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What's new in this version: Wavebox 10.111.36.2
New:
- Introducing Wavebox flow, a builder that helps you create extensions for Wavebox. You can get started via the plus button or by launching flow.wavebox.io in a new tab.
- Add a new chrome.waveboxApps extension API
- Add a new chrome.brainbox extension API
- Add more info to Brainbox settings
- Add a keyboard shortcut to open/toggle Brainbox
Updates & improvements:
- Update to Chromium 111.0.5563.110
- Stability fixes
- Update dependencies
Fixed:
- Fix non-pinned tabs sometimes appearing within the pinned tabs
- Fix an issue where broken widgets could not be removed from a workspace
Wavebox 10.111.32.2
New:
- Give Brainbox more context about the current page that's open and the selected text
- Add table support for Brainbox
- Add Brainbox as a workspace widget
- Add a button to send a Brainbox conversation to a Smart note
- Add a text size setting to Brainbox
- Add a button to complete/restart the new user masterclass under Settings, Advanced
- Add more icons that can be used to customize your Wavebox profile avatar
Updates & improvements:
- Update dependencies
- Stability fixes
- UI fixes
Fixed:
- Fix a crash shortly after startup
- Fix a crash when trying to use Brainbox
- Fix some notifications (i.e. Telegram) not appearing in the notification widgets & Mini
- Fix some reliability issues with the Wavebox socket connection
- Fix an issue where right-clicking & removing a notification in Mini/Workspaces would remove the wrong one
- Fix a crash in the socket which could leave you unable to communicate with Brainbox
- Other fixes
Wavebox 10.111.15.2
New:
- Brainbox is back, and it's bigger and better than ever, bringing the power of ChatGPT to every app and tab in Wavebox. In this first release of Brainbox V2, our powerful right-click writing skills are back—translate, summarize, draft a reply—plus there's a shiny-new sidebar UI. You can also manage, edit and create new skills via the new Admin Portal.
- Add a shortcut to cycle between apps that have unread notifications
- You can now easily add Wavebox apps directly from the omnibox
Updates & improvements:
- Update to Chromium 111.0.5563.64
- Update dependencies
- Add some helper info when sharing workspaces
Fixed:
- Fix more sidebar drag issues
- Stability fixes
- Fix an issue where opening a page as a desktop web app would close and fail
- Fix the custom tab name not being searchable in search
- Fix a styling issue with the active group indicator when the webdock was hidden
Wavebox 10.110.26.2
New:
- A new tab navigator experience that makes it easier to switch between all your tabs using the mouse or the keyboard. Try it by clicking the navigator button in the sidebar or through the main burger menu!
- New color styling for the tab navigator with customizable backgrounds
- New background gradients for workspaces
- Add new keyboard shortcut to cycle the active tab around the open windows
- Add "Move tab to new window" keyboard shortcut
- When sharing tabs to a workspace, make it possible to change the tabs before sending
- Add support for dragging links into empty collection widgets
- Make the tab strip only drop into its own toolbar when you have more than 4 apps
Updates & improvements:
- Update to Chromium 110.0.5481.100
- Improve YouTube url support for the embedded iframe widget
- Be less strict when accepting links for collection widgets
- Better compatibility for username/password proxy authentication
- Update dependencies
Fixed:
- Fix an issue where a site briefly opening a new tab to initiate a download would return to the incorrect tab
- Speculative fix for modifier+click actions not working immediately after Wavebox starts
- Fix an issue where settings would sometimes fail to scroll to the correct section
- When hitting Alt+Enter in the omnibox, the cookie container would not be carried through. Fix this.
- Fix the mute/unmute right-click menu item not reflecting current state on a group
- Fix windows not reappearing after unlocking the privacy lock
- Fix keyboard focus not being in the omnibox when a new tab page is set
- A bunch of fixes for dragging & dropping stuff in the toolbars
- Fixes for the context menus
- Fix Connect and Smartnote extensions failing to load
- Fix missing icons in Connect
- UI tweaks
- Stability fixes
- First run fixes
Wavebox 10.110.18.2
New:
- Add support for Ctrl/Shift/Alt+clicking "Move tab into a new window" to duplicate the tab rather than pop it out
- Add "Wake all tabs in window" to the tab context menu in secondary windows
- Add support for Alt+Clicking on tabs and apps to place them in split screen mode
- Add a new link open modifier (Ctrl/Shift/Alt+click) that allows links to be opened in split screen
- Add a button to Settings > Advanced to restart the Wavebox masterclass
Updates & improvements:
- Update Chromium to 110.0.5481.97
- UI fixes and helpers
- Update dependencies
- Stability fixes
Fixed:
- Fix widget pop out urls not being clickable
- Fix an issue where popping out a tab that's in deep sleep would fail
- Fix opening external links across profiles not working
- Fix some emojis on Windows being offset
- Fix an issue where popped out apps could fall asleep too readily
- Fix an issue on macOS where dragging images when filename extensions are sometimes hidden in finder would result in a sites detecting binary file/invalid file format instead of an image
Wavebox 10.110.12.2
New:
- Add support for macOS Touch ID and Windows Hello as options when using the Wavebox privacy lock. If you already have the lock enabled, you'll need to change your lock settings to use biometrics
- It's now possible to move apps into new windows and then bring them back again, this is really helpful if you have multiple monitors! To split the app into a new window, either use the right-click menu or Ctrl+click on the app
- A brand new faster app store that makes it easier to find your apps and create your own custom ones
- Tweaks to the controls at the bottom of the sidebar, including a new settings pop-out with a bunch of useful things!
- New Admin Portal that makes it easier to manage your Wavebox subscription, profiles, templates, and teams
- Add Masterclass tour to help new Wavebox users get started after downloading Wavebox (Pro tip, if you want to take a look, hover over the settings icon ????)
