Wavebox Changelog
Version 149.2.58 beta 3/6/2026
- Update to Chromium 149.0.7827.54
- Added support for our first test language (British English). More to come!
- Upgraded the underlying Material UI library to version 9 for a more consistent and polished look across settings and dialogs
Version 149.2.53 beta 2/6/2026
- Connect has been rebuilt to run natively inside Wavebox, for faster startup and a smoother, more reliable experience across calls, notifications and messaging
- External links that focus an existing window now preserve its fullscreen or maximized state
- UI tweaks to the Windows installer
Version 149.2.48 beta 1/6/2026
- Update to Chromium 149.0.7827.53
- Closing a backgrounded child tab now advances to the next tab like Chrome, instead of jumping back to the tab that opened it
- Updated bundled dependencies
Version 149.2.45 beta 29/5/2026
- Fixed crash report auto-upload not being enabled on Linux and Mac
- Ctrl+click and middle-click on bookmarks now open them in a new tab within the same space
Version 149.2.44 beta 28/5/2026
- Recovers spaces affected by an earlier sync bug that could collapse multiple spaces into one — click Resync on an affected device to heal the data
- Fixes for Windows installer packaging
- Fixed an issue on Windows where crash reports were not being uploaded
Version 149.2.43 beta 28/5/2026
- Recovers spaces affected by an earlier sync bug that could collapse multiple spaces into one — click Resync on an affected device to heal the data
- Fixes for Windows installer packaging
Version 149.2.38 beta 27/5/2026
- Fixed a long-standing sync issue where on some setups, spaces could go missing or leave stale data behind when restoring or removing them
- Improved crash reporting
- Keyboard shortcut settings now show proper localized labels instead of raw placeholder text
- Fixed shadows and rounded corners on the side panel
- Refreshed the Gmail app icon
- Various stability and polish improvements
Version 149.2.35 beta 24/5/2026
- Fixed a startup crash caused by a cookie setting that could leave the browser unable to launch
- Improved tab grouping in the tabstrip so branches across different apps render correctly as pills, drag and drop lands where you expect, and joining tabs into a branch happens in a single smooth step
- External links opened into an existing Wavebox window now properly raise and focus that window on Windows, instead of leaving Wavebox behind the other app
- Collapsing a nested tab pill no longer also collapses its parent
Version 149.2.34 beta 22/5/2026
- Update to Chromium 149.0.7827.22
- Groundwork for translating Wavebox into other languages
- Tab groups now work in the tabstrip when tabs are grouped by app
- Fullscreen windows on macOS now restore correctly on relaunch, with no leftover floating toolbar
- More resilient sync, search and app integrations, with several crashes around Gmail, identity lookups, suggestion fetches and settings panels now handled gracefully
- Removing a tab from a tab group in the tabstrip now keeps the tab in place next to its original group instead of jumping to the start of the strip
- Fixed dragging a tab between two adjacent tab groups in the horizontal tabstrip so it lands in the group your cursor is closest to instead of always joining the left group
- Improved reliability when reordering tabs if one is closed mid-operation
- Speculative fix for glitchy fullscreen rendering on macOS
- Fixed a macOS issue where titlebar buttons could be positioned incorrectly
Version 148.2.23 beta 20/5/2026
- Update to Chromium 148.0.7778.179
- Speculative fix for glitchy fullscreen rendering on macOS
- Fixed dragging a tab between two adjacent tab groups in the horizontal tabstrip so it lands in the group your cursor is closest to instead of always joining the left group
- Removing a tab from a tab group in the tabstrip now keeps the tab in place next to its original group instead of jumping to the start of the strip
- Improved reliability when reordering tabs if one is closed mid-operation