Nous Light is now a white theme with Nous Blue accents, and user messages plus "What Hermes saw" stay readable in every light theme.

• The composer status row (DOM preview and Attached tab) collapses behind a slim handle on the composer border. The choice is remembered, and the DOM preview always reopens closed.
• Hovering the DOM chip explains what DOM means instead of repeating the page you are already on.
• The start screen is white with a blue logo on Nous Light, and the chat intro banner matches the Settings banner.

Firefox remains chat and context only. Real-tab attach (Hermes Control) is Chromium-only and is not included in this package.

Rooms feel like a real conversation now, with distinct bots, live presence and per-room model choices. Messages gain Copy, Edit and Restore checkpoint, Browser Control gets a proper scope dialog, and sent files keep their originals.

ROOMS AND MODELS
- New rooms synchronize their members at creation and read the result back. Badges report Synced, Not synced or Sync failed, with retry.
- Room replies carry a bot avatar, coloured name, accent bar and subtle tint; pick avatars from the bundled gallery.
- Live presence shows queued, working, typing, tool-use, done, pass and failure states.
- Mention selected members, or press Reply to mention a bot's author.
- Change or reset one member's model in a room without touching its profile default. The model and provider are shown, confirmation is required, and an unverified pin blocks that member's turn.
- Model-change, pass and failure notices persist when a room is reopened.

MESSAGES
- Hover, focus or click a message for its action rail: Copy, plus Edit (reruns from that point with refreshed browser context) and Restore checkpoint (confirms first) on supported side-panel user turns.
- Age-aware message times, day dividers, message grouping, and theme-aware bubbles.

BROWSER CONTROL, FILES AND LIMITS
- Browser Control opens from the composer. Choose This tab, Selected tabs or Task set, with hover and focus explanations. A task set contains only tabs you choose.
- Original files are kept locally as Open/Download cards. A supported gateway must acknowledge an upload before a turn references it; otherwise your draft is preserved.
- Large pastes get clear retention and excerpt warnings.
- Context receipts show delivered tabs against the full selection (for example 12 of 20).
- Signature typography falls back to bundled Hermes faces, with a note in Settings.

RELIABILITY
- Gateway failures explain the real error and keep your draft when delivery is uncertain.
- After a Hermes update, an old-code gateway is named plainly, with a confirmed Restart Hermes action and live progress.
- Steering messages show your words with a steer label, including after reload.
- Windows setup respects HERMES_HOME (thanks @chrisworksai).
- Context windows for new models resolve from synchronized Hermes Agent rules.
- Local signing keys are ignored by source control (thanks @xxkingstuggle).
- 21 locale catalogs cover all new strings.

Full changes: https://github.com/abundantbeing/hermes-browser-extension/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md

Rooms feel like a real conversation now, with distinct bots, live presence and per-room model choices. Messages gain Copy, Edit and Restore checkpoint, Browser Control gets a proper scope dialog, and sent files keep their originals.

ROOMS AND MODELS
- New rooms synchronize their members at creation and read the result back. Badges report Synced, Not synced or Sync failed, with retry.
- Room replies carry a bot avatar, coloured name, accent bar and subtle tint; pick avatars from the bundled gallery.
- Live presence shows queued, working, typing, tool-use, done, pass and failure states.
- Mention selected members, or press Reply to mention a bot's author.
- Change or reset one member's model in a room without touching its profile default. The model and provider are shown, confirmation is required, and an unverified pin blocks that member's turn.
- Model-change, pass and failure notices persist when a room is reopened.

MESSAGES
- Hover, focus or click a message for its action rail: Copy, plus Edit (reruns from that point with refreshed browser context) and Restore checkpoint (confirms first) on supported side-panel user turns.
- Age-aware message times, day dividers, message grouping, and theme-aware bubbles.

BROWSER CONTROL, FILES AND LIMITS
- Browser Control opens from the composer. Choose This tab, Selected tabs or Task set, with hover and focus explanations. A task set contains only tabs you choose.
- Original files are kept locally as Open/Download cards. A supported gateway must acknowledge an upload before a turn references it; otherwise your draft is preserved.
- Large pastes get clear retention and excerpt warnings.
- Context receipts show delivered tabs against the full selection (for example 12 of 20).
- Signature typography falls back to bundled Hermes faces, with a note in Settings.

RELIABILITY
- Gateway failures explain the real error and keep your draft when delivery is uncertain.
- After a Hermes update, an old-code gateway is named plainly, with a confirmed Restart Hermes action and live progress.
- Steering messages show your words with a steer label, including after reload.
- Windows setup respects HERMES_HOME (thanks @chrisworksai).
- Context windows for new models resolve from synchronized Hermes Agent rules.
- Local signing keys are ignored by source control (thanks @xxkingstuggle).
- 21 locale catalogs cover all new strings.

Full changes: https://github.com/abundantbeing/hermes-browser-extension/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md

Version 0.3.2 adds Hermes Bot Mode, live group chats, AI tab triage, truthful page-only context, and faster local Desktop discovery. This package also includes connection, profile, and session fixes landed after the initial 0.3.2 drop.