- Add 'Send to group' to the right-click menu, when right-clicking on a link
- Generate a 'URL link' for each widget so you can open them from another app. You can find this under the settings cog
- Add support for middle mouse clicking a group, this sleeps all apps and tabs within the group
- Add support for Shift/Ctrl/Cmd+clicking links in Smart Notes
- Add an option to disable sleep on a specific tab via the right-click menu
- Add support for using the left/right arrow keys in the app switcher
- Add a keyboard shortcut to open a tab in the active group rather than the default (which is active service). This shortcut is unmapped by default but can be set under Settings > Keyboard Shortcuts > Opening apps & tabs
Updates & improvements:
- Update to Chromium 110.0.5481.77
- Update dependencies
Fixed:
- Fix an issue where the sidebar could sometimes become hidden behind the tab
- Stability fixes
- In certain locales, focus mode wouldn't display AM/PM in the time until, fix this
- Fix an issue with sync where it could become stuck
- Fix clicking on app settings only taking you as far as the group
- Fix an issue on macOS where CMD+W wouldn't always close the tab when search was open
Wavebox 10.109.14.2
New:
- Add a dialog prompt when creating a cookie container
- Add an embedded iframe widget to workspaces
- Add support for Ctrl/Cmd+clicking links in workspaces and opening those links in background tabs
- Add support for opening urls in identities and apps from the command line. You can find information about this by enabling Settings > Advanced > Command line hints and checking the settings of an app or cookie container.
Updates & improvements:
- Update to Chromium 109.0.5414.119
- Update dependencies
- Stability fixes
- UI fixes
- Improve icon refetching when Wavebox starts in an offline state, or is unable to load icons
Fixed:
- Fix the tooltip delay not being changeable
- Fixes for Gmail icon fetching
- Fix an issue where clicking a notification from a sleeping app, would launch the app in a new window
- Fix the app color ring setting as it's state wasn't always respected
- Fix apps being unable to set their sound back to the default
- Under certain configurations the tabstrip would fall into its own toolbar unnecessarily, fix this
Wavebox 10.109.8.2
New:
- Brand new settings UI
- Settings diagrams. These replace the sea of toggle switches and give in-situ feedback and visual cues as to what each setting does
- Overhauled search, making it faster, clearer and more reliable
- Faster loading
- Loads of other fixes and tweaks to make settings feel less daunting
- An option to bulk apply sleep settings to all apps
- Add a color picker to the appearance options so you can pick a Wavebox color quickly change the look and feel of Wavebox
- Updates to focus mode
- Add an option to display which groups & apps are in the active focus mode
- Add an option to sleep groups when entering focus mode
- New Google Calendar widget for workspaces
- Add wake all apps to the group right-click menu
- Add "last app" as an option to the "choose what to pick after closing a tab" flag
- Add an option to show/hide the border on individual apps as well as groups
Updates & improvements:
- Update to Chromium 109.0.5414.87
- Update dependencies
Fixed:
- Fix an issue where discord could keep logging you out
- Stability fixes
Wavebox 10.108.19.2
Updates & improvements:
- Update to Chromium 108.0.5359.124
- Update dependencies
- Make the collapsed titlebar a little taller on Windows when Wavebox is maximized. This gives enough drag area to drag Wavebox out of maximized state
- Make the audio playing/muted icon on tabs clickable
Fixed:
- Fix a rouge blank toolbar on some Linux configurations where all titlebar buttons are hidden and the system titlebar is used
- Fix the omnibox being mispositioned on macOS when the titlebar is collapsed
- Stability fixes
- Stability fixes for password sync
- When editing a tab name, the edit field would sometimes fail to populate. Fix this
- Fix an issue on macOS, when in fullscreen the titlebars could become hidden whilst existing the privacy lock
- Desktop web apps that displayed unread activity and unread counts would favor showing the activity over the count. This was the wrong way around.
Wavebox 10.108.14.2
- A more compact titlebar & address bar. You can try it out by disabling Settings > UI > Full-height titlebar
- Upgrade to Chromium 108.0.5359.94
- Stability fixes
- Fix an issue with Discord signing out under certain configurations
- Update dependencies
Wavebox 10.107.18.2
- Update to Chromium 107.0.5304.122
- UI updates
- Stability fixes
- Update dependencies
Wavebox 10.107.16.2
New:
- New split-screen controls
- New split-screen button in the titlebar of Wavebox windows, providing faster access to split-screen controls and status
- You can now split an app across groups as well as just within groups, so now if you have one app you want to always keep on screen you can do this
- Fix the split-screen dragger disappearing when splitting right and bottom
- Simplify the split-screen behaviour by removing the apps & tabs mode
- Ensure there are always two apps/tabs open when entering split mode
- Add keyboard shortcuts for changing split screen across the window (as opposed to just groups)
- New Redesigned icon picker
- Add support for moving sleeping tabs to other groups
Updates & improvements:
- Update the Chromium 107.0.5304.110
- Stability fixes
- Update dependencies
- Update the base url for Outlook to remove the white bar in the desktop web app
Fixed:
- Cookie containers didn't sync custom icons, fix this
- Under certain configurations the tooltips failed to stay open in the explorer webdock, fix this
- Fix an issue where the main window could be closed on macOS and it was difficult to get it back
- Fix being unable to remove tabs in certain circumstances
- Fix a crash on workspaces
- Fix a crash when removing yourself from a team
- UI fixes
Wavebox 10.107.10.2
New:
- New Ctrl+Tab switcher. Hold Ctrl+Tab to switch between your most recently used apps & tabs.
- New styling and helpers for the global search
- On Windows add a button to create a shortcut for a Wavebox profile so it can be launched directly from the desktop
Updates & improvements:
- Update to Chromium 107.0.5304.87
- Update dependencies
- When using the explorer webdock it was pretty hard to keep group popovers open as you'd hover over the + button to move your mouse to them. Fix this.
