Patch notes

Two fixes for problems introduced in 7.5.7, both on the parts of the panel you use to get anywhere.

Patch Bug Fixes

• The account menu opens as a menu again. In 7.5.7 it could fill the whole panel with an oversized logo instead of opening, which also blocked the way through to your dashboard, your account settings and signing out.

• The highlight showing which section you are in no longer cuts across the icon. It stopped short on Windows and Linux, where a scrollbar takes up room that it does not take on a Mac, so the marker ran through the middle of the icon rather than sitting behind it.

Patch Improvements

• Maintenance is now something the extension tells you about. When TubeSpanner is down, signing in and anything that needs your account will not work. Until now the extension simply failed, which looked like the extension itself being broken. It now says what is happening, keeps checking, and clears itself as soon as we are back, with no reload. Spanners tells you some terrible jokes while you wait.

Patch Breaking Changes
None.

Patch Upgrade Notes
Chrome, Firefox and Edge update automatically through your browser's extension store. No user action is required.

This release fixes a problem where TubeSpanner was changing the appearance of the websites it runs on, and a set of related problems where those websites were changing the appearance of the TubeSpanner panel.

Patch Bug Fixes

• Pages are no longer left unreadable. The extension was setting the text colour on every page it ran on, so any site that let its text inherit that colour turned white on white. YouTube's terms and policy pages and StreamYard were where it showed most, but every site the extension loads on was affected. Nothing outside the TubeSpanner panel is styled now.

• The section menu keeps its icons when collapsed. On some YouTube pages every icon except the one you were on was pushed outside the collapsed menu, which left it looking empty apart from a single button.

• The panel looks the same wherever you open it. Spacing, and the alignment of the account and close buttons in the panel header, were being decided by whichever page the panel was open on, so the same panel did not quite match itself between Studio and the rest of YouTube.

• The Viewers icon matches the rest of the menu. It was rendering smaller than every other icon beside it.

Patch Breaking Changes
None.

Patch Upgrade Notes
Chrome, Firefox and Edge update automatically through your browser's extension store. No user action is required.

Three small extension releases (6.0.8.9, 6.0.9.0, 6.0.9.2) consolidated into one patch-notes entry. Headline change is a hardened Google sign-in flow; the rest are small reliability fixes and a Firefox AMO compliance update.

Patch Improvements

• Hardened Google sign-in, Tightened the sign-in flow to resolve an authentication edge case that could leave a user partially logged in.

• Firefox bundle size compliance, Reduced the packaged bundle size so the extension meets Firefox AMO's review limits and can be updated through the regular Mozilla review queue.

Patch Features

None.

Patch Bug Fixes

• Blog images on the Home tab no longer break with the new image hosting.

• Login error introduced in v6.0.9.1 (which never went to general release) is fixed.

Patch Breaking Changes
None.

Patch Upgrade Notes
The extension will update automatically through your browser's extension store. No user action is required.

Patch Status
Stable

Enhanced thumbnail editor responsiveness, corrected extension publishing bug, and improved comment automation reliability.

Improved dashboard loading performance, resolved extension sync delays, and refined thumbnail template rendering.

• Fixed an issue where users transferring between the Extension and the CMS Dashboard were occasionally logged out.
• Performance and stability fixes.