Aar318's YouTube Notifier version history - 10 versions
Aar318's YouTube Notifier by Aar318
Aar318's YouTube Notifier version history - 10 versions
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Latest version
Version 1.4.0.0
Released Aug 12, 2026 - 93.72 KBWorks with firefox 140.0 and later, android 140.0 and laterNew Features (v1.4.0.0)- Opening a new Upload or Short with left-click, middle-click, or the right-click menu now marks it seen.
- New-content cards include a dedicated ✓ Mark Seen action.
- Holiday themes now share the complete Stream Notifier calendar, with an expandable current/next holiday preview.
- Clicking outside the panel collapses it unless detailed debug mode is enabled.
Source code released under MIT License
Older versions
Version 1.3.0.5
Released Aug 11, 2026 - 96.12 KBWorks with firefox 140.0 and later, android 140.0 and laterAar318's YouTube Notifier v1.3.0.5
Changes from v1.3.0.4- Keeps new Upload and Shorts flags visible until their content link is explicitly opened, including one-time recovery of discoveries already recorded in the current Session dashboard.
- Replaces the separate All/Uploads/Shorts buttons with a compact All/Live/Uploads/Shorts dropdown containing current counts.
- Adds a true Live-only view; Uploads and Shorts now focus on pending unseen discoveries.
Tracking data, publication metadata, settings, and insights remain local. No YouTube login, OAuth connection, developer API key, analytics, or advertising tracker is used.Source code released under MIT License
Version 1.3.0.4
Released Aug 10, 2026 - 95.72 KBWorks with firefox 140.0 and later, android 140.0 and laterAar318's YouTube Notifier v1.3.0.4
Changes from v1.3.0.3- Verifies YouTube's actual publication timestamp before announcing a changed Videos or Shorts shelf item as new.
- Rejects old, pinned, reordered, or popularity-reshuffled content, fixing false alerts for historical videos such as a two-year-old Short.
- Compares publication time with each content type's previous successful check while allowing a small delivery-delay tolerance.
- Remembers rejected IDs so the same stale candidate is not repeatedly downloaded and evaluated.
- Revalidates unverified unread markers from earlier versions and clears them automatically when they prove stale.
- Applies the same safeguards independently to regular uploads and Shorts while retaining quiet baselines and detection after browser downtime.
Tracking data, publication metadata, settings, and insights remain local. No YouTube login, OAuth connection, developer API key, analytics, or advertising tracker is used.Source code released under MIT License
Version 1.3.0.3
Released Aug 10, 2026 - 94.27 KBWorks with firefox 140.0 and later, android 140.0 and laterAar318's YouTube Notifier v1.3.0.3
Changes from v1.3.0.2- Added a dedicated New Uploads & Shorts section above the ordinary live/offline groups.
- Unseen content now uses prominent content-focused cards with its thumbnail, title, channel status, and NEW: UPLOAD, NEW: SHORT, or NEW: BOTH label.
- New-content cards sort newest-first and remain out of lower groups until acknowledged.
- Opening the priority thumbnail, channel name, label, or notification acknowledges only that item; another unseen content type remains highlighted.
- Offline channels with unseen content remain visible even when Hide Offline Channels is enabled.
Tracking data, content history, settings, and insights remain local. No YouTube login, OAuth connection, developer API key, analytics, or advertising tracker is used.Source code released under MIT License
Version 1.3.0.2
Released Aug 10, 2026 - 93.58 KBWorks with firefox 140.0 and later, android 140.0 and laterAar318's YouTube Notifier v1.3.0.2
Changes from v1.3.0.1- Newly discovered channel content now remains highlighted until acknowledged.
- Labels clearly distinguish NEW: UPLOAD, NEW: SHORT, and NEW: BOTH.
- Clicking a new-content label or its desktop notification opens the content and marks it seen.
- Session Dashboard now records new uploads and Shorts with titles, links, times, and session counts.
- Channel Statistics and Stats for Nerds now include unseen content, latest-check and lifetime upload/Short discoveries, content alert totals, records, and 14-day activity.
- Existing installs quietly mark their current known content as seen, avoiding false historical highlights.
- Exports, imports, and backups preserve new-content acknowledgement and recovery state.
Tracking data, content history, settings, and insights remain local. No YouTube login, OAuth connection, developer API key, analytics, or advertising tracker is used.Source code released under MIT License
Version 1.3.0.1
Released Aug 10, 2026 - 91.19 KBWorks with firefox 140.0 and later, android 140.0 and laterAar318's YouTube Notifier v1.3.0.1
Changes from v1.3.0.0- Added support for YouTube's newer
lockupViewModelvideo cards, restoring regular-upload detection on affected channel Videos tabs. - Channels with a valid but empty Videos or Shorts tab now receive a clean empty baseline instead of being marked with “Check issue.”