- Disable webdock hiding when rounded webviews are disabled. This wasn't a supported configuration and you could quite easily end up with a hidden webdock and no way to get to it.
Wavebox 10.106.8.2
- Update to Chromium 106.0.5249.119
- Update dependencies
- Stability fixes
- When creating a collection widget from a window, tab ordering was not respected. Fix this.
- UI Tweaks
- Add "Open in Cookie Container" to context menus
- Fix an issue where tabs could be left in the stores with no parent
- Speculative fix for the main window not restoring after a restart
Wavebox 10.106.5.2
- Update to Chromium 106.0.5249.91
- Update dependencies
- Fix webdock apps not collapsing when the group is inactive
- Fix being unable to edit passwords
- Sync fixes
Wavebox 10.106.2.2
- Update to Chromium 106.0.5249.61
- Update dependecies
- Performance boost for UI components
- Performance boost on first launch
- Fix not being able to select elements using the keyboard in the switcher
- Fix highlight style not having enough contrast in the switcher
- Changing the Cookie container icon had stopped working, until now! (We fixed it)
- Stability fixes
Wavebox 10.105.31.2
- Update to Chromium 105.0.5195.125
- Update other dependencies
- More fixes for sync
- Fix Wavebox Connect colors not reflecting the main Wavebox theme
- Fix a crash when setting the Cookie Container on manifest 3 extensions
- Add a keyboard shortcut to toggle the side search (this can be setup under Settings > Keyboard shortcuts)
Wavebox 10.105.26.2
Fixed:
- Fixes for extensions that use the chrome.identity API
- Fix the new tab workspace not being remembered after a restart
- Fix being unable to move an app in some instances
- Fix an edge case where sync would fail to reconnect properly
- Fix Smart Note sync needlessly always uploading images on the first run
- Rewrite the sync dispatcher to be more consistent and reslient
- Handle invalid password entries more consistently in sync
- Fix an issue where dragging sidebar items could move Wavebox into an undefined state and require a full restart to fix
- Update dependencies
Wavebox 10.105.22.2
New:
- Wavebox sync is now available as part of labs. This allows you to keep more than one Wavebox install in sync, so you can have the same Groups, Apps, Bookmarks, Extensions, Smart notes, Passwords and more all in sync across multiple devices. To get started open Settings > Data & Sync and request access!
Updates & improvements:
- Improvements when setting default search engine
- UI updates when opening links from outside of Wavebox
- UI updates for context menus
- Update dependencies
Fixed:
- Some links would fail to match through the link engine, when opened from google sites
- Fix memory leak with ClickUp
- Fix a hard crash that could bring Wavebox down completely
- Fixes for sharing passwords
- Fix the settings tooltip not being clickable
Wavebox 10.105.8.2
- Update to Chromium 105.0.5195.102
- Update dependencies
- Fixes for removing and importing passwords
- Faster launching of Sticky Notes
Wavebox 10.104.14.2
New:
- New Side Search allows you to open the search page in a side panel after you start opening results. When Side Search is available, a prompt will appear in the address bar allowing you to open it. Side Search works when Google or You.com are set as your default search.
- Add You.com as a search provider
- Add search engine picker to the main Wavebox settings
Updates & improvements:
- Update to Chromium 104.0.5112.101
- Update dependencies
- Include add buttons in the explorer webdock
- Updates to the template sharing process
- Faster extension downloads, especially with larger extensions
- UI & Stability fixes
Fixed:
- some dragging issue in the explorer webdock
- not being able to add new passwords in settings
- some UI styling when the devtools are open
Wavebox 10.104.7.2
- Update to Chromium 104.0.5112.81
- Wavebox had a secret disco mode! You could sometimes trigger this when interacting with Groups that are in split screen, and you'd see tabs switching every half a second or so. Fun as disco mode was, it was actually a bug and not a feature. So the Wavebox dev team have been party-poopers and shut the disco down.
- Dragging apps into the Webdock and creating a group was broken, fix this.
- Fix an issue where the "This tab is sleeping" or "Add your first tab to the group" screen would end up in error
- Update dependencies
- Stability fixes
- First launch improvements
Wavebox 10.103.39.2
- Update to Chromium 103.0.5060.134 which includes important security fixes
- Update dependencies
- Stability fixes
Wavebox 10.103.36.2
New:
- Updates to the link opener
- Add a priority option to link rules, so you can ensure the ordering of matching
- Add the ability to edit & create rules (both for links opened within Wavebox and external links)
- Fix an issue where picking to open in a new window, wouldn't always create a new window
- Updates for when opening links from outside Wavebox
- Add advanced matching options, so you can use url patterns etc
- Add an option to open certain links in different Wavebox profiles
- Rewrite the chooser dialog to be less cluttered
- Add a profile option in the chooser dialog
- Add a titlebar button to secondary windows to get back to the main Wavebox window
- Tidy up the titlebar buttons on secondary windows (these can be re-enabled under settings)
Updates & improvements:
- Updates to tab boosting
- Performance improvements
- Update dependencies
Fixed:
- Fix an issue where Wavebox would sometimes incorrectly quit rather than hide on Linux when using keyboard shortcuts
- Fix CMD+Q sometimes not prompting before exit on macOS
- Fixes when adding new apps
Wavebox 10.103.28.2
New:
- Brand new template sharing. Send one or more groups and passwords to a friend or co-worker so they can grab part or all of your setup. If you share a template with someone who doesn't have Wavebox this can help them get setup quickly; when they first launch Wavebox, the template will be pre-added to Wavebox so they're ready to go! To give it a try, right-click on any group and use the "Share this group" option ????
- Add a new Info Card widget to workspaces, allowing you to add an image, text and link, helpful if you're part of a team and want to share some inspiration ????
