- Add options to customize the space unread badge in the webdock
- Fix an issue where the menu bar/tray settings would fail to open
- Usability fixes when using the space webdock, where it was possible to easily add apps from multiple spaces in a single group
- When using the spaces webdock, show a space indicator in groups that have a mix of different spaces
- Add support for 'Collapse webdock apps when the group is inactive' in spaces sidebar
- Chromium 125.0.6422.142
- Add a flag to show the tabstrip for groups containing a single dashboard
- Fix the background failing to set correctly on the new tab page
- Fix the icon picker failing to update icon previews in some configurations
- Fix a crash in settings where searching for an item and then clicking on it would show a blank window
- Fix an overflow issue in the dashboard drawer
- Stability fixes
- UI fixes
- Update dependencies
We've been busy working on a whole range of new UI updates for Wavebox, with the aim of making it easier for new users to get started and make it faster to do those tasks that you do every day.
Firstly, we've made some important name changes to make things a little bit clearer. From now, Cookie containers will be known as Spaces and Workspaces will be known as Dashboards.
Here's an overview of everything new:
- Wavebox has a brand new Icon
- Updates to our themes and colors, making Wavebox more purple (mmmmm, nice!)
- Webdock Spaces layout. This is a new layout called Spaces that shows only Groups & Apps in a single Space. It has the Spaces at the top of the webdock and Groups below it. This is now the default for new users, or can be turned on for existing setups manually by hovering over the settings cog in the bottom-left. We recommend that existing users, with complex setups create a new profile to try this out as it's a subset of what's available in the List and Explorer webdocks.
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Spaces (Cookie Containers) have been supercharged to make them more prominent
- You can set the color for a Space and this will show as a tint in the main Wavebox window
- New icons and default naming for Spaces so they're easier to recognize
- An option to give Spaces a description so that you can assign each Space a specific task
- Make it clearer when Wavebox has automatically created a new Space to help prevent confusion
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It's now easier to get started with Dashboards (Workspaces)
- We've had feedback around creating new Dashboard apps and how it can be confusing in how Wavebox picked an existing Dashboard to display. We've changed this now, so that when you add a new dashboard app, you're prompted whether you want to have a new view on an existing Dashboard or create a new one.
- New users have a simpler dashboard setup without the dashboard burger menu meaning they can only see one dashboard at a time in an app. Advanced mode can be turned on in Settings or is enabled by default for Team users.
- Add an option to the main burger menu to open a Dashboard anywhere
- New wallpapers and colors to choose from
- Updates to the overall Dashboard/widget UI
- There's now the option to have a simpler new tab page aimed at starting your web journey. This is the default for new users, but existing users can enable this by going to any dashboard, clicking on the settings cog (top-right) and turning off advanced mode.
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Adding Groups and apps
- It's now easier and faster to create new Groups and add Apps using the on-screen popovers rather than the store and wizard.
- Groups: Click on the + icon at the bottom of the webdock to bring up the new Group pop-up. You can create a group straight from this pop-up. Clicking on Add an App, extends the pop-up so you can search for an app in the store in situ.
- Apps: Hover over the + icon in the group tab strip to bring up the new Apps pop-up, which has the same UI as the Group pop-up.
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Settings
- We've added an advanced mode toggle, so the settings that are use most frequently are more readily available. (Search still searches over all settings)
- We've tried to make settings more visually recognizable by using more groups and color sets, with the hope that it's easier to find what you're looking for.
- We've split the Appearance section of settings up into multiple sections, because lets face it, there's a lot of settings in there!
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New user install experience. Wavebox has a brand new installer and masterclass, so if you're installing Wavebox for the first time,
you'll get a new first-run experience that will help you get up and running quickly.
- A branch new first-launch Wizard to help new users get up and running
- A new more interactive Wavebox Masterclass to help explain all the parts of Wavebox
- New first-run tooltips to explain some of the key parts of Wavebox
- Add an option to go back to previous masterclass steps, by clicking on step number
- We've added tools to import Passwords, Bookmarks and History from other browsers. This is part of the first-run installer and also available through settings.
- Webdock icons now have a new look and feel and unread badges have subtle animations.
- Groups can now display the apps within them, rather than an icon. To turn this on, search settings for "grid view for groups".
- Group, App & Tab tooltips have a brand new styling.
- The main Wavebox window can now take the tint color from the active Space or Group to make each one more recognizable and at home in it's window. This can be turned on in Settings > Appearance.
- We've updated the icon designer. Based on feedback some users loved the new emoji picker, but some also found the old icon picker more useful. We've now combined the two so you can choose from a selection of emojis or built-in icons to create your own icon with just the right meaning.
