v6.5.0 brings a major Settings overhaul with improved search and navigation, safer backup and restore handling, and custom image/video backgrounds with remote URL support.

Also includes numerous reliability, scrolling, cursor, and Material You improvements.

What's New in v6.2.0

• Modular Search Engine & Segmented Layout: Choose between a unified search bar or a segmented floating layout. Individually toggle search bar controls (Engine Switcher, Quick Suggestion Toggle, and Search Submit Button) with master switch protection.
• Inline Quick Suggestion Toggle: Instant control over live search autocomplete feeds directly inside the engine switcher bar.
• Offline Media Backup Engine: Backup and restore your custom background images and video loops seamlessly via base64 JSON serialization backed by local IndexedDB.
• Streamlined Local Media: Simplified custom background management to rely purely on local file uploads, ensuring zero load failures or cross-origin restrictions.
• Cursor & Modal Polishing: Refined interactive cursor target checks over live suggestions and text nodes, alongside tightened modal layout geometry.

• Granular Shadow Scaling Engine
• Added a dynamic range slider paired with a precise numeric input (#shadowInputNumber) under Personalization settings to scale --shadow-factor across modals, search controls, and floating buttons.
• Zero-Shadow State
• Dialing shadow intensity to 0 strips all box and element shadows while preserving text legibility across clock styles.
• Real-Time Material You Color Extraction
• Dynamic color palette extraction now processes instantly on custom background uploads, URL updates, theme changes, and resets without requiring page reloads.

• SVG Isolation & CSS Mask Engine
• Replaced hardcoded inline SVGs with high-performance CSS mask rendering (.icon-mask) powered by an asynchronous SVG fetcher with in-memory caching (loadInlineIcons).
• Mobile Dock Viewport Scoping
• Restricted the floating #mobileSearchBtn strictly to coarse touch viewports (< 850px), eliminating unwanted dock rendering during desktop split-screen viewports.
• High-FPS Overlay Optimizations
• Replaced GPU-heavy backdrop blur rendering on settings modals and search overlays with optimized high-contrast backdrops to eliminate frame drops and guarantee smooth scrolling.

• Grid Track Alignment & Text Truncation
• Applied min-width: 0, width: 100%, and explicit truncation bounds to .link-item and .link-name to prevent long title strings from breaking grid geometry.
• Mobile Grid Scroll Padding
• Added dedicated vertical padding to mobile horizontal link grids to prevent drop shadows from clipping against scroll overflow boundaries.

v5.5.0 cleans up permissions for Manifest V3, groups settings together, adds custom search shortcut tags.