Wavebox Changelog
Version 10.115.14 19/7/2023
🆕 New!
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Add more options to the custom web app settings to allow for more control over
generating unread counts and activity. You can now create inline functions to
generate these values that run inside the apps tab.
- Add sorting for Smart Notes
🔧 Updates & improvements
- Update to Chromium 115.0.5790.98
- Update dependencies
- Tab styling was different between the primary and secondary windows. Fix this.
- Updates to the network code so it's more resilient and makes sync more responsive
- Compatibility improvements for the embedded iframe widget in workspaces
- Add the bookmarks manager back into the app menu
- Ensure notification sounds are not played when macOS is in focus mode
🐛 Fixes
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Fix an issue on Windows where dragging the sticky notes widget could make the
window resize unexpectedly
- Fix cookie container proxy settings not being configurable
- Fix clearing the default cookie container on exit not being configurable
- Fix text overflowing in workspaces
- Fixes for the cookie container popup
- Fix the Brainbox toggle shortcut not closing side panels
- Stability fixes
- UI fixes
Version 10.114.32 27/6/2023
🆕 New!
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Add experimental support for running multiple copies of the same extension, a different
one for each cookie container. You can enable this by opening wavebox://extensions in a new
tab and opening the extensions settings.
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Add support for Firefox contextual identity extension APIs, allowing extensions to
interact with cookie containers.
- UI updates to the extensions screens.
- New cookie container popover when clicking the cookie container button in the toolbar.
🔧 Updates & improvements
- Update to Chromium 114.0.5735.199.
- Expose more Chromium settings to the main Wavebox settings.
- UI tweaks.
- Stability fixes.
- Update dependencies.
🐛 Fixes
- Fix Smart Notes not being scrollable with the on-screen scroll handle.
- Fix the tab close button incorrectly showing on unfocused tabs when the tab strip is compressed.
- Fix the connect button doing nothing when the side panel is disabled.
Version 10.114.26 15/6/2023
- Update to Chromium 114.0.5735.134
- Add Smart notes to the side panel
- Add Wavebox Mini to the side panel
- Add an option to cookie containers to clear cookies on exit
- Add a menu item to clear all cookies in a single cookie container
- Add an advanced flag to turn off what's new badges
- Add "Wake all in group" to the tab right-click menu
- Update dependencies
- Fix tab thumbnails not generating
- Fixes for new users
- Fixes for settings
- Fix bookmarks opened from the toolbar creating a new tab
- Stability fixes
Version 10.114.17 7/6/2023
🆕 New!
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UI Enhancements!
- Update to address bar icons top-right. New extension and side panel icons.
- Update to address bar icons top-left. Irrelevant icons are now hidden e.g. no forward button when there is nowhere to go.
- Split-screen icon moved to the address bar (within the omnibox, on the right) to sit alongside the existing sleep, share, and bookmark icons.
- Clearer tab strip, even when tabs are squished together, ensuring you never lose sight of your open tabs.
- Dark mode support for Linux, to match the look and feel of your operating system.
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Introducing Side Panel Support
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Thanks to the all-new side panel APIs, extensions now have the power to create immersive experiences within the side of any window. Enjoy seamless compatibility with Chromium extension APIs, ensuring your installed extensions work flawlessly.
- Brainbox, now available in the new side panel, giving access to AI functionality across any window without any popups.
- Discover what's new in Wavebox from within the new side panel.
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Brainbox Powerup
- Unlock the full potential of Brainbox with side panel and popout support for any window.
- Add an action chip to Brainbox that offers to open links in a new window when there are multiple links in a reply.
- Add an option to delete Brainbox chats.
- Ensure the Brainbox text field is focused when opening the panel.
- Customize the homepage of any app (not just custom ones) directly from the settings.
🔧 Updates & improvements
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Update to Chromium 114.0.5735.110. Chromium 114 includes many new web features, and Wavebox allows sites to leverage these as in other browsers. This version of Chromium also includes a new JavaScript compiler, Maglev, which reduces memory and CPU usage while improving performance simultaneously.
- Update dependencies.
- Ensure new profiles are set up correctly with the default settings.
🐛 Fixes
- Another speculative fix for parts of the UI going blank after exiting fullscreen.
- Resolved an issue where opening multiple tabs from a collection widget could sometimes result in a different order, bringing consistency to your workflow.
- Fix a rendering glitch in settings where the UI would constantly flash.
- Fix a crash in settings.
- Fixes for Smart Notes.
- Stability fixes.
Version 10.113.19 11/5/2023
🆕 New!
