Version 149.2.103 24/6/2026
🔧 Updates & improvements
- Update to Chromium 149.0.7827.197
- Detached apps now stay detached after a restart
- More reliable syncing of tabs across devices when the network is briefly unresponsive
🐛 Fixes
- Fixed a batch of background crashes affecting tab reloading, account authentication, RSS widgets, importing data, and integrations like Freshdesk
- Fixed a crash during password import that could occur with invalid saved logins
- Fixed two browser crashes involving the address bar and saved tab groups
- Fixed a browser crash in split screen when dragging a tab
- Fixed a crash when dragging text or other non-link content onto your tabs
- Fixed a crash on Windows when using speech recognition more than once in a session
- Fixed a crash that could occur when entering fullscreen on macOS
- Fixed a crash in the extension menu
- Fixed an issue that could cause excessive re-rendering across the main panel, webdock, tabs and workspaces
- Language settings now correctly prompt for a restart when needed
- Various UI polish and visual fixes
Version 149.2.96 17/6/2026
🆕 New!
- Manage your preferred languages directly in settings, with add, remove and reorder, per-language translate offers, and (on Windows) a browser interface language picker
🔧 Updates & improvements
- Update to Chromium 149.0.7827.156
- Per-space proxy now supports PAC file URLs alongside fixed-server addresses
- More reliable window restoring when a saved window or dragged tab lands off-screen or on a disconnected display
- More resilient cross-device tab restore when the sync connection drops
- Connect now remembers your last active team across restarts, so you no longer appear online in the wrong team after launch
- Update fixes on macOS to make app restarts and updates more reliable
- Web search suggestions now fail gracefully when offline or behind a captive portal
- Restored windows on macOS now appear in the Finder window picker
🐛 Fixes
- Fixed a crash during session restore when saved tab groups got out of sync, now self-healing without losing tabs
- Fixed a crash in the built-in AI features that could occur when a background worker shut down
- Fixed a crash that could happen when dragging and dropping items in the webdock
- Fixed sync getting stuck retrying when an app had a corrupt or empty asset reference
- Fixed re-authenticating Outlook accounts wiping their sign-in tokens
- Setting a default search engine now works reliably instead of failing with an error
- Fixed picture-in-picture and fullscreen glitches when sharing video in Wavebox Connect
- Fixed a rare error when closing a window while its theme gradient was updating
- Fixed the titlebar arrow anchor in appearance settings for secondary windows
- Various UI polish and visual fixes
- Various UI polish, visual fixes and stability and performance fixes
Version 149.2.92 12/6/2026
🔧 Updates & improvements
- Update to Chromium 149.0.7827.115
- Update fixes on macOS to make app restarts and updates more reliable
🐛 Fixes
- Fixed a Mac crash where restarting Wavebox during an update could leave it failing to load or signing you out of everything
- Opening a link from an app's child tab no longer creates a bogus self-targeting rule or unexpectedly prompts to save the behaviour
- Fixed some refresh state on the docked mini toolbar
- Fixed the titlebar arrow anchor in appearance settings for secondary windows
- Various UI polish and visual fixes
Version 149.2.69 9/6/2026
We're now testing language support in Wavebox! If you're interested in trying it out,
you'll need to switch to the beta channel available at https://wavebox.io/beta/.
The current set of languages are
- English (UK)
- Spanish
- Spanish (Latin America)
- German
- Italian
- French
- Danish
- Dutch
- Portuguese (Brazil)
- Portuguese (Portugal)
- Japanese
- Korean
- Chinese (Simplified)
- Polish
- Swedish
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Finnish
- Czech
- Welsh
🆕 New!
- Add an option to lock an app to its domain so navigations that try to leave are kept in the browser
- Added a relaunch prompt on macOS when your profile data can't be unlocked at startup, so you can recover from rare sign-out-everywhere issues with one click
🔧 Updates & improvements
- Update to Chromium 149.0.7827.103
- Improved Outlook sign-in for people with multiple Microsoft accounts by always prompting for account selection, reducing cases where the wrong account was picked or no token was captured
- Dependency updates and security improvements
🐛 Fixes
- Resolved three crashes carried over from the recent Chromium 149 update, including an extension permissions issue, a browser teardown crash, and a password autofill crash
- Fixed crashes in the app and Space pickers when opening tab and app options
- Fixed an issue that could sign you out of Outlook shortly after a successful sign-in, with more resilient token handling and de-duplicated refreshes
- Fixed Microsoft Outlook sign-in asking you to pick your account twice
- Fixed Wavebox Chat showing team members as away when their system was idle, so presence now reflects active online status
- Various polish and behind-the-scenes fixes for the macOS updater and diagnostics page
- Various UI polish and visual fixes
Version 149.2.63 3/6/2026
This version is small patchfix over 149.2.58 that addresses some crashing issues seen by some users. Here's everything else that's new...
