📸 Recording fixes + choose how the plugin opens
- Step screenshots fixed on Chrome 150. The newest Chrome quietly stopped honoring the screenshot access the plugin had — steps recorded fine but arrived with no images. The plugin now checks the real capture capability at Start recording and asks for the one permission Chrome accepts (a one-time prompt; approve it and screenshots are back for good).
- No more silent blanks. If screenshot access is missing you choose Allow screenshots or Record without screenshots; the status and finish summary say which mode you're in, and dashboard steps without an image now explain why instead of showing nothing.
- Device-kept videos play again. Privacy-mode videos could freeze the card at "Loading from your device…" — a video-format quirk in the player, now fixed, with a folder/file fallback if anything else ever goes wrong.
- Choose how the plugin opens. New "Opens as" switch in the plugin header: docked side panel (default) or the classic popup.
- Extension v1.6.8.
🔒 Privacy & account-security release
- Typed-value capture is now OFF by default. While recording a bug, the extension records which fields you interacted with — but no longer the text you typed — unless a workspace admin explicitly turns value capture on (Settings → Privacy). Passwords were always excluded; now everything you type is.
- See and sign out your devices. Your Account page lists every active session (browser, last used) and lets you sign out any one of them — or everywhere at once. Changing your password now signs out other sessions too.
- Workspace media privacy mode. Admins can keep screenshots and recordings off our servers entirely: media goes to your connected Google Drive/OneDrive, or stays on the reporter's device.
- Clearer sign-in problems. Login and password-reset errors now say what actually went wrong (coded, so support can trace them) instead of a generic failure.
- Faster on big workspaces. Videos now stream (seek without downloading the whole file) and long bug lists load in pages.
- Plus a large invisible batch: backup tooling, a durable email queue, stricter security headers, and a major internal restructure — behaviour-identical, verified by the full 693-test suite. Extension v1.6.7.
🔗 Guided Jira setup
- Settings → Jira now has a 📖 Step-by-step guide popup that walks you through the whole setup: Jira address, API token, account email, project key, Test connection + Verify project, creating a ticket from a bug, and the optional 2-way status sync webhook (with the status mapping).
- Each step has a screenshot to follow along.
🔁 Smarter in-browser replay on complex apps
- "Run test now" now picks the visible element when a label (e.g. "Add New") appears more than once — a hidden duplicate in an inactive tab/panel no longer causes a false "element not found." It still won't guess when two are genuinely visible.
- After a view-changing click it waits for the page to settle so async content renders before the next step.
- Extension v1.6.6.
🧹 Long screenshot removed from the plugin
- Removed the Long screenshot (full-page stitch) action — the popup is now Record bug, Record feature (with audio), Screenshot, and Start agent recording.
- Extension v1.6.5.
📼 Feature videos now appear in the Videos library (from your device)
- A feature video (🎥 Record feature → Submit as user flow) recorded while your workspace keeps media off our servers now shows as a card in the Videos library, badged "🔒 On your device", and plays there — loaded back from your computer via the extension. The bytes are never uploaded (only its title/length are registered).
- If the in-browser copy isn't handy, connect your
Downloads/FindBugsfolder once and local videos play automatically (or pick the file) — like local bug screenshots. - It plays on the computer that recorded it; connect Google Drive or OneDrive to share feature videos with the whole team.
- Extension v1.6.3.
🎬 Videos that just work in privacy mode
- Feature videos no longer dead-end with an error when your workspace keeps media off our servers — the recording is saved to your
Downloads/FindBugsfolder, with a one-time note that connecting Google Drive or OneDrive would add them to the shared library instead. - Bug videos are clearer: after recording, the extension shows "🎬 Video attached" so you can see it'll go on the next bug you Submit — and it plays on the bug's page, loaded from your device.
- Desktop agent recordings now show on the web — the agent bug page loads the recording straight from your
FindBugsfolder and plays it. Nothing leaves your device. - Extension v1.6.1, desktop agent v0.1.5.