- Add a new Smart Notes widget to workspaces
- Add new wallpapers in workspaces
- Add a keyboard shortcut to close all tabs in the current group
Updates & improvements:
- Update to Chromium 103.0.5060.114
- Update dependencies
- Improvements to tab boosting
Fixed:
- Fix not being able to set the text color in Smart notes
- Fix the toggle webdock keyboard shortcut not working
- Fix the titlebar button colors when not using the unified tabstrip & titlebar
- Clickup has been experiencing some issues and are not sending notification change events, which means the unread badge fails to update. We've added a workaround for this until Clickup issue a fix
- Fix an issue where parts of the main UI would fail to show in the main window
- Fix tab boosting for urls that share the same domain (i.e. Gmail & Google Chat)
- Fix Desktop Web Apps failing to open correctly
Wavebox 10.103.5.2
New:
- Add an option to hide/show the webdock on hover
- Add an experimental flag, for the Chromium side panel
Updates & improvements:
- Upgrade to Chromium 103.0.5060.53
- Update dependencies
- UI Tweaks
Fixed:
- Boosting some urls would give bad suggestions, fix this
- Context menu fixes
- Stability and performance improvements
- Fix the tabstrip not showing on groups where all apps are in the Webdock
- Fix Wavebox completely quitting when shutting down a profile
Wavebox 10.102.21.2
New:
- Add an option to auto-wakeup apps in the background. You can find this by right-clicking on an app
- Add an experimental option to show tabs along the top of Desktop Web Apps. This can be enabled, by right-clicking on the app > Settings & enabling the "Tabstrip"
- Add an option to keep notifications on screen, until dismissed (Integrated apps only). This can be enabled under app settings > "Keep notifications on-screen until dismissed"
- Updates to the Quick Switch
- Add sections when searching to help you locate what you're looking for
- Add an option to change the order of the search results. Right click on the section titles to change
- Add group results into the search results
- Link engine updates & fixes
- Add an option to open links across cookie container, when opening links alongside their matched app. These rules can be created in the customizer, when using "Open in tab as matched app"
- There are some edge cases where links would incorrectly open cross cookie container, this would cause an undefined behaviour (i.e. tabs would appear to reload, or reset to their homepage). Capture this edge case and handle it more uniformly
- Add a prompt before merging two groups
- Add an option to name your app when using the "Boost this tab" wizard
- When boosting a tab, if the app supports it, give the option to use the url from the tab as the base url
- When right-clicking on a link in a page, add an option to create a new link open rule
- Add keyboard shortcuts to toggle between just the tabs as opposed to the apps in the main window.
- Make the history and saved items in the tooltips open as a new tab when holding the shift key
Updates & improvements:
- Update to Chromium 102.0.5005.115
- Update dependencies
- Tidy up the keyboard shortcut settings where there are shortcuts that map from 1-9
Fixed:
- Split screen fixes
- Changing the mode via the in page right-click menu, would revert the change shortly after. Fix this
- Add the unsplit option to context menus for the secondary split tab
- Fix the incorrect split mode sometimes being reported in right-click menus
- Re-opening a tab via Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+T was failing to keep the tab in the main Wavebox window. Fix this
- Sometimes when dragging apps in the sidebar (depending on the direction of drag), they would land in the wrong position, fix this
- Fix the text color in the titlebar for Windows
- When setting the new tab url, this was only taking into account when pressing the home button. Change it so the homepage actually changes ????
- Fix widgets sometimes failing to popout
- Fix an issue on Windows where PowerToys and FancyZones could resize popup windows such as the quick switch
- Fix not being able to enter color codes in the group & app context menus
- Fix not being able to remove an ignored password site in settings
- Groups with no apps, would sometimes place the tab toolbar in it's own toolbar, with an empty one above it. Fix this
- Stability fixes
- Usability fixes
Wavebox 10.102.12.2
New:
- Add the password manager into the main Wavebox settings
- Add DNS over HTTPS settings into the main Wavebox settings
- Add dark mode support to some of the Wavebox dialogs
Updates & improvements:
- Update to Chromium 102.0.5005.61
- Update dependencies
- Stability & performance fixes
- UI Tweaks
- Move Wavebox update settings into the about section
Fixed:
- Fix opening external links in new tabs, heading out to a new window in some configurations
- Fix the keyring deprecation warning on Ubuntu 22
- Fix Smart notes not adding highlighted text correctly
Wavebox 10.101.21.2
New:
- Add an option to exclude pinned tabs from the open tab counts. This can be changed under Settings > Tabs & Windows
- Add support for picking search results with the tab key in the quick switch
- Add a keyboard shortcut to toggle between pre-set split screen sizes. This can be configured under Settings > Keyboard Shortcuts
Updates & improvements:
- Upgrade to Chromium 101.0.4951.64
- Improve icon quality in the sidebar
- Update dependencies
Fixed:
- Fix an issue with split screen, where one of the tabs could fail to resize and display under the other
- Fix an issue on macOS where desktop web apps would fail to launch
- Fix an issue where Wavebox could start minimized and then it was difficult to get the main window opened
- Fix styling issue when using certain themes and getting the signed out dialog
- Fix an issue where switching Slack workspaces would fail and you'd essentiall get stuck in a single workspace
- Fix an issue when adding multiple ClickUp or Feedly apps to the same cookie container
- Fix an issue where new tab pages could be blank
- Data integrity fixes
- Performance fixes
Wavebox 10.101.16.2
Updates & improvements:
- Update to Chromium 101.0.4951.54
- Update dependencies
- Add boost tab into right-click context menu
- Add "Focus the main Wavebox window" option to the main burger menu
- When using the switcher, if you just hit enter after searching, auto-select the first item in the list
- In settings, make weblink accounts include their resolved display name
- Tweaks to the omnibox behaviour when typing urls on the new group/tab sleeping ui
Fixed:
- Fixes for tab boosting
- Fix some Slack accounts no longer receiving updated badges & notifications
- Fix an issue where collapsed groups would still show the unread badge when it was disabled in settings
- UI fixes
- Stability fixes
Wavebox 10.101.9.2
New:
- Tab boosting! Although it was previously possible to convert a tab into an app, it only turned the tab into a weblink app. This meant that you often missed out on customizations and integrations specific for that app. Tab boosting fixes this, by boosting the tab into its fully blown tab counterpart. Also when you boost a tab it has a cool animation ????.
