The image already ships these fonts, but only as a transitive dependency of
openbox (openbox -> libimlib2 -> libspectre -> libgs10 -> fonts-urw-base35).
They are what Verdana, Georgia, Trebuchet MS and Tahoma fall back to; without
them fontconfig resolves those families to the CJK font instead of a Latin one.
Listing the package directly means a future change to the window manager or
X stack cannot silently drop the Latin fallback. No runtime change.
`cloakbrowser info` printed a bare seat count with no denominator, so a
customer could not tell whether they were at capacity (#513). It also
collapsed six distinct outcomes into one "unavailable": unreachable,
timeout, invalid key, inactive licence, rate limited, and the server
reporting the count as unknown while degraded.
Adds SessionSeats (active, limit, state, reason) and getSessionSeats to
all three wrappers; get_active_session_count keeps its signature and
delegates. The limit is read from the server, never derived from the plan
name, and falls back to the old bare count when absent.
Python, JS and .NET renderers verified byte-identical.
Persist _cloak_denial_path on the context object in
launch_persistent_context_async so the license guard has access to the
denial path after installation.
Humanized actions could fail with an element-not-attached error after a
navigation driven by a click or form submit, since the checks only refreshed
on goto. Now refresh on any main-frame navigation. Python, JS
Playwright/Puppeteer, and .NET. Regression from 0.5.6.
A fully-visible element above/below the target zone on a page pinned at
that boundary can never reach the zone, so the scroll loop ran the full
budget (~7s/click) doing nothing. Bail when it's fully visible and the
page can't scroll toward the zone. Ported to JS, Python (sync+async),
and .NET with regression tests.
page.selectOption re-dispatches to the main frame's selectOption, which
patchSingleFrame routes back to page.selectOption. Binding the saved
original to the page looped forever; bind it to the main frame's native
method instead. Adds a regression test.
_iter_frames / iterFrames only walked the main frame and its direct
children, so a frame nested 2+ levels deep that already existed when
patching ran was never humanized. The frameattached listener covers
frames added after patching, so this only affected pre-existing deep
frames (e.g. manual patch_page/patch_context on a loaded page).
Recurse the full frame tree; the _human_patched guard keeps it
idempotent. Python + JS; .NET wraps frames lazily and is unaffected.
Forward caller-provided press delays through humanized page, frame, locator, element handle, and keyboard paths across Python, JavaScript, and .NET.
Use each automation library's native press operation for shortcut chords while retaining the existing humanized pre-press timing and focus behavior.
Ports the Python/JS stealth_dom fix to the .NET wrapper. Add StealthDom.cs:
reimplements the common Playwright selector grammar (css, :has-text, text=,
xpath=, trailing >> nth=N) for direct DOM resolution in the isolated execution
context, with a fallback to the regular Playwright read for unsupported grammar.
World reads are wrapped so a world/CDP failure falls back rather than propagating.
The pre-click actionability, scroll geometry, viewport, and pointer-events reads
now go through it. .NET hooks the humanized click at the locator layer with no
selector string, so page.Locator(selector) now threads the selector into
LocatorHumanizer, whose reads use the isolated world when the selector is known
(else Playwright). HumanPage's selector path is wired the same way. GetBy*/chained
locators fall back to Playwright; ElementHandle and sub-frame paths unchanged.
Tests: StealthDom builders + a Node-driven check of the shipped resolver JS
selector semantics (byte-identical to the other wrappers), and a guard that
page.Locator(selector) threads the selector into the humanized locator.
Python + JS wrappers. Add a stealth_dom / stealthDom module: reimplements the
common Playwright selector grammar (css, :has-text, text=, xpath=, trailing
>> nth=N) for direct DOM resolution in the isolated execution context, with a
fallback to the regular Playwright read for grammar it can't resolve. World
reads are wrapped so a world/CDP failure falls back rather than propagating out
of the humanized action.
ensure_actionable, ensure_stable, scroll geometry (_get_element_box + the
no_viewport window-size read), and check_pointer_events now read through it,
sync and async. Selector-based main-page actions (click/dblclick/hover/type/
fill/focus/press) are covered; ElementHandle and sub-frame paths unchanged.
JS routes Locator actions through frame methods, so main-frame locator clicks
now delegate to the humanized page methods (which use the shared helpers)
instead of the frame-scoped Playwright reads; sub-frames unchanged.
Tests: builders + parse, the rewired helpers' branching via a mock isolated
world, a Node-driven check of the shipped resolver JS selector semantics, and a
guard that main-frame locator clicks delegate to the humanized page path.
- humanize frames created after page load across Python and JavaScript\n- keep sync, async, Playwright, and Puppeteer paths idempotent\n- wrap .NET frame lifecycle event payloads without raw frame leaks\n- add cross-wrapper unit and browser regression coverage
context.NewCDPSessionAsync(page) threw NullReferenceException for any licensed
.NET user: Playwright down-casts the IPage/IFrame argument to its concrete
Page/Frame to read .Guid, which fails on the CloakBrowser proxy the wrapper
returns. The license-guard proxy (all licensed launches) and the humanize
decorator both produced a handle that fails that cast.
- guard proxy unwraps page/frame/handle arguments before forwarding, keeps
page.Context guarded, and Wrap() is idempotent
- HumanizedBrowserContext.NewCDPSessionAsync unwraps its argument (covers the
keyless+humanize path with no guard proxy)
- HumanizedPage.Context re-wraps so page.Context stays humanized
- public Humanize.Unwrap(page/frame) escape hatch
- regression tests build the guard proxy and assert the inner receives raw
Wire the existing launch()-time geoip resolver into the info/doctor command
across Python, JS, and .NET. With --proxy, info resolves the exit IP and the
timezone/locale a launch would apply (caching the GeoIP DB if absent) and prints
them in text and --json. Plain info is unchanged (no network) and now hints at
the flag. Adds diagnostics tests in all three suites.
