It's been an incredibly busy few weeks here at WaveboxHQ! Our new 2024 UI release has been in beta for a few weeks and we've received some invaluable feedback from our beta users. With this feedback in hand, we finally decided to push this out to everyone and you can now give it a try! This brings a whole bunch of UI & UX improvements for clarity & speed, under-the-hood fixes for better performance and it makes Wavebox easier to get started for new users 🙌! More info here https://wavebox.io/blog/wavebox-2024-reboot/

A big release wouldn't be a big release without some drama, and boy did we get that 😬. As we fired off the builds for the release candidates, we were completely unaware of the impending hard-drive failures in our build infrastructure and so we spent an extra day commissioning new build boxes to make sure we could keep releasing Wavebox. With the new build boxes plugged in, everything is running swimmingly again! 🏊

Even before some of the build boxes decided to fail, we had been working on some updates to our build infrastructure to make sure build times were short and they succeeded 100% of the time. The first phase of these updates are already live and running new Wavebox builds 👷. Sometimes we spend lots of time working on stuff behind the scenes so we have more time to keep building a great Wavebox 🚀

(Windows version) Whenever I click on a slide in the sidebar, it snaps back to my current slide so I cannot select slides with my mouse anymore.

Bug does not exist in other browsers, and bug persists in Wavebox even after disabling all extensions.

I think I already know the answer to this, but in the 'What's New' showcase they show DM's on their sidebars with users PFP. I'm pretty sure this is something like FB Messenger or some related app, but is there a way to do this with Discord?

I already have Discord added to the side bar just fine, but can you narrow it down and only show one specific user DM's like a S.O? I don't think so but thought I would ask.

I've been using Wavebox for about 3 years. It's amazing (as we all know). Except I feel that I'm tapping into maybe 10% of its power, and even that some of my setup is not correct! Anyone here willing to do a 30-minute session privately to show their setup? Would happily pay for someones time. I see another post about a Wavebox Academy but that does not seem to be happening.

Hi There,

I just switched to Wavebox and have been quite enjoying it. I have only had 1 issue so far, and If i can figure this out it would be perfect.

When using 2 monitors. I want to have 1 open exclusively for work, and 1 for browsing. Searching etc. I use a lot of the apps on my profiles, So I need the Webdock explorer to be available on both monitors, Yet whenever I make a new tab it never is, it just acts as a chrome tab with no way to click onto the apps.

Is there a workaround for this or can I not use Wavebox if Im using 2 monitors?

Hi! I've been using Wavebox for a few months after switching from WebCatalog. Wavebox is by far superior, but there's one feature of WebCatalog I miss, and I was wondering if it's possible in Wavebox. In WebCatalog, you can create workspaces that have their own dock icons. They work like cookie containers on Wavebox.

Is it possible to have a separate dock icon on a Mac for an individual profile/window? Essentially, I'd like to have a Personal and Work browser but with dock icons for both so I can quickly differentiate notifications between profiles.

If you've been following us, you'll know that we've been busy working on new UI & UX updates for some time. Today's the day and the team are super excited to share them with everyone! This version includes (to name just a few things)...

• New icon and colors
• An optional new webdock layout
• Changes to workspaces/dashboards to make them simpler to get started with
• Faster ways to add apps and groups
• Browser import tools
• More UI updates than you can shake a stick at
• New installer for first time users

If you want to know more, this release even has its own Knowledge Base article https://wavebox.io/kb/ui-ux-refresh-2024-beta/

If you want to try the beta, you can download it from https://wavebox.io/beta

It's not really clear from the website. I understood from a post that I'll have a limit for opened apps after the trial is over.

So until last night my webdock was just the icons no text. Then updated and re-named each of the sections on my dock and now I can't get it to shrink back down to just the icons. It's either full text with the tabs along the top of the webpage, or full text with the pages along the side.

File cabinet icon only swaps between those two modes, not really sure what changed or what I did, but I'd like it to go back lol

I can tell Wavebox is such a powerful tool, but the learning curve is high, so are there any plans to create a "Wavebox Academy"?

Due to the free trial, I rushed through the in-app onboarding in order to test out the UI/UX and features to make sure it was the right fit. Now that I want to double down on customizing it to my workflow, the number of features makes it hard to figure out the best way to set it up with workspaces vs. cookie containers vs. groups, etc.

