What's new in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.5.9

Mar 19, 2024
  • Add option to store downvotes when done in private tabs
  • Fix chapters not changing when skipping is disabled
  • Stop refresh animation on popup when opened on a non YouTube page (thanks @HanYaodong )

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.5.8 (Mar 7, 2024)

  • Fix importing options in options page not working
  • Stop refresh animation on popup when not on youtube page (thanks @HanYaodong )

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.5.7 (Feb 28, 2024)

  • Improve layout on new YouTube layout with the description on the right

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.5.6 (Feb 25, 2024)

  • Fix issue causing extension to break when running with latest version of BlockTube (version 0.4.1)
  • Don't require preview for segments starting at 0 seconds

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.5.5 (Feb 14, 2024)

  • Fix chapter names not appearing
  • Fix adding custom Invidious instances on Firefox
  • Fix issues with voting in popup showing loading forever
  • Fix hidden mute segments sometimes still muting
  • Don't close submission menu if submission didn't go through
  • Improve scrubbing on mobile YouTube by not displaying preview bar during scrubbing

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.5.4 (Jan 31, 2024)

  • Fix preview bar end time sometimes being inaccurate
  • Fix compatibility with Vinegar on Safari

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.5.3 (Jan 23, 2024)

  • Improve precision on category names on hover of seek bar
  • Also fixes issue with YouTube "most-replayed" messing it up
  • Change requirements on new "preview segment before submitting" requirement to be less aggressive

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.5.2 (Jan 22, 2024)

  • Fix category selection changes not saving

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.5.1 (Jan 22, 2024)

  • Only require a previewing segments for skip and mute segments
  • Prevent zooming when trying to scroll to edit times
  • Only prevent scrolling while editing
  • Don't warn about using the word intro in chapter names

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.5 Beta (Jan 16, 2024)

  • Allow dragging around notices
  • Add keybinds for submitting, previewing segments and closing skip notices
  • Make unskipping for multi-segment skip notice easier
  • Add timestamp to multi segment vote box
  • Remove unsubmitted segment storage limit by moving it to the local storage
  • Fix preview bar on mobile
  • Require previewing before submitting
  • Add compatibility with Vinegar extension on Safari
  • Add retry logic to popup info
  • Fix scrolling fast on edit time not saving properly and similar saving issues
  • Fix full video segments ending up in skip notices
  • Improve error messages
  • Change how chapter views are counted

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.4.29 (Nov 30, 2023)

  • Reuploading to fix Firefox for Android minimum version number and make it appear on the store
  • Exactly the same as 5.4.29 but with the version code changed

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.4.28 (Nov 27, 2023)

  • Add support for userstyles in the popup. The popup was moved to an iframe recently, which broke some userstyles such as DeepDark. It will now copy user-styles from the main page into the popup to remain consistent
  • Fix extension when sync storage disabled and add warning that settings won't be saved. Issue occurred on Tor browser and Mullvad browser
  • Add never show button to DeArrow prompt

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.4.27 (Nov 9, 2023)

  • Rename "Preview/Recap" category to "Preview/Recap/Hook"
  • Add option to make the popup less cluttered (no logo or stats)
  • Ignore quotes when deduplicating SponsorBlock chapters with imported YouTube chapters
  • Make submission and skip notices slightly larger to fix it sometimes having layout issues
  • Fix error when submitting and having required segments in URL
  • Add DeArrow link on help page and tweak when promotion appears

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.4.26 (Nov 2, 2023)

  • Another fix for flashing on Firefox when skipping some segments at the end of the video
  • Make highlight bigger on timeline when skip to highlight button hovered
  • Scroll to bottom when new segment added in submission notice
  • Rate limit saving times to make scrolling the edit box less laggy

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.4.25 (Oct 24, 2023)

  • Potential fix for skipping segments at the end of videos causing odd behavior on Firefox
  • Added years to time saved display (thanks @Choromanski )
  • Add minimum version of Firefox to manifest

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.4.24 (Oct 15, 2023)

  • Fix vote buttons in full video labels not being aligned
  • Fix videoID not properly changing when using sites such as Cytube or Watchtogether

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.4.23 (Oct 9, 2023)

  • Fix navigation bar on Piped being hidden

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.4.22 (Oct 1, 2023)

  • Add separate keybind for skip to highlight
  • Fix tip from moderator UI not working when submitting
  • Don't show start button when editing highlight

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.4.21 (Sep 24, 2023)

  • Fix YouTube "TV UI" on Firefox
  • Fix tips from moderators not opening chat box

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.4.20 (Sep 17, 2023)

  • Actually stop spacebar in chapters box from pausing video
  • Add extension icon default location on Firefox
  • Highlight segments on hover
  • Add end button when editing segments
  • Add start button when editing segments
  • Fix dot in comment replies being messed with by SponsorBlock css
  • Prevent video element refreshes from triggering too often, fixes performance issue

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.4.19 (Sep 6, 2023)

  • Stop spacebar in chapters box from pausing video.
  • Fix issue with segments not skipping properly on mobile YouTube.
  • Improve performance of hexToRgb function.

