Form Rescue

Changelog

All notable changes to Form Rescue are documented here. The project follows Semantic Versioning; see docs/release.md for how versions map to browser manifest versions.

[Unreleased]

Distribution

  • Form Rescue 0.1.0 is published on Firefox Add-ons. Chrome and Edge still use the developer build from GitHub releases.

[0.1.0] (alpha, distributed as a developer build)

First public alpha of the extension, website and documentation.

Added

  • Per-site, opt-in protection: the toolbar popup requests access to one scheme + host only after a click; saving starts only after both browser permission and Form Rescue’s own site policy allow it.
  • Local capture of user-edited text areas, text inputs, opted-in search boxes, non-sensitive selects, checkboxes and radio groups, including dynamically inserted forms, React/Vue-controlled inputs, open shadow roots and fields outside <form> elements.
  • Sensitive-field exclusion by metadata before any value is read, whole-form exclusion for password/OTP/payment/identity forms, and secondary screening of values for obvious secrets.
  • IndexedDB storage with atomic commits, 3 revisions per draft, deletion epochs, retention (1/7/30 days, 7 default) and budgets (64 KiB per value, 100 fields, 256 KiB per revision, 200 drafts, 20 MiB).
  • Extension-owned review page with side-by-side comparison, conservative field matching, explicit replacement, conflict detection, copy fallback and in-memory undo.
  • Draft library, settings (pause, retention, protected sites, delete all, diagnostic summary), onboarding, and field exclusion / search-box opt-in.
  • Chromium (Chrome, Edge) MV3 service-worker build and Firefox MV3 event-page build.
  • Static website with interactive simulation, docs, privacy page and FAQ.

Privacy and permissions

  • Permissions: storage, scripting, activeTab, alarms, and optional http(s) host access requested per site. No telemetry or network use.
  • Firefox manifest declares no data collection (data_collection_permissions: { required: ["none"] }).

Compatibility

  • Automated: Playwright Chromium 153, Microsoft Edge 153, Firefox 156 (smoke).
  • Manual check of Google Chrome 153 and screen-reader passes are pending; see docs/implementation-status.md.

Known limitations

  • The newest ~1 second of typing can be lost in a crash or power failure.
  • Drafts are not encrypted by Form Rescue.
  • No contenteditable, iframes, file inputs or private windows.