- Successful checks clear stale content-check errors from earlier attempts.
- Live-edge seeking now requires the URL video ID to match the active player and that exact player to explicitly report a live broadcast.
- Two consecutive live confirmations are required before seeking, preventing stale YouTube single-page-navigation state from moving a newly opened regular upload or Short to its end.
Tracking data and settings remain local. No YouTube login, OAuth connection, developer API key, analytics, or advertising tracker is used.Source code released under MIT License
- Added support for YouTube's newer
Version 1.3.0.0
Released Aug 8, 2026 - 90.42 KBWorks with firefox 140.0 and later, android 140.0 and laterAar318's YouTube Notifier v1.3.0.0
Dashboard and Channel Setup- The notifier now opens on the main Streamers tab every time it is opened fresh.
- Enabling upload or Shorts tracking for channels no longer launches an immediate content check for every click.
- Upload and Shorts checks now run together on the normal scheduled interval, making multi-channel setup faster.
Upload and Shorts Reliability- Updated public-page parsing for YouTube's current upload and Shorts data.
- Successful checks now clear stale content-check errors instead of leaving every opted-in channel marked with “Check issue.”
- Quiet baselines and duplicate prevention continue to prevent older content from being announced as new.
Live-Only Edge Seeking- “Jump to live edge” now runs only when the opened video is confirmed to be a livestream.
- Regular uploads and Shorts are no longer moved to the end of the video.
Tracking data and settings remain local. No YouTube login, OAuth connection, developer API key, analytics, or advertising tracker is used.Source code released under MIT License
Version 1.2.0.0
Released Aug 3, 2026 - 85.91 KBWorks with firefox 140.0 and later, android 140.0 and laterAar318's YouTube Notifier v1.2.0.0- Replaced the previous media-style artwork with an original red Signal Lantern icon.
- Added automatic icon state: a gray lens when no tracked channel is live and a green lens when at least one is live.
- Preserved the independent numeric badge showing the exact number of live tracked channels.
- Replaced the play-style mark on the main Streamers control with a neutral signal symbol.
- Added request timeouts so stalled public YouTube responses cannot hang a full check indefinitely.
- Serialized checks, imports, channel changes, backups, and settings saves to prevent overlapping operations from overwriting newer state.
- Contained asynchronous browser-event failures to reduce avoidable extension error entries.
- Reduced live-page CPU and memory work by replacing continuous page-wide mutation monitoring with bounded hydration and navigation refresh passes.
- Validated embedded-player message origins and hardened imported URLs, exclusions, quiet-hour values, and oversized channel lists.
- Confirmed matching Chrome and Firefox source behavior and retained all existing live, upload, session, notification, backup, appearance, and mobile features.
Source code released under MIT License
Version 1.1.0.0
Released Aug 2, 2026 - 61.61 KBWorks with firefox 140.0 and later, android 140.0 and laterAar318's YouTube Notifier v1.1.0.0
New: Optional Upload Tracking- Selected channels can alert for ordinary uploads in addition to livestreams.
- Upload tracking is disabled by default and begins with a quiet baseline so old videos are never announced as new.
- Added per-channel upload controls plus an Uploads filter for quickly viewing opted-in channels.
- Enabling uploads for a channel now also enables the global upload checker automatically.
- New uploads use the existing notification, quiet-hours, favorite-sound, click-to-open, and duplicate-prevention systems.
New: Session Dashboard- Added a Session tab with newly live, recently ended, longest-running, rising-viewer, and favorite activity.
- Session data resets at browser startup and can also be cleared manually or automatically after a selected duration.
Live Playback Improvement- Added a default-enabled option to move newly opened YouTube livestreams to the current live edge once.
- The extension does not repeatedly seek, so viewers can still rewind intentionally afterward.
Notification Improvement- Added a configurable grouped-alert threshold, enabled by default at 7 simultaneous newly-live channels.
- Group summaries use a platform-aware count model that can support a future unified Twitch/Kick/YouTube edition.
- Hidden panels now release channel-card DOM, while lazy thumbnail decoding and off-screen layout containment reduce page memory.
- Offline channel rows now keep favorite, upload, and remove actions on one compact line; full cards remain reserved for live channels.
- Configuration exports now preserve the current settings, channels, statistics, and session dashboard, while imports still normalize and immediately check restored channels.
- Added an attached lock segment beside the Streamers button so its dragged position can be locked or unlocked directly; the preference is included in settings backups.
- Streamers and Lock now share one flex-positioned control group, preventing live-count rerenders, masthead hydration, dragging, or Reset Position from separating the two segments.
Upload and livestream checks use public YouTube pages without OAuth, account access, or a developer API key.Source code released under MIT License
Version 1.0.0.0
Released Jul 30, 2026 - 50.25 KBWorks with firefox 140.0 and later, android 140.0 and laterSource code released under MIT License