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.4.18 (Aug 26, 2023)

  • Fix Invidious support on Safari for macOS and Safari for iOS

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.4.16 (Aug 23, 2023)

  • Fix skipping when playback speed is changed
  • Add compatibility with video speed controller
  • Use non persistent background page on Firefox for better performance
  • Fix extension icon on Firefox for Android

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.4.15 (Aug 9, 2023)

  • Attempting to fix it not skipping segments for the first time after opening links in new tabs

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.4.14 (Aug 2, 2023)

  • Fix reproducible builds for Firefox

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.4.13 (Jul 30, 2023)

  • Support live updating (extension updates will apply to existing tabs safely)
  • Add category color to skip notice logo
  • Fix chapter name sometimes disappearing in player
  • Fix an issue with skips freezing tabs on specific videos
  • Fix video sometimes looping on playlists instead of going to the next video

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.4.12 (Jul 20, 2023)

  • Better check for warning about zoom to fill being installed

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.4.11 (Jul 15, 2023)

  • Performance improvements
  • Improve full video category pills on mobile
  • Make sure tooltip gets closed after downvoting full video category
  • Make full video category pill not take full height of title container
  • Fix non https and IP accessed custom invidious instance support
  • Support yt kids (thanks @mchangrh )
  • Warn people using incompatible "Zoom to fill" extension

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.4.10 (Jun 22, 2023)

  • Don't show info about DeArrow for people who just installed

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.4.9 (Jun 22, 2023)

  • Changes this version:
  • Add warning when enabling filler
  • Fix some mutation listener performance problems
  • Improve some garbage collection handling with html elements
  • Border radius on popup (thanks @rakleed )
  • Add links to DeArrow

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.4.8 (May 28, 2023)

  • Changes this version:
  • Retry preview bar check multiple times to make sure it was created
  • Add more waiting for existing chapters import

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.4.6 (May 8, 2023)

  • Changes this version:
  • Show time with skips removed on invidious (thanks @mini-bomba )
  • Fix skip looping issue
  • Support new YouTube layout
  • Add translation support to time left in popup (thanks @Blueberryy and @mini-bomba )
  • Add config sync with upcoming Clickbait extension

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.4.5 (May 1, 2023)

  • Fix submission menu in theater mode and fullscreen

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.4.2 (Apr 27, 2023)

  • Fix video labels showing all categories regardless of settings
  • Fix looped videos sometimes not skipping start segment
  • Fix wrapping issue on safari
  • Improve compatibility with companion extensions
  • Spelling fix (thanks @biot )

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.4.1 (Apr 17, 2023)

  • Fixed bugs with dark reader and other color issues (thanks @mini-bomba )
  • Fix potentially leaking set interval

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.4.0 Beta (Mar 18, 2023)

  • Show Full Video Labels on thumbnails (thanks @mini-bomba )

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.3.1 (Mar 18, 2023)

  • Fix Invidious support on Firefox

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.3.0 (Mar 14, 2023)

  • More precise skipping on Firefox
  • Fix category pill disappearing on mobile
  • Fix Finnish timestamp issues
  • Fix skipping behavior with auto skip on music videos
  • Update channel id regex
  • Also use more data from video events (thanks @mchangrh )
  • Fix unhiding one segment unhiding all
  • Fix chapter imports when not in focus
  • Reorganize lots of code

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.3.0 Beta (Mar 8, 2023)

  • Changes this version:
  • More precise skipping on Firefox
  • Fix category pill disappearing on mobile
  • Fix Finnish timestamp issues
  • Fix skipping behavior with auto skip on music videos
  • Update channel id regex
  • Also use more data from video events (thanks @mchangrh )
  • Fix unhiding one segment unhiding all
  • Fix chapter imports when not in focus
  • Reorganize lots of code

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.2.1 (Feb 25, 2023)

  • Fix Safari resetting custom Invidious domains
  • Force Invidious domains lower case
  • Don't remove unused invidious domains when support invidious is disabled

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.2.0 Pre-release (Feb 7, 2023)

  • New Invidious and 3rd-party support method that supports dynamic pages on Safari and incognito windows on Chromium

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.1.14 (Feb 2, 2023)

  • Add invidious instances by default for Safari

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.1.13 (Jan 31, 2023)

  • Fix chevron hiding sometimes
  • Store fonts locally
  • Fixed CSS on invidious (thanks @mchangrh )
  • Fix chapter importing breaking with no SponsorBlock segments
  • Fix Firefox popup icon

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.1.12 (Jan 22, 2023)

  • Fix category pill disappearing on mobile
  • Add support for Piped (thanks @mchangrh )
  • Fix chapter name sometimes disappearing
  • Give more time for existing chapters to load before giving up importing
  • Change next chapter keybind to be same as YouTube
  • Highlight partial required segments (thanks @mchangrh )
  • Safari compatibility fixes

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.1.11 (Dec 22, 2022)

  • Fix early skips on Firefox when seeking while playing

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.1.10 (Dec 20, 2022)

  • Fix importing chapters with trailing end bracket
  • Make warning message nicer

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.1.9 Pre-release (Dec 11, 2022)

  • Add new workaround for improving skipping precision on Firefox
  • Fix performance issues with large number of chapters and in other cases
  • Fix whitelist sometimes not working
  • Fix chapters text alignment
  • Don't include mutes in time without skis (thanks @caneleex )
  • Add option to disable scrolling to edit (thanks @caneleex )
  • Allow full videos labels on livestreams (thanks @mchangrh )

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.1.8 (Nov 24, 2022)

  • Remove retry fetch if not found until we find a better solution that doesn't waste so much bandwidth
  • Fix some race conditions leading to unnecessary segment fetches

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.1.7 (Nov 23, 2022)

  • Fix issues with mutes ending when highlights start.
  • Fix category pill text on new YouTube layout.
  • Better key moments check.