- We successfully moved over to Stripe for subscription billing, so you can edit your payment details via the Stripe Portal ????
- macOS, add View > Unsplit all apps & tabs to the main menu
Updates & improvements:
- Update to Chromium 101.0.4951.41
- Updates to the Gmail integration
- When launching an app from the webdock popup, don't auto expand this in the explorer webdock
- Improve the drop indicator when moving an item into a group
- Startup performance improvements
- Update dependencies
Fixed:
- Do not disturb/focus mode detection was siliently failing on some macOS configurations & versions, fix for this
- Fix the update checker running too frequently
- Fix a bunch of glitches with right-click menus
- Moving tabs from secondary windows back to the primary one didn't work. Fix this
- Fix the explorer webdock sometimes failing to render on first switch
- When removing an app we used to remove all it's child tabs. Now reparent them to the group
- Some favicons failed to show customized icons served by pages and instead showed the default favicon icon for the domain, fix this
- UI fixes
Wavebox 10.100.12.2
New:
- Add an option to set a different proxy config on each cookie container
- Add an option to ignore certain url patterns when sleeping tabs
- The option to change the new tab page had vanished, bring it back
Updates & improvements:
- Update to Chromium 100.0.4896.127
- Update dependencies
Fixed:
- Fullscreen fix on macOS when moving from a fullscreen window, to a fullscreen video
- Fix tab titles sometimes not updating
- Cookie container fixes
- Fix for Outlook where it would fail to update when the machine comes back online.
- Opening links from the new tab page, would sometimes incorrectly eject the link into a new window. Fix this.
- On macOS, if "Always show toolbar in fullscreen" was disabled, the webview would overflow into the toolbars in fullscreen mode. Fix this.
- Other less important bugfixes and stability fixes
Wavebox 10.100.7.2
New:
- Add an option to Groups to set the default homepage when opening new tabs in that group
- Add the option to change the text size in the sidebar
- Add a cookie container picker when sharing a website using the share menu in the addressbar
- Add a keyboard shortcut to toggle the webdock modes (this can be configured under settings)
Updates & improvements:
- Update Chromium to 100.0.4896.75
- Update dependencies
- Performance improvements, including up to 25% faster launching of some Wavebox pages
Fixed:
- Temporarily disable floating webviews when devtools are open
- Adding Wavebox smart notes, connect or workspaces as a desktop web app would fail silently, fix this.
- Fix a compatability issue with the Norton Password Manager extension
- Tabs held in the top level group would fail to convert to apps as they assumed they'd have a parent app. ???? Fix this
- The active app & tab indicator was incredibly washed out when using dark themes. Make it brighter
- Stability fixes
- UI fixes
Wavebox 10.99.50.2
- Add "New window" to the link opener engines
- Update dependencies
- Update integrations
Fixed:
- Fix an issue, when in fullscreen the sidebar would be cut-off (macOS)
- Fix a style issue when rounded webviews is disabled
- Fix an issue where the the sidebar would cut off some styles at more than 80 pixels wide
- After the new UI update, right clicking on a group with just 1 app wouldn't show the "Open current page in new window" option. Fix this.
- Disable the "Send to workspace" option in the group context menu, when there's nothing in the group to send
- Fix an issue on macOS where the CMD+W behaviour was inconsistent in some configurations
- Stability fixes around locking & unlocking Wavebox
- Fix a CPU spike when opening the profile switcher
- Fix some notifications not showing the correct icons in Wavebox mini
- Style fixes
- Stability fixes
Wavebox 10.99.46.2
- A brand new UI, which includes a unified tab strip & title bar, floating webviews with subtle rounded corners and shadows to make everything you're working on just pop
- Rebuilt from the ground up, a new drag & drop experience that among other things lets you drag tabs from toolbar straight into the webdock
- A brand new webdock rebuilt from the ground up...
- The webdock now has two modes, the list webdock (just your icons) and the explorer webdock showing all your groups, apps and tabs on the left
- Seamlessly toggle between the list webdock and explorer webdock anytime by using the button in the toolbar
- Got lots of tabs to organize? No problem, easily create folders in the explorer webdock to keep all your stuff exactly where you need it.
- You're no longer bound by the regular, compact & tiny webdock sizes, just use the drag bar for as much (or as little) webdock as you like.
- Wish you could create a new group without an app? Just hit the new group button and start adding tabs.
- Need the action buttons in the title bar, or prefer the extra space? You can now choose which icons you want and which you don't.
- Always hitting compose, or creating new documents? Just hover over your favorite apps and check out the fast actions (try it on Google Drive, or Gmail)!
- Quickly get to what's new just by hovering over your apps. We've added your unreads, notifications and more into the popovers to make them more useful.
- Customize your groups and apps directly from the right-click menus without ever needing to touch settings (try clicking on the name or color).
- Check out the new tab navigator. Cool little graphs and lists of what you've got running!
- Add Wavebox Smart Notes as an app.
- The dev team & ux team tell us that there are nearly a million other tweaks but we don't quite believe them. Or maybe we do. You decide!
