Firedown

Releases

• Nov 11, 2026 1.2.10
  - Picture-in-picture: the website's own controls no longer cover the video - A cleaner shield sheet, led by the site's name; a tap outside its pages closes them all - Lighter, more modern arrows and icons across the app
• Nov 11, 2026 1.2.9
  - Picture-in-picture: the video fills the window and keeps playing - Videos playing in the background no longer stop at a "still watching?" prompt - New tab and New private tab shortcuts when you long-press the app icon - A setting to open links from other apps in a private tab - Add-ons: each add-on's page lists the sites it can access, each with its own switch - Websites can ask for your location once you turn it on in Settings; it is off by default - The shield says at a glance whether the site is protected, and Back from its pages returns to it - The shield shows what a site may do, like keep its data or use its cookies, with Reset - Check for updates shows the update downloading, then offers to install it
• Nov 10, 2026 1.2.8
  - Updated the GeckoView browser engine to 160.0.20261104181552 - Fixed video downloads that stopped with an error after the first minute - Fullscreen videos keep playing in a picture-in-picture window when you leave the app - The update prompt opens only when it interrupts nothing, and waits in the ⋮ menu - App updates: fixed failed installs when a newer version arrives first, and updates that waited for a dialog that never opened - App updates: updates download even when the system Download Manager is turned off - The Downloads button shows progress in a ring, and lights up when downloads finish - Add-ons: the list shows each add-on's rating and users, and its page lists permissions one by one - Add-ons: an update asking for new permissions shows a dot on the ⋮ menu and a Review button until you review it - Add-ons: updates that ask for nothing new install without a review

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  - Backup: a simpler status card, with one button to set it up - Reels and short videos appear once, titled by their caption
• Nov 5, 2026 1.2.6
  - Updated the GeckoView browser engine to 159.0.20261105170000 - Add-ons: install Firefox extensions from Mozilla's list, its add-on site, or a signed file - Ad blocking now uses the official uBlock Origin, with its own per-site settings from the shield - The shield shows when your ad blocker is off for a site, turned off, or missing - Cookie banners are rejected where possible, and hidden otherwise - App updates download much less, and show their progress while installing - A page that needs DRM says so, and DRM can be turned on from the shield - Player: playback speed from 0.25× to 2×, and press and hold to play at 2× - Links meant for an app ask first, naming the app - GIF, audio and Safe Folder tasks keep running in the background, with a notification you can cancel

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  - GIFs are up to 30 seconds long and no longer get stuck near the end - The app icon returns to the screen you left, and notifications no longer close private tabs - Downloads from private or background tabs are no longer lost or saved publicly - Close all tabs closes only the tabs on screen, after asking - Capture and ad blocking restart by themselves if they stop working - An occasional request to support Firedown, shown at most three times - Indonesian and Vietnamese translations, and every other language completed
• Oct 28, 2026 1.2.5
  - Updated the GeckoView browser engine to 159.0.20261022150525 - Saving, copying or sharing an inline image from the long-press menu no longer crashes the app - Downloads from a private tab are saved in the app's private storage, never in the public Downloads folder - Add to media gallery works: downloads appear in the gallery and media pickers when it is on - The playback notification shows the video's title and thumbnail, also when the next video starts in the background - Renaming a download to a name another download already has is refused instead of replacing that file - Downloads that merge separate video and audio streams no longer write a second copy while downloading - Videos embedded as a preview card are offered for download before the card is tapped
• Oct 22, 2026 1.2.4
  - Updated the GeckoView browser engine to 158.0.20261021001945
• Oct 21, 2026 1.2.3
  - Updated the GeckoView browser engine to 158.0.20261019185856 - Captured content: every video, podcast and image on a page is captured once, including players that load late or on tap - Captured content: videos, podcasts and images show their own title, picture and description, in any language - Captured content: videos show their resolution, images their size, and the quality menu shows each quality's size - Captured content: videos a page renders on the server are captured with their title and author, on profile pages too - Backup: back up to an S3 bucket - Backup: a backup server that is slow, broken or forwards elsewhere no longer stalls a backup or crashes the app - Trackers and ads blocked: clearer labels, and the page's blocked list matches it
• Oct 15, 2026 1.2.2
