Lightning Browser v5.0.0 Release Notes
Release Date: 2019-07-31 // over 4 years ago-
- Minimum SDK Version 19
- Target Android 9.0 - API Version 28
- Converted project to Kotlin
- 🆕 New icon
- 🛠 Fixed bugs
- Deleting an item from history now reloads the page
- Downloads are now ordered by the time they were downloaded
- Typing spaces in search suggestions no longer causes problems
- Playing a video in full screen will now default to landscape orientation
- Adding a shortcut now works on Android O
- Search Suggestions no longer allowed in incognito for security
- Pasting text into the search bar no longer keeps text styling
- Ad blocking
- Added support for allowing/disallowing ads on per site basis via allow list mechanism
- Added support for ad blocking on Lite version
- Rewrote ad blocker to support new hosts file sources (only available on Plus version)
- Default Hosts file
- Hosts from URL, supports force reload
- Hosts from local file
- Improved ad blocker loading performance
- 💻 UI Improvements
- Improved button backgrounds and enable/disable buttons when they don't do anything
- Improved start up performance
- Support re-opening tabs via long press on new tab in incognito
- History is now opened in a new tab
- Adding a bookmark now shows a dialog prompt to allow folder selection and a toast on confirmation
- Added ongoing incognito notification to notify you there is an incognito window open
- ⚡️ Updated translations (thanks to @ali-demirtas, @pan93412, @limerainne, @iKirby, @cagatayldzz, @ma1uta, @JumpingYang001, @m4sk1n, @badener95, @eauland, @TKMankind, @lnddyl)
- 💻 Browser now handles web search intents
- ⚠ Ignoring an SSL warning now ignores it for the duration of the session
- Option to send 'save-data' header with requests (thanks to @SkewedZeppelin)
- 👌 Support for Naver search engine (thanks to @limerainne)
- 👌 Support for WebRTC (Added permissions, camera + microphone, which are asked for at runtime only when WebRTC is enabled) - disabled by default