We're working on bringing Wavebox to a language near you! If you'd like to help
us test Wavebox in your language, please reach out to support!
🆕 New!
- Groundwork for translating Wavebox into other languages.
- Ctrl+click and middle-click on bookmarks now open them in a new tab within the same space
🔧 Updates & improvements
- Update to Chromium 149.0.7827.54
- Connect has been rebuilt to run natively inside Wavebox, for faster startup and a smoother, more reliable experience across calls, notifications and messaging
- 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
- Tab groups now work in the tabstrip when tabs are grouped by app
- 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
- Closing a backgrounded child tab now advances to the next tab like Chrome, instead of jumping back to the tab that opened it
- 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
- External links that focus an existing window now preserve its fullscreen or maximized state
- Improved reliability when reordering tabs if one is closed mid-operation
- 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
- Upgraded the underlying Material UI library to version 9 for a more consistent and polished look across settings and dialogs
- Refreshed the Gmail app icon
- UI tweaks to the Windows installer
- Improved crash reporting
- Updated bundled dependencies
- Various stability and polish improvements
🐛 Fixes
- Fixed a startup crash caused by a cookie setting that could leave the browser unable to launch
- Fixed a long-standing sync issue where on some setups, spaces could go missing or leave stale data behind when restoring or removing them
- More resilient sync, search and app integrations, with several crashes around Gmail, identity lookups, suggestion fetches and settings panels now handled gracefully
- Fullscreen windows on macOS now restore correctly on relaunch, with no leftover floating toolbar
- Speculative fix for glitchy fullscreen rendering on macOS
- Fixed a macOS issue where titlebar buttons could be positioned incorrectly
- Fixed an issue on Windows where crash reports were not being uploaded
- Fixed crash report auto-upload not being enabled on Linux and Mac
- Collapsing a nested tab pill no longer also collapses its parent
- Keyboard shortcut settings now show proper localized labels instead of raw placeholder text
- Fixed shadows and rounded corners on the side panel
- Fixes for Windows installer packaging
🆕 New!
🔧 Updates & improvements
- UI tweaks
- Dependency updates and under-the-hood improvements
🐛 Fixes
- Speculative fix for hard crash reported on Linux, but potentially affecting all platforms
- Split-view tabs now stay paired correctly when the main window reorders them
- Removed a stray focus outline on dialog windows
Version 149.2.58 3/6/2026
We're working on bringing Wavebox to a language near you! If you'd like to help
us test Wavebox in your language, please reach out to support!
🆕 New!
- Groundwork for translating Wavebox into other languages.
- Ctrl+click and middle-click on bookmarks now open them in a new tab within the same space
🔧 Updates & improvements
- Update to Chromium 149.0.7827.54
- Connect has been rebuilt to run natively inside Wavebox, for faster startup and a smoother, more reliable experience across calls, notifications and messaging
- 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
- Tab groups now work in the tabstrip when tabs are grouped by app
- 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
- Closing a backgrounded child tab now advances to the next tab like Chrome, instead of jumping back to the tab that opened it
- 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
- External links that focus an existing window now preserve its fullscreen or maximized state
- Improved reliability when reordering tabs if one is closed mid-operation
- 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
- Upgraded the underlying Material UI library to version 9 for a more consistent and polished look across settings and dialogs
- Refreshed the Gmail app icon
- UI tweaks to the Windows installer
- Improved crash reporting
- Updated bundled dependencies
- Various stability and polish improvements
🐛 Fixes
- Fixed a startup crash caused by a cookie setting that could leave the browser unable to launch
- Fixed a long-standing sync issue where on some setups, spaces could go missing or leave stale data behind when restoring or removing them
- More resilient sync, search and app integrations, with several crashes around Gmail, identity lookups, suggestion fetches and settings panels now handled gracefully
- Fullscreen windows on macOS now restore correctly on relaunch, with no leftover floating toolbar
- Speculative fix for glitchy fullscreen rendering on macOS
- Fixed a macOS issue where titlebar buttons could be positioned incorrectly
- Fixed an issue on Windows where crash reports were not being uploaded
- Fixed crash report auto-upload not being enabled on Linux and Mac
- Collapsing a nested tab pill no longer also collapses its parent
- Keyboard shortcut settings now show proper localized labels instead of raw placeholder text
- Fixed shadows and rounded corners on the side panel
- Fixes for Windows installer packaging
Version 148.2.44 28/5/2026
This patch-release over 148.2.43 contains some fixes for crash reporting. Here's everything else that's new!