- Make the Brainbox panel resizable in the main window
- Add support for customizing and showing unread counts and activity badges in custom apps
- Add right-click > open link in group > new group menu option
- Add an option to collection widgets to customize grid icon alignment
🔧 Updates & improvements
- Update to Chromium 113.0.5672.92
- UI updates
- Update dependencies
- Support passing the Brainbox engine to custom skills
- Updates for new users
🐛 Fixes
- Fix for the HubSpot extension failing to sign in
- Fix macOS TouchID not working
- Stability fixes with extension APIs
- Fix the proxy settings not taking effect in the default cookie container
- Fix an unexpected behavior when adding apps that was dependent on the network speed
- Fix a store sync error
- Fix cases where Wavebox tries to update a tab, but that tab has already been destroyed
- Stability fixes for password sync
- Fixes for the Linux update popup being unresponsive
- Fix an issue with Brainbox chat, where a missing chat name would cause the panel to crash
- Fix an issue with the Brainbox popup sometimes failing to load depending on machine speed
- Fix an issue that made split-screen un-draggable in some instances
- Speculative fix for parts of the Wavebox UI failing to render
- Speculative fix for rendering problems with some Mesa drivers
Version 10.113.11 3/5/2023
🆕 New!
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Brainbox improvements
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Brainbox now remembers your conversations so you can drop back in to one at anytime
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Conversation flow is now better preserved so you can ask more follow-up questions
and get better contextual replies
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More actions to help when chatting with Brainbox such as, stopping the reply, retrying
the question, switching to a suggested app & more!
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Brainbox is now more date & time aware so you can, for example what the time in a different
timezone is.
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You can now switch Brainbox engines from within the chat. By default Brainbox uses GPT-3.5,
but if you have your own OpenAI API key, you can switch to GPT-4.
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Styling fixes
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Add new configuration options for sleep. It's now possible to configure tabs
to sleep after a set amount of time and also when a certain amount of memory
has been used. Wavebox can now be placed into a lower resource usage mode, either
manually or when the machine is on battery
🔧 Updates & improvements
- Update to Chromium 113.0.5672.63
- Update dependencies
- Auto-retry some network requests that have been failing
- Try to restore tabs after the machine is hard powered off
- UI updates
🐛 Fixes
- Fix some silent crashes
- Apps in deep-sleep were not displayed in search. Fix this
- Stability fixes
- Fix a crash in settings
Version 10.112.11 17/4/2023
🆕 New!
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Save yourself a click or two with Wavebox site search. Type "Reddit" in the omnibox then
tab to start searching reddit 👍
- Search Reddit, Wikipedia, Twitter, Figma, Github, Amazon, Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Calendar & Gmail
- Add new site search rules under Settings > Search > Manage
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Add an option to the link engine to allow opening links with the "New tab" or "New window"
behavior to also set their cookie container.
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Add a flag to change what happens to unlinked tabs (usually opened by extensions). By
default they're moved into a new window, but they can now be moved into the active group.
🔧 Updates & improvements
- Update to Chromium 112.0.5615.121
- Update dependencies
🐛 Fixes
- Fix an issue where a detached app could get confused about it's split screen status
- Themes were failing to sync for some users. Fix this
- Fix a silent crash in the network stack that would occur on launch
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Fix an issue where in some configurations a shared workspace would fail to connect
to the stores, making it appear readonly
- Stability fixes
Version 10.112.6 3/4/2023
🆕 New!
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Add a shortcut to expand/collapse all dividers by shift+clicking
the webdock mode button in the titlebar
🔧 Updates & improvements
- Update to Chromium 112.0.5615.49
- Update dependencies
- Remove flow extensions from Wavebox when deleting them
- Improve Brainbox text extraction to better support iframes
🐛 Fixes
- Fix being unable to set tab titles when the tabs are in deep sleep
- Fix a focus issue with some keyboard shortcuts
- Fix the "tabs from other devices" menu not being clickable when used with the explorer webdock
- Fix an issue where external link open rules were not synced correctly
- Fix an issue where apps could fail to load when switching to them
- Fixes for extension sync
- Stability fixes
Version 10.111.36 22/3/2023
🆕 New!
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Introducing Wavebox flow, a builder that helps you create extensions for Wavebox.
You can get started via the plus button or by launching flow.wavebox.io in a new tab.
- Add a new chrome.waveboxApps extension API
- Add a new chrome.brainbox extension API
- Add more info to Brainbox settings
- Add a keyboard shortcut to open/toggle Brainbox
🔧 Updates & improvements
- Update to Chromium 111.0.5563.110
- Stability fixes
- Update dependencies
🐛 Fixes
- Fix non-pinned tabs sometimes appearing within the pinned tabs
- Fix an issue where broken widgets could not be removed from a workspace
Version 10.111.32 16/3/2023
🆕 New!
- Give Brainbox more context about the current page that's open and the selected text
- Add table support for Brainbox
- Add Brainbox as a workspace widget
- Add a button to send a Brainbox conversation to a Smart note
- Add a text size setting to Brainbox
- Add a button to complete/restart the new user masterclass under Settings, Advanced
- Add more icons that can be used to customize your Wavebox profile avatar
🔧 Updates & improvements
- Update dependencies
- Stability fixes
- UI fixes
🐛 Fixes
- Fix a crash shortly after startup
- Fix a crash when trying to use Brainbox
- Fix some notifications (i.e. Telegram) not appearing in the notification widgets & Mini
- Fix some reliability issues with the Wavebox socket connection
- Fix an issue where right-clicking & removing a notification in Mini/Workspaces would remove the wrong one
- Fix a crash in the socket which could leave you unable to communicate with Brainbox
- Other fixes