- Fix: CONNECT/RETRY_CONNECT always force-disconnect before reconnecting
(prevents JOIN_ROOM going to official server when custom is selected)
- Add forceDisconnect() helper: clears socket, eventQueue, episodeLobby,
expectedAcksCount, broadcast status, persists cleanup to storage
- Fix: save useCustomServer to storage on Join Room click (no race condition)
- Fix: trigger RETRY_CONNECT on server mode toggle and custom URL change
- Fix: show error when Custom selected but no URL entered (no silent fallback)
- Fix: button label changed to 'Join / Create Room' in all 6 locales
- Rewrite scheduleReconnect() for two-phase strategy:
Phase 1 (aggressive): 500ms-5s backoff, max 20 attempts or 5 minutes
Phase 2 (slow): retry every 5 minutes indefinitely, never give up
- Persist reconnectAttempts/reconnectStartTime/reconnectFailed to session storage
- Remove 'reconnect_failed' status; slow mode shows as 'reconnecting' with retry button
- Add scheduleReconnect() call on offline path to continue retry cycle
- Create shared/names.js as single source of truth for emoji maps, noun
lists, adjectives, and username generation (215 animal emoji entries)
- Remove duplicated inline lists from popup.js and background.js; both
now import getAvatarForName / generateUsername from shared/names.js
- Add names.js to the build script sync list so it stays DRY across
extension builds
- Fix missing cat emoji: CoolCat now correctly resolves to 🐱
- Sort emoji map keys by length at lookup time to prevent substring
false-matches (e.g. 'caterpillar' before 'cat')
The noise filter used naive String.includes() on the full URL, causing
blacklist entry 'x.com' to match netflix.com (since 'netflix.com'
contains 'x.com' as substring). This made Netflix tabs disappear when
the filter was enabled.
Fixed by extracting the URL hostname and matching at domain boundaries:
- Domain entries (x.com): hostname === domain || endsWith('.' + domain)
- Prefix entries (amazon.): startsWith || includes('.' + domain)
- Keyword entries (jira): substring fallback on full URL
Release v1.7.5
init() called updatePeerList() directly but never set lastKnownPeers.
On the first PEER_UPDATE message (heartbeat, play/pause, any state
change), detectPeerChanges() saw lastKnownPeers=[] and treated ALL
peers including self as newly joined — triggering 'name joined the room'
toast on every action while the popup was open.
- FORCE_SYNC_TIMEOUT in shared/constants.js was 5000 but all code uses
8500ms. Update constant to 8500 and reference it in background.js
instead of hardcoded values (4 occurrences)
- Add errorToken counter in popup showError() so stale 5s timeout
doesn't clear styling of a newer error that arrived in between
- Fix EVENT_ACK handler indentation in server/index.js to match
surrounding socket.on handlers
- Add 10s timeout to ensureState() so extension doesn't hang forever if
chrome.storage.session.get() never calls back (storage API failure)
- Skip emit(LEAVE_ROOM) in leaveOldRoomIfSwitching when socket is down;
server already cleaned up via disconnect handler, avoid queued no-op
- Persist cleared peers to storage in socket.onclose to prevent stale
peer list restoration on service worker restart
- Store and clean up forceSyncReset setTimeout in popup unload handler
and when force_sync_execute completes
Timo