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.1.7 Pre-release (Nov 22, 2022)

  • Fix issues with mutes ending when highlights start
  • Fix category pill text on new YouTube layout
  • Better key moments check

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.1.6 (Nov 6, 2022)

  • Fix endcards sometimes overwriting end time to end of video

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.1.5 (Nov 5, 2022)

  • Fix segments really close to eachother not skipping
  • More safety in preview bar and skip to highlight
  • Fix layout issue with "precise seeking notice"
  • Don't update the whole segment list on time update (thanks @mini-bomba )
  • Use public ID for more calls when possible (thanks @mini-bomba )
  • Add YT Music progress bar selector (thanks @mchangrh )

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.1.4 (Oct 31, 2022)

  • Fix scrubbing bar missing when chapter bar using % widths
  • Add configuration for segment failed to fetch warning
  • Fix key moments check not working when multiple videos present

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.1.2 (Oct 28, 2022)

  • Add error when trying to submit while server is failing
  • Improved segment still loading error message
  • Disable virtual time in Firefox again
  • Show import segments button even when segments aren't fetched
  • Import chapters as chooseACategory if chapters is disabled
  • Open submission menu after importing
  • Support importing short category names

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.1.1 (Oct 17, 2022)

  • Fix progress bar with 0px chapters
  • Add back virtual time to firefox and fix it with playback speed
  • Add flag to disable virtual time

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.1.0 Pre-release (Oct 12, 2022)

  • Make sure chapters are invalid if regex fails
  • Run chapters clear when preview bar cleared
  • Count skips for chapters when viewed
  • Clear vote buttons when clearing preview bar
  • Fix zero start time breaking imports
  • Fix chapter icon with ytp big mode
  • Reimport chapters if they are found to have changed
  • update buttons when single time segment is edited
  • Set endtime by default for outro
  • Remove the unsubmittedSegments entry when removing the last segment
  • don't append skip button for full video labels
  • Update popup on segment updates
  • React 18
  • Add class for other extensions when displaying non chapter title
  • Enable chapters if not enabled after redeem successful
  • Fix key moments importing as chapters

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.0.7 (Oct 5, 2022)

  • Fix embeds
  • Fix buttons on YouTube clips
  • Fix spamming requests sometimes

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.0.6 (Oct 1, 2022)

  • Fix import button missing when no segments
  • Swap back inspect and preview
  • Fix lock color (thanks @mchangrh )

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.0.5 (Sep 25, 2022)

  • Default to chapters tab if no normal segments
  • Tidy/simplify popup
  • Fix custom chapter bar sometimes sticking around
  • Fix chapter suggestions disappearing on click
  • Swap preview and inspect
  • Add option to disable segment names beside timestamp in video player
  • Add tooltip to skip segment button
  • Fix popup voting buttons disappearing
  • Fix popup horizontal scroll issues on new layouts
  • Improve start/end segment button text

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.0.4 (Sep 23, 2022)

  • Changes this version:
  • Fix wrong css property name
  • Change next keybind button for better compatibility
  • Fix preview bar on mobile
  • Add export to unsubmitted segments
  • Hide import button when no video found
  • Add notice about chapters for free users
  • Only hide chapter name suggestions when focus lost
  • Fix chapter chevron sometimes not appearing
  • Fix popup layout on safari

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.0.3 (Sep 19, 2022)

  • Changes minor version:
  • Try to fix issues with chapter bar hiding
  • Add option to show categories in submit menu even when you can't upload them
  • Fix unsubmitted segments in chapter description box
  • Fix hover text offset when video a different aspect ratio
  • Fix issue with chapter bar not being created
  • Shrink chapter vote buttons
  • Make submission menu UI more consistent
  • Fix styling of empty category name suggestions menu
  • Clarify chapter submission permission
  • Change opacity of options

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.0.2 Pre-release (Sep 16, 2022)

  • Changes minor version:
  • Fix too many hover text tooltips
  • Fix last preview bar being off
  • Fix preview bar size offset with big mode
  • Sync official chapter margin
  • Fix seek bar sometimes becoming empty when one seek section is completely filled
  • Fix chapters getting offset when small chapters filtered out
  • Fix last imported chapter not displaying sometimes
  • Fix segments not available when hover preview -> click on same video
  • Add more checks to prevent double seek bar or no seek bar
  • Fix info button animation
  • Fix doubling up segments in multi segment skip notice
  • Fix some skips being ignored when close to chapters
  • Fix hover for first chapter
  • Improve next chapter and previous chapter keybind
  • rename import chapters to import segments
  • Handle preview bar hover without js

