- The button and the panel of Calendar, Contacts, Files and Settings
show only when the plugin's shouldShow says yes, so a plugin switched
off for these views (admin, user or no service) leaves no button that
opens an empty panel, and no extra rows in Contacts and Settings.
- Files: while the details are open the panel steps aside there only;
the other views keep it as the user left it. With both stored open the
details fold when the page loads.
- Resizing stops where the view keeps its 480 px, so a drag or the arrow
keys no longer fold the panel away (and the handle keeps the focus).
- Settings and Contacts render the same element with or without the
panel, so a form keeps what was typed when the panel starts docking.
- Contacts on a phone: the panel button sits over an open contact too.
- The panel buttons of the reader and the views have one name, "Plugin
panel", with aria-pressed, and name the plugin's panel shortcut in
their title; the open panels are named landmarks.
The reader tests look the button up by its new name and pressed state
(viewer-toolbar-over-side-panel, reader-plugin-surfaces,
viewer-plugin-panel-width), since "Show/Hide plugin panel" is gone.
A security and an accessibility review of the proofreading hook found
gaps, fixed here.
What leaves the browser:
- A checker gets a name for each composer of its own, not the composer's
id, so it can't reach the message through the other api.composer calls
after proofreading stops.
- Checking pauses while a plugin that can sign or encrypt is turned on but
still starting, and while the policy couldn't be fetched (the built-in
defaults could undo an admin's lock).
- No plugin can hold up turning proofreading off (onBeforeSettingChange).
- Suggestions can't carry zero-width, bidi or line-separator characters;
messages lose bidi overrides; a flood of annotations is cut off early.
- The notices name the plugin as installed, not a label it chose, and say
that text written before signing or encryption was turned on may
already have been checked.
- A checker registered during start-up no longer fails its first check.
Keyboard and screen readers:
- Escape in the issue panel closes the panel, not the message.
- Underlines carry aria-invalid, as the browser's own markers do.
- The focus goes somewhere sensible when a button or an issue goes away,
Tab past the popup's edges goes back to the text, and the shortcuts work
in the popup and the panel.
- Ctrl+' and Ctrl+; follow the character typed, so other layouts keep
their own keys (Ctrl+S on Dvorak), with Ä and Ö on German keyboards.
- The popup is described by its message, sits inside a modal composer,
fits narrow screens, and the panel fits a phone.
Automatic signature insertion was unconditional: any identity with a
signature got it embedded in new mail and appended to replies, forwards
and quick replies. Users who want a signature only in specific contexts
had no way to opt out.
Add two per-account synced settings, both defaulting to off:
- signatureNewMailEnabled: insert the signature in new messages (and
re-opened drafts, which open in compose mode)
- signatureReplyForwardEnabled: append it in replies, forwards and the
quick reply box
With a toggle off the composer neither embeds the signature into the
body, nor appends one at send or draft-save time, nor shows the
read-only preview under the editor - the preview would promise a
signature that never goes out. A signature pasted in by hand is never
stripped (bodyCarriesSignature still short-circuits the append).
Also flip signatureSeparatorEnabled's default from true to false: the
RFC 3676 "-- " delimiter surprised users more than it helped. Only the
default changes - no migration, so users who already set it keep their
choice.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
Images in a template arrive as data: URIs (an imported templates file, or a
template saved from a message with a pasted image) and went out as they
were, so Gmail and Outlook did not show them. Inserting a template now
uploads each one like a pasted image and tags it with the cid, so the send
path turns it into a cid: part in multipart/related.
Linus Rath
daluchenandClaude Code
Helmut Wolf