  - Captured content: redesigned to match Downloads, with earlier pages folded into one row - Captured content: each capture shows whether it is saved, downloading or failed - Captured content: YouTube captions are no longer listed twice - Captured content: a video's subtitles are picked from its quality menu instead of listed separately - Captured content: the filter chips are gone; while selecting, tap the Images header to select every image - Captured content: videos and audio stand out in coral, and a download keeps its picture while it runs - Fixed tiles and rows landing out of place when items are added or removed - Embedded tweets and other social posts now show on news sites - X videos are titled with the tweet's text, including embedded tweets on news sites - Player: downloaded subtitles play with their video, and a Subtitles button picks a track or adds a file
• Oct 14, 2026 1.2.01
  - Backup: the hosted Cloud Backup is replaced by backing up to a folder of your choice — Google Drive, Nextcloud, an SD card or the phone itself, anything the system folder picker offers. Files are encrypted on the phone before they are written, under the same recovery code bookmark sync uses; the Backups list, restore, open-without-restoring, "Free up space" and the download menu's "Back up" all work against the folder. Nothing goes through a Firedown server. Choosing the folder asks where: cloud storage (with a picture of the picker's ☰ button, where Android keeps your cloud apps), the SD card when one is in, or somewhere else. Firedown then checks that it can actually save files in the folder you pick before using it, and warns if you pick the phone's own Download/Firedown folder. A backup that fails says why, in the Backups list and as a notification - Backup: the Backup screen states where the backup is ("Google Drive › Backups") on a Backup folder row, which is also where you change it, with a warning that the old folder keeps its files; the standalone "Change folder" button is gone. A download being backed up shows it on its own row in Downloads ("Backing up… · 32%"), and Cancel is on that row's menu and on the notification, which now shows progress - Backup: a third kind of place, "WebDAV server" — Nextcloud, ownCloud, a home NAS or any WebDAV address, signed in to inside Firedown with no other app. Type the server name (Nextcloud's WebDAV address is found for you), a user and an app password; Firedown checks it can write there before using it, asks before trusting a server that made its own certificate (showing the fingerprint to compare), and backs up over the network only when there is one. If the server stops answering, the Backup screen says so and "Reconnect" opens the sign-in again with the saved details. The "can't reach your backup folder" notification now names the folder instead of the file that was being backed up - Removed with the hosted service: storage credit and its Bitcoin payments, "Pair a browser" and the web client. Restore anything you still want from the old Cloud Backup to this phone BEFORE updating, then back it up into a folder - Backup: "I have a recovery code" now says what it does under the folder model — the code is the key, and a second phone reads the first one's backups only once it also uses the same backup folder; the row, the dialog, the replace warning, the QR hint and the confirmation no longer claim that the code alone shares a backup - Send directly: the transfer no longer needs the screen — it runs in the background with a progress notification (Cancel from there, tap to come back), and a shared link stays valid for 15 minutes without the sender babysitting it. On the same Wi-Fi the sender now sees a list of phones that have "Receive a file" open and taps one; the receiver gets the request with Accept/Decline. The link and the QR remain for a phone that is not on this network ("Anywhere") - Send directly: a transfer that stops moving or loses its connection now ends with a message that says so (re-share the same file to continue where it left off) instead of sitting at the same percent; a slow transfer no longer fails at 100 % while waiting for the receiver's confirmation; the relay credential is refreshed before a share instead of being reused with minutes of life left, which is what made relayed transfers die mid-way; a share without internet skips the relay at once and says so if no path is found; Wi-Fi is kept awake and the engine kept alive while a transfer runs in the background - Captured videos keep the names a page declares for them when they play inside an embedded frame; every clip in firedown.app's own demo was captured as "Firedown · demo"
• Oct 8, 2026 1.2.00
  - Updated the GeckoView browser engine to 157.0.20261005135250 - Tabs: long-press and drag to reorder in the tab switcher; settings and menus use grouped cards
• Oct 1, 2026 1.1.98