- Update to Chromium 99.0.4844.84
- Update a bunch of other dependencies
- Some big performance improvements from the new UI update, especially for machines that have integrated graphics
- Add keyboard shortcuts for split/unsplit (this can be configured under settings)
- Opening wavebox://downloads in the main window could cause it to reload on startup, fix this
- Fix a crash in the main window
- Fix opening app settings not always scrolling the settings window to the correct location
- When opening external links, Wavebox wouldn't offer the last cookie container when it was the default. Fix this
- Tab counts would not show on groups with a single app, fix this
- Capture a case where a partial update could cause the app to stop launching
Wavebox 10.99.14.2
Fixed:
- In some configurations, Slack & Gmail could present duplicate notifications
- When using split-screen, it was not possible to change between screen positions, without exiting split screen
- Opening a tab in a new cookie container would result in it reverting back to the original container
- When an app fell asleep, clicking on the app in the webdock/toolbars wouldn't wake it up. We like it when things fall asleep because it saves resources, but we also like it when they wake up when they're needed. So we added some new coffee brewing code that wakes it up ☕
- Patch an issue with the extensions api
- Performance & stability fixes
- Update dependencies
Wavebox 10.99.11.2
Updates & improvements:
- Update to Chromium 99.0.4844.51
- Update dependencies
- Add the option to open links using the opener engine. This can be done with Ctrl/Shift/Alt/Cmd+Click and can be configured under settings -> Link Opening
- Add support for split-screen calls for extensions
- Add enable/disable all extensions to the extensions page
- Stability fixes
- Performance improvements
- UI tweaks
- Better error handling
Fixed:
- Fix the cookie container indicator not always updating
- Fix an issue with pinned workspaces not remembering the last workspace
- Desktop web apps would take the theme color from the hosted page when set, rather than from the color set in settings. Fix this so it always takes the expected color.
- When moving an app to a new group, it would lose its cookie container and only partially switch to the moved tab. Fix both of these.
- Fix an issue where under some configurations Wavebox would incorrectly change to touch UI mode
- Fix an issue where sometimes changing the tab title would fail to update until after a restart
- Fix Wavebox failing to take focus when clicking the menu bar icon on macOS
- Fix for the telegram unread count
- The Gmail inbox type was not being picked up automatically after adding the Gmail app. Fix this
Wavebox 10.98.34.2
Updates & improvements:
- Update to Chromium 98.0.4758.102
- Update dependencies
- Performance improvements from our internal fuzzing
- Compatibility improvements for extensions that connect to native applications
- Add a floating drawer icon to workspaces that have a hidden titlebar
- Add some additional info to diagnostics to help us diagnose split screen issues
- Add a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+C) to copy the current url
Fixed:
- Split screen would sometimes not respect the setting after a reboot, fix this
- Under some circumstances, the resize handle for split screen would not work after opening a tab, fix this
- Fixes for the Clickup integration
- Fix an issue where Wavebox would sometimes pick a random app after restarting
- Stability improvements
- Fix a crash when fetching the last used tab
- Better error handling
- Fix some sites being unable to open links in the default browser
- Fix Skype being unable to open links in the default browser, when the default browser setting is only set on the Skype app
- Fix an issue where some tab icons would appear broken
- Fix a crash when editing an installer in the collection widget
- Fix some issues around closing windows via a keyboard shortcut
- Stability improvements
- Fix sorting for cloud profiles
Wavebox 10.98.9.2
New:
- Add Feedly as an integrated app ????
- Add an option to hide the titlebar in workspaces
- Add a button to app settings to the set the icon to be the current page icon (Weblink apps only)
- Add support for AppImage on Linux
Updates & improvements:
- Update Chromium to 98.0.4758.80
- Update dependencies
- If you've enabled Wavebox UI2 under Settings, Advanced, Flags then...
- UI2 new drag-drop interface
- UI2 fix the signed out panel bleeding over the tabstrip
- UI2 the sidebar could be resized when locked, fix this
- UI2 deleting an empty group would leave you in an undefined state, fix this
- Promote the following settings from flags
- Use glass effect for some user interface elements
- Connect micro sidebar
- Prompt before closing multiple tabs
- Add a timestamp to notifications in Wavebox mini & workspaces
- The unified unread widget would only report unread items that were specifically reported by integrations, meaning some unread counts and activities would go unreported in the widget. It now also includes counts and activities where the app doesn't explicitly report unread items.
Fixes:
- WhatsApp was sometimes reporting messages were sent 52 years ago. Although it's impressive that people in 1970 were able to use WhatsApp it wasn't right, so we fixed it.
- When opening external links in Wavebox, and picking the last used window, also inherit the cookie container
- Split screen would not work on macOS in fullscreen mode, fix this
- Split screen would not focus the tab on click on macOS, fix this
- Fix an issue where notifications would not open the correct window and app
- Fix an issue where notifications would open in the wrong cookie container
- Fix right clicking on a tab only working once
- Fix the icon picker on Cookie Containers
- Fix an issue where using keyboard shortcuts to change app would not bring keyboard focus back properly
- Fix style issue on workspaces
- Fixes for the Linux update process
- Fix an issue that could see you unable to start Wavebox
- Fix adding suggested apps from the Desktop Web Apps page
Wavebox 10.97.33.2
- Some users reported Wavebox getting stuck on startup, this release addresses that issue
- Fix the next / previous app keyboard shortcut not working
- Update to Chromium 97.0.4692.99
- Collapse apps in settings to make it easier to navigate large groups
- Update dependencies
- UI tweaks
- Fix a hard crash that could occur when switching profiles
- More fixes for protocol handlers (using Wavebox as your default mail handler)
- Fix workspace styling in the collection widgets
Wavebox 10.97.26.2
New:
- Add support for dragging groups over each other to combine their contents
- Add an icon picker when picking group & app icons
- Add a keyboard shortcut to duplicate the current tab
- Display multi-line names in the workspace collection widget
Updates & improvements:
- When unsplitting an app/tab, be more intelligent about that tab that is selected after the unsplit
- UI tweaks tweaks and updates
- Update dependencies
Fixed:
- a crash in settings
- some style issues with the focus customizer
- handling mailto/email links not working correctly
- the workspace icon not using the app color
Wavebox 10.97.16.2
New:
- Add an option to set your own custom notification sounds
- Add an option to suspend idle detection for the privacy lock, by right clicking on the lock icon in the sidebar
- Sites are able to request that they open desktop applications by default, but there was no way to undo this, add those sites into settings
Updates & improvements:
- Upgrade to Chromium 97.0.4692.71
- Update dependencies
- Add a flag to disable the alert when an app is signed out
- Speed up the unread count detection for outlook
- Updates the add app wizard
Fixed:
- There was some discrepancy in the behaviour when closing tabs in the main Wavebox window vs closing tabs in other windows. Update this so it behaves the same across the board.
