Changelog

What's new

What changed in each release, newest first.

1.0.1Latest

Links open beside your reading

Follow a link and the document you came from is still a click away, still at the line you left it on.

  • Improved

    A link to another Markdown file in the same place now opens as the document tab immediately right of the one you are in, so the file you came from is a click away rather than gone. With Document tabs set to Single file it opens in a browser tab instead — one file per window is what that setting says.

  • Improved

    Everything else — a PDF, an image, a folder, a page on the web — opens in a browser tab next to this one. The document you are reading, the panels around it and your place in the page all stay where they are.

  • Added

    Come back to a document and you land where you stopped reading, whether you came back with Back, Forward, or its tab. A file opened fresh still starts at the top, and a link pointing at a heading still goes to the heading.

  • Fixed

    A press on a picture that slides a little no longer counts as a click on the picture's link, so it can no longer take the page out from under you.

1.0.0

1.0 on the Chrome Web Store and Edge Add-ons

The preview is over — Markdown Browser Tools is published, and installing it is one click.

  • Added

    Markdown Browser Tools 1.0 is on the Chrome Web Store. Everything the preview builds carried ships with it: folders, outline, search, recent files, the tools on every block, diagrams, math, and ten interface languages.

  • Added

    Edge Add-ons carries it too, under a listing of its own. In Edge you install from Microsoft's store; in any other Chromium browser, from the Chrome Web Store.

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Tools on every block

Code, tables, pictures, diagrams and formulas each carry a small toolbar now — and anything worth a closer look opens large.

  • Added

    A toolbar on every block: copy code or a table as Markdown, save a diagram as SVG or PNG, and open any picture or drawing in a full-window view with zoom and a gallery of the page's images.

  • Added

    Zoom steps through round numbers — 50, 67, 100, 150, 200 % — with a fit-to-width button one press away, in place and in the large view.

  • Improved

    A picture that links somewhere opens the link in a new tab beside your reading, so the document you were in stays where it was.

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Math, tables, and right-to-left text

Formulas are drawn in place, tables behave like tables, and every paragraph reads in its own direction.

  • Added

    KaTeX math, including single-dollar formulas like $x^2$, drawn offline and copyable as TeX. A formula in a heading stays in the outline.

  • Improved

    A narrow table keeps its header in view as you scroll; a wide one scrolls inside its own block. Both print whole and copy as Markdown or tab-separated text.

  • Added

    Arabic and Hebrew paragraphs read right-to-left, with code and formulas kept left-to-right inside them.

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Diagrams in your colours

Mermaid diagrams take the reader's palette, hold still while a file is being rewritten, and can be saved.

  • Added

    Diagrams are drawn in your palette, light or dark, and redrawn when you switch.

  • Improved

    A diagram in a file an agent is still writing keeps its last drawing until the file holds still, instead of flickering with every save.

  • Added

    A wide diagram scrolls in place, with zoom buttons, arrow keys, and drag to pan.

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Pinned folders, ten languages, and a way to reach us

The folder you pin stays pinned while you browse, the interface speaks ten languages, and there is now a place to send feedback.

  • Improved

    Pinning and browsing are separate now: walk up a level while pinned and the pin stays where you put it. Every folder you have pinned is a list, on the folder page too.

  • Added

    The interface in ten languages — English, 简体中文, 繁體中文, 日本語, Deutsch, Español, Français, 한국어, Português, Русский — each loaded only when you choose it, so no page pays for the other nine.

  • Improved

    Browser translators leave file and folder names alone, and Immersive Translate works on the rendered page.

  • Added

    Send feedback from the settings page, with your browser and version filled in, and a support page for the common fixes.

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A proper front door, and Markdown from the web

The toolbar icon now opens a folder picker, and Markdown served by websites you allow renders just like a local file.

  • Added

    Markdown on allowed websites renders in place — checked by content type, so regular pages are never touched.

  • Added

    The folder page now works as a folder picker: breadcrumbs, working back/forward, and a "Use this folder" button.

  • Improved

    Search steps through its matches like a find bar, and deep folder scans now always finish.

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Make it look the way you want

Color themes, reading controls, and hand-picked colors — more control over how your documents look than any comparable extension.

  • Added

    Six color themes, each complete in light and dark, independent of the light/dark switch.

  • Added

    Adjustable text size, line spacing, and page width — plus four colors (background, text, accent, links) you can set yourself.

  • Added

    The side panels get their own size and spacing controls, separate from the document.

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Panels you can arrange

The fixed sidebar grew into movable panels, like an editor's — and switching files no longer flashes.

  • Added

    Folder, outline, recent, and search panels: drag them between sides, stack them, or turn them off. Layouts save as presets.

  • Added

    Document tabs, pinned recent files, and folder-wide search whose results stick around while you navigate.

  • Fixed

    Opening a file now paints instantly with your theme and layout in place — no flash in between.