fix: pause browser hosts other than vikingfile

app/state/catalog.js

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 import { features, games, twins } from '../data/catalog.js';
 import { formatDate2, formatNumber2, t } from '../i18n/core.js';
 import { createPageCache } from './page-cache.js';
+import { pausedFilter } from './paused-hosts.js';
 import { createReleaseCache } from './release-cache.js';
 import { FileSystem, Image } from '@ps5-react/core';
 
@@ -119,7 +120,7 @@ import { FileSystem, Image } from '@ps5-react/core';
     return words.map((word, i) => i ? word[0].toUpperCase() + word.slice(1) : word).join("");
   }
   var CDN_HOST = "overdrive cdn";
-  var hosts = [...hostCounts].filter(([host2, count]) => count >= MIN_HOST_GAMES || host2 === CDN_HOST).sort((a, b) => (b[0] === CDN_HOST) - (a[0] === CDN_HOST) || b[1] - a[1]).map(([host2]) => ({ value: host2, name: HOST_NAMES[host2] ?? host2 }));
+  var hosts = [...hostCounts].filter(([host2, count]) => (count >= MIN_HOST_GAMES || host2 === CDN_HOST) && !pausedFilter(host2)).sort((a, b) => (b[0] === CDN_HOST) - (a[0] === CDN_HOST) || b[1] - a[1]).map(([host2]) => ({ value: host2, name: HOST_NAMES[host2] ?? host2 }));
   var onCdn = (game) => Boolean(game.providers?.includes(CDN_HOST));
   var SIZES = [
     { value: "small", label: "filters.size.small", test: (gb) => gb < 10 },

app/state/paused-hosts.js

@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+// Browser hosts are paused, except Vikingfile, while each one is tested on the console on its own
+// (2026-10-16): a source that needs the console's browser is left out of every game when the
+// game's sources load, and its host out of Browse's host filter. Nothing is removed from the
+// catalog data; false brings every one of them back. Archive.org stays, its /details/ pages too.
+
+import { sourceKind } from './download-sources.js';
+import { vikingLinkPage } from './viking-capture.js';
+
+  var PAUSE_BROWSER_HOSTS = true;
+  // The catalog's own host keys (game.providers) whose every source needs the browser.
+  var PAUSED_FILTERS = /* @__PURE__ */ new Set([
+    "1fichier", "datanodes", "filekeeper", "datavaults", "buzzheavier", "gofile", "rapidgator", "filecrypt",
+    "ranoz", "transfer", "mega", "urlvanish", "fileditchfiles", "tinyurl", "fuckingfast", "akirabox", "rootz.so",
+    "1024terabox"
+  ]);
+  function pausedSource(release) {
+    if (!PAUSE_BROWSER_HOSTS) return false;
+    let kind;
+    try {
+      kind = sourceKind(release);
+    } catch {
+      return false;
+    }
+    if (kind === "vikingfile" || vikingLinkPage(release) || /archive\.org$/i.test(release.provider || "")) return false;
+    return kind === "browser" || kind === "datanodes" || kind === "buzzheavier";
+  }
+  var pausedFilter = (host) => PAUSE_BROWSER_HOSTS && PAUSED_FILTERS.has(host);
+
+export { pausedFilter, pausedSource };

app/state/release-cache.js

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 // ../pub-game-store/native/state/release-cache.js
 // reconstructed from the esbuild bundle in eboot.bin
 
+import { pausedSource } from './paused-hosts.js';
 import { releaseSets } from './release-sets.js';
 
   var KEPT2 = 6;
@@ -15,7 +16,8 @@ import { releaseSets } from './release-sets.js';
         // Each source carries its game's title ID (CUSA for PS4, PPSA for PS5): the firmware limit on
         // fake PKGs is the PS5's alone, and a source never says which console it is for.
         const titleId = /([a-z0-9]+)\.json$/i.exec(file)[1].toUpperCase();
-        releases = releaseSets(parsed.map((release) => ({ ...release, titleId })));
+        // A paused browser host's sources are left out here, before any screen sees them.
+        releases = releaseSets(parsed.filter((release) => !pausedSource(release)).map((release) => ({ ...release, titleId })));
         if (games2.size === KEPT2) games2.delete(games2.keys().next().value);
       }
       games2.delete(file);