Version 153.2.204 16/9/2026

🔧 Updates & improvements

• Update to Chromium 153.0.8010.48
• Show memory saved by sleeping tabs and keep active tab memory figures current

🐛 Fixes

• Fix a macOS crash when replacing text with Apple Intelligence writing tools
• Fix a crash when adding a tab to a split after its state changes
• Fix a crash when an extension side panel updates after moving between windows
• Fix tabs appearing blank when switching tabs or opening the panel on Linux
• Fix errors when closing newly opened app tabs before they finish processing
• Fix secondary windows switching apps unexpectedly when moving an app to another window
• Preserve the shared order of spaces and apps when importing templates
• Prevent errors when a tab drag from the webdock is cancelled
• Keep the typing cursor in place when hovering over spelling and grammar suggestions
• Usability fixes for macOS Golden Gate when importing browser profiles

Version 153.2.196 9/9/2026

• Update to Chromium 153.0.8010.37
• Unify the positioning of the search button in the toolbar across all Wavebox windows
• Fix browser crashes when using extensions and when quitting Wavebox on macOS
• Prevent invalid Secure DNS settings from blocking browsing and restore connections affected by previous settings
• Switch webdock layouts without adding unwanted dividers or leaving spaces looking empty
• Various UI polish and visual fixes across the webdock, titlebar and app icons

Version 152.2.193 7/9/2026

• Update to Chromium 152.0.7977.83
• Various visual improvements across Settings and the Webdock
• Fixed a potential crash while browser interface pages were loading
• Fix crash with grammar checking
• Empty custom Secure DNS addresses no longer prevent websites from loading
• Fullscreen pages now respond to clicks along the top and left edges
• Fixes for Windows spelling suggestions
• Group titles remain visible in the Webdock when using shorter windows
• UI fixes when creating a new profile

Version 152.2.174 1/9/2026

🆕 New!

• New: Additional Webdock windows!
  • Open additional Webdock windows from the app menu or any Webdock context menu
  • Move a group into its own window from the sidebar right-click menu
  • Move individual apps, tabs or entire groups between Webdock windows
  • Apps stay in the window you place them in, and “Bring it here” summons an app into the window you're working in
  • Windows keep their identity across closing, reopening and restarting, so apps land back where you left them
  • Additional Webdock windows now restore their tabs and active app after restarts or reopening
  • Each window remembers its active app and collapsed sidebar dividers, including across restarts
  • Search, the Tab Manager and keyboard shortcuts now jump to the window that owns an app
  • Links, search results and keyboard commands now stay with their originating Webdock
  • Sign-in prompts and Space controls now open in the Webdock where they are needed
  • Connect now opens its side panel in the Webdock window you're using
• Optional Spaces and Groups headings in the webdock, switched on from the webdock right-click menu

🔧 Updates & improvements

• Update to Chromium 152.0.7977.65
• Auto-reload now waits until apps are idle, protecting calls and active work
• Apps now stay awake when Wavebox cannot safely confirm their visibility
• Connect panel sizes are now remembered separately for each window
• Space icons are clearer and expand on hover for easier identification
• Various Webdock menu wording, ordering and icon improvements

🐛 Fixes

• Fix a browser crash when splitting a tab that was already part of a split
• Fixed a crash when extensions move tabs out of split view
• Privacy Lock now reliably restores every window after unlocking
• Fix a stray error when renaming a tab that is closed or dragged while the rename is landing
• Fixed white backgrounds appearing in the Webdock and top strip on macOS
• Translation fixes and clearer wording across several languages
• Several stability and navigation fixes for tabs across multiple Webdock windows
• Various webdock polish and visual fixes

Version 152.2.173 1/9/2026

🆕 New!

