Wavebox Changelog

Version 10.0.548 14/6/2021

Update Chromium to 91.0.4472.101
Update dependencies
Sometimes Slack would send duplicate notifications, ignore those
Help users on macOS running Wavebox under Rosetta by directing them to download the Apple Silicon edition
Shift+Click on apps and groups open them in a new window
More tweaks to the linux tray display refresh
Performance fixes

Version 10.0.542 1/6/2021

This release has a super strong focus on performance, which makes it the fastest leanest Wavebox yet! We've improved everything from Wavebox core, to the JavaScript engine that runs in every app and tab. Here are some of the performance improvements we've been working on 🚀🚀🚀...

Update to Chromium 91.0.4472.77 which improves JavaScript performance by up to 23% in real world tests. This is thanks to the new Sparkplug compiler in V8 which should see the vast majority of JavaScript launch and run faster
Incrementally load Wavebox code as it's needed, using our new just-in-time pipeline. This reduces the evaluation time and memory usage on startup by 20-ish percent. Then depending how Wavebox is used, additional chunks are loaded as they're needed. This means if there's a feature you just don't use, you'll never need to load it in. If you do use it, then it's loaded seamlessly in the background without you even noticing!
Wavebox uses lots of different code components in the app, but within those they use a shared library. We spent some time optimising these, stripping out bits that we didn't need and rewriting some others to be more performant. We managed to reduce some of the code components by over 50%, which means less overhead in lots of parts of the app and now pages and tabs should now load that little bit more quickly.

It's not all about performance, here's what else made it into this release...

We now officially support the Arch User Repository as a new install method!
Fix duplicate tab in new window messing up the window focus on Windows
Fix a hard crash when profiles are enabled
Fix being unable to remove a profile
UI fixes

Version 10.0.518 20/5/2021

🆕 New!

New micro version of Wavebox Connect
Add the ability to pin a tab in the main wavebox window
Add support for automatically changing the menu bar colors depending on theme/desktop wallpaper
Add an option to move tabs between groups
Add button to open all pinned items in a new window
Change dino to wavebox logo for QR code in omnibox

🔧 Updates & improvements

Improve the loading experience in profile popup
Update our frameless window code used in profiles & quick switch
Update to Chromium 90.0.4430.212
Update dependencies
Tree-shake some useless code to improve performance
UI Fixes

🐛 Fixes

Remove create new tab from context menu, when tabs are disabled
When the main window quit behaviour was set to quit, Wavebox would exit badly. This caused a number of problems...
- Running tabs wouldn't save, so the startup behaviour of "continue where you left off" wouldn't work
- Secondary profiles could be lost if they were saved to disk badly
- If you had a second window open and quit the main Wavebox one, there was no way to bring it back other than to restar the app
Opening a new tab carries the cookie container across, however in some instances creating a new window would not, so always carry the cookie container.
Fix widevine on Apple Silicon builds
Fix a crash in workspaces

Version 10.0.503 5/5/2021

10.0.503 contains some fixes over 10.0.500 that prevented some users from launching Wavebox. (Thanks to everyone that reported 👍!) Here's everything that shipped in 10.0.500 & 10.0.503.

🆕 New!

Add keyboard shortcut for home
Add keyboard shortcut for the profile picker
Add duplicate to new window option to the tab menus
Add support for some additional chrome.identity extension apis

🔧 Updates & improvements

Update to Chromium 90.0.4430.93
Slack unread badges and notifications stopped working after Slack changed their API. Update Wavebox to be compatible with these changes
UI tweaks and fixes
Improvements to streaming quality in Wavebox Connect
Add the option to open pinned items in new windows

🐛 Fixes

Shutting down profiles was a bit flakey, fix this
Cookie container settings were not respected on extensions after the Chromium 90 update. Fix this
Fix zoom not working in Wavebox Mini
Fix clicking on a notification erroneously waking up a bunch of tabs in a group
Fix an issue that would sometimes see tabs requiring a double click to close
Fix playback of protected media on Apple Silicon
Fix issue that would prevent some users from launching Wavebox

Version 10.0.500 4/5/2021

🆕 New!

