.9.3.1 (Sep 17, 2017)

  • Added: Added new way for me to display messages on the site.
  • Added: Added support for new Streamango video host.
  • Added: Added basic Kitsu.io support. Displays "Find in Kitsu" link and anime scores.
  • Changed: Changed how the captcha direct users when they fail to correctly answer the captcha.
  • Changed: Changed to display the disqus rules again.
  • Changed: Completely rewrote the notification system. I can now create notifications with ease.
  • Changed: Minor changes to CSS.
  • Changed: Reddit Discussions feature now uses all available titles for searching.
  • Changed: Revamped the seasons api. Updated seasons endpoint to v2.
  • Changed: Now displaying the last date the season list was updated.
  • Changed: Changed the titlebar color to be a bit darker.
  • Changed: Video players will now fallback to the original player if the extension fails to replace it in time.
  • Fixed: Fixed MAL2KissAnime script.
  • Fixed: Fixed MAL Integration feature. Should no longer ban people.
  • Fixed: Potentially fixed an issue that caused the quality selector to not appear.
  • Fixed: Fixed rapidvideo host support.
  • Fixed: Fixed typo in one of the Please wait quotes.

New in Essentials for KissAnime 2017.6.2.1 (Jun 5, 2017)

  • Added: Added discord invite link to options page.
  • Added: Added new Ad url to the filters.
  • Added: Added new items to customize in the Custom Scheme feature. You can now change the color of the seekbar on the video player.
  • Added: Added supporters list to CF page.
  • Added: Added random quote to the CF page.
  • Changed: Improved the MAL detection.
  • Changed: Did a bit of clean up.
  • Changed: Reverted to using var for support in older chrome versions. Chrome 45 is currently the lowest version I will support. This may change in the future if I find features I want to use that are only available in new chrome versions.
  • Changed: Minor CSS changes to the scrollbar sitewide.
  • Fixed: Fixed an issue with the last server feature which caused issues with the captchas.
  • Fixed: Fixed case-sensitive url in options page.
  • Fixed: Fixed issue with the Alternate Video Page feature where certain elements would constantly duplicate causing the page to eventually crash.
  • Removed: Temp removed Download All feature since the captchas ruined it.
  • Release Date: June 2nd, 2017

New in Essentials for KissAnime 2017.5.1.1 (May 17, 2017)

  • Added: Added new popup Ad to the filter list.
  • Added: Added support for new RapidVideo host.
  • Added: Extension will now remember the last video host used.
  • Changed: Filters for Ad Blocker can now auto update.
  • Changed: No longer using an unsafe method that I won't mention used in the Download All option.
  • Changed: Minor change with the Slim Header option.
  • Fixed: Fixed Show only Currently Airing option not displaying properly after the last update.
  • Fixed: Fixed fullscreen not working as expected with the Alternate Video Page option enabled.

New in Essentials for KissAnime 2017.3.25.1 (May 17, 2017)

  • Changed: Minor styling changes.
  • Fixed: Can now block the popup Ads scripts.
  • Removed: Removed the permission stuff in the MAL Integration dialog box since it's no longer needed.
  • Removed: Removed old code and dependencies.

New in Essentials for KissAnime 2017.3.19.1 (May 17, 2017)

  • Fixed: Fixed Autoplay.
  • Fixed: Fixed Force Highest/Lowest Quality options.
  • Fixed: Maybe fixed player resizing?

New in Essentials for KissAnime 2017.3.18.1 (May 17, 2017)

  • Added: Extension now uses <all_urls> permission. This is used to completely block all Ads scripts from loading where as before the Ads were being removed after they have already been loaded into DOM as well as provide additional functionality to the extension.
  • Fixed: Fixed Slimmer Header option when the window is below a certain width. Also slight redesign.
  • Fixed: Removed some Ads that appeared on the Home Page.
  • Fixed: Fixed the Quality Selector not appearing.
  • Fixed: Fixed Download All option