🆕 New!
- Groundwork for translating Wavebox into other languages
- 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
🔧 Updates & improvements
- Update to Chromium 148.0.7778.217
- 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
- Tab groups now work in the tabstrip when tabs are grouped by app
- 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
- Improved reliability when reordering tabs if one is closed mid-operation
- Improved crash reporting
- Refreshed the Gmail app icon
- Various stability and polish improvements
🐛 Fixes
- Fixed a startup crash caused by a cookie setting that could leave the browser unable to launch
- Fixed a long-standing sync issue where on some setups, spaces could go missing or leave stale data behind when restoring or removing them
- More resilient sync, search and app integrations, with several crashes around Gmail, identity lookups, suggestion fetches and settings panels now handled gracefully
- Fullscreen windows on macOS now restore correctly on relaunch, with no leftover floating toolbar
- 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
- Collapsing a nested tab pill no longer also collapses its parent
- Fixed a macOS issue where titlebar buttons could be positioned incorrectly
- Keyboard shortcut settings now show proper localized labels instead of raw placeholder text
- Fixed shadows and rounded corners on the side panel
- Fixes for Windows installer packaging
Version 148.2.43 28/5/2026
🆕 New!
- Groundwork for translating Wavebox into other languages
- 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
🔧 Updates & improvements
- Update to Chromium 148.0.7778.217
- 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
- Tab groups now work in the tabstrip when tabs are grouped by app
- 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
- Improved reliability when reordering tabs if one is closed mid-operation
- Improved crash reporting
- Refreshed the Gmail app icon
- Various stability and polish improvements
🐛 Fixes
- Fixed a startup crash caused by a cookie setting that could leave the browser unable to launch
- Fixed a long-standing sync issue where on some setups, spaces could go missing or leave stale data behind when restoring or removing them
- More resilient sync, search and app integrations, with several crashes around Gmail, identity lookups, suggestion fetches and settings panels now handled gracefully
- Fullscreen windows on macOS now restore correctly on relaunch, with no leftover floating toolbar
- 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
- Collapsing a nested tab pill no longer also collapses its parent
- Fixed a macOS issue where titlebar buttons could be positioned incorrectly
- Keyboard shortcut settings now show proper localized labels instead of raw placeholder text
- Fixed shadows and rounded corners on the side panel
- Fixes for Windows installer packaging
Version 148.2.23 20/5/2026
🆕 New!
- Add support for tab groups to the Wavebox tabstrip in the main window, matching the experience of secondary windows
- Tabs filed inside a tab group are now preserved across restarts, just like pinned tabs
- New 'Move to new group' option in the tab right-click menu, with a clearer label when moving multiple tabs
- Added a Webdock layout option to the Webdock context menu for quicker access to the layout switcher
🔧 Updates & improvements
- Update to Chromium 148.0.7778.179
- Tab right-click menu is now fully multi-select aware — close, reload, mute, pin, sleep, move and group actions all apply to every selected tab
- Faster multi-tab sleep, wake and move operations
- Startup restore and start-up URLs are now combined into a single, clearer settings panel with an empty-state hint
- Diagnostics now report data integrity issues for your apps and offer to include store data when uploading a report
- Improved reliability when reordering tabs if one is closed mid-operation
- Improved error reporting for tab messaging and chromium API failures
- Improved error reporting when a tab is destroyed mid-action for easier diagnosis
- Improved internal reliability of app and space data handling to prevent future issues
- Update dependencies
🐛 Fixes
- Fixed a sync issue that could cause synced data to be written to the wrong location
- Restored profile sync reliability by clearing stale cluster IDs when the server reports none, preventing sync errors
- Fixed users with a configured sync key being prompted for the team master password on every relaunch
- Fixed a rare race during cloud snapshot uploads that could keep scheduling new uploads after being stopped
- Fixed link open rules and space routing so rules targeting the default space open correctly again
- Fixed several default-space edge cases when switching, duplicating, or routing tabs between spaces
- Fixed links opened from an app sometimes inheriting the wrong space
- Notification action buttons (e.g. Snooze in Google Calendar) no longer steal focus by activating the underlying app
- Enter no longer prematurely commits unfinished input while composing characters with an IME (Japanese, Chinese, Korean)
- Fixed an issue where tabs could be stranded in a separate window on startup when start-up URLs mode had no URLs configured
- Fixed orphaned tab cleanup on startup so removed tabs no longer linger in memory
- Fixed an issue on startup where some URLs were incorrectly treated as external links
- Fixed widget deletion so workspaces no longer keep stale references to removed widgets
- More reliable opening of dialog windows in cases where a stale focus cache could prevent them from appearing
- Fixed the Brainbox side panel refusing to close after tool usage
- Fixed some Smartnote launch actions failing
- Fixed exact-match lookups for id: and source: searches in the window opener manager
- 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
- Speculative fix for glitchy fullscreen rendering on macOS
- Resolved an onboarding error when fetching containers and tidied tile alignment plus broken search engine favicons
- Various stability and reliability fixes across apps, spaces and the webdock
- Various UI polish and visual fixes
Version 148.2.4 6/5/2026
Notice something different about the numbers? We're
dropping the '10' prefix from our versioning.
