Changelog

Updated 9 November 2026.

What changed in each Only Fan Out release, newest first. Chrome installs updates for you, so there is usually nothing to do.

Version 1.3.0: ChatGPT fan-out queries are back

Submitted on 14 September 2026 and live on the Chrome Web Store since 15 September 2026.

On 14 September 2026 ChatGPT stopped storing the text of its web searches in the saved conversation. The sources it fetched and cited were still there, so the panel kept showing sources while the Fan-out queries card went to zero. Version 1.3.0 fixes this. Google has approved it, and Chrome updates installed copies automatically. For what ChatGPT changed and what a saved chat still holds, read why ChatGPT's fan-out queries went missing in September 2026.

What changed under the hood:

• ChatGPT now sends the fan-out queries only inside the live answer stream, then strips them from the stored conversation. Only Fan Out now reads the stream as the answer arrives and keeps the query text from there.
• chatgpt.com replaces the browser's fetch function after the page loads, which silently removed the extension's capture hook. The hook is now installed in a way that stays in place when the page swaps fetch.
• A request that started while another was still in flight could skip capture entirely. The hook now handles overlapping requests.
• If ChatGPT cut a stream short, the extension used to discard everything it had received. It now keeps the partial stream, so the queries survive an interrupted answer.
• Queries captured from the stream are protected from being overwritten when the extension later re-reads the stored conversation, which has none.
• Claude and Grok were unaffected. All three engines were re-tested on live conversations before release.

Chrome applies the update in the background. To get it right away, open chrome://extensions, turn on Developer mode and click Update. If you loaded the extension unpacked from source, pull the latest code, rebuild and reload it. The privacy model is unchanged. The extension still has no servers, no accounts and no analytics. How Only Fan Out works sets out what it reads and where that data stays.