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.0.1 Pre-release (Sep 5, 2022)

  • Features:
  • Add option to manual skip when a full video segment exists
  • Fixes:
  • Add support for hours in import segments
  • Fix the freezing on firefox due to hover preview text
  • Don't show empty chapter bar for youtube chapters in popup
  • Fix crashes on invidious
  • Fix copy tooltip
  • Properly handle hover previews for chapters and clear old unused ones
  • Fix chapter -> full -> chapter not saving times
  • Prevent some event bubbling issues
  • Don't carry over incorrect/harmful vote menu between videos
  • Prevent creating multiple chapter vote containers
  • Fix vote buttons appearing for unsubmitted segments
  • fix react errors about using inherit
  • Safer document script
  • Hide custom chapter bar while generating

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 5.0 Pre-release (Sep 2, 2022)

  • Changes this version:
  • Custom Chapters! (Not free for everyone)
  • Other changes:
  • Fix channel ID fetching to use a new system (thanks @mchangrh)
  • Add a section in options for unsubmitted segments (thanks @mini-bomba)
  • Catch more HTML errors (thanks @mchangrh)
  • Fix popup width when embedded in page (thanks @AlecRust)
  • update wording of Preview to be inline with wiki (thanks @mchangrh)
  • allow disabling mute segments locally (thanks @mchangrh)
  • Fix issues with Dark Reader & Invidious themes (thanks @mini-bomba)

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 4.7.1 (Jul 22, 2022)

  • Fix bug where videoID not detected after searching for a video.

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 4.7 (Jul 21, 2022)

  • Fix categories not being able to be disabled
  • Fix skipping two segments starting at the same time with autoskip on music videos enabled
  • Keep muting if about to autoskip after a mute
  • New UI for warnings

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 4.6.4 (Jul 13, 2022)

  • Fix regression causing overlapping skips not to skip properly

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 4.6.3 (Jul 12, 2022)

  • Added retry for server errors
  • Fix segments sometimes disappearing when changing options
  • Fix skipping multiple segments with the exact same start time
  • Improve zero second segments

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 4.6.2 (Jul 4, 2022)

  • Fix scrubbing on mobile YouTube
  • Add timestamp to options export

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 4.6.1 (Jul 1, 2022)

  • Fix embeds not working after YouTube change (thanks @mchangrh )
  • Show connection errors when fetching segments (thanks @mchangrh )
  • Fix popup being out of date and never auto-close

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 4.6 (Jun 19, 2022)

  • Forward key presses from in-page popup
  • Remove cursor pointer where it shouldn't be
  • Fix alignment of username box on popup
  • Fix segment help page not closing when using keybinds
  • Auto-hide voted text after voting in popup (thanks @Argn0 )
  • Better automated tests

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 4.5.1 (Jun 5, 2022)

  • Fix copy button on in-page popup

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 4.5 (Jun 4, 2022)

  • Popup styling change (thanks @PickleNik )
  • Fix channelID parsing for /user/ URLs
  • Add new help page showing off guidelines for each category
  • Use history API to reduce unnecessary usage of the background page
  • Move popup to Iframe for improved security (thanks @NDevTK )
  • Fix ratelimiting when changing category colour (thanks @Argn0 )
  • Fix mobile Firefox icon
  • Delete items if storage is getting close to limit

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 4.4.5 (May 26, 2022)

  • Fix issue with skip sometimes not happening

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 4.4.4 (May 25, 2022)

  • Changes this version:
  • Fix channelID parsing, should fix whitelisting

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 4.4.3 (May 24, 2022)

  • Changes this version:
  • Add reset settings button (thanks @Argn0 )
  • Don't stop skipping if channelID fetch fails
  • Add some more logging

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 4.4.2 (May 20, 2022)

  • Changes this version:
  • Fix some cases with whitelisting
  • Fix skip to highlight on mobile
  • Fix icon on Firefox for Android
  • Improve debug logs

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 4.4.1 (May 19, 2022)

  • Fix error related to channel id parsing
  • Add some more logging to catch skipping issues

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 4.4 (May 18, 2022)

  • Don't hide skip to highlight if you disable buttons
  • Fix preview bar on mobile videos with chapters (thanks @mchangrh )
  • Fix preview bar on some Invidious players (thanks @mchangrh )
  • Fix mobile time without skips looking wrong
  • Add warning messages to help catch skipping issues

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 4.3.3 (May 6, 2022)

  • Changes this version:
  • Fix submissions sometimes disappearing after submitting

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 4.3.2 (May 5, 2022)

  • Fix duplicate server requests

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 4.3.1 (May 4, 2022)

  • Fix duplicate skip notices
  • Fix hover color on buttons in popup (thanks @AlecRust )
  • Fix old video ids sometimes being fetched
  • Add tooltips to buttons in popup

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 4.2.1 (Mar 18, 2022)