  - Updated the GeckoView browser engine to 157.0.20260924084938 - Downloads → Storage: a per-type usage bar, "Review storage" (largest files first, delete in bulk) and "Free up space", which removes the phone copies of downloads already in Cloud Backup - Cloud Backup: "Restore all to this phone" from the Backups list; a notification when storage credit runs out and again shortly before files are removed - Storage credit: one plan list (size for a year), a "Don't have bitcoin?" help sheet; the Nostr wallet integration was removed - Downloads: a Safe Folder row at the top of the list once the vault holds files - Fixed: deleting a bookmark or history entry sometimes left the row in place until the screen was reopened - X: videos on a post page are captured again after X changed its page format - Captured media: the per-row Copy button is gone; long-press → Copy URL - Theme: the mime placeholder tile now wears the selection wash with the brand glyph, and every selection check, ring and stroke is the brand coral
• Sep 18, 2026 1.1.97
  - Updated the GeckoView browser engine to 156.0.20260909172920 - Translate pages: Firefox's on-device translator, wired up. "Translate page" in the browser menu, or the offer card that appears on a page in another language, opens a From/To picker; "Show original" restores the page. Nothing you read leaves the phone; language files download once from Mozilla per language. Settings → Translations manages the feature, the offer, always/never-translate languages, downloaded language files and never-translate sites - Save snapshot: pages whose content lives in an embedded frame, web components or lazily loaded sections are now archived in full, and a saved page no longer redirects the viewer to the network - Captured media: an HLS video no longer appears once per quality or once per re-fetched playlist; redirects and seek-bar thumbnail tracks are no longer captured as files or subtitles; a player embed that names its clip several ways yields one entry - Substack: podcast episodes and article voiceovers are captured with title, author, cover and duration while browsing, instead of untitled after pressing play - Security: "Disable WebAssembly" is a plain switch again; the per-site allowlist was removed
• Sep 7, 2026 1.1.96
  - Updated the GeckoView browser engine to 155.0.20260903215306 - Storage credit: pay with Bitcoin on-chain as well as Lightning; card payments are gone. An on-chain payment shows "detected" while it confirms, finishes in the background after you leave the screen, and a payment method the mint can't take right now says why and offers the other one - YouTube: fixed downloads that failed around one minute in with a "PO token rejected" error until the app was restarted - Fixed a crash after a very long download session: Android stops a background download service after six hours, and the app now stops cleanly and leaves the unfinished downloads as retryable entries instead of crashing - Downloads: fixed several rare mix-ups when finishing, deleting and restarting downloads at the same time (a finished entry with no file, a restart writing into another download's file) - Deezer: full tracks now capture and download from a logged-in session (the browser must be signed in to Deezer); the file is decrypted on the device. Logged out, only the 30-second preview is available - Captured media: the quality picker no longer carries a Copy URL button; long-press the row to copy - Cloud Backup: the Backups list no longer flickers through placeholder icons while thumbnails load - Fixed: some downloads from HLS/TS sources refused to play in the app ("This device can't decode this video's format") although they played on a PC. The source mislabelled its AAC audio as the obsolete "Main" profile, which Android's decoder rejects; the muxer now labels it LC. Files downloaded before this fix need re-downloading - Player: a playback error now offers Copy, which puts the full diagnosis (error, decoder, track formats) on the clipboard so it can be reported without a debug build

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  - Fixed: retrying a download that needed cookies (Deezer, any logged-in CDN) lost them on the retry; the download service no longer leaks a thread each time it stops; opening a video from a site's watch hub (`/watch/?v=`) now anchors the Captured sheet on the video's page
• Sep 2, 2026 1.1.94
  - Fixed a crash on the Downloads screen for long download lists (a database read racing a delete) - Captured media: Copy URL is now a one-tap action on the row and in the quality picker, and multi-select copies every selected URL; the Share and Open-in-another-app menu was removed (an app handed the bare URL cannot carry the headers most streams need) - Captured media: the page's own video now stays pinned first after opening a page in a new tab - Pages embedding several videos now show each video with its own thumbnail - Deleting many downloads at once is now a single database write - Screen readers announce the Captured row button by name
• Sep 1, 2026 1.1.93
  - Updated the GeckoView browser engine to 155.0.20260826195058 - Captured media: the ⋮ on any capture now offers Copy URL, Share URL and Open in another app, and the quality picker is a compact grid with audio-track and caption chips - Storage credit: card payments now complete (they were charged but never credited), and Reopen checkout keeps the payment screen in front - Cloud Backup: sharper thumbnails for new backups; the Cloud screen no longer shows a full gauge on a well-funded account - Minor bugfixes and improvements
• Aug 27, 2026 1.1.92