Added
- Hermes Bot Mode: dedicated multi-agent roster with profile switching, lazy model loading, and instant agent opening.
- Live Group Chat and Threads: multi-agent room projections, collaborative thread tracking, and synchronized conversation histories without blank chat states.
- AI Tab Triage (/sort-tabs, /organize-tabs, /clean-tabs, /categorize-tabs, /triage-tabs): analyzes open tabs, clusters them (Projects, Research, Social, Productivity, Stale/Duplicates), finds redundant URLs, and builds a removal checklist.
- Full-width Page only action, plus side-by-side Include all tabs and AI Triage Tabs, with hover descriptions.
- Multi-keyword tab search across titles and URLs, with a match-count badge. Enter toggles a match, Escape clears.

Fixed
- Dynamic loopback Desktop discovery across ephemeral ports, so local connect is no longer stuck around 40 seconds.
- Session paging now respects the dashboard limit of 100 per page, fixing dashboard-sessions-422 and restoring full session lists.
- Startup no longer freezes waiting on loopback endpoints. Readiness steps report in order with strict timeouts.
- False "Invalid gateway API key API_SERVER_KEY" banners on named profiles. Loopback pairing token auth and dashboard WebSocket fallback are used instead.
- Page only is truthful: prompt shows 1/N, the active page is IN, other tabs are OUT, and the model never receives unselected tabs.
- Local Bot Mode profile discovery when Dashboard authentication replaces the root page with sign-in HTML. Public status identifies the dashboard; the trusted signed-in tab and one-use WebSocket ticket load the real roster.
- Hardcoded profile fallbacks and avatars are gone. Roster, avatars, and preview cards come from the live authenticated dashboard over the active gateway connection.
- Group chat member avatars hydrate and align correctly.
- Exiting Bot Mode no longer drops dashboard WebSocket transport or connection state.
- Connection test verifies the desktop dashboard WebSocket even if the API port is offline.
- Pin and reset keep the current conversation identity and refuse snapshots from a different session, profile, or gateway.
- Skills load for the active profile over dashboard WebSocket on local, remote, and cloud.

Requires Firefox 142 or later.

Version 0.3.1 focuses on connection reliability and fixes a page-injection crash.

• Fixed automatic gateway pairing when your Hermes runtime requires an API key. Connect to Hermes now opens the approval screen instead of dropping to manual setup.
• Fixed a repeated "Identifier 'browserApi' has already been declared" error that could appear in Vivaldi and other Chromium browsers after content scripts were re-injected.
• Content-script recovery is now probe-first: only missing scripts are injected after an extension reload, instead of re-running every script.
• Startup timing instrumentation and an internal operations toolkit were added (no user-visible change).
• No changes to permissions or host access in this release.

Requires Firefox 142 or later.

Hermes Browser Extension v0.3.0

This is the largest Hermes Browser Extension update so far, with major improvements to browser context, local-document workflows, session reliability, privacy, customization, and the overall Firefox experience.

WHAT'S NEW

• Added approved local HTML, browser-rendered PDF, and localhost workflows. Local files require both Firefox file access and explicit Hermes Browser approval.

• Added configurable right-click actions with current-session, new-session, and background routing.

• Expanded localization across 21 languages and added complete browser-native locale packs.

• Improved Hermes Assist reliability, model routing, session creation, launcher placement, safe draft application, and duplicate-injection protection.

• Added stronger Cloud session continuity, dashboard profile discovery, asynchronous delegation recovery, and session-scoped model/provider selection.

• Added cross-surface text zoom, accessibility-focused font profiles, validated custom themes, VS Code theme imports, and Agent Theme Studio.

• Improved the Side Panel settings experience with a persistent header Save action, compact close control, clearer button alignment, and simplified settings organization.

• Fixed Issue #73 by opening the /commands and skill menus above the composer, keeping long prompts visible without covering or compressing the text area.

• Improved startup diagnostics, control-state presentation, attachment controls, keyboard behavior, reduced-motion support, and responsive layouts.

• Added stable Firefox add-on identity and Mozilla-hosted automatic update support.

SECURITY AND PRIVACY

• Sensitive fields, credentials, payment information, MFA values, restricted browser pages, stale document references, and credential-bearing URLs fail closed.

• Browser context remains explicitly user-controlled and bounded.

• Local-document access does not bypass sensitive-action or restricted-page protections.

• Controller and companion diagnostics retain bounded metadata and redacted receipts only. They do not persist raw page text, typed values, credentials, screenshots, response bodies, PDFs, or uploaded file contents.

• Hermes Browser does not request cookies, browsing history, bookmarks, password-manager access, or native messaging.

FIREFOX COMPATIBILITY

This release supports Firefox 142 and newer.

Firefox receives the capability-safe WebExtension feature set. Chromium-only debugger access and trusted-input browser control are not enabled or claimed on Firefox.

Full release notes:
https://github.com/abundantbeing/hermes-browser-extension/releases/tag/v0.3.0