  • Fix early skipping on Firefox

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 4.2 (Mar 17, 2022)

  • Improve skipping precision on Chromium
  • Fix skip notice on mobile being unclickable
  • Improved voting buttons on popup (thanks @AlecRust )

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 4.1.6 (Mar 12, 2022)

  • Another fix for hotkeys
  • Add menu bar to popup
  • Improve user info fetching
  • Hide ugly error messages

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 4.1.5 (Feb 24, 2022)

  • Another attempt to fix hotkeys (thanks @AronHK )
  • Fix playlists causing skips to fail on Safari (thanks @asportnoy )
  • Settings layout fixes (thanks @AronHK )

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 4.1.4 (Feb 22, 2022)

  • Fix show full video label option
  • Fix minimum segment duration not working
  • Fix it not saving your times when accidentally switching to Exclusive Access category, and then switching back
  • Display full video label right after submitting it

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 4.1.3 (Feb 13, 2022)

  • Fix hotkey after alt-tab.

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 4.1.2 (Feb 9, 2022)

  • Improve precision of skipping on Firefox and some devices with Chromium

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 4.1.1 Pre-release (Feb 8, 2022)

  • Changes this minor version:
  • Add option to disable storing downvotes
  • Rename Filler Tangent to Filler Tangent/Joke
  • Hide inspect and edit for Full video segments (thanks @mchangrh )
  • Potential fix for migration running out of storage
  • Don't save dislikes for VIP
  • Fix some icon issues
  • Changes since last major version:
  • Save downvotes after refreshing to never see disliked segments
  • New settings page look (thanks @AronHK )
  • Add option to temporarily hide segments via the popup
  • Hide segments when voting via the popup (before, this only worked when hiding via skip notice)
  • Fix text color for full video category labels with custom colors
  • Add new tooltip to full video labels
  • Fix sound on skip messing with media controls (thanks @mchangrh )
  • Save times when accidentally switching to exclusive access and back
  • Moved unsubmitted segments to use storage format that should use less resources
  • Don't load pre-made segments from URL multiple times
  • Fix for YouTube Clips (thanks @mchangrh )

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 4.0.5 (Jan 21, 2022)

  • Fix loading segments on hover previews; Should fix issues with buttons sometimes not appearing
  • Remove retry logic when server is down to not overload it

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 4.0.4 (Jan 18, 2022)

  • Fix full video segments sometimes causing skipping errors
  • Don't allow submissions on active premieres or livestreams
  • Add method to automatically pre-fill segments

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 4.0.3 (Jan 15, 2022)

  • Changes this version:
  • Don't warn about duration for when submitting a "Full video" label
  • Improve build scripts
  • Changes since last major version:
  • Add "Full video" label option
  • Add Exclusive Access category
  • Make question mark links go directly to wiki pages
  • Support embedded videos, channel trailers and previews (thanks @mchangrh )

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 4.0.2 (Jan 14, 2022)

  • Changes this version:
  • Update translations
  • Changes since last major version:
  • Add "Full video" label option
  • Add Exclusive Access category
  • Make question mark links go directly to wiki pages
  • Support embedded videos, channel trailers and previews (thanks @mchangrh )

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 4.0.1 (Jan 14, 2022)

  • Changes this version:
  • Add Exclusive Access category
  • Make question mark links go directly to wiki pages
  • Add close button to full video category pills
  • Make full video work on newer YouTube layouts
  • Changes since last major version:
  • Add "Full video" label option
  • Support embedded videos, channel trailers and previews (thanks @mchangrh )

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 4.0 Beta (Jan 7, 2022)

  • Add "Full video" label option
  • Support embedded videos and channel trailers (thanks @mchangrh )

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 3.7.2 (Jan 2, 2022)

  • Changes this version:
  • Fix saved days being calculated wrong in popup (thanks @Choromanski )
  • Changes this since the last major version:
  • Fix high CPU usage on YouTube Music (thanks @CyberPhoenix90 )
  • Fix deleting segment in submission notice causing the category to be wrong
  • Fix video looping on Safari when skipping to the end of the video
  • Fix auto-hide info button affecting skip to highlight
  • Fix userID hiding when it shouldn't
  • Fix errors when audio notification is used (thanks @AronHK )
  • Format hours in popup (thanks @Choromanski )
  • Update invidious list automatically (thanks @mchangrh )
  • Remove filler update notice

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 3.7.1 (Dec 30, 2021)

  • Changes this version:
  • Fix high CPU usage on YouTube Music (thanks @CyberPhoenix90 )
  • Changes this since the last major version:
  • Fix deleting segment in submission notice causing the category to be wrong
  • Fix video looping on Safari when skipping to the end of the video
  • Fix auto-hide info button affecting skip to highlight
  • Fix userID hiding when it shouldn't
  • Fix errors when audio notification is used (thanks @AronHK )
  • Format hours in popup (thanks @Choromanski )
  • Update invidious list automatically (thanks @mchangrh )
  • Remove filler update notice

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 3.7 Pre-release (Dec 28, 2021)

