v4.5.2

alyssaxuu/screenityv4.5.2Jun 19, 2026by alyssaxuu

AI Summary

Enhances resilience against Chrome extension restarts and fixes issues related to hardware encoders and slow devices.

Key Highlights

Recordings are more resilient when Chrome restarts the extension's background worker
Fixed an issue with Chrome's 'Stop sharing' that sometimes threw an error
Fixed recording failures on slower devices where stream acquisition takes time
Editor opens quicker immediately after recording is finalized

New Features

Background worker resilience
Hardware encoder conflict handling
Faster editor launch

Full Release Notes

- Recordings are more resilient when Chrome restarts the extension's background worker mid-session.
- Fixed an issue with Chrome's own "Stop sharing", that sometimes threw an error.
- Fixed recordings failing to start on slower devices, where acquiring the capture stream could take a few seconds.
- More reliable recording when another app (Teams, Zoom, etc.) takes over the hardware video encoder.
- The editor opens quicker, as soon as the recording is finalized.