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

Version 150.2.118 6/7/2026

This patchfix includes a fix for manifest 2 extensions. Here's everything else that's new...

🆕 New!

• New on-device grammar assistant that checks your writing as you type, with inline underlines, a click-to-fix popover, a status indicator, and a Check grammar option in the right-click menu. This is turned off by default but can be enabled under Settings > Language.
• New on-device AI in Wavebox that runs language models locally on your computer, for websites that request it. This brings Wavebox into spec with other browsers for these new capabilities.
• Connect your own AI models from Ollama, OpenAI or Anthropic to power Wavebox's web AI features
• New option on a group's menu to move all of its apps out into their own window as pinned tabs with their app icons, with a one-click way to bring them all back.

🔧 Updates & improvements

• Update to Chromium 150.0.7871.47
• The Brainbox assistant has been rebuilt to help you with your Wavebox setup, so you can ask it things like "Move my tabs into a new group"
• Added search and keyboard navigation to the "Open in app or webdock group" picker, so you can filter by app or group name and choose with the arrow keys
• New advanced settings to reduce GPU memory usage on some setups

🐛 Fixes

• Fixed several crashes, including disabling an extension with an open side panel, applying themes, and omnibox and network-request edge cases
• Fixed a crash that could occur when dragging a group in the webdock
• Fixed crashes that could occur while profile sync was applying changes from another device
• Fixed detached apps collapsing back into the main window after quitting and relaunching Wavebox
• Fixed a range of background errors caused by closing tabs, windows and dialogs while they were still updating
• The delete-space dialog no longer shows an empty bordered box when nothing is using the space
• Fixes and UI improvements for the new grammar checker
• Various stability improvements, UI polish and visual fixes

Version 150.2.117 6/7/2026

🆕 New!

• New on-device grammar assistant that checks your writing as you type, with inline underlines, a click-to-fix popover, a status indicator, and a Check grammar option in the right-click menu. This is turned off by default but can be enabled under Settings > Language.
• New on-device AI in Wavebox that runs language models locally on your computer, for websites that request it. This brings Wavebox into spec with other browsers for these new capabilities.
• Connect your own AI models from Ollama, OpenAI or Anthropic to power Wavebox's web AI features
• New option on a group's menu to move all of its apps out into their own window as pinned tabs with their app icons, with a one-click way to bring them all back.

🔧 Updates & improvements

• Update to Chromium 150.0.7871.47
• The Brainbox assistant has been rebuilt to help you with your Wavebox setup, so you can ask it things like "Move my tabs into a new group"
• Added search and keyboard navigation to the "Open in app or webdock group" picker, so you can filter by app or group name and choose with the arrow keys
• New advanced settings to reduce GPU memory usage on some setups

🐛 Fixes

• Fixed several crashes, including disabling an extension with an open side panel, applying themes, and omnibox and network-request edge cases
• Fixed a crash that could occur when dragging a group in the webdock
• Fixed crashes that could occur while profile sync was applying changes from another device
• Fixed detached apps collapsing back into the main window after quitting and relaunching Wavebox
• Fixed a range of background errors caused by closing tabs, windows and dialogs while they were still updating
• The delete-space dialog no longer shows an empty bordered box when nothing is using the space
• Fixes and UI improvements for the new grammar checker
• Various stability improvements, UI polish and visual fixes

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