v1.2.0

A long-awaited update with a long changelog! If you have any issues with this update or any suggestions, please create an issue on Github or send me an email.

Summary:

• Added an option for the disable/enable status to be persistent across browser restarts. This is also the default option for new users. (Contributed by Github user @tuurep).
• Added an option for displaying notifications when the extension is toggled using the keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Alt+D). This is useful if you don't have the extension pinned to the toolbar and can't see the icon change. (Also contributed by @tuurep).
• The extension is now pinned to the taskbar by default. It can be unpinned by right clicking.
• The settings page has been made a little bit more intuitive by grouping together similar options.
• You can now disable the Close tab button that is visible on the blocked page.
• If the extension is enabled on browser startup and persistent tabs are enabled in firefox, the last focused tab will now be blocked if it's in the blocklist.
• Any issues related to blocking after navigation on single page applications (like twitter or reddit) have now been fixed (This required requesting a new permission, apologies for the inconvenience).
• Blocking will no longer occur on iframes (websites embedded inside of websites).

Full changelog:

• Everything previously mentioned.
• Code refactoring.
• Updated dependencies.
• Building the extension locally now works on linux (Thanks again @tuurep).
• Fixed an issue where there was brief period of about 1 second where blocked sites could be visited right after browser startup (Reported by @tuurep).
• Fixed an issue where the width of the extensions popup would change when the extension was toggled on systems where the scrollbar didn't have any width.
• Within "You get x minutes" notifications the extension logo is now green to represent its active status.

Thank you @tuurep for your code contributions, bug reports, feature requests, and, of course, moral support over the last week this update has been worked on.

v1.1.0

Summary:

• Added the option to disable the "Disable Nodistractions" button that shows up on the blocking page.
• Fixed various various bugs and improved the codebase.

Full changelog:

• Added option to disable the "Disable NoDistractions" button.
• Prevented error that could happen when initializing listeners in background script.
• Fixed the "reset to defaults" button in the settings not working under some conditions.
• Fixed a bug where adding sites with "add current site" would not save the changes.
• Updated dependencies

v1.0.1

Summary:

• Fixed various visual and functional bugs.

Full changelog:

• Slightly cleaned up various areas of the code
• Lower resolution icon will now be used for notifications (this was creating unnecessary large popups on Linux operating systems)
• The buttons on the page showing up when trying to visit blocked sites now has its buttons centered properly
• Improved sizing of textboxes in settings
• When downloading blacklists, the file will now be a txt file instead of not having any extension
• Fixed bugs with resetting to default settings and saving settings
• The "export to clipboard" textbox now gets updated if you import a blocklist
• Putting negative numbers or zero as the visit-anyways duration is no longer allowed

v1.0.0

Initial release. Featuring:

• Simple website blocking
• Optional advanced url patterns
• An option to temporarily visit sites, if enabled