Stellar Photos 5.0.0 is a ground-up rewrite engineered for speed, privacy, and modern browser standards (Manifest V3).

### ✨ What’s New

#### 🌍 Expanded Image Sources

• Google Earth View: Discover breathtaking satellite landscapes curated from around the globe with direct one-click links to explore the location on
Google Maps.
• Unsplash Collections & Search: Browse Unsplash’s library of millions of high-res photos, load from custom public collections, or customize rotation
intervals.

#### 🕒 Visual Photo History & Navigation

• History Drawer: Revisit your recent background photos with fast, cached WebP thumbnails.
• Gesture Navigation: Use your mouse wheel or left/right arrow keys to quickly flip through recent photos.

#### 📌 Pin & Customize

• Pin / Freeze Photo: Pause automatic rotation on any photo you love until you choose to unpin it.
• Subtle Photo Motion: Optional Ken Burns zoom/pan effect for dynamic, gentle animations.
• Clutter-Free Auto-Hide: UI controls gracefully fade away during inactivity.
• Rich Photo Details: Inspect camera gear, ISO, exposure, shutter speed, location, and photographer attribution.

### ⚡ Under the Hood & Performance

• Full Manifest V3: Fully compliant with the latest Chrome, Edge, and Firefox MV3 extension platforms.
• Instant Tab Opens: Leverages native CacheStorage and IndexedDB to load cached images immediately with zero delay.
• Zero Telemetry & 100% Private

- Fix photos not loading issue due to server error

- Bug fixes for search results.

- Controls now show every time the mouse is in the main window. Moving the mouse off the page hides the controls.
- Improved design and wording for the popup settings.
- Improved background positioning for portrait images.
- Location for the background image is now displayed.
- Improved responsiveness.
- Improved animations.
- Add option to select preferred image resolution.
- Weather support has deprecated and removed.
- Pausing the current image is now more intuitive.

- Add Google Drive integration
- New Info popup design
- Move settings to browser popup
- Open history with middle mouse or two-finger scroll on trackpad

- Bug fixes

- Redesigned settings panel
- You can now pause images
- You can now set a background image from the history pane

Changelog (2.0.0):

- Improve performance
- Provide more EXIF data in info popover
- Add Onedrive support
- Fix search
- Revamp options popover
- Add options to change frequency of loading new images

Fix bug that caused incorrect image info to sometimes be shown

- Security improvements
- Inclusion of privacy policy
- Replace in-app notifications with browser notifications API