  • Fix deleting segment in submission notice causing the category to be wrong
  • Fix video looping on Safari when skipping to the end of the video
  • Fix auto-hide info button affecting skip to highlight
  • Fix userID hiding when it shouldn't
  • Fix errors when audio notification is used (thanks @AronHK )
  • Format hours in popup (thanks @Choromanski )
  • Update invidious list automatically (thanks @mchangrh )
  • Remove filler update notice

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 3.6.2 (Nov 25, 2021)

  • Changes this version:
  • Fix start time on preview bar sometimes behaving weird
  • Add tooltip that appears telling people about the new Filler category

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 3.6.1 (Nov 10, 2021)

  • Add new translations

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 3.6 (Nov 9, 2021)

  • Changes this version:
  • Add Filler Tangent category
  • Allow submitting mute segments for intro, outro and preview

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 3.5.2 (Nov 2, 2021)

  • Remove duration change filter, should fix issues with segments not appearing on first load
  • Save second value when switching submission to highlight and back (thanks @FlorianZahn )
  • Remove skip notice when seeking to highlight manually

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 3.5.1 (Oct 24, 2021)

  • Fix scrolling on submission notice.
  • Fix skip to highlight on mobile appearing on all pages.

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 3.5 (Oct 22, 2021)

  • Changes this version:
  • Make skip buttons bigger on mobile skip notice
  • Add wiki links to options page
  • Add support for required segments
  • Fix start time in preview bar always at zero
  • Skip to highlight on mobile
  • Appears on the left with low opacity, can be swiped away
  • Button reappears when controls are opened

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 3.4 Beta (Oct 16, 2021)

  • Changes this release:
  • Improve voting and add copy + downvote option (thanks @FlorianZahn )
  • Add scrolling to time editing to make small changes to time (thanks @FlorianZahn )
  • Attempt to fix info button randomly reappearing
  • Fix unsubmitted segments sometimes not skipping
  • Add notice for VIPs when voting on locked segments or locked videos (thanks @FlorianZahn )
  • Add margin bottom to popup (thanks @maximmax42 )

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 3.3.3 (Oct 7, 2021)

  • Hide skip to highlight button right away after timeout
  • Fix for older browsers that don't support named capturing groups
  • Support shorts urls

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 3.3.2 (Oct 3, 2021)

  • Changes this minor version:
  • Fix buffering issues with skip to highlight
  • Fix starting segment sometimes not being skipped
  • Fix starting segments being skipped when url contains ?t=12s
  • Fix duration filter sometimes removing all segments
  • Add some more error checks
  • Changes since last major version:
  • Highlight button now persists (thanks @FlorianZahn )
  • Player button options now more compressed
  • Hide segments when video duration changes
  • Make auto-hiding info button better
  • Fix styling on voting wrong category

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 3.3 Beta (Oct 1, 2021)

  • Highlight button now persists (thanks @FlorianZahn )
  • Player button options now more compressed
  • Hide segments when video duration changes
  • Make auto-hiding info button better

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 3.2 (Sep 20, 2021)

  • Fix skips in the middle of mute segments
  • Add warning for submitting multiple highlight segments
  • Fix username wrapping (thanks @LofhJann )
  • Make preview button playback speed dependant (thanks @FlorianZahn )

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 3.1.2 (Sep 8, 2021)

  • Fix skip counting

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 3.1.1 (Sep 5, 2021)

  • Changes this version:
  • Say muted instead of skipped for mute segments
  • Only show mute option for supported categories

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 3.1 (Sep 4, 2021)

  • Changes this version:
  • Add new "silent" option for muting sponsors and other categories
  • Update matrix links (thanks @mchangrh )
  • Add copy button beside username to get public userID

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 3.0.5 (Sep 2, 2021)

  • Fix centering on submission notice

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 3.0.4 (Sep 2, 2021)

  • Make highlight appear hover text easier to use
  • Fix preview sometimes not skipping
  • Fix UI issues when text is long (other languages)
  • Fix multiple segments skipped popup not appearing
  • Add copy public id button
  • Fix highlight appearing as two timestamps in popup
  • Always show refresh segments button

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 3.0.3 Beta (Aug 24, 2021)

  • Fix keybind being flaky
  • Fix highlight category when minimum duration set
  • Fix Invidious support

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 3.0.2 Beta (Aug 23, 2021)

  • Fix skipping issue when highlight segment is early in video
  • Fix highlight auto skipping on music videos
  • Fix auto skip on music videos setting only working for manual skip

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 3.0.1 Beta (Aug 21, 2021)

  • Changes this version:
  • Close skip to highlight when changing videos
  • Fix refreshing segments when no segments are found

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 3.0 Beta (Aug 21, 2021)

  • Changes this version:
  • Added new category: "Highlight"
  • Allows you to get to the point
  • voting on notice
  • Added new mini notice and faded notice
  • Support CloudTube
  • Make help page translatable

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 2.2 Beta (Aug 9, 2021)

  • Changes this version:
  • Add option to skip all segments on music videos
  • Fix animations on popup
  • fix previewing in some cases (thanks @mchangrh )

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 2.1.4.1 (Aug 5, 2021)