✏️ Annotate screenshots & edit bugs on the dashboard
- New Annotate on a bug's screenshots (step lightbox + page screenshot): draw boxes, arrows, text labels, and redaction boxes.
- Non-destructive overlays saved as lightweight coordinates — works even when media is kept off our servers (privacy mode); nothing extra is uploaded.
- You can now edit a bug's description & title on the bug page (reporter or QA/admin).
✨ A much simpler extension — five clear actions
- The popup is now a clean launcher: Record bug, Record feature (with audio), Screenshot, Long screenshot, Start agent recording.
- One small "What went wrong?" box for bugs (type/severity default, set on the dashboard); "Record feature" publishes a narrated video to your Videos library.
- Removed the clutter (preview, templates, dropdowns, tester tools, link checker, dashcam, in-page editing, download-report). Screenshot annotation is moving to the dashboard next.
📦 Export all your media to one .zip
- New Settings → Export all media (admin): one
.zipwith every bug's screenshots & video — from our servers and your connected Drive/OneDrive — organized per bug, with an index. - Great for a local backup or moving off cloud in one click. Media kept only on a reporter's device (privacy mode) isn't included.
🎥 Recording no longer stops when the page changes
- Recording used to end the moment a page did a full reload or navigation (form submit, "next" button, login redirect) — cutting out on form-heavy flows.
- Now recording continues across page changes on the same website — the recorder re-arms on each new page and keeps capturing your steps.
- Flows that jump to a different website still end there for now (cross-site recording is coming next).
🔒 Agent recordings now honor "keep media off our servers"
- The desktop-agent path was uploading its session video (and trace) to our server even when Media privacy was ON.
- Now, with privacy on, those artifacts are refused server-side and kept on the reporter's device — matching the extension's own recordings.
📸 Fixed: screenshots were silently failing to capture
- In the side-panel view Chrome only grants screenshot access momentarily on toolbar-click, so if the panel was already open (or you'd switched tabs) captures silently failed and steps had blank screenshots.
- Now "Start recording" asks once for durable capture permission, so screenshots work throughout the recording.
- If a page still can't be captured you get a clear "Allow screenshots" button instead of a silent blank.
🎬 A recorded video no longer shows up on the wrong bug
- The extension wasn't clearing a recorded video after submit, so a leftover clip could attach to a later bug (and even appear on its dashboard page) even if that bug had no video.
- Now each bug carries only the video attached when you pressed Submit, and the clip is cleared right after — no leaks into the next bug.
📁 Bug files now save to one fixed folder (Downloads/FindBugs)
- Every bug's
.zipsaves into Downloads/FindBugs/ automatically — one predictable place, so connecting the folder on the dashboard always picks the right one. - Rename it any time in the extension's Options.
- If Chrome asks where to save each file you'll confirm once per bug (pre-set to FindBugs); turn that Chrome setting off for zero prompts.
✨ Local media just appears on the dashboard — no picking
- Open a bug whose media was kept on your device and the dashboard asks the extension for it and renders the screenshots + video automatically — no "choose a file", no prompt. Like cloud, but the media never leaves your computer (page ↔ extension only, never our servers).
- Works on the computer where you recorded the bug. For the same seamless view across devices, connect your own Google Drive / OneDrive — same privacy, everywhere.
- "Show media from my device" (open the .zip) and "Connect my FindBugs folder" remain as fallbacks.
🗂️ A local copy of every bug's media — one file, one click
- One .zip per bug: the extension saves each bug's media as
Downloads/findbugs-<BUG-NUMBER>.zip— the page screenshot (page.png), every step's screenshot (step-01.png…), thevideo.webm(when recorded), and areport.html. One file = one save, not a popup per screenshot. - Every bug: you always have the full screenshots & video on your computer, even when media is kept off our servers.
