Version 10.0.393 13/1/2021

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• Update to Chromium 87.0.4280.141. This Chromium update includes a number of security fixes
• Fix specific instance where the text in sidebar would force the items to overflow (sidebar in list view mode, apps visible sidebar, sidebar collapse enable & long title)
• Update deb packaging and fix sandboxing permission for some distributions
• Add option to show active app, when a tab is active (To turn this on, the option is under Settings > Advanced)
• Dark mode fix in Wavebox Mini
• Fix issue where unread badges were not updated until the guest page actually changed the unread badge
• Add keyboard shortcut to quit Wavebox completely (this can be configured under Settings, Keyboard Shortcuts)
• Update dependencies

Version 10.0.389

This patch version fixes a few crashes reported in the previous version

• There's an instance where a tab could crash when it has a service worker and tries to navigate. This was reported to us when using Slack (thanks!), but the issue will affect other sites. Fix the root cause of this so that it doesn't crash anymore 😊
• Update dependencies
• Update a few icons

Version 10.0.388

• Auto select inbox type when adding Gmail apps
• Update to Chromium 87.0.4280.88
• Add support for a broader range of 3rd party 2-factor devices. This includes the much-requested support for Touch ID on Apple computers with a fingerprint scanner
• When opening new tabs in the main window, they would always open at the end of the strip. Update this to match the normal tab behaviour of opening at the end of the logical group
• Fix help links opening blank tabs
• Fix dashboard links opening blank tabs
• On a handful of websites, when not using the primary Cookie Profile, they could get a bit confused, pushing you into the default profile. Stop doing this and instead stay in the same Cookie Profile
• Multiple UI Tweaks, mainly in settings, but not limited to
• Fix an issue whereby badges would not be updated when Wavebox is set to restore tabs and apps on startup

Version 10.0.378

Thanks to everyone that reported issues with the previous stable (10.0.376). This patch release contains some fixes for those problems

• Fix app crash when opening google sign-in page on Apple Silicon macs
• Fix window opener crashing silenty, resulting in the incorrect behaviour
• Fix overflow issue with tooltips
• UI Tweaks

If you missed the update to 10.0.376, here's what was new...

🆕 New!

• Apple is making waves with their new Apple Silicon and Wavebox now has optimized builds available for it on our download page
• Update WhatsApp to ensure sound doesn't play when notifications are muted
• When locking Wavebox, we'd always steal the window focus. Kind of annoying, but not anymore!
• There were a few rough edges with the new macOS BigSur, we've smoothed those out
• Add "Change to app at index" keyboard shortcut
• Make the toolbar tabs more useful when there's lots in a row on smaller screens by shrinking everything a bit better
• Add "Skip this version" on Linux update dialog

🔧 Updates & improvements

• Update Chromium to 87.0.4280.66. This brings some awesome features into Wavebox...
  • Significant performance improvements, by prioritizing active tabs. This can result in a 5x cpu load reduction and over an hour of extra battery life
  • Up to a 25% faster startup and 7% faster page load time on Windows
  • The new backwards-forwards cache makes up to 20% of back-forward navigations instant
• Update other dependencies
• UI Tweaks

🐛 Fixes

• Sometimes you could cancel removing a tab through a prompt. Doing this could sometimes get Wavebox a bit confused, so help with that confusion
• Fix collapsed sidebar sections always showing an unread indicator
• Fix cookie profiles getting muddled when setting Wavebox to restore sessions on restart
• Fix an issue where we'd stop tracking tabs properly. This potentially has all sorts of side effects, but manifested itself by not respecting opening the window in the default browser.
• Wavebox could become laggy when opening lots of new tabs, in actual fact it was just waiting for no reason. Make it jump the queue
• There was a noticable delay when using right-click, open link in new tab. Fix this.

Version 10.0.376

🆕 New!

• Apple is making waves with their new Apple Silicon and Wavebox now has optimized builds available for it on our download page
• Update WhatsApp to ensure sound doesn't play when notifications are muted
• When locking Wavebox, we'd always steal the window focus. Kind of annoying, but not anymore!
• There were a few rough edges with the new macOS BigSur, we've smoothed those out
• Add "Change to app at index" keyboard shortcut
• Make the toolbar tabs more useful when there's lots in a row on smaller screens by shrinking everything a bit better
• Add "Skip this version" on Linux update dialog

🔧 Updates & improvements

• Update Chromium to 87.0.4280.66. This brings some awesome features into Wavebox...
  • Significant performance improvements, by prioritizing active tabs. This can result in a 5x cpu load reduction and over an hour of extra battery life
  • Up to a 25% faster startup and 7% faster page load time on Windows
  • The new backwards-forwards cache makes up to 20% of back-forward navigations instant
• Update other dependencies
• UI Tweaks

🐛 Fixes

• Sometimes you could cancel removing a tab through a prompt. Doing this could sometimes get Wavebox a bit confused, so help with that confusion
• Fix collapsed sidebar sections always showing an unread indicator
• Fix cookie profiles getting muddled when setting Wavebox to restore sessions on restart
• Fix an issue where we'd stop tracking tabs properly. This potentially has all sorts of side effects, but manifested itself by not respecting opening the window in the default browser.
• Wavebox could become laggy when opening lots of new tabs, in actual fact it was just waiting for no reason. Make it jump the queue
• There was a noticable delay when using right-click, open link in new tab. Fix this.

