FreeTube + Tabs v0.24.3

What's New

Fix: Channel sort dropdown restored

YouTube renamed their internal renderer types for channel page filter chips (feedFilterChipBarRenderer → chipBarViewRenderer), breaking the sort dropdown (Latest / Popular / Oldest) on channel Videos, Shorts, and Live tabs. This release patches youtubei.js at build time to support both old and new renderer types with a unified fallback chain.

• Upstream tracking: LuanRT/YouTube.js#1142, FreeTubeApp/FreeTube#8639

Other changes

• fix: Update transitive deps for security vulnerabilities
• fix: Revert --no-zygote flag that broke Electron on NixOS
• fix: Fullscreen improvements — delegate Escape to browser native behavior, proper cleanup on unmount, tab bar hidden during fullscreen
• chore: Move yaml-eslint-parser to devDependencies

NixOS

Update your flake input to this release's commit and rebuild.

FreeTube + Tabs v0.24.2

FreeTube + Tabs v0.24.2

Architecture

• Unified tab operations — consolidated scattered tab transition handlers into a single composable with serialized execution, preventing race conditions
• IPC hardening — renderer→main IPC calls now strip Vue reactive Proxies at the boundary, validate all incoming data, and support timeout and abort signals. Added Content Security Policy with correct connect-src for production
• Deduplicated view logic — extracted shared route guard, backend fetch fallback, and watcher patterns; net reduction of ~230 lines across Channel, Watch, and player components

Bug Fixes

• Fix back/forward navigation within same tab — pressing back/forward after navigating between videos did nothing; the tab executor was silently suppressing route change reactions during intra-tab history navigation
• Fix tab drag crash — dragging tabs could throw; now shows media playing state in tab icon
• Fix Vue lifecycle errors during tab close — deferred tab removal until navigation settles, preventing null-instance errors
• Fix Shaka player DOM and listener leaks — player elements and event listeners were accumulating over time
• Fix progress bar lingering on abort — subscription feeds now clean up the progress bar when fetch is aborted
• Fix IPC serialization errors — Vue reactive objects sent over IPC caused DataCloneError in multiple code paths; fixed at the IPC boundary layer
• Fix will-navigate handler timing — deferred handler until after initial page load to prevent interference with Electron's loadURL()
• Fix refresh button disappearance — resolved layout regression; matched nav button sizing consistently
• Fix arrow button state — back/forward arrows now reactively derive enabled/disabled from the tab's history index
• Fix refresh widget timestamp — "Last updated" timestamps now update continuously
• Fix tab bar layout gaps — removed hover gap at start of tab bar and closed visual gap between sidebar and tab bar
• Fix subscription cache timestamps — date comparison now handles JSON-serialized values correctly
• Fix PO token generation — relaxed validation to accept channel IDs and removed overly strict context type check

CI/CD

• Nix build workflow — added GitHub Actions workflow to verify the NixOS flake builds on every push and PR

Docs

• Rewritten CONTRIBUTING.md — updated for fork identity and workflow

Install

NixOS (flake):

nix run github:countgitmick/FreeTubePlusTabs

Other platforms: Download the appropriate asset below for your OS and architecture.

FreeTube + Tabs v0.24.1

FreeTube + Tabs v0.24.1

New Features

• ESC exits fullscreen — pressing Escape now exits native fullscreen in the video player
• Faster player controls fade — controls and cursor hide in 0.5s after mouse stops (down from Shaka's default 3s idle timer), with 0.3s fade animation
• Sticky tab bar — tab bar stays pinned at the top when scrolling page content
• Refresh Tab in context menu — right-click a tab to refresh it (soft refresh for active tabs)
• Refresh widget moved to TopNav — cleaner layout via Teleport

Bug Fixes

• Fix Vue lifecycle errors during tab refresh — removed key-based component destruction that caused emitsOptions/parentNode null errors
• Fix tab scroll position save/restore — routerView is now the scroll container when tabs are enabled, fixing previously broken scroll persistence
• Fix search errors on route transitions — guard against empty/undefined query params
• Fix SABR 401 errors — auto-reload instead of format fallback
• Fix multi-tab SABR conflicts — per-stream scheme registry prevents cross-tab interference
• Fix Shaka player and SponsorBlock console errors
• Fix RSS feed 404 console spam — route requests through main process
• Fix active tab highlight color — use color-mix instead of broken primary-color-rgb
• Revert custom Wayland fullscreen — removed IPC-based fullscreen override and opacity workaround; uses upstream browser Fullscreen API (Wayland surface unmap glitch is a Chromium upstream issue)

Install

NixOS (flake):

nix run github:countgitmick/FreeTubePlusTabs

Other platforms: Download the appropriate asset below for your OS and architecture.

FreeTube + Tabs v0.24.0

FreeTube + Tabs v0.24.0

New Features

• Tab context menu — right-click tabs for Close, Close Others, Close to Right, Duplicate; new tabs insert next to the active tab
• Updated About page — Monero donation address, removed upstream contact info

Bug Fixes

• Fix tab corruption ("borging") on rapid switching — added tabSwitchInProgress lock across all 13 tab-switching entry points to prevent concurrent switches from overwriting tab state
• Fix shaka.log monkey-patch crash — removed patch that crashed the renderer process
• Fix console warnings & RSS 403 fallback — cleaner console output, RSS feeds falling back to scraper on 403
• Fix missing chapterStreams in SABR manifest — chapters now load correctly
• Fix tab-aware sentry mode — pauseReason enum and console error cleanup
• Migrate shaka-player API v4 → v5 — compatibility with shaka-player 5.x
• Fix video pause on tab switch — only pauses when switching to another video tab, not any tab

Dependencies

• shaka-player 4.16.20 → 5.0.7
• electron 41.0.2 → 41.0.3
• vue-router 5.0.3 → 5.0.4
• eslint 10.0.3 → 10.1.0
• stylelint 17.4.0 → 17.5.0
• marked 17.0.4 → 17.0.5
• electron-context-menu 4.1.1 → 4.1.2
• webpack-cli 7.0.1 → 7.0.2
• @babel/preset-env 7.29.0 → 7.29.2

Install

NixOS (flake):

nix run github:countgitmick/FreeTubePlusTabs

Other platforms: Download the appropriate asset below for your OS and architecture.

Notes

Based on FreeTube 0.23.15. All upstream features are preserved — tabs are additive.

v0.23.15 — FreeTube + Tabs

FreeTube + Tabs v0.23.15

First release of FreeTube + Tabs — a fork of FreeTube with browser-style tabbed browsing.

What's new (vs upstream FreeTube 0.23.15)

• Browser-style tabs: open videos, channels, searches in new tabs
• Middle-click or Ctrl+click to open in new tab
• Keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl+T, Ctrl+W, Ctrl+Tab, Ctrl+1-9
• Tabs preserve scroll position, video timestamp, and full page state
• Only the active tab plays audio
• Right-click tab menu: Close, Close Others, Close to Right, Duplicate
• Tabs restore on app restart
• Configurable max tab limit (default 20)

Install

NixOS:

nix run github:countgitmick/FreeTubePlusTabs

Other Linux / Windows / Mac: Download from the assets below.

Notes

• Your existing FreeTube data (subscriptions, playlists, history) works as-is
• Based on FreeTube v0.23.15