diff --git a/.idea/deploymentTargetSelector.xml b/.idea/deploymentTargetSelector.xml
index b268ef3..ca16a99 100644
--- a/.idea/deploymentTargetSelector.xml
+++ b/.idea/deploymentTargetSelector.xml
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
     <selectionStates>
       <SelectionState runConfigName="app">
         <option name="selectionMode" value="DROPDOWN" />
+        <DialogSelection />
       </SelectionState>
     </selectionStates>
   </component>
diff --git a/app/build.gradle.kts b/app/build.gradle.kts
index 2d5b881..33c0d08 100644
--- a/app/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/app/build.gradle.kts
@@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ android {
     defaultConfig {
         applicationId = "com.example.privatefacebook"
         minSdk = 24
-        targetSdk = 36
-        versionCode = 1
-        versionName = "1.0"
+        targetSdk = 35
+        versionCode = 6
+        versionName = "1.7"
 
         testInstrumentationRunner = "androidx.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
     }
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/com/example/privatefacebook/MainActivity.kt b/app/src/main/java/com/example/privatefacebook/MainActivity.kt
index c51cdce..d977427 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/com/example/privatefacebook/MainActivity.kt
+++ b/app/src/main/java/com/example/privatefacebook/MainActivity.kt
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package com.example.privatefacebook
 
-import android.content.Context
+import android.content.Intent
+import android.net.Uri
 import android.net.http.SslError
 import android.os.Bundle
 import android.view.View
@@ -42,6 +43,9 @@ class MainActivity : ComponentActivity() {
 
         webView = findViewById(R.id.webview)
 
+        // Use hardware layer for faster video rendering
+        webView.setLayerType(View.LAYER_TYPE_HARDWARE, null)
+
         val webSettings: WebSettings = webView.settings
         webSettings.javaScriptEnabled = true
         webSettings.domStorageEnabled = true
@@ -51,9 +55,13 @@ class MainActivity : ComponentActivity() {
         webSettings.allowContentAccess = false
         webSettings.setGeolocationEnabled(false)
 
+        // Allow autoplay of media without a user gesture (required for seamless reels autoplay)
+        webSettings.mediaPlaybackRequiresUserGesture = false
+
         webSettings.userAgentString =
             "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36"
 
+        // Safe browsing (guarded by feature check)
         if (WebViewFeature.isFeatureSupported(WebViewFeature.START_SAFE_BROWSING)) {
             WebViewCompat.startSafeBrowsing(this) { /* no-op */ }
         }
@@ -75,14 +83,64 @@ class MainActivity : ComponentActivity() {
 
         loadFilterList()
 
+        // Pre-connect to common Facebook/CDN endpoints to reduce initial video handshake latency
+        Thread {
+            val warmHosts = listOf(
+                "https://m.facebook.com",
+                "https://www.facebook.com",
+                "https://fbcdn.net",
+                "https://*.fbcdn.net",
+                "https://*.facebook.com",
+                "https://fbsbx.com",
+                "https://fb.com"
+            )
+            for (host in warmHosts) {
+                try {
+                    val u = URL(host.replace("*.", ""))
+                    val c = (u.openConnection() as? HttpURLConnection) ?: continue
+                    c.connectTimeout = 3000
+                    c.readTimeout = 3000
+                    c.requestMethod = "HEAD"
+                    c.instanceFollowRedirects = true
+                    c.connect()
+                    c.disconnect()
+                } catch (_: Exception) {
+                    // ignore
+                }
+            }
+        }.start()
+
         webView.webViewClient = object : WebViewClient() {
+            override fun shouldOverrideUrlLoading(view: WebView?, request: WebResourceRequest?): Boolean {
+                val url = request?.url ?: return false
+                val urlStr = url.toString().lowercase()
+
+                // Define what stays inside the app (Facebook domains)
+                val isFacebook = urlStr.contains("facebook.com") ||
+                        urlStr.contains("fbcdn.net") ||
+                        urlStr.contains("fbsbx.com") ||
+                        urlStr.contains("fb.com")
+
+                if (!isFacebook) {
+                    // External link detected: hand off to default system browser
+                    try {
+                        val intent = Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, url)
+                        view?.context?.startActivity(intent)
+                        return true // Intercept the navigation
+                    } catch (e: Exception) {
+                        return false // Fallback to WebView if browser fails
+                    }
+                }
+                return false // Stay in app for Facebook links
+            }
+
             override fun shouldInterceptRequest(view: WebView?, request: WebResourceRequest?): WebResourceResponse? {
                 val req = request ?: return null
                 val urlStr = req.url.toString()
                 val lower = urlStr.lowercase()
 
+                // Deny cleartext (extra safety)
                 if (lower.startsWith("http://")) {
-                    // Deny cleartext
                     return WebResourceResponse("text/plain", "utf-8", ByteArrayInputStream("".toByteArray()))
                 }
 
@@ -93,14 +151,19 @@ class MainActivity : ComponentActivity() {
                 }
 