- Improve the way Wavebox automatically generates some color variations so they're more visibly pleasing
- Add new icons throughout the app and subtle animations where they make sense
- New default color palettes for all the color pickers throughout the app
- Add an option use the light or dark Wavebox theme irregardless of operating systems theme
- You can now customize the styling of Groups & Apps when they're sleeping to select custom opacity and greyscale values
- We've added some additional keyboard shortcuts, including one to duplicate the current tab in the current window
- We've added a new feature request tool called Supahub that allows you to request features and up-vote existing requests. You can find this by hovering over the settings cog in the bottom-left
- You can now find out Discord community, by hovering over the settings cog in the bottom-left
- Web search in global search/dashboard search now uses the default search engine
- Stability fixes enabling more compile-time checking in large portions of our codebase
- Update to Chromium 125.0.6422.113
- Fix the site search engines not appearing in settings
- Fix settings styling on Linux
- Fix the group name incorrectly changing when boosting an app
- Stability fixes when batch configuring settings
- Fix some Desktop web apps repeatedly requiring the Gatekeeper configuration on startup
- Fixes for the Slack integration
- Desktop web apps installed from the location bar would vanish, fix this
- Fix an issue where adding chrome://newtab as an app would result in collection widgets failing to launch
- Add an option to disable app store suggestions in the omnibox
Update to Chromium 124.0.6367.207. This includes a critical security fix for CVE-2024-4761 that affects all Chromium-based browsers.
Update to Chromium 124.0.6367.202. This includes a critical security fix for CVE-2024-4671 that affects all Chromium-based browsers.
Sorry about the batch of releases over the last two days - we'll stop now :-)
If you have missed any of the interim releases, here's what else is new:
- Some users have reported that Wavebox unexpectedly takes focus. This release includes a speculative fix for this bug.
- Update to Chromium 124.0.6367.202
- Make sure the webdock is sticky on-screen when dragging and the webdock set to auto hide
- Add some additional logging tools for users having issues with sleep
- Update dependencies
- Stability fixes
- Fix a hard crash reported by some users on startup
- Some users have reported that Wavebox unexpectedly takes focus. This release includes a speculative fix for this bug.
- Update to Chromium 124.0.6367.156
- Make sure the webdock is sticky on-screen when dragging and the webdock set to auto hide
- Add some additional logging tools for users having issues with sleep
- Update dependencies
- Stability fixes
- Fix a hard crash reported by some users on startup
- Update to Chromium 124.0.6367.156
- Make sure the webdock is sticky on-screen when dragging and the webdock set to auto hide
- Add some additional logging tools for users having issues with sleep
- Update dependencies
- Stability fixes
- Fix a hard crash reported by some users on startup
- Update to Chromium 124.0.6367.119
- Add Desktop Web Apps to the search results
- Add a keyboard shortcut to open the Desktop Web App library
- Add a flag to enable webdock hiding when floating webviews are disabled
- Add a flag to globally disable sleep auto-wakeup
- Fixes for some Linux users seeing issues with Wayland
- Fix an issue where Desktop Web App sync would incorrectly re-install the same app, sometimes causing popups on Windows
- Fix an issue with devtools where the device emulator would have the wrong window dimensions
- Tracking shortcuts from the collection widget lost the identity when saving the tabs back, fix this
- Update dependencies
- Stability fixes
- Update to Chromium 124.0.6367.79
- Make new tabs that open in the main window, with no backlink to an owner stay within the window instead of ejecting out
- When bulk restoring tabs from another device, ensure the original cookie containers are used when possible
- Add a flag to advanced, so that when you open and track a collection widget in a new window it can live save tabs back to the collection
- Add an option to settings to automatically download and install updates on macOS
- Fix an issue with discord not staying logged in
- Fix an issue where Gmail would incorrectly report that you're logged out
- Fix some UI issues reported in the previous beta
- Fix the Windows updater reporting that the update was improperly signed
- Fix an issue where opening an app from search would not always expand the webdock
- Fixes for new users
- Update dependencies
- Stability fixes
- Wavebox now has a discord server! Find the link by hovering over the settings menu
- Update to Chromium 123.0.6312.107
- Improvements to the readability of sleeping tab favicons
- Fixes for generating usage time in the "My Wavebox" widget
- Stability fixes
- Update dependencies
This patch release fixes 2 hard crashes reported by some users. If you missed 10.123.2, here's what else is new
- Update to Chromium 123.0.6312.59
- Style tweaks for pinned sleeping tabs so it's clearer what site they are
- Dragging tabs out of the main Wavebox window into a tab group wouldn't assign the group on drop. Fix this
- Fix an issue with password sync
- Fix an issue with extension sync, when the multiple instances mode is selected
- Usability fixes for the managed team UX
- Update dependencies
- UI updates
- Remove some old code that was used to support Chromium 122