• New: Additional Webdock windows!
  • Open additional Webdock windows from the app menu or any Webdock context menu
  • Move a group into its own window from the sidebar right-click menu
  • Move individual apps, tabs or entire groups between Webdock windows
  • Apps stay in the window you place them in, and “Bring it here” summons an app into the window you're working in
  • Windows keep their identity across closing, reopening and restarting, so apps land back where you left them
  • Additional Webdock windows now restore their tabs and active app after restarts or reopening
  • Each window remembers its active app and collapsed sidebar dividers, including across restarts
  • Search, the Tab Manager and keyboard shortcuts now jump to the window that owns an app
  • Links, search results and keyboard commands now stay with their originating Webdock
  • Sign-in prompts and Space controls now open in the Webdock where they are needed
  • Connect now opens its side panel in the Webdock window you're using
• Optional Spaces and Groups headings in the webdock, switched on from the webdock right-click menu

🔧 Updates & improvements

• Update to Chromium 152.0.7977.65
• Auto-reload now waits until apps are idle, protecting calls and active work
• Apps now stay awake when Wavebox cannot safely confirm their visibility
• Connect panel sizes are now remembered separately for each window
• Space icons are clearer and expand on hover for easier identification
• Various Webdock menu wording, ordering and icon improvements

🐛 Fixes

• Fix a browser crash when splitting a tab that was already part of a split
• Fixed a crash when extensions move tabs out of split view
• Privacy Lock now reliably restores every window after unlocking
• Fix a stray error when renaming a tab that is closed or dragged while the rename is landing
• Fixed white backgrounds appearing in the Webdock and top strip on macOS
• Translation fixes and clearer wording across several languages
• Several stability and navigation fixes for tabs across multiple Webdock windows
• Various webdock polish and visual fixes

Version 151.2.154 12/8/2026

🔧 Updates & improvements

• Update to Chromium 151.0.7922.138
• Existing users are now invited to try the grammar checker from the settings menu, with a short preview of it at work
• The navigator now always opens in its own window, including from the webdock button, and defaults to list view
• Deleting an empty group that's the last one in its space now offers to delete the space, and is disabled when that space can't be deleted
• Brainbox updates and fixes
• Various build and code-quality improvements behind the scenes

🐛 Fixes

• Fixed a crash that could take down the whole browser when theme colours were requested in the background
• Fixed a browser crash when extensions listed tabs belonging to partitioned apps
• Fixed crashes when using native menus on Mac and Windows
• Fixed a crash when dragging a tab over the split-view drop area as it was closing
• Fixed removing a group, app or space icon breaking cloud sync, which stopped icons saving and kept sending the webdock back to the first group
• Fixed removing the last group from a space leaving that space stuck in the webdock and impossible to open
• Clicking a Slack notification now opens the right channel again, switching in place without a full reload
• Fixed the mini window not reopening from its shortcut once the previous one had gone stale, along with several related window and tab errors
• The grammar suggestion popover no longer opens on its own while you type, and the cursor now lands at the end of the corrected word
• Fixed the Outlook unread badge sticking at an old count when the window is narrow
• Fixed the Linux menubar icon rendering as a blank, unclickable gap
• Fixed the Windows IME candidate window staying in the corner instead of following the cursor after a drag and drop
• Various UI polish and visual fixes

Version 151.2.148 5/8/2026

• Update to Chromium 151.0.7922.76
• Linux AppImage builds can now update themselves in place, downloading only the parts that changed
• Grammar suggestions are now switched on by default for new users
• Fixed tabs sometimes failing to close while another tab is being dragged
• Fixed an error that could be reported when closing a tab that had already closed

Version 151.2.141 3/8/2026

🆕 New!

• You can now pick a space when creating a new Webdock group in the List and Explorer layouts
• A group dashboard can now be set to a chrome-extension:// address
• Added a dark grey sticky note colour for darker backgrounds

🔧 Updates & improvements

• Update to Chromium 151.0.7922.72
• Browser import now shows browsers that macOS is blocking, with step-by-step guidance and a button that opens the right System Settings pane
• The assistant can now tell which group, app, tab and space you are actually looking at, so it acts on the right one
• Asking the assistant to remove a group or a space now opens the usual confirmation dialog instead of deleting it straight away
• Made account setup more resilient to brief network drops so onboarding no longer fails after a momentary connection loss
• Space, group and app default icons now follow the light and dark theme instead of showing a white tile in dark mode
• The grammar checker no longer runs on devtools pages
• Improved translations across several languages