- View in the app: "Show media from my device" reads that
.zipin your browser and renders it — nothing uploaded. Or "Connect my FindBugs folder" once (Chrome/Edge) and bugs load automatically.
🔒 Keep media on your device — and still view it on the dashboard
- Files you can find: with Media privacy on and no cloud connected, a bug's screenshots & video are saved to your Downloads as one clearly-named file —
findbugs-<BUG-NUMBER>.html(plus a playable.webmwhen you recorded a video). Open it directly to see everything. - View it in the app: the bug page now has "Show media from my device" — pick that
findbugs-…file and the dashboard renders the screenshots & video right in the bug. The file is read on your computer and never uploaded to our servers. - Fixed: in the side-panel view, a recorded video now shows as "🎬 Video attached" the moment you attach it.
☁️ Bring-your-own storage & safer sharing
- Your cloud, your data: connect Google Drive or OneDrive and a bug's screenshots & videos live in your cloud, not on our servers — we only relay them to your team, never exposing the Drive/OneDrive link.
- Privacy switch: Settings → Media privacy → "Never store media on our servers." With it on and no cloud connected, media stays on the reporter's own device.
- Workspace-only share links: share a bug so only your logged-in workspace members can open it, with an optional expiry and one-click revoke. Public "anyone with the link" mode is still available.
📝 Add internal notes to a bug — visible at a glance on the dashboard
- Each bug now has a Remarks box — a shared place for your team to jot notes (latest text always shown). Admins & QA can edit; reporters can read.
- A short preview shows right in the bug list, so you can scan notes without opening each bug. Remarks are internal — never shown on public share links.
▶️ Replay a recorded bug and get an instant pass/fail
- Every bug now has a Run test now button — it re-plays the recorded steps in a tab in your own browser and tells you whether the bug still happens. Nothing runs on our servers.
- Data sets & expected results: turn a recording into a repeatable test — supply different inputs and the answer you expect, and each run shows an expected-vs-actual check (catches wrong calculations, not just crashes).
- First use asks a one-time "Enable in-browser test runs" permission. Requires the latest extension from the Chrome Web Store.
🖼️ Screenshots open in a popup gallery instead of one long scroll
- On a bug's "Steps to reproduce", each screenshot is now a small thumbnail — a bug with many steps no longer scrolls on forever.
- Click any thumbnail to open a full-size popup gallery: flip through all screenshots with the arrows or your ← / → keys; press Esc or click outside to close. Works on shared bug links too.
✅ Replays no longer report a false "bug still reproduces"
- When you re-ran a recorded flow, a test could be marked failed even though every step completed and nothing was actually broken — it was mistaking a normal, successful request for the original bug.
- Now a request only counts as "the bug came back" if it actually failed. A clean replay of a working flow correctly shows a pass, while genuine errors are still caught.
📐 No more sideways scrolling on the bug page
- A bug whose description or AI summary contained a very long link or code snippet could push the bug detail page sideways. Long links and text now wrap, so the page always fits its width.
- Also folds in earlier responsive polish — the two-column bug page, wide tables, and the top navigation all resize cleanly on smaller laptops and tablets.
🧩 One-click install — now on the Chrome Web Store
- Install Bug Reporter in one click — the "Get the extension" page now has an Add to Chrome button, and it updates itself automatically.
- No more manual download-and-unzip steps.
🎨 A fresh new look
- New design across the whole app and website — a warm ivory canvas, a clay/coral accent, elegant serif headings, and softer cards. Same features and layout, a more refined feel.
- Consistent from the marketing pages through login into the dashboard.
- All-new videos — every walkthrough re-recorded in the new look with calmer narration, plus two quick 15-second teasers. The homepage now opens with a teaser of a bug being captured.
♿ Accessibility & polish
- Better contrast — links and labels are darker and comfortably readable (meets accessibility standards).
- Screen-reader friendly — every dropdown, form field, and page now has a proper name/heading, and keyboard users can reach wide tables.