- Fix the address bar sometimes appearing when hidden
- UI updates & tweaks
- Multiple fixes for split screen
- Fix split-screen not restoring on startup under certain circumstances
- Handle a case where outlook would stop syncing unread counts and notifications
Wavebox 10.96.38.2
- This patch release fixes an issue with scrollbars not appearing on some websites
Wavebox 10.96.36.2
- This release includes an update to Chromium 96.0.4664.110, which includes some important security and stability fixes
Wavebox 10.96.31.2
- Update to Chromium 96.0.4664.93
- Add keyboard shortcuts for sleeping app/group/window
- Update dependencies
- Update integration apis
- Split screen fixes
- Fix the sidebar & toolbar being cut off on macOS
- Fix a CPU leak with the downloads widget
- Ensure tabs are woken up correctly when entering split-screen mode
Wavebox 10.96.12.2
Updates & improvements:
- Update to Chromium 96.0.4664.45
- Add Freshdesk integration
- Make some Wavebox components live updatable so they can be updated in the background without a big release
Fixed:
- Fix an issue where clearing the browsing data from a cookie container, could also result in the default cookie container being cleared
- Fix a case where Trello would fail to complete sign-in under certain circumstances
- Fix a crash on the lock screen
- Dark mode fixes
- Fix an issue where a tab could silently wake up on launch
- Fix a crash when using incognito mode & opening the devtools or a new window from a page
- Fix a memory leak with Gmail & Slack
- Fix a UI glitch with the top toolbar in the main Wavebox window
- Data integrity checking & fixes
- Fix a bug that would sometimes occur when restoring a profile from disk or the cloud. The profile would either fail to restore correctly, or partially restore, leaving the app in a bit of an undefined state.
Wavebox 10.95.41.2
New:
- Enable dark mode in settings
- Add an option to display Wavebox apps as round rather than circular
- Change the Ctrl/Cmd+W behaviour to more intelligently pick the next tab
- Add support for backing up and restoring Desktop Web Apps & bookmarks using import/export
- Add a keyboard shortcut to cycle through all awake tabs
Updates & improvements:
- Update to Chromium 95.0.4638.69
- Update dependencies
- Ensure app configurations are updated more frequently
- Stability and performance improvements
Fixed:
- Re-attach the main wavebox window more resiliently when session restore is enabled
- Speculative fix for phantom tabs sometimes appearing in the main Wavebox window
- Fix a crash when opening bookmarks in a new window
- Fix an issue where app icons could display blank after performing a restore
- Fix an edge case where the app could quit unexpectedly on startup
- Enabling focus mode permanently has stopped working, add a fix for this
- Fix move tab to group not working
- Fix a potential crash in the main Wavebox window
- Fix an issue where clearing the browsing data from a cookie container, could also result in the default cookie container being cleared
- Fix a case where Trello would fail to complete sign-in under certain circumstances
- Fix a crash on the lock screen
- UI fixes
Wavebox 10.94.24.2
- Update dependencies
- Performance improvements for the app store
- Update to Chromium 94.0.4606.81
Wavebox 10.94.19.2
- Update to Chromium 94.0.4606.71
- Fix not being able to change the notification sound on Desktop Web Apps
- Fix an issue that could cause some extensions to crash
- Show smartnotes in the Desktop Web App extension menu
Wavebox 10.94.17.2
New:
- Desktop Web Apps. Is there an app you use all the time that you really wish you could pin to the dock/taskbar and use just like a fully installed app? Now you can!
- Click on the new apps button in the titlebar of any window to add your first app. Once added...
- Launch the app right from the desktop / application launcher
- Pin the app to your taskbar and switch back to it at lightning speed
- Get unread badges for just that app right in your dock
- Use Alt+Tab/Cmd+Tab to switch between it and all the other apps running on your machine
- Add clear all notifications to notifications widget titlebar
- Add support for wavebox:// urls
Updates & improvements:
- Update to Chromium 94.0.4606.61
- Update dependencies
Fixed:
- Wavebox would crash when trying to drag the connect or smartnote extensions in the toolbar, fix this
- Fix trello avatar icon not being fetched correctly
- Compatability for the Outwrite extension when using multiple Cookie Containers
- Fixes to the sign-in flow for some apps
Wavebox 10.93.12.2
- Update to Chromium 93.0.4577.82
- Update dependencies
- Fix the 'show addressbar' button not working in the popout version
- Promote showing tab counts on groups & apps from flags to the main settings
- Add a flag to enable prompts before closing multiple tabs
- UI fixes
Wavebox 10.93.11.2
- Fix a crash when clicking the home button on a non-default cookie container
- Fix a crash when visiting the Chrome Web Store on a non-default cookie container
- The recents list on an app would sometimes fail to populate when entering a url into the addressbar, fix this
- Make 1Password semi cookie container aware
- Make Ctrl/Cmd+Q configurable, and when using this on the main Wavebox window with no open tabs, minimise the window to the tray/menubar
Added:
- a keyboard shortcut to launch smartnotes
- undo/redo support to smartnotes
- cookie container support to progressive web apps
Wavebox 10.93.9.2
New:
- Add the option to launch external urls in a new tab rather than new window
- Add a setting to use the system print preview dialog
- Make clicking on an app title in a tooltip navigate back to the apps homepage
- When sending a window of tabs to a workspace, add the option to save any configured tab groups from the window
- Add advanced flag to display open tab count on groups
- Add advanced flag to set tab display mode (either by group or app) to be configurable per group
- Add the option to change which groups are shown in the Notification & Unified Unread widgets
- Add support for dragging task items between widgets
- Make lock screen dark theme aware
Updates & improvements:
- Update to Chromium 93.0.4577.63
- Update dependencies
- Change linux update "Remind me later" button to wait until tomorrow
- The previous version fixed window positioning on Windows, but it was a bit janky. Make it less so.