The license guard stored each wrapped method as a functools.partial,
relying on it not being a descriptor. Python 3.14 made partial a method
descriptor, so when humanize reads the wrapped methods off a holder
instance the partial re-binds and injects a spurious positional arg —
every humanized page call raised TypeError on first use. Replace the
partial with a non-descriptor callable class. Fixes#488.
An element scrolled into view can be pushed off screen again while we wait
for a reflowing page to settle. Nothing scrolled a second time, so the click
was dispatched outside the viewport and hit nothing, with no error raised.
Also stop the pointer-events check from turning a confirmed miss back into
'undetermined' when a late probe times out, which let that click through.
Measured on a page reflowing 10-25s: silent miss at ~32s before, clean click
now. Static pages and pages reflowing past the timeout are unchanged.
A concurrent-session denial resolves after the CDP handshake, so the browser
exits with a live connection already established. The launch-failure path never
sees it and the user gets a bare TargetClosedError on their first call (#477).
The binary records the license exit code (76-79) to a per-launch file whose path
the wrapper passes via CLOAKBROWSER_LICENSE_STATUS_FILE. The wrapper reads it
when a guarded call throws and re-raises the correct CloakBrowserLicenseError.
Discrimination is on the file, not the error type, so a genuine crash is never
mislabelled. Fail-safe (no key or unwritable dir -> feature off) and
backward-compatible (old binaries never write the file).
Guarded surfaces: new_page/new_context, a persistent context's already-open
pages (goto + the wait family), and Puppeteer user-created contexts. Orphaned
denial files are swept at mint time; an observed code is cached in-process so a
concurrent second call can't miss it; the .NET reader parses as tolerantly as
Python/JS.
Implemented across Python, JavaScript (Playwright + Puppeteer), and .NET, with
unit tests. Reproduced end-to-end with a real over-cap denial.
The Windows OS fonts were labeled optional/CreepJS-only, but Linux
defaults to the Windows persona, so their absence is a font-fingerprint
tell. List the exact fonts the launch warning checks and add a verify
step (issue #480).
Playwright's launch defaults switch off a feature stock Chrome ships enabled.
When the Windows font-metrics profile is requested, re-enable it so the feature
set matches a real browser rather than a test harness. Merged into any existing
--enable-features value instead of appending a second flag.
Python, JS and .NET wrappers.
Node pools HTTPS connections by destination, so a second launch() in the
same process reused the first proxy's tunnel to the echo service and
inherited its exit IP, timezone and locale.
cmd.exe defaults to cp850/cp1252, which carry no check mark or arrow.
Printing one raised UnicodeEncodeError and aborted the report at the
Launch line, so everything after it was lost — including on the success
path, once the launch probe stopped failing.
Marks now degrade to plain text per glyph when the console cannot
encode them. UTF-8 consoles (Linux, macOS, Windows Terminal) keep the
original output byte for byte.
.NET substitutes rather than throwing here (verified on the reference
box), so only the Python wrapper needed the change.
Chromium only handles --version on POSIX, so on Windows the switch is
ignored and a browser starts instead of printing. The 10s probe then
timed out and a healthy install was reported as broken, flashing a
window on screen each run.
Probe with --no-startup-window there: it exits immediately, opens no
window, and a broken binary still exits non-zero. No version is
reported on Windows, as nothing is printed. Linux and macOS unchanged.
Test uses a stub that hangs unless the flag is passed, mirroring the
real binary rather than a print-and-exit stub.
A license.key or cached Pro marker in the developer's cache dir resolved the
box as Pro, flipping version-gated defaults (headless no_viewport, inline proxy
auth) and failing 9 Python + 4 JS tests locally. Both suites now run against a
temp cache dir.
Add a preview release channel system to all wrappers (Python, JavaScript, .NET),
allowing users to opt into newer binary builds before they go stable.
- Python: preview/stable channel resolution in download, launch, CLI
(install, update, clear-cache), and license validation
- JavaScript: preview/stable channel in CLI, launch, license, and config
- .NET: preview/stable channel in CLI, license, diagnostics, and config
- All wrappers: channel fallback indicator, auto-update gate,
CLOAKBROWSER_RELEASE_CHANNEL env var support
- Harden channel resolution: reuse the resolution sidecar on offline lookups,
defensive marker/JSON parsing, atomic version-marker writes, a launch-time
preview-to-stable fallback notice, channel-aware info download URL, and
Python/JS/.NET parity for the fallback default
- Binary 150.0.7871.114.4 changelog (Linux x64 + arm64)
- Updated READMEs, CHANGELOG, and tests for all wrappers
Adds ChromePool.terminate_seed() + a close route that tears down one seed's
Chrome immediately and frees its slot, instead of waiting out the idle timeout.
Profile is preserved (goes through _cleanup_process). Idempotent.
Node derives Host from the proxy hostname unless set explicitly; strict
backconnect proxies reject the mismatch, silently falling back to the
gateway's geo instead of the real exit IP.
cloakbrowser login gets a free key via GitHub sign-in (or saves a paid key); logout reverts. Launch banner and info are now tier-aware (keyless / free / pro). A free key drops any version pin so it always gets the latest build (server force-serves latest; a pinned manifest would fail checksum). Python, JS, and .NET kept in sync. README documents the free tier + commands.
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