- Homepage fix — the "How it works" and "Features" sections now always show (they could appear blank in some cases).
✨ Layout polish — no more cut-off text
- Extension: the Type, Category and Severity dropdowns now sit one per line and show their full text — no more clipping (e.g. "UI / Layout pro…") behind the arrow.
- Dashboard: removed a stray sideways scrollbar that could appear on some pages.
- Dashboard: refreshed the interface onto a modern, consistent component set — same familiar look, with tidier dropdowns and tooltips throughout.
🎬 Guided videos + a refreshed homepage
- A narrated 50-second overview now plays right on the homepage, with a "See it in action" strip of short walkthroughs.
- Seven guided videos in Help — each with an AI voice-over and captions: overview, report a bug, triage & Jira, self-healing tests, the video library, analytics & the board, and admin setup.
- Videos now ship as mp4 too, so they play everywhere (Safari/iOS included).
📋 Richer reports & in-page pins
- Deeper technical capture — reports now show the page's detected tech stack and its security headers, and every captured request can be copied as a cURL command or exported as a Postman collection.
- Pin feedback to an element — with the website widget, visitors can click any element on the page and attach a comment right there; the pins show up on the bug.
- Tester tools in the extension — a broken-link checker, ready-to-use report templates, a test-data generator, and a security-payload cheat-sheet.
- Smarter triage emails — assignees are emailed when a bug lands on them, reporters when their bug's status changes, plus an optional daily digest.
- Attach a video later — if a recording overflowed your free storage and was saved to your device, the bug now shows an "Attach the saved recording" prompt to upload it once storage is available.
✉️ Email notifications are live
- Forgot your password? You now get a secure, one-time reset link by email.
- New members get a welcome email, and workspace admins can be emailed when a new bug is reported (toggle under Account → Email preferences).
- Optional product-update newsletters, with one-click unsubscribe.
📝 Clearer signup & email preferences
- You now agree to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy when you sign up, and choose (opt-in) whether to receive product-update emails.
- Manage all email preferences any time under Account → Email preferences, with one-click unsubscribe on every newsletter.
🎥 Never lose a recording when storage is full
- If your free video storage is full and no cloud is connected, a new recording is now saved to the reporter's own computer and the bug is still filed — nothing is lost.
- The reporter sees a clear heads-up, and admins get a dashboard banner prompting them to connect Google Drive or OneDrive.
🗑️ Permanent delete & right-to-erasure
- Admins can now permanently delete a bug or a video — including removing the actual video file from your Google Drive / OneDrive — separate from the reversible Archive.
- Erase a person's data: anonymize a user on request (GDPR / DPDP right to erasure) while their reported bugs stay as the workspace's records.
- A rewritten, accurate privacy policy aligned with India's DPDP Act and the EU GDPR — including the services we use, data-subject rights, and a grievance officer.
💾 100 MB of free video storage
- Every free workspace now gets 100 MB of free video storage on our servers — record straight away, no setup.
- Need more? Connect your own Google Drive or OneDrive and new videos go to your cloud. Settings shows how much of your 100 MB you've used.
🔒 Account & data hardening
- Login tokens and access codes are now scrambled in our database, download links are short-lived, and there's a browser security policy and rate limiting.
- Stronger minimum passwords, an admin "Reset password" action, and a "Forgot password?" helper on the login screen.
🎭 Turn any bug into a test
- Export any reported bug as a runnable Playwright test, run it in your own CI, and let AI harden or heal it.
- Regression guard: mark a fixed bug to be watched — if it ever breaks again, it automatically reopens.
☁️ OneDrive, AI ticket-writing, and more
- OneDrive video storage (alongside Google Drive) and Microsoft sign-in.
- AI ticket writer that reads your screenshots to draft a clear title and summary.
- Editable text labels on screenshots, all times shown in IST, and an admin panel for API keys and credentials.
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