  - Updated the GeckoView browser engine to 154.0.20260824154132 - Google Maps: place photos are now captured — including the full-size copy when you open one — and the map's own tiles no longer flood the Images list - Back up a finished download to the cloud straight from its finished notification - Fixed crashes: one from tapping a "new tab opened" snackbar after leaving the browser, one in the Downloads list on entries with no source URL
• Aug 18, 2026 1.1.91
  - Updated the GeckoView browser engine to 154.0.20260814215756 - YouTube: long downloads that get re-checked repeatedly mid-stream now recover every time — a download is no longer failed after two successful recoveries, recovery works on slow devices and connections, and a dropped connection during recovery is reported as a network problem instead of a YouTube rejection - Pages can no longer lock up the browser with endless popup dialogs — after three in quick succession the rest are dismissed automatically, and a file picker and a popup no longer trip over each other - Fixed crashes: one from certain page dialogs, one when leaving the app right after opening a link from another app, and one while editing a filename in the save dialog - The site security panel no longer presents a missing certificate as an expiring one - Minor bugfixes and improvements
• Aug 12, 2026 1.1.90
  - YouTube: long downloads no longer stop about a minute in and end up as short truncated files — when YouTube asks the app to re-authorize mid-download it now gets a genuinely new token, instead of retrying with the one that was just refused
• Aug 12, 2026 1.1.89
  - Send directly: a dropped transfer now resumes where it left off instead of restarting from the beginning, and a share link stays live for its full 15 minutes so the reply comes back on its own - A share link that no longer works now says the sender closed it, instead of blaming your Wi-Fi — and the transfer footer only claims a file never touched a server when that's actually been confirmed - Scrub through a video by dragging: frames preview as you go, and the 10-second skip buttons sit better beside play/pause - The update sheet keeps Install in reach, "Later" really does mean later, and it now speaks all 16 languages — plus Settings → About installs an update that's already downloaded rather than fetching it again - Downloads that are backed up to the cloud are marked in the list - Clearer, shorter wording throughout the app, in every language - Updated the GeckoView browser engine to 153.0.20260810162159 and FFmpeg to 9.0.1 - Minor bugfixes and improvements
• Aug 9, 2026 1.1.88
  - Play downloaded videos and music in the background — playback keeps going with the screen off or after leaving the app, with lock-screen controls. Picture-in-picture hands off to background playback, and dismissing the PiP window stops it - YouTube: downloads default to the original-language audio track with a new track picker, prefer H264 up to 1080p so thumbnails work everywhere, and interrupted downloads now re-authorize and continue instead of ending up as short truncated files - Instagram capture fixed for the current site — posts and reels again, plus carousels, the home feed, and clips whose video came without audio - Duplicate tabs are archived automatically, keeping the most recently used copy — and tab archive retention is now stated in Settings - Crash reports can be sent anonymously with one tap - Player polish: opens faster, double-tap seeking accumulates per tap, controller fixes after picture-in-picture - Updated the GeckoView browser engine to 153.0.20260803132010 and FFmpeg to 9.0 - Minor bugfixes and improvements
• Jul 30, 2026 1.1.86
  - Connect a Lightning wallet once and pay for storage credit in one tap — no more copying the invoice into another app. Works with Alby Hub, Coinos, Mutiny or any wallet that speaks Nostr Wallet Connect - Share Firedown from Settings — a QR code someone standing next to you can scan, or a link you can send to anyone else - Minor bugfixes and improvements
• Jul 30, 2026 1.1.85
  - Pair a second device by QR — show your recovery code as a QR code on one phone and scan it on the other to share one cloud account. You can now also enter a code on a device that already has its own - Cloud Backup previews are sharper, and now appear on your other devices — some videos silently backed up with no preview at all - The home screen's backup status is a quiet line instead of a filled pill, and can be turned off in Cloud settings - Removing a backed-up file while it's being restored now asks first, and cancels the restore cleanly - Fixed hard-to-read text in light theme on the Backups screen - The Downloads list now mentions Cloud Backup once, dismissibly, if you haven't set it up - Minor bugfixes and improvements
• Jul 20, 2026 1.1.84
  - Fixed a startup crash loop on profiles with many open tabs — each tab's state is now stored in its own small file and loaded only when the tab is opened, so startup stays fast and lean no matter how many tabs you keep - Fixed images on pixiv and other hotlink-protected sites — pages, long-press saves and Captured thumbnails all load again - Fixed downloads that could stick on "Finishing…" forever - Send directly now connects when a phone is on a VPN, and explains when the transfer has to go through the relay - Selecting text on a page now highlights in the app's accent color instead of grey - Simplified Settings — Security and Direct share moved to their own screens under Privacy and Downloads - Replaced the in-app donation screen with a Donate link that opens firedown.app/donate - Minor bugfixes and improvements
