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 148.2.4 6/5/2026
Notice something different about the numbers? We're
dropping the '10' prefix from our versioning.
Previously, today's update would have been something like 10.148.4. For a
bunch of boring technical reasons, we're switching to a
[chromium major].version.version format, which makes
this release 148.2.4. This new setup actually allows us
to ship Chromium updates to our beta channel with less friction!
So, it might look like we just skipped ahead 137 versions overnight.
If you're impressed by that, then yes, we are coding time-travelers 🛸.
If not, it's just a naming tweak to keep things running smoothly.
🆕 New!
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Brainbox gets a major upgrade with a completely redesigned experience that makes AI assistance
feel more natural and powerful than ever.
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Share context effortlessly - drag and drop images, upload attachments, or capture screenshots
directly into your conversation. Brainbox can now see what you see.
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Reference your open tabs instantly by typing @tab followed by the name, or use the handy
menu to attach tab content to your chat. It's the fastest way to get AI help with what
you're working on.
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Discover the power of Skills - specialized AI commands that supercharge your workflow.
Trigger them your way: hit a keyboard shortcut, right-click for the context menu, or
simply type /skill in the chat.
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Find past conversations in a flash with the new chat search, and let automatic chat naming
keep everything organized without lifting a finger.
- Added account sign-in recovery option to the sync join password dialog
- Added a flag to restore colored fill backgrounds on group icons
- Added an 'Add group' option to the webdock divider context menu
🔧 Updates & improvements
- Update to Chromium 148.0.7778.96
- ~2x faster cross-process messaging
- Updated the Outlook integration to map additional url configurations
- Improved the Slack notification emoji parsing and rendering now supports extended icon codes and skin tone variants
- AppImage builds now run on newer Linux distributions such as Fedora 44 that no longer ship libfuse2
- Improved resilience of internal messaging so transient data-copy failures no longer break communication between windows
- Hardened notification sound playback to avoid errors when no sound is configured
- Performance fixes for integrated apps
- Update dependencies
- Various stability and reliability improvements from internal fuzzing
🐛 Fixes
- Fixed a Windows update issue that could leave a corrupt database after restart
- Fixed a crash on macOS when entering or exiting fullscreen mode
- Fixed a crash that could occur when bulk-moving two or more tabs from the same group
- Fixed a connection leak in Slack that could exhaust resources during reconnects on unstable networks
- Stability fixes for the Slack integration
- Fixes for crash uploads and Brainbox backups
- PWAs are now correctly restored when importing from a backup
- Fixed extension restore during snapshot import now correctly handling locally installed extensions
- Customized spaces are now preserved when their last group, app or tab is removed
- Replaced Group & App icons are now cleaned up properly instead of accumulating in local storage
- Fixed split tabs not updating their title, favicon, URL, or audio indicator in real time
- Fixed tabs in the tab strip failing to shrink correctly in scroll modes
- Fixed trackpad scrolling across the tab strip and restored overflow indicators
- Fixed custom notification sound uploads silently failing to appear in the sound list
- Fixed a bug where setting Wavebox as the default mail handler always showed an error toast even when registration succeeded
- Fixed the correct app now being selected when closing a tab, respecting the last-active app
- Moving apps or groups to the end of a list now behaves consistently
- Fixed dragging a tab branch between groups sometimes leaving stale references
- Fixed an issues that prevented spacial-navigator search fallback from finding the active tab
- Fix the webdock hiding behind the signed out panel in some configurations
- Fixed an issue on macOS where fullscreen mode could show a black bar when the toolbar is hidden
- Fixed the scroll shadow not appearing at the end of the tab strip
- Brainbox updates and fixes
- Various UI polish and visual fixes
- Fixed several small UI issues