25.05
May 2025 · in the Chrome Web Store since May 19, 2025
- RiddR respects the language you set. A bug made it detect the language by itself even when you had chosen one. Thanks to Mickal Morthorst for the report.
- Removed an optional permission,
identity, that RiddR did not use.
25.04
April 25, 2025
- RiddR’s interface is available in 55 languages. The translations are a community effort on Crowdin, and you can help.
25.03.08
March 19, 2025
- New interface translations: Dutch, German, French, Russian and Ukrainian, plus Italian and Portuguese.
25.03.07
March 7, 2025
- New version numbers. RiddR now counts by year and month, the way Ubuntu does: 25.03 is March 2025.
- A new options page, built for Chrome’s current extension platform.
- Better text picking in Google Docs.
- The welcome and update pages no longer open by themselves while the new website is being prepared.
0.5 to 0.5.3
June 2024 to March 2025
- The Manifest V3 rebuild. RiddR moved to Chrome’s current extension platform: the background became a service worker and audio now plays from an offscreen reader.
- Long pauses no longer lose your place: RiddR keeps its service worker awake while reading is paused.
- SpeakIt reports what it is reading to the system media controls.
- SpeakIt reads Portuguese from Portugal and from Brazil as separate languages.
- For engine developers: speech events now carry a
lengthvalue. - The old Manifest V2 code was removed, with many small fixes along the way.
0.4.1
March 19, 2023 · the first RiddR release
- Interface locales for English (United States) and English (United Kingdom).
- A clearer error dialog in the options.
- Fixed a loading problem in the options and the popup.
Dates are the days each version number was set in the source. The Chrome Web Store release can follow later.