• Jul 9, 2026 1.1.82
  - Redesigned the browser menu — one-tap bookmark star and a compact two-row action layout - Added Nostr (NIP-07) support via the Amber signer - More reliable download restore after a reinstall - Updated the GeckoView browser engine to 152.0.20260706120035 - Minor bugfixes and improvements
• Jun 29, 2026 1.1.81
  - Save snapshot — archive a web page as a single self-contained HTML file you can reopen offline, in-app - Sync your bookmarks across devices — end-to-end encrypted, no account needed - Minor bugfixes and improvements
• Jun 24, 2026 1.1.80
  - YouTube downloads now finish ready to play — correct length with working seek/scrub, and no extra processing step after the download - Updated the GeckoView browser engine to 152.0.20260621191700 - Updated FFmpeg to 8.1.2 - Minor bugfixes and improvements
• Jun 18, 2026 1.1.79
  - Fixed video capture on X / Twitter — single posts and the home feed reliably detect videos again, and capture now keeps working through X's frequent layout changes - Fixed restoring your downloads from a backup - Updated the GeckoView browser engine to 152.0.20260612001812 - Minor bugfixes and improvements
• Jun 16, 2026 1.1.78
  - Home screen now labels the Saved counter even before your first download - Fixed an unreadable help banner on the incognito Captured sheet - Minor bugfixes and improvements
• May 30, 2026 1.1.76
  - Disk cache is now on by default for faster repeat visits; the memory-only option stays available for advanced users - Fixed the cookie-notice blocker toggle that could appear to do nothing - Cookie-notice toggle now responds instantly instead of stalling while filters rebuild - Minor bugfixes and improvements
• May 30, 2026 1.1.75
  - WebAssembly now enabled by default, with a Disable WebAssembly toggle and per-site exceptions - Sites needing WebAssembly while disabled now reliably offer a one-tap enable - Download videos from X / Twitter when signed in, and straight from the feed - Tabs now remember the last page you visited after closing the app - Fixed tabs that could stop responding or return blank - Trimmed unused extension code and closed background resource leaks - Minor bugfixes and improvements
• May 29, 2026 1.1.74
  - Redesigned the home screen and a calmer incognito start page - Material 3 address-bar suggestions with a cleaner clipboard card - Simpler page-security sheet — blocked count plus protection toggles - Polished the active-download, incognito and archived-tab banners - Added Safe Folder, Downloads and History shortcuts to the menu - Fixed tabs that could stop responding or return blank - Fixed browser-menu and certificate-details dialog sizing - Translations for the new strings - Minor bugfixes and improvements
• May 29, 2026 1.1.73
  - Added TikTok video and metadata capture - Added Picture-in-Picture support for audio - Block sites pushing the Play Store install prompt - Minor bugfixes
• May 20, 2026 1.1.72
  - Added Home cards style picker (Settings → Theme → Home cards) - Added crash reporter with one-tap GitHub issue prefill - Refreshed Downloads and captured-content layouts - Pill-shaped filter chips and Tabs / Incognito selector - Translations across 83 locales for the new strings - Bump Gecko to version 151.0.20260513195118 - Minor bugfixes
• May 15, 2026 1.1.71
  - Added double tap on video playing - Added experimental webp support on libavcodec - Minor bugfixes
• May 15, 2026 1.1.70
  ## [1.1.71] - 2026-05-15 - Added double tap on video playing - Added experimental webp support on libavcodec - Minor bugfixes ## [1.1.69] - 2026-05-13 - Fix video playback transition - Added option to disable WebAssembly

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  - Bump Gecko to version 150.0.20260511200624 (Mozilla Security Advisory 2026-45) ## [1.1.68] - 2026-05-11 - Added Pip mode in the video player - Added AMOLED Theme - Fixed a couple of deadlocks in the downloader - Minor bugfixes and improvements ## [1.1.67] - 2026-05-09 - Fix Widevine plugin in setDRM ## [1.1.66] - 2026-05-09 - Bump Gecko to version 150.0.20260506140522 - Minor bugfixes and improvements
• May 12, 2026 1.1.69
  - Fix video playback transition - Added option to disable WebAssembly - Bump Gecko to version 150.0.20260511200624 (Mozilla Security Advisory 2026-45)
• May 11, 2026 1.1.68
  # Changelog All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. ## Update## [1.1.68] - 2026-05-11 - Added Pip mode in the video player - Added AMOLED Theme - Fixed a couple of deadlocks in the downloader - Minor bugfixes and improvements

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  ## [1.1.67] - 2026-05-09 - Fix Widevine plugin in setDRM ## [1.1.66] - 2026-05-09 - Bump Gecko to version 150.0.20260506140522 - Minor bugfixes and improvements
• May 9, 2026 1.1.67
  - Fix Widevine plugin in setDRM
• May 9, 2026 1.1.66
  - Bump Gecko to version 150.0.20260506140522 - Minor bugfixes and improvements
• May 6, 2026 1.1.65
• May 6, 2026 1.1.64
• Apr 30, 2026 1.1.63
• Apr 30, 2026 1.1.62