Previously, today's update would have been something like 10.148.4. For a
bunch of boring technical reasons, we're switching to a
[chromium major].version.version format, which makes
this release 148.2.4. This new setup actually allows us
to ship Chromium updates to our beta channel with less friction!
So, it might look like we just skipped ahead 137 versions overnight.
If you're impressed by that, then yes, we are coding time-travelers 🛸.
If not, it's just a naming tweak to keep things running smoothly.
🆕 New!
-
Brainbox gets a major upgrade with a completely redesigned experience that makes AI assistance
feel more natural and powerful than ever.
-
Share context effortlessly - drag and drop images, upload attachments, or capture screenshots
directly into your conversation. Brainbox can now see what you see.
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Reference your open tabs instantly by typing @tab followed by the name, or use the handy
menu to attach tab content to your chat. It's the fastest way to get AI help with what
you're working on.
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Discover the power of Skills - specialized AI commands that supercharge your workflow.
Trigger them your way: hit a keyboard shortcut, right-click for the context menu, or
simply type /skill in the chat.
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Find past conversations in a flash with the new chat search, and let automatic chat naming
keep everything organized without lifting a finger.
- Added account sign-in recovery option to the sync join password dialog
- Added a flag to restore colored fill backgrounds on group icons
- Added an 'Add group' option to the webdock divider context menu
🔧 Updates & improvements
- Update to Chromium 148.0.7778.96
- ~2x faster cross-process messaging
- Updated the Outlook integration to map additional url configurations
- Improved the Slack notification emoji parsing and rendering now supports extended icon codes and skin tone variants
- AppImage builds now run on newer Linux distributions such as Fedora 44 that no longer ship libfuse2
- Improved resilience of internal messaging so transient data-copy failures no longer break communication between windows
- Hardened notification sound playback to avoid errors when no sound is configured
- Performance fixes for integrated apps
- Update dependencies
- Various stability and reliability improvements from internal fuzzing
🐛 Fixes
- Fixed a Windows update issue that could leave a corrupt database after restart
- Fixed a crash on macOS when entering or exiting fullscreen mode
- Fixed a crash that could occur when bulk-moving two or more tabs from the same group
- Fixed a connection leak in Slack that could exhaust resources during reconnects on unstable networks
- Stability fixes for the Slack integration
- Fixes for crash uploads and Brainbox backups
- PWAs are now correctly restored when importing from a backup
- Fixed extension restore during snapshot import now correctly handling locally installed extensions
- Customized spaces are now preserved when their last group, app or tab is removed
- Replaced Group & App icons are now cleaned up properly instead of accumulating in local storage
- Fixed split tabs not updating their title, favicon, URL, or audio indicator in real time
- Fixed tabs in the tab strip failing to shrink correctly in scroll modes
- Fixed trackpad scrolling across the tab strip and restored overflow indicators
- Fixed custom notification sound uploads silently failing to appear in the sound list
- Fixed a bug where setting Wavebox as the default mail handler always showed an error toast even when registration succeeded
- Fixed the correct app now being selected when closing a tab, respecting the last-active app
- Moving apps or groups to the end of a list now behaves consistently
- Fixed dragging a tab branch between groups sometimes leaving stale references
- Fixed an issues that prevented spacial-navigator search fallback from finding the active tab
- Fix the webdock hiding behind the signed out panel in some configurations
- Fixed an issue on macOS where fullscreen mode could show a black bar when the toolbar is hidden
- Fixed the scroll shadow not appearing at the end of the tab strip
- Brainbox updates and fixes
- Various UI polish and visual fixes
- Fixed several small UI issues