  • Changed in this minor version:
  • Fix chat not working when there was no specified warning reason
  • Changes since last major version:
  • Fix popup on Firefox
  • Make scroll bars dark on Chromium (thanks @rakleed )
  • Add an in-line chat when you get a warning

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 2.1.4 (Jul 31, 2021)

  • Changes this version:
  • Fix popup on Firefox
  • Make scroll bars dark on Chromium (thanks @rakleed )
  • Add an in-line chat when you get a warning

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 2.1.3 (Jul 28, 2021)

  • Changes this version:
  • Add animation to refresh segments and copy button
  • Fix whitelist title text
  • Clear notices when changing videos
  • Handle / in channel URLs for whitelisting
  • Remove unlisted video submission experiment
  • Clean up some text on the help page

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 2.1.2.1 (Jul 12, 2021)

  • Changes this minor version:
  • Fix type in unlisted video prompt
  • Add refresh button
  • Changes since last stable version:
  • Make skip timeout customizable
  • Add option to disable auto-hiding info button
  • Show all categories when voting to change category
  • Fix self-voting segments right after submitting:
  • Previously, this would only work if you reloaded the page first. Now it works right away

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 2.1.1 (Jun 25, 2021)

  • Added fixes to support Safari
  • Attempted to get get_video_info api working again
  • Make info button hide automatically:
  • It now does not appear until you hover over the right controls
  • This should make the player less cluttered
  • hiding info button

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 2.1.0.2 (Jun 24, 2021)

  • Changes since last major version:
  • Improved hotkey detection to work even if the video is not focused
  • Add support for Cloudtube
  • Make options page searchable and make text copyable
  • Fix clipboard icon sometimes not appearing (thanks @MRuy )
  • Grow the preview bar when you hover over the scrollbar (when there are not chapters)
  • Add option to not count skip time in private (incognito) tabs
  • Switched licenses to LGPL-3.0 with agreement from all contributors
  • Add preview category:
  • Set to Manual Skip by default for anyone with Intermission set to Auto Skip or Manual Skip
  • Make the get_video_info method of retrieving channel work again:
  • This should make channel fetching work more often like before and be slightly faster

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 2.1.0.1 (Jun 22, 2021)

  • Changes since last minor version:
  • Changed colour of preview category
  • Changes since last major version:
  • Add preview category
  • Set to Manual Skip by default for anyone with Intermission set to Auto Skip or Manual Skip
  • Improved hotkey detection to work even if the video is not focused
  • Make the get_video_info method of retrieving channel work again
  • This should make channel fetching work more often like before and be slightly faster
  • Add support for Cloudtube
  • Make options page searchable and make text copyable
  • Fix clipboard icon sometimes not appearing (thanks @MRuy )
  • Grow the preview bar when you hover over the scrollbar (when there are not chapters)
  • Add option to not count skip time in private (incognito) tabs
  • Switched licenses to LGPL-3.0 with agreement from all contributors

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 2.0.17.1 (Jun 18, 2021)

  • Changes this minor version:
  • Add proper support for new Firefox for Android
  • Fix potential infinite loop when creating skip notice
  • Use mutation listener to not break if the video element gets changed:
  • Potentially fixes issues caused by sudden buffering
  • Changes since last major version:
  • Change segment list layout in popup (thanks @MRuy )
  • Auto-refresh segments when creating new ones
  • Potentially fix segments from the wrong video appearing

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 2.0.16.2 (May 24, 2021)

  • Changes this minor version:
  • Don't break upload notice when clearing segments
  • Remove "sponsor" from some HTML elements to prevent adblockers from hiding them
  • Changes since last major version:
  • Change icons for failed upload and cancel segment
  • Fix partial segments not appearing in upload menu
  • Switch player buttons to svg
  • Make channel ID fetching fail silently, and assume channel is not whitelisted if it fails

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 2.0.15.1 (May 20, 2021)

  • Changes this minor release:
  • Updated translations
  • Changes since last stable version:
  • Add new channel ID fetching logic (for whitelisting)
  • Cancel button when submitting (thanks @opl- )
  • Count manual skips in saved time (thanks @wilkmaciej )
  • Remove old segment fetching logic

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 2.0.14.2 (May 17, 2021)

  • Update video info fetching error message

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 2.0.14.1 (May 13, 2021)

  • Don't ask for permission to make requests to youtube.com multiple times

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 2.0.14 (May 11, 2021)

  • Changes this version:
  • Potentially fix issue with whitelisting not working
  • Fix exception on YouTube TV (thanks @manualmanul )

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 2.0.13.1 Beta (Mar 24, 2021)

  • Changes this minor release:
  • Updated translations
  • Changes since last stable version:
  • Enable hash prefix by default
  • Fix skip notice appearing behind end cards
  • Fix some rounding issues
  • Update non-music category description
  • Fix Invidious embeds (thanks @ljoonal )
  • Add UUID copy button (thanks @caneleex )
  • Fix duration with skips showing NaN (thanks @gubareve )

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 2.0.12.4 (Feb 25, 2021)