- Some performance tweaking
Fixed:
- Fix right-click not working on task items
- We had stopped offering to save passwords on Google domains. Fix this
- Theres a race condition when loading slack, which meant that clicking on a notification later on would cause the window to reload. Fix this.
- Fix Smartnotes not overflowing and showing the scrollbar properly
- UI fixes
- Fix an issue where opening a progressive web app would result in multiple tabs re-opening
- Fixes when making calls using Wavebox Connect
- Fix the UI going a bit wrong when forcing dark mode
- Ctrl+1-9 had stopped working properly unless mapped manually in settings, fix this
Wavebox 10.92.95.2
New:
- Improved support for setting Wavebox as the default mail handler
- Add an option to open a link in the last used window, when opening links from outside of Wavebox
- Add an option to the tasks widget, to auto cleanup done tasks
- Add a keyboard shortcut for next/prev tab. This can be configured under settings
Updates & improvements:
- Update the Chromium 92.0.4515.159
- Update dependencies
- Persist some additional data when importing/exporting Wavebox config
- Compatibility fixes for Windows 11, including rounded corners and removing a glitchy drop shadow
- Add option to send all tabs in main wavebox window to a workspace from the top-right toolbar
- Add some additional helpers for when Wavebox is the default browser, but also links are set to open in the default browser
- Spring-cleaning some old code
Fixes:
- On Windows the address bar would not autofocus in new windows. Fix this
- With multiple monitors that have different scaling, the smartnotes window and some of the authentication windows could appear partially off screen. Manually position these so they're no longer floating off in the distance.
- If you launched Wavebox whilst offline, some app icons would fail to load. Detect when the connection is restored and re-load those icons
- Fix a crash on workspaces
- Skip the link opener engine when opening local files
- Fix share dialogs sometimes rendering a blank window on Windows
Wavebox 10.92.21.2
New:
- Add an option for each app to overwrite the default notification sound
- Add support for routing links from external apps. Previously these would open up in a new window on the default Cookie Container, but now you can select where you want them to open ????.
Updates & improvements:
- Upgrade Chromium to 92.0.4515.131. This also fixes a launch issue on some Arch Linux configurations
- Update dependencies
- Update the collection widget, so you can open all shortcuts in a folder from the right-click menu
- Update the collection widget to show the icon and name from what's configured in the original app where possible
- UI Tweaks & fixes in the settings UI
- Add created and last modified info to Smart Notes
Fixed:
- Fixes for shared workspaces
- Fix the sidebar being unscrollable when the cookie manager was open
- Fix show/hide addressbar keyboard shortcut not working
- Fix the tab bar collapsing prematurely when tabs are pinned
- Some notifications in Wavebox Mini & the notification widget would refuse to open when their original tab had been closed. Fix this
- Fix an issue with icon sync
- Fix a crash when deleting a profile
Wavebox 10.92.14.2
New:
- Widget Workspaces. Supercharge your Workspaces app and your new tab page. Previously, you could only add apps and shortcuts to a workspace but now...
- Add any number of Widgets, these include Collections of shortcuts & apps, sticky notes, tasks, RSS feeds and more!
- Drag the widgets around and layout your workspace so it works how you work
- See handy stats about how you use Wavebox and how much memory you've saved
- Use as many workspaces as you need to split up your stuff
- Customize your workspace with your own backgrounds and colours
- Smart Notes. Add a note to any page you visit. When you return to that page, the note is instantly available so you can pick up where you left off. Look out for the Smart Note icon in the top-right of the window and also a little badge on it when you have a saved note.
- Focus Mode. This brings an entirely new take on the old "Mute notifications" functionaility in the sidebar. With focus mode, you can...
- Mute Badges and Audio as well as Notifications
- Mute specific groups, or sets of groups as well as everything
- Save sets of groups to mute in the future
- Add support for tabs re-attaching to the main window from the history menu and Ctrl+Shift+T
Updates & improvements:
- Update to Chromium 92.0.4515.107
- Update dependencies
- Make version info copyable in settings
- Enable crash reporting on Linux
- UI tweaks and fixes
Fixed:
- Fix privacy lock not being recoverable
- Fix the compact navigation not updating the url correctly
- Improve sidebar app sorting by reducing jumpyness and random unexpectedness
- Fix Windows sometimes showing blank panels
- Sort cookie containers in settings
- Performance fix in cookie containers that are part of a Wavebox team
- Wavebox would sometimes fail to come to the foreground when clicking on the tray icon on Windows
Wavebox 10.0.594.2
New:
- Add the option to change the taskbar badge color on Windows
- Split the "Sleep tabs on low memory" setting so it can be set independently for tabs and apps, rather than just a single global setting for both
- Add new tab in current group as a window open engine
Updates & improvements:
- Update to Chromium 91.0.4472.164
- Update dependencies
- Update the Wavebox Mini unread panel to show new items first
- Performance & memory improvements
- Make chrome extension api identity optional
- UI updates and tweaks to the general look and feel of Wavebox
- Show a warning when testing notifications and Do Not Disturb is enabled on macOS
- Add a restart prompt when updating on Linux
- Performance improvements & low resource usage activity spinners everywhere
- Improve readability of Outlook notifications
- Improve Outlook & Gmail sync responsiveness
- Make the Windows taskbar badge higher quality
- Tweak the Windows tray icon visuals to be more in-line with other tray icons
Fixed:
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