Hindsight

v2026.06 Feature

This release adds 3 notable features for engineering teams evaluating rollout.

Published 18d Forensics & Incident Response

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hindsight mozilla-firefox

Summary

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Add Mozilla Firefox support, Service Worker data parsing, and extension handling enhancements.

Changes in this release

Type	Severity	Summary	CVE
Feature
Feature	Low	Adds Mozilla Firefox support Adds Mozilla Firefox support Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-16 Confidence: high	—
Feature	Low	Adds parsing of Service Worker-related data Adds parsing of Service Worker-related data Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-16 Confidence: high	—
Feature	Low	Enhances extension handling by merging disk and Secure Preferences data Enhances extension handling by merging disk and Secure Preferences data Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-16 Confidence: high	—
Feature	Low	Expands downloads parsing capabilities Expands downloads parsing capabilities Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-16 Confidence: high	—
Feature	Low	Adds support for parsing and summarizing Chrome Declarative Net Request rules Adds support for parsing and summarizing Chrome Declarative Net Request rules Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-16 Confidence: high	—
Feature	Low	Implements browser auto‑detection and improves profile processing logic Implements browser auto‑detection and improves profile processing logic Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-16 Confidence: high	—
Feature	Low	Adds detection and processing for browser variants such as Edge and Brave Adds detection and processing for browser variants such as Edge and Brave Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-16 Confidence: high	—
Dependency	Low	Bumps postcss from 8.5.3 to 8.5.13 Bumps postcss from 8.5.3 to 8.5.13 Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-16 Confidence: high	—
Dependency	Low	Bumps esbuild and vite to newer versions Bumps esbuild and vite to newer versions Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-16 Confidence: high	—
Bugfix	Medium	Fixes several loose regular expressions in artifact parsing Fixes several loose regular expressions in artifact parsing Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-16 Confidence: high	—

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What's Changed

🚀 Features

Add Mozilla Firefox support by @BitEU in https://github.com/RyanDFIR/hindsight/pull/272
Add parsing of Service Worker-related data by @RyanDFIR in https://github.com/RyanDFIR/hindsight/pull/271
Enhance extension handling: merge data from disk and Secure Preferenc… by @RyanDFIR in https://github.com/RyanDFIR/hindsight/pull/273
Expand downloads parsing by @RyanDFIR in https://github.com/RyanDFIR/hindsight/pull/274
Add support for parsing and summarizing Chrome Declarative Net Reques… by @RyanDFIR in https://github.com/RyanDFIR/hindsight/pull/283

🛠️ Minor Changes & Fixes

Implement browser auto-detection and improve profile processing logic… by @RyanDFIR in https://github.com/RyanDFIR/hindsight/pull/275
Refactor browser processing logic to use unified ProcessingDisplay … by @RyanDFIR in https://github.com/RyanDFIR/hindsight/pull/276
Add support for detecting and processing browser variants (Edge, Brav… by @RyanDFIR in https://github.com/RyanDFIR/hindsight/pull/278
Fix a few loose regexes by @RyanDFIR in https://github.com/RyanDFIR/hindsight/pull/281
Make source paths relative to profile when possible in XLSX rendering… by @RyanDFIR in https://github.com/RyanDFIR/hindsight/pull/282
Improve path normalization and key splitting logic in Chrome artifact… by @RyanDFIR in https://github.com/RyanDFIR/hindsight/pull/284
Update release process by @RyanDFIR in https://github.com/RyanDFIR/hindsight/pull/285
Add detailed permissions/scripts for extensions and add download headers by @RyanDFIR in https://github.com/RyanDFIR/hindsight/pull/289

Other Changes

Bump postcss from 8.5.3 to 8.5.13 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/RyanDFIR/hindsight/pull/269
Add CodeQL workflow and custom configuration to exclude false-positiv… by @RyanDFIR in https://github.com/RyanDFIR/hindsight/pull/279
Update CodeQL workflow to include custom config for excluding false-p… by @RyanDFIR in https://github.com/RyanDFIR/hindsight/pull/280
Bump esbuild and vite by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/RyanDFIR/hindsight/pull/277
Bump version to 2026.06 by @RyanDFIR in https://github.com/RyanDFIR/hindsight/pull/286
Assorted small fixes by @RyanDFIR in https://github.com/RyanDFIR/hindsight/pull/287
Pin macOS build runners and update GitHub Actions dependencies by @RyanDFIR in https://github.com/RyanDFIR/hindsight/pull/288

New Contributors

@BitEU made their first contribution in https://github.com/RyanDFIR/hindsight/pull/272

Full Changelog: https://github.com/RyanDFIR/hindsight/compare/v2026.04...v2026.06

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