  • Changes this version:
  • Lower retry frequency
  • Changes since 2.0.11:
  • Change skip notice visibility behavior
  • Made skip notice countdown more accurate
  • Remove code to show notification if you forget to submit
  • Increase re-fetch frequency
  • Show error messages from the server when voting
  • Fix invidious support not working
  • Non feature changes:
  • Remove leftover empty lists in the unsubmitted segment list
  • Log data returned from YouTube if it failed to be processed

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 2.0.12.3 (Feb 4, 2021)

  • Fix invidious support not working

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 2.0.12.2 (Feb 1, 2021)

  • Changes this version:
  • Fix unsubmitted segments being deleted
  • Changes since last stable version:
  • Change skip notice visibility behavior
  • Made skip notice countdown more accurate
  • Remove code to show notification if you forget to submit
  • Increase re-fetch frequency
  • Show error messages from the server when voting
  • Non feature changes:
  • Remove leftover empty lists in the unsubmitted segment list
  • Log data returned from YouTube if it failed to be processed

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 2.0.12 Pre-release (Jan 27, 2021)

  • Remove leftover empty lists in the unsubmitted segment list

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 2.0.11.2 (Jan 27, 2021)

  • Fix manual skip skipping directly into an adjacent segment
  • Lock category order and always show every category when submitting
  • Fix issue with unlisted check sometimes being blocked
  • Fix mobile support
  • Ensure end time is always after start time
  • Preview bar fixes (thanks @opl- )
  • Segments hidden by longer segments
  • Duration with skips not accounting for segment overlaps
  • Segment category text in preview tooltip overlaps the seek bar
  • Segment category text in preview tooltip breaks for timestamps over one hour

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 2.0.11 Pre-release (Dec 30, 2020)

  • Fix manual skip skipping directly into an adjacent segment
  • Lock category order and always show every category when submitting
  • Fix issue with unlisted check sometimes being blocked
  • Fix mobile support
  • Ensure end time is always after start time
  • Preview bar fixes (thanks @opl- ):
  • Segments hidden by longer segments
  • Duration with skips not accounting for segment overlaps
  • Segment category text in preview tooltip overlaps the seek bar
  • Segment category text in preview tooltip breaks for timestamps over one hour

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 2.0.10.1 (Dec 18, 2020)

  • New popup look (thanks @mbledkowski )
  • Potential fix for stuttering sometimes causing the video to restart from the beginning on Firefox
  • Now compatible with videospeed extension (once an update is pushed on their side)

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 2.0.9 (Nov 27, 2020)

  • Change segment editing format (thanks @opl- )
  • Only send audio notification for auto-skip (thanks @Joe-Dowd )
  • Fix starting segments not skipping when internet is slow (thanks @SuspiciousActivity )

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 2.0.8 (Nov 23, 2020)

  • Fix skipping at the end of looped videos in playlists not working (thanks @SuspiciousActivity )
  • "Skip {category}?" messages can now be in different orders per language (thanks @skyfrk )
  • Switched to browser native function for hashing (thanks @Dainius14 )

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 2.0.7 (Oct 19, 2020)

  • Changes this version:
  • Added query by hash prefix to preserve user privacy using k-anonymity (ajayyy/SponsorBlockServer#25 thanks @Joe-Dowd )
  • Fixed some strings
  • Don't unpause when inspecting

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 2.0.6.1 (Sep 16, 2020)

  • Added support for YouTube music
  • Changed options page color selector to use browser color selector
  • Added Inspect button (thanks @thignus )

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 2.6.0.1 Pre-release (Sep 12, 2020)

  • Fix Firefox xpi release issue.

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 2.0.5 (Aug 11, 2020)

  • Changes this version:
  • Fix issues with double notices for manual skip
  • Fixed for start segments and manual skips immediately following an autoskip
  • Don't show NaN in the time without skips
  • Updated outro description

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 2.0.4.2 (Jul 22, 2020)

  • Changes this version:
  • Fixed blank category segments not skipping
  • Fixed "Show On Overlay" preview segments not auto skipping
  • Fixed time with skips not placing a zero in front of minutes when hours are present
  • Update descriptions

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 2.0.2.2 (Jun 23, 2020)

  • Fixed help page having double headers

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 2.0 (Jun 9, 2020)

  • Large changes since last stable version:
  • Categories
  • You can now skip intros, outros and more
  • New submission menu
  • Moved network requests to background script
  • Submit multiple segments in one request
  • New voting options
  • Moved to react

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 1.2.23 (Mar 30, 2020)

  • Changes this version:
  • Improved skipping
  • Should miss skips less often
  • Fixed sponsorTimes data on export and import
  • Added restrictions to keybinds (thanks @Joe-Dowd )
  • Added debug copy button (thanks @Joe-Dowd )

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 1.2.22 (Mar 16, 2020)

  • Changes this version:
  • Converted sponsorTimes map to an array instead of string when saving locally
  • Added import/export options
  • Asks for proper permissions when changing the server address on Firefox
  • Fixed double notice for zero second sponsors with manual skip enabled

New in SponsorBlock for Firefox 1.2.16 (Feb 25, 2020)

  • Fixed mobile notice size on Firefox
  • Added notice about mobile support.