                 // Only intercept main-frame GET navigations to strip X-Requested-With and inject CSP
-                if (req.isForMainFrame && req.method == "GET" && lower.contains("facebook.com")) {
-                    return performControlledFetch(req)
+                try {
+                    if (req.isForMainFrame && req.method == "GET" && lower.contains("facebook.com")) {
+                        return performControlledFetch(req)
+                    }
+                } catch (_: Exception) {
+                    // Fall through to default behaviour
                 }
 
                 return null
             }
 
             override fun onReceivedSslError(view: WebView?, handler: SslErrorHandler?, error: SslError?) {
+                // Cancel on SSL errors — safer default
                 handler?.cancel()
             }
 
@@ -111,6 +174,7 @@ class MainActivity : ComponentActivity() {
             }
         }
 
+        // Load mobile Facebook
         webView.loadUrl("https://m.facebook.com")
     }
 
@@ -124,7 +188,9 @@ class MainActivity : ComponentActivity() {
                         blockPatterns.add(Regex(escaped, RegexOption.IGNORE_CASE))
                     }
             }
-        } catch (_: Exception) {}
+        } catch (_: Exception) {
+            // ignore — empty list is safe
+        }
     }
 
     private fun performControlledFetch(request: WebResourceRequest): WebResourceResponse? {
@@ -138,14 +204,20 @@ class MainActivity : ComponentActivity() {
             conn.instanceFollowRedirects = true
             conn.requestMethod = "GET"
 
-            request.requestHeaders.forEach { (k, v) ->
-                if (k.lowercase() != "x-requested-with") {
-                    try { conn.setRequestProperty(k, v) } catch (_: Exception) {}
+            // Copy headers except X-Requested-With
+            try {
+                request.requestHeaders.forEach { (k, v) ->
+                    if (k.lowercase() != "x-requested-with") {
+                        try { conn.setRequestProperty(k, v) } catch (_: Exception) {}
+                    }
                 }
-            }
+            } catch (_: Exception) {}
 
+            // Forward cookies from WebView cookie store if present
             val cookie = CookieManager.getInstance().getCookie(urlString)
-            if (!cookie.isNullOrEmpty()) conn.setRequestProperty("Cookie", cookie)
+            if (!cookie.isNullOrEmpty()) {
+                try { conn.setRequestProperty("Cookie", cookie) } catch (_: Exception) {}
+            }
 
             conn.connect()
         } catch (_: Exception) {
@@ -165,16 +237,20 @@ class MainActivity : ComponentActivity() {
         }
 
         val responseHeaders = mutableMapOf<String, String>()
-        conn.headerFields.forEach { (key, values) ->
-            if (key != null && values != null) responseHeaders[key] = values.joinToString("; ")
-        }
+        try {
+            conn.headerFields.forEach { (key, values) ->
+                if (key != null && values != null) responseHeaders[key] = values.joinToString("; ")
+            }
+        } catch (_: Exception) {}
 
-        val csp = "default-src 'self' https://*.facebook.com https://*.fbcdn.net https://*.fbsbx.com; " +
+        // CSP updated to allow facebook video streaming (blob:, data:) and fb.com previews
+        val csp = ("default-src 'self' https://*.facebook.com https://*.fbcdn.net https://*.fbsbx.com https://*.fb.com; " +
                 "script-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval' https://*.facebook.com https://*.fbcdn.net; " +
                 "style-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' https://*.facebook.com https://*.fbcdn.net; " +
-                "img-src * data: blob:; " +
-                "connect-src 'self' https://*.facebook.com https://*.fbcdn.net https://*.fbsbx.com; " +
-                "frame-src 'self' https://*.facebook.com;"
+                "img-src * data: blob: https://*.fb.com; " +
+                "media-src 'self' https://*.facebook.com https://*.fbcdn.net https://*.fb.com blob: data:; " +
+                "connect-src 'self' https://*.facebook.com https://*.fbcdn.net https://*.fbsbx.com https://*.fb.com; " +
+                "frame-src 'self' https://*.facebook.com https://*.fbsbx.com;")
 
         responseHeaders["Content-Security-Policy"] = csp
         responseHeaders["Referrer-Policy"] = "no-referrer"
@@ -184,7 +260,9 @@ class MainActivity : ComponentActivity() {
             val res = WebResourceResponse(mimeType, "utf-8", inputStream ?: ByteArrayInputStream("".toByteArray()))
             res.responseHeaders = responseHeaders
             res
-        } catch (_: Exception) { null }
+        } catch (_: Exception) {
+            null
+        }
     }
 
     private fun injectPrivacyScript() {
@@ -222,7 +300,9 @@ class MainActivity : ComponentActivity() {
               } catch(_){}
             })();
         """.trimIndent()
-        webView.evaluateJavascript(js, null)
+        try {
+            webView.evaluateJavascript(js, null)
+        } catch (_: Exception) {}
     }
 
     private fun clearAllWebViewData() {