Breaking changes

On Linux, the <C-l> and <C-h> mappings, to go backwards and forwards in history, have been changed to <A-l> and <A-h> respectively.

This change was made to prevent a conflict with the default <C-l> keymap in Firefox that focuses the address bar.

Changes

• Bumped Firefox from 144.0b5 to 144.0b8.
• Fixed keymap autocompletion for glide.keymaps.del().
• Fixed bad handling of invalid focusin events.
• Added <C-[> in insert, visual, and op-pending mode to switch back to normal mode.

• Added glide.fs.stat().
• Added glide.env.get(), glide.env.set(), and glide.env.delete(). This is particularly useful for configuring your PATH on macOS.
• Added some missing types to the API docs.
• Bumped Firefox from 144.0b5 to 144.0b6.
• Fixed mappings with shift and multiiple modifiers, e.g. cmd+shift+c now works.
• Fixed the native messaging runtime path, previously the paths were the Firefox defaults now:
  • macOS system: /Library/Application Support/Glide Browser
  • macOS user: ~/Library/Application Support/Glide Browser
  • Linux system: /usr/lib64/glide-browser (or /usr/lib/glide-browser)
  • Linux user: ~/.glide-browser
• Removed support for the browser API inside the hints content callbacks, e.g. glide.hints.show({ pick: () => ... }).
  This was the only place it was accessible and allowing access to the browser API from the content frame has security implications that need to be investigated further.

• Fixed a case where dev tools autocomplete could stop working
• Changed glide.ctx.url from a string to a URL
• Bumped Firefox from 144.0b3 to 144.0b5

• Updated the recommended tsconfig to more accurately reflect reality
• Added support for setting attributes using DOM.create_element()
• Added glide.fs.write(path, contents)
• Added window to the config sandbox
• Cleaned up the document mirror in the config sandbox
  • <browser> and <scripts> elements are no longer included
  • Fixed race conditions when mutating the document
  • Added many missing elements

• Fixed a case where the browser toolbox devtools could crash
• Fixed issues with certain functions not being callable in the config, e.g. setTimeout()
• Prevented timers from being throttled, namely setTimeout(), setInterval() and requestIdleCallback()
• Fixed requestAnimationFrame() never firing
• Added glide.fs.exists(path)
• Upated Firefox from 144.0b1 to 144.0b3

This release fixes a regression with the document mirror causing a crash when multiple windows are opened.

This release restructures how the config sandbox is evaluated. Previously, it was possible to access the internal Document and ChromeWindow that Firefox uses to render the browser UI itself.
This is useful for accessing DOM APIs, e.g. URL, and allowing you to modify the UI in any way you want, however it introduces security concerns as all of the Glide and Firefox internals can be accessed directly, effectively nullifying the sandbox.

Now, we create a hidden Window and a Document that is a bi-directional mirror of the internal browser UI Document. This lets you modify the Document however you'd like using standard DOM APIs while maintaining isolation from the internals.

Firefox has been bumped from 143.0b9 to 144.0b1, the Firefox release notes can be found here.

This release is mostly minor docs changes and an internal rehaul of the build system.

First public release!