🐛 Fixes

• Fixed a crash on launch on macOS Golden Gate during startup
• Fixed crashes during session restore involving saved tab groups and split tabs
• Fixed a crash loop in on-device AI so a failing GPU reliably falls back to CPU, along with a related Linux crash in the AI text sampler
• Fixed a crash in Smartnotes when a note was updated from another device while open
• Fixed a macOS crash when dismissing notifications and another in the app menu
• Fixed a crash when clearing a Space's colour and when opening the account setup dialog
• Grammar suggestions no longer delete your quotation marks or brackets, and no longer offer wording taken from a different line
• Fixed background errors that could interrupt tab reordering, cloud sync setup during onboarding restore, and app URL changes
• Various stability fixes across tabs, workspaces, app updates and syncing
• Various UI polish and visual fixes

Version 150.2.131 15/7/2026

🔧 Updates & improvements

• Update to Chromium 150.0.7871.125
• Grammar checking no longer gives up on long text — a full blog post or long message is now proofread sentence by sentence as you write
• The spelling suggestion popover can now add words straight to your dictionary, and repositions itself so it's no longer clipped near the bottom of the screen
• Check spelling and grammar in the right-click menu now walks you through the suggestions one by one, and now sits with the other language and spelling options
• The grammar status badge now follows your cursor as you move between writing areas, and hides itself where grammar isn't checked
• Hovering a tab that belongs to another space now shows a tooltip naming that space and explaining why the tab is marked
• Add custom App dialog now uses floating labels on the URL and name fields so they stay visible once you start typing

🐛 Fixes

• Fixed the app occasionally getting stuck on the 'Wavebox is starting' splash screen when the background was restarted or updated
• Fixed several crashes and background errors, including tabs closing or being dragged during a sync and using a docked tab's menu while the tabs changed underneath it
• Fixed a startup crash on macOS that could be triggered by apps opening tabs while Wavebox was launching
• Fixed a startup crash when restoring a session that contained a docked tab
• Fixed a crash when opening an incognito window after Wavebox had restarted following a crash
• Fixed crashes when opening a saved tab group from a menu, or when a group had been created with invalid links
• Fixed a crash when choosing one of the Wavebox profile pictures in settings
• Fixed a crash on macOS when a window was changed from being the main Wavebox window
• Fixed a crash in grammar checking while editing text
• Sleeping and waking docked and split tabs is now more reliable, and sleeping one no longer leaves a blank pane behind
• Fixed on-device AI being reported as unavailable inside Brainbox
• Unread badges on a space now only count unread from apps in that space, so an emptied space no longer keeps a stale count
• Fixed the Smartnote panel sometimes opening blank
• Fixed the guided grammar review quietly stopping after you accepted the second suggestion
• Fixed an error when quickly clicking the audio, video or screen-share buttons twice during a chat call
• Fixed an error when opening options for an app whose profile had already been deleted
• Fixed an error when using the Brainbox right-click menu on a tab that had already closed
• Fixed a transient error that could occur while dragging tabs
• The space icon picker now shows six distinct icons instead of repeating the same few
• Several stability fixes for side panels, the tab strip, cloud sync and the app setup dialog
• Several further stability fixes for split tabs, docked tabs and profile creation
• Various UI copy and polish fixes

Version 150.2.121 8/7/2026

🆕 New!

• Set a file:// address as your new tab page
• Report a poor spelling or grammar suggestion right from the suggestion popup or the indicator badge menu with the new Help us improve feedback option

🔧 Updates & improvements

• Update to Chromium 150.0.7871.101
• Spelling and grammar checking is now more responsive

🐛 Fixes

• Fixed a crash that could occur when clicking a word with spelling suggestions in a text field
• Fixed a crash affecting some Linux users
• Fixed legacy Manifest V2 extensions being automatically disabled
• Fixed an issue where an external link could fail to open if its target window closed at the same moment, it now opens in a new window instead
• Fixed moving a widget to another dashboard leaving it behind on the original as well
• Fixed misspelled words being underlined and counted twice by the spelling and grammar checker, and stale issue counts on emptied fields
• Various UI polish and visual fixes