New
• Sources and citations can be turned off. A new checkbox removes the "Sources"
section, the reference list, and the [^1] markers inside the text — all three,
so nothing is left pointing at a list that is no longer there. On by default.
Requested by a user who prints conversations to PDF to share them.

Changed
• No more emoji in the exported file. Role headers and the thinking, artifact,
image, attachment and source labels are plain text. In Markdown the emoji had
become part of the heading anchor, so an Obsidian link read [[note#👤 You]]
and Hugo or Jekyll slugs carried the codepoint.
• Readable filenames: Quarterly_planning_2026-09-02.md instead of a name ending
in a 13-digit timestamp. They now sort chronologically by name.

Fixed
• Conversation titles were being mangled. The filename kept only ASCII and Greek
and silently deleted everything else: "Café Économie" was saved as
"Caf_conomie", and a Japanese or Cyrillic title was reduced to one underscore.
Every script is now kept as written.
• An untitled chat produced a filename starting with a separator; a leading dot
made a hidden file on Unix; trailing dots and spaces were dropped by Windows,
leaving a stray separator behind.
• The export button no longer offers an export on pages that have no
conversation — the home screen, a new chat, a project, a Claude Code session.
It says what it needs instead of failing after the click.

Also
• The export button rests as a small disc and opens its label on hover or
keyboard focus. Escape closes the panel.

Version 3.1

New

• YAML frontmatter for Markdown exports — title, date and source URL at the top
  of the file, so it drops straight into Obsidian, Hugo or Jekyll with no
  further processing. On by default, with a toggle in the panel. Markdown only,
  and the option dims when JSON or HTML is selected.
• The panel now follows Claude's light or dark theme instead of always being dark.
• Keyboard navigation: every control shows a focus ring when you tab to it.
• The export button shows whether the panel is open, and its rim lights up on
  hover and press.
• Reduced-motion system settings are honoured.

Fixed

• A UTF-8 byte order mark was written ahead of the frontmatter, which would have
  made Obsidian show it as plain text instead of reading it.
• Several animation defects on the export button: a ring that blinked off on
  every press, colour that snapped while the shape glided, a label that appeared
  to twitch on hover, and a press that gave no feedback while the panel was open.
• The option icons were emoji, which render differently on every platform and in
  one case as a broken glyph. They are now drawn as SVG.

Version 3.0 — Major reliability fix

The extension now reads your conversation directly instead of scraping the rendered page. This fixes a set of problems that could quietly damage exports.

Fixed

• Missing messages — your own messages could be absent entirely, and an export could contain only part of the conversation while still reporting success
• Duplicated content — thinking text, artifacts and sources appeared twice
• Page furniture in the text — "Thought for 1m 13s", "Claude responded: ...", "7 hours ago", copy buttons
• Paragraph spacing — two blank lines between paragraphs instead of one
• Heading levels — content headings were pushed too deep and lost their hierarchy
• Timestamps appeared twice, and stayed in the text even when the option was switched off
• Options that did nothing — the toggles only controlled whether a section was appended, not what was in the text
• Web search sources exported without their full URLs
• Inline citations were missing entirely

New

• Inline citation markers placed exactly where they belong in the sentence, with a numbered reference list per message
• Artifacts exported with their full contents and correct syntax highlighting
• Uploaded images exported by name and link
• Document attachments listed by filename and size
• Honest fallback — if the direct read fails, the export is marked as a fallback and you are told it may be incomplete

Also

• No scrolling. Exports finish in a second or two, regardless of how long the conversation is.
• No new permissions required.

Version 2.5.1
Bug Fix
Fixed a bug where a single Claude response was split into multiple separate messages in the exported file. Tables, code blocks, lists, and other formatted content were lost in the process. Exports now correctly capture each response as one complete message with all its content intact.
Other

Updated addon icon
Minor internal improvements

Version 2.5 — Major Rewrite

NEW FEATURES:
• Multi-format export: Markdown (.md), JSON (.json), and self-contained HTML (.html) with dark/light theme
• Artifact extraction: Detects and exports Claude artifacts (React components, SVG, Mermaid diagrams, code blocks)
• Thinking block support: Extracts Claude's extended thinking/reasoning blocks as collapsible sections
• Panel UI: Replaced floating button with a slide-up settings panel (format selector, toggles, progress bar)
• Bilingual UI: English (EN) and Greek (EL) with one-click toggle, settings persist in localStorage
• File attachment detection: Recognizes uploaded PDFs, images, and documents
• Per-message timestamps: Extracts timestamps from multiple DOM sources

IMPROVEMENTS:
• Upgraded to Manifest V3
• Advanced progressive scroll strategy for large conversations (lazy-load aware, height monitoring)
• Additional message detection strategies (data-role attributes, structural fallback)
• HTML export: responsive design, beautiful typography, prefers-color-scheme support
• All UI built via DOM API (no innerHTML — XSS safe)
• Better duplicate detection and content deduplication

REQUIRES: Firefox 109+

Initial public release (v2.1)

This is the first public version of Claude Chat Exporter.

Features:
- One-click export to Markdown format
- Smart scrolling to load all messages
- Code block preservation
- Duplicate detection
- Clean, formatted output

Technical:
- Vanilla JavaScript (no frameworks)
- Zero data collection
- Local processing only
- Requires Firefox 140+ for data consent support

All code is readable and well-documented.