Add keyboard shortcut for home
Add keyboard shortcut for the profile picker
Add duplicate to new window option to the tab menus
Add support for some additional chrome.identity extension apis

🔧 Updates & improvements

Update to Chromium 90.0.4430.93
Slack unread badges and notifications stopped working after Slack changed their API. Update Wavebox to be compatible with these changes
UI tweaks and fixes
Improvements to streaming quality in Wavebox Connect
Add the option to open pinned items in new windows

🐛 Fixes

Shutting down profiles was a bit flakey, fix this
Cookie container settings were not respected on extensions after the Chromium 90 update. Fix this
Fix zoom not working in Wavebox Mini
Fix clicking on a notification erroneously waking up a bunch of tabs in a group
Fix an issue that would sometimes see tabs requiring a double click to close

Version 10.0.495 23/4/2021

Fix change to Slack sync protocol that caused Slack accounts to stay signed out
Fix the Wavebox UI incorrectly using the default page zoom
Add a flag to revert the linux tray behaviour to the old refresh-y behaviour

Version 10.0.493 21/4/2021

This release contains a Chromium update as well as some performance improvements and bugfixes

Upgrade to Chromium 90.0.4430.85
Add an option for main window tabs to inherit their sleep settings from the opening app
Speed up initial load in Navigator
Bugfix for missing tabs in Navigator
Fix the scrollbar not appearing on workspaces
The homepage url for apps could be lost under an edge case, fix this
UI Fixes

Version 10.0.487 14/4/2021

🆕 New!

Add notification volume control to Settings > General > Notifications
What's New icon in sidebar
Add an option to name individual tabs
New Profiles!
- Profiles icon in the UI top-right with dropdown Profile switcher. Disabled by default - email support for access
- We've been busy updating and fixing some longstanding issues with Cookie Profiles. Alongside this and the release of Profiles, we've renamed Cookie Profiles to be Cookie Containers. They do the same thing, but helps with any ambiguity between profiles and containers 😊
- Option to show Wavebox Profile picker window on start-up
- Option to launch all Wavebox Profiles on start-up
😴 Sleep Improvements!
- Extend the default sleep period to 15 minutes from the old 5 minutes
- Sleep unused tabs (not just apps) after 15 minutes. This works across all windows, not just the main Wavebox window and can be disabled or customized in settings
- Uncouple the sleep setting for tabs in the main Wavebox window, so that they use the global setting
- Add an option to sleep apps & tabs when the machine has low memory
- Indicate when tabs are sleeping by greying out the tab title and icon
- Add an option to each tabs context menu to sleep them on demand
- After adding an app and switching away from it, the app would always go to sleep immediately. Don't do this.
- Schedule auto sleep on apps at startup (if applicable)
- Show sleeping tabs in the tab navigator

🔧 Updates & improvements

Upgrade Chromium to 89.0.4389.128
Update dependencies
Tidy up the context menu by grouping link open actions together
If you had apps in the sidebar and then scrolled the active highlight would float in space. We nailed the highlight down so it sticks with the app
Update dependencies
Performance improvements to the updater
Performance improvements from app fuzzing
Improve the UI around automatically fetching the Gmail inbox type
Remove a bunch of legacy code that's no longer used, helping to reduce our install size
UI Tweaks

🐛 Fixes

When sleep disk serialization is enabled, Evernote could be slow to start. Add a fix for this.
Google serves up the Google Docs favicon for Sheets, Slides & Forms. Kind of annoying if you're trying to see what's open, so we added an exception for those sites and stuck the right icon in.
On linux (Ubuntu in-particular) the tray icon would flash when focusing Wavebox windows. This isn't completely unavoidable, but we've reduced the amount that it flashes a lot!
UI fixes when a light OS theme is used, but a dark Wavebox theme
Fix an issue where the link opener would fail on a sleeping tab
Fix an issue where the outlook account icon would always come from the primary outlook account
Fix a case where the thumbnail service could lock up and stop generating tab thumbnails

Version 10.0.462 16/3/2021

Update to Chromium 89.0.4389.90
Update dependencies
Add support for base64 encoded favicons. This fixes an incompatibility with some extensions such as Salesforce Colored Favicons
Fix an issue where syncing profiles would actually sync blank app icons
Fix an issue where visiting an error page would always return you to the default cookie profile

Version 10.0.456 10/3/2021

Update to Chromium 89.0.4389.82
If we tried to generate lots of thumbnails at the same time (e.g. in Wavebox Navigation), the thumbnail manager would get a bit muddled and bring the app to a stop with a crash. We like our thumbnails and we don't like our crashes, so we sent the thumbnail manager on a small vacation and now it's all refreshed and ready to handle whatever we throw at it.
Service workers would sometimes create an additional intermediary process, this could be seen in the task manager as a process labelled "Renderer". These aren't needed and eat a little bit of cpu and memory for no apparent reason. We had a stern conversation with the service workers and they agreed to not do this anymore.