Version 1.0.5

Full namespace migration to the
wsc-fixlinks- prefix eliminates style
conflicts on complex SPAs including Facebook and
Reddit. The plain-text URL converter is promoted to a
first-class scan pass. Four popup themes added with
persistent localStorage storage.
Two-step reset confirmation prevents accidental counter
resets.

✨ New Features

• Plain-text URL converter — detects
  and wraps clean https:// URLs appearing
  as flat text and makes them clickable with a
  🔗 badge.
• Four popup themes — Dark (default),
  Light, Greyscale and High Contrast, each persisted
  to localStorage.
• Two-step reset confirm — prevents
  accidental counter resets in the popup.
• Popup website button — direct link
  to the product page with full UTM tracking.
• Popup CSS extracted — styles moved
  from inline <style> into
  css/popup.css for cleaner separation.

🔧 Improvements

• All DOM output classes renamed to
  wsc-fixlinks- — prevents style bleed
  on heavily styled host pages.
• background.js — inline
  containsArrow() added to fix
  ReferenceError in the MV3 service
  worker context.
• importScripts paths corrected with
  js/ prefix — resolves Manifest V3
  service worker load failures.
• whitelist-domains.js added to
  importScripts — fixes
  WHITELISTED_DOMAINS is not defined
  crash on startup.
• Backward compatibility layer — all three prefix
  generations (wsc-,
  wsc-fix-, wsc-fixlinks-)
  recognised to prevent re-scanning fixed nodes.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed wscMutating is not defined error
  in MutationObserver and containerObserver callbacks.
• Fixed CSS animation name collision —
  wscPulse renamed to
  wscFixlinksPulse.
• Fixed querySelectorAll selector not
  excluding previously fixed links from all three
  prefix generations.

Version 1.0.4

Introduced the changes panel, emoji separator handling
and the open-in-new-tab fix log export. Notification
bar rebuilt with DOM APIs for zero string-concatenation
risk. Spaced protocol normalisation expanded to cover
h t t p s : / / and
https: // variants.

✨ New Features

• Changes panel — floating panel
  listing every URL fixed on the
  current page, with original and corrected values
  side by side.
• Emoji separator map — detects
  airplane ✈, bullet •, star ★ and pushpin emoji used
  as URL separators and normalises
  them to + before pattern matching.
• Open changes in new tab — exports
  the full fix log as a self-contained HTML page via
  XMLSerializer.

🔧 Improvements

• Notification bar rebuilt with DOM APIs — zero string
  concatenation, zero quote-mismatch risk.
• wscNormalizeSpaces() expanded to handle
  spaced-out protocols and https: //
  variants.
• Split-block Pass 2 guards against catastrophically
  long regex patterns — URLs over 200 chars skipped.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed sub-match clobbering — longest match always
  replaces before shorter overlapping matches.
• Fixed Facebook split-span URLs being re-processed
  on every mutation cycle.

Version 1.0.3

Added @ separator support, TLD validation
and the known-mangled-domains fast-path for common
URL obfuscation fix targets including
Mediafire, Pixeldrain and Google Drive.

✨ New Features

• @ separator detection — fixes
  mangled web addresses like
  pixeldrain@com and
  mediafire@@com.
• TLD validation gate — checks the
  extracted TLD against the full IANA list before
  attempting a fix, significantly reducing false
  positives.
• Known mangled domains fast-path —
  common targets bypass the full pattern scan for
  faster processing.

🔧 Improvements

• Whitelist normalisation — +,
  * and @ stripped from
  domain before lookup, preventing whitelisted domains
  from being incorrectly fixed.
• Mutation observer cap raised to 10 scans per 5 s on
  Facebook, 20 on all other sites.

Version 1.0.2

SPA navigation support, IntersectionObserver
lazy-load scanning and scroll-triggered re-scan. The
broken URL fixer engine now works
seamlessly on React and Vue single-page applications
including Facebook, Reddit, Twitter and Instagram.

✨ New Features

• SPA navigation hooks —
  pushState, replaceState
  and popstate all trigger a fresh scan
  with processedUrls cleared.
• IntersectionObserver — lazy-loaded
  content containers observed and scanned when they
  enter the viewport.
• Scroll re-scan — debounced scroll
  listener triggers a scan after the user stops
  scrolling.
• Visibility re-scan — tab regaining
  focus triggers a scan to catch content loaded while
  the tab was hidden.

Version 1.0.1

Google Search query interception, badge counter and
initial Facebook throttled-mode support added to the
URL repair Chrome extension.

✨ New Features

• Google Search interception —
  detects mangled URLs typed into the Google search
  box and redirects directly to the fixed destination.
• Badge counter — extension icon
  badge shows total URLs fixed across all sessions,
  persisted to chrome.storage.local.
• Facebook throttled mode — longer
  debounce delays and reduced mutation cap to avoid
  performance issues on heavy React pages.

✨ New Features

• 16 URL patterns — covers mangled
  protocols, multi-separator hostnames, all-plus
  hostnames, www+star variants and spaced separators.
• Parenthesised separators — fixes
  (+), (*),
  (.), [+] and
  {+} used as dot replacements.
• Two-pass DOM converter — Pass 1
  handles single text nodes; Pass 2 handles URLs
  fragmented across multiple sibling spans (Facebook
  rendering pattern).

Version 1.0.0

First public release of
Links and Web Address Fixer. Core
URL detection and repair engine,
navigation interception, existing link scanner and
popup counter. Manifest V3 compliant from day one.

🚀 Initial Features

• Automatic broken URL detection on
  page load and DOM mutation.
• Navigation interception — fixes
  mangled URLs before the browser navigates to a
  broken address.
• Existing link repair — scans all
  <a href> elements and corrects
  obfuscated href values in place.
• Whitelist — trusted domains
  excluded from fixing to prevent false positives.
• Popup counter — displays total
  URLs fixed with animated count-up.
• Manifest V3 compliant — service worker background
  script, no persistent background page.