Deluge Remote Modern - A completely rebuilt, Manifest V3 extension with Dark Mode! Chrome & Firefox

[tsa3000]

Hey everyone,

I wanted to share a new browser extension I just released called Deluge Remote Modern.

If you've been using Deluge for a while, you might remember the classic "Remote Deluge" extension by YodaDaCoda. It hasn't been updated since 2017, so I decided to fork it and completely modernize it from the ground up.

What's new in this version?

Manifest V3 & Service Worker: Fully updated to meet Chrome's new extension standards, so it won't break when MV2 is deprecated.

Ultra-Lightweight (Vanilla JS): I completely removed the old jQuery dependency and rewrote the core logic using native Vanilla JS. This makes the extension incredibly snappy and saved about 77KB in size!.

Dark Mode: Full support for System, Light, and Dark themes covering the popup, options, progress bars, and dialogs.

Label Selector: You can now change torrent labels directly from a dropdown on each torrent row right inside the popup (requires the Label plugin to be enabled in your Deluge client).

AES-256-GCM Password Encryption: Your Deluge password is now securely encrypted before being synced to your browser storage, using a dynamic local key.

Quality of Life: HTTPS is now the default protocol, handling .torrent and magnet links is enabled by default, and there's a new green icon to clearly show your connected state.

Huge credits to YodaDaCoda for the original MIT-licensed project that made this possible.

You can check out the source code and download the release here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... te-modern/
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detai ... hnmnkgkila
https://github.com/TSA3000/deluge-remote-modern

I'd love for you guys to test it out and let me know what you think. Feedback and bug reports are always welcome!

[ambipro]

I use firefox and have been using TorrentControl, for chrome i think there is a "RemoteAdder" or something like that - but this looks interesting. Will definitely check it out and let you know what I think.

Thanks for contributing!

[tsa3000]

Hey everyone, sorry for the rapid-fire updates over the last few days! I've been catching a few lingering bugs and wanted to get them squashed for you all as quickly as possible. Hopefully, with these latest fixes, the extension is running smoothly and proves to be a really solid, useful tool for your setups. Thanks for bearing with me, and let me know how it works for you!

[tsa3000]

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detai ... m-share-cb
Latest version
https://github.com/TSA3000/deluge-remot ... n/releases

[tsa3000]

I use firefox and have been using TorrentControl, for chrome i think there is a "RemoteAdder" or something like that - but this looks interesting. Will definitely check it out and let you know what I think.

Thanks for contributing!

This one for you
https://github.com/TSA3000/deluge-remote-modern-firefox

[ambipro]

So, a few things - loaded the source (using temporary addon)....

There should be a way to test the connection, rather than assume it _MIGHT_ be correct, only to find out later that......

I don't quite understand how it's failing, though....you have a base URL - which I assumed should be /json - to access the JSON RPC API, but you use /deluge/

I don't have a base URL, so either I leave it blank and it fails, or I add /json and it fails.I'm going to look at the source code and see if I can figure out what's going on, but I thought you should be aware of the issues regardless - even if I can fix it myself in the source, obviously you'd want to publish whatever needs fixing (if something does and I'm not just a dummy)

Are you accepting PRs, or would you prefer to handle this on your own? Don't wanna step on toes..

Other than that, I can't use it just yet - since connecting doesn't work for me, but it looks like a cool idea. Curious how it's going to handle the over 8k torrents I have in deluge relative to the webui (I use a thin client) - which the webui absolutely struggles to load initially.

Nice UI for the plugin, I would make a few changes to the setup/options page, but that's mostly an afterthought


edit: I turned on DEBUG mode, is there a logging or something or is this just debug like Deluge's logs? What's that do? Also - there's no "Deluge Rmote" or "Deluge Remote Modern" in the firefox plugins store thing....

[tsa3000]

Hey, thanks for trying it out and the detailed feedback!

**Connection setup:**
The base URL field is for reverse proxy setups only. If you access Deluge Web UI directly (e.g. `http://192.168.1.100:8112`), leave the base field **empty**. The extension builds the URL as `protocol://ip:port/json` automatically.