• UI Tweaks
• Add unread badge to sidebar divider when they're collapsed
• Fix clearing the sidebar divider label not working
• Stop duplicating a tab focusing the wrong window
• Fix Mixmax not working correctly
• Update to Chromium 86.0.4240.198

Version 10.0.353

• The unread count wasn't being grabbed correctly for some sites. Be more grabby and always grab! 🦀
• Fix some broken animations

Version 10.0.352

🆕 New!

• New features and modes for the sidebar!
  • Add sidebar dividers by right-clicking in the sidebar
  • Add labels to any sidebar dividers by right-clicking on them
  • Collapse and expand Groups & Apps under each divider
  • Use the full width list sidebar, by right clicking and selecting List sidebar
  • Tweak the sidebar controls to take up less space
• We were re-using the extension keyboard shortcuts for Wavebox, but now we have a dedicated section under settings
• Add option to disable tooltip thumbnails, based on user feedback

🔧 Updates & improvements

• Update to Chromium 86.0.4240.183
• Update build system & decrease some compontent sizes by 5-10%
• Update lots of other dependencies for better performance
• Improve favicon resolving for Google sites
• Gmail updated their icons, although we changed most of them, we left a couple out
• More UI Tweaks to the new tooltips
• A bunch of other UI Tweaks around the app

🐛 Fixes

• You could make the main window hang if you downloaded a file from an external application in Wavebox. Handle this case properly
• Popovers sometimes got a bit too keen and wouldn't close, decrease their eagerness by 50% and stop that
• Fix "Open current page in new window" not working correctly
• Fix "Move tab to new window" not working correctly

Version 10.0.341

This update contains some important security fixes from the upstream Chromium update as well as a bunch of new features and enhancements!

🆕 New!

• Tooltips have had a small overhall to make them more useful!
  • Add tooltips to tabs in the main Wavebox window
  • Add tab previews to tooltips across the board
  • Change tooltip behaviour so after the first tooltip has been presented the following display much quicker to make tooltips more seamless
  • Fix cases where group and app tooltips would not appear until you hovered over a different item
• The notification stack has seen some behind the scenes improvements
  • Improvements to the way HTML5 notifications work under the hood
  • Make sure HTML5 notifications are fully spec compliant to fix a few edge cases
  • Stop notification sounds playing when do not disturb is enabled on macOS
• Add more customization options to the tray/menu bar
  • Add a menu option to mute/unmute notifications
  • Indicate when notifications are muted
  • On macOS customize the click behaviour to be context menu (current), Wavebox mini, or Focus Wavebox
  • On Windows, customize the left click behaviour to be focus (current), or Wavebox mini. Right click still opens the context menu
• Add keyboard shortcut to switch to the last active tab Ctrl+S on macOS or Alt+S on Linux & Windows
• Add keyboard shortcut section to settings

🔧 Updates & improvements

• Thanks to some awesome hardwork by some of our team, we found some performance bottlenecks in the change-store-emit cycle that the app uses for making data changes and rendering them in the UI. The stores are now able to intelligently detect the type of change early on in the pipeline and uses different optimization algorithms to speed those bottlenecks up. The result is a 25% speed improvement during heavy load and a big high five ✋
• Make some improvements to initial pageloads which increases speed especially on slower machines
• Update dependencies
• Update to Chromium 86.0.4240.111. This includes important security patches

🐛 Fixes

• Fix issue where the auth user id was not set on integrated accounts
• Fix a race condition that affected container script loading causing it to sometimes fail
• Tabs could sometimes get stuck to the mouse pointer when dragging. We removed just the right amount of glue so they don't stick anymore.

Version 10.0.322

This release fixes a few issues that popped up in version 10.0.319. Here's what's new...

• Fix invalid sign-in icon not appearing on older apps
• Merging groups together could cause the newly merged group to malfunction. That's not the desired behaviour so we fixed it
• Add consistency improvements to prevent data becoming corrupted
• The main window could become locked up when closing a tab that prompted before leaving, add a fix for this
• Using Ctrl/Cmd/Alt/Shift+Click to open tabs in the background would just open a blank tab, this now loads the tab correctly
• Make sleeping tabs show grey icons only when the setting is enabled under ui settings