For example:
- Protocol: `http`
- IP: `192.168.1.100`
- Port: `8112`
- Base: *(leave empty)*

The `/deluge/` you see as placeholder is just an example for people who run Deluge behind a reverse proxy like `https://myserver.com/deluge/`. If that's not your setup, clear it out.

**Connection test:**
Good idea — I'll add a "Test Connection" button to the options page. Right now you have to save settings, close options, and click the popup to see if it connects.

**Debug mode:**
When enabled, it logs to the browser console. Open DevTools on the popup (right-click extension icon → Inspect Popup) or the background service worker (about:debugging → This Firefox → your extension → Inspect) to see the debug output.

**8k torrents:**
The popup uses innerHTML templates and only renders what's visible, so it should handle large libraries better than the Web UI. But 8k is a lot — I'd be curious to hear how it performs. Setting the refresh interval to 5-10s in Options might help.

**PRs:**
Absolutely welcome! Feel free to open PRs on either repo:
- Chrome: https://github.com/TSA3000/deluge-remote-modern
- Firefox: https://github.com/TSA3000/deluge-remote-modern-firefox

Let me know what protocol/IP/port you're using and I can help debug the connection issue.

[ambipro]

Hey, thanks for trying it out and the detailed feedback!

**Connection setup:**
The base URL field is for reverse proxy setups only. If you access Deluge Web UI directly (e.g. `http://192.168.1.100:8112`), leave the base field **empty**. The extension builds the URL as `protocol://ip:port/json` automatically.

For example:
- Protocol: `http`
- IP: `192.168.1.100`
- Port: `8112`
- Base: *(leave empty)*

The `/deluge/` you see as placeholder is just an example for people who run Deluge behind a reverse proxy like `https://myserver.com/deluge/`. If that's not your setup, clear it out.

This is what I thought. I tried both. Ended up believing it was as you described and left it blank.

**Connection test:**
Good idea — I'll add a "Test Connection" button to the options page. Right now you have to save settings, close options, and click the popup to see if it connects.

Thanks, I have several others - but we'll get to thosasse when I seee irs working perhas?

**Debug mode:**
When enabled, it logs to the browser console. Open DevTools on the popup (right-click extension icon → Inspect Popup) or the background service worker (about:debugging → This Firefox → your extension → Inspect) to see the debug output.

Content-Security-Policy: Upgrading insecure request ‘http://192.168.1.14:8115/json’ to use ‘https’

I would imagine this is something in about:config that I need to change....

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dom.security.https_only_mode_break_upgrade_downgrade_endless_loop
network.dns.upgrade_with_https_rr	
security.mixed_content.upgrade_display_content

Turned all these to false, still failed.

**8k torrents:**
The popup uses innerHTML templates and only renders what's visible, so it should handle large libraries better than the Web UI. But 8k is a lot — I'd be curious to hear how it performs. Setting the refresh interval to 5-10s in Options might help.

**PRs:**
Absolutely welcome! Feel free to open PRs on either repo:
- Chrome: https://github.com/TSA3000/deluge-remote-modern
- Firefox: https://github.com/TSA3000/deluge-remote-modern-firefox

Let me know what protocol/IP/port you're using and I can help debug the connection issue.

Anyway, Let me know how to get it compliant :)

[tsa3000]

Hey ambipro,

Found your issue! Firefox's HTTPS-Only Mode is automatically upgrading your http://192.168.1.14:8115/json request to https://, which fails because your Deluge Web UI doesn't have SSL.

Quick fix:
1. Open Firefox → about:preferences#privacy
2. Scroll to "HTTPS-Only Mode"
3. Either turn it off, or click "Manage Exceptions" and add:

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http://192.168.1.14:8115

Or from the address bar:
1. Visit http://192.168.1.14:8115 directly in Firefox
2. Firefox will show a warning — click "Continue to HTTP Site"
3. Firefox remembers this exception

This isn't a bug in the extension — it's Firefox blocking all HTTP requests by default. The extension uses the browser's fetch() API which respects HTTPS-Only Mode.

I'll add a note in the Options page about this for HTTP users. And the Test Connection button is already built — will be in the next release.

Let me know if that fixes it!

[ambipro]

See, I already had thought of that....and it was turned off before you posted.

It still says the same CSP warning and upgrading thing. I think the javascript VM is a different set of settings than the preferences. I visit that site all the time with no issue already.