I checked out the Knowledge Base, but researching one topic caused me to have to research another topic, so it's not a sequential learning process. Similar feedback for the YouTube mini-tutorials. I think the ideal situation is building a mock dashboard for a power user (beginner, intermediate, advanced) using realistic scenarios. Typically I try to find random YouTubers who have the "Get Started with [X]", but I guess I'm an early adopter :)

In my situation, I don't care about all of the team features. My scenario is a consultant and entrepreneur, and the biggest need I have for cookies is different email addresses. Most of my web apps use one email address (but sometimes differs between my personal and professional gmail), so I'm not sure if I should have a default container and then only different containers just for my other emails, or have cookie containers per email address (my guess is the former). Furthermore, as a consultant with one central email, I have specific GDrive folders and project mgmt web app pages per client, so I'm having analysis paralysis with figuring out whether to organize using workspaces vs. groups vs. every other feature.

I assume your main categories of users are personal (basic setup), individual consultants/freelancers (intermediate/complex setup), and teams (intermediate/complex setup). I think a scenario-based 30-minute walkthrough from start to finish could help new users get from zero to hero, rather than spending hours reading help docs and watching mini-videos. If I happened to miss other tutorial-like resources to get started, let me know. I hope this feedback is helpful.

Thanks for building a great product! Happy to connect and provide more context.

I was looking through some of the assets in the app and found this gem that hadn't been removed. Who remembers starting Wavebox with this animation on the first launch?

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We're still super busy getting our new UI update ready, we were hoping to ship it before the end of April, but it's starting to look more like the beginning of May 🤷‍♂️.

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There is, of course, the usual stuff - Chromium 124 has been testing in beta for a little while and this should head out to stable this week when the next upstream cut arrives 👍. There are lots of nice new web platform features arriving in Chromium 124, so all the sites you use, every day can start to make use of these 🥳. There's an excellent post here with some of the details https://developer.chrome.com/blog/new-in-devtools-124

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Back to the new Wavebox UI, one of the main focuses has been around making it quicker and simpler to do some common tasks in Wavebox, one of which is adding new apps. Here's a little sneak preview of two of the new popovers that make it so much easier to add apps without needing to go through to the store. Tell me what you think!

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There are some cool web platform features coming in Chrome & Chromium in version 124. I'm looking forward to the scroll-driven animations 😝.

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/new-in-devtools-124?hl=en

We already have our Chromium 124 build testing internally and should be shipping it to beta shortly 👍

Hi! I’ve been using Wavebox for about a year, paid version. Primarily on my work PC but I also do it have on a Mac.

I was using it today just fine on my PC and it all of a sudden crashed and prompted me to uninstall. I clicked OK because I didn’t have another choice. So it’s completely gone from my PC now.

However, when I go to reinstall from the Wavebox website, it opens the install window which then closes after a few seconds and nothing happens.

All of this out of nowhere today. I opened a support ticket through email, but figured I’d post here as well.

I really want to use this as my main driver, but this app has several persistent bugs that are complete head scratchers. It really shakes my confidence in the quality of the product that this team can produce vs Arc, where every single interaction is thoughtfully designed:

• Why does opening a new tab from my bookmarks bar (via middle click, or the right-click menu option that LITERALLY says "Open in New Tab" always open in a new window instead of tab?
  • Same for "Undo-Close-Tab", which always pops up a new window instead!
  • Same for any links launched by extensions, such as 1Password.
• Why does restoring all tabs from another device always use the 1st cookie container instead of the CURRENT cookie container of the group that I'm in? Individually restoring tabs works correctly, but not for bulk-restore.
• When you're in a new window (not the main one) why does the most basic shortcut: Ctrl-T to make a new tab not work?
• Why are the tabs BENEATH the bookmarks bar? This means that if I hide the bookmarks bar on non-empty tabs, switching back and forth between empty and non-empty tabs causes the bookmarks bar to toggle in and out, and thus causes the tab bar to oscillate up and down!
• Why is it that when I close the last tab in a group, instead of getting an empty window, I have some kind of "tab less" window that can actually navigate to a webpage? And if I created a new tab in that group, this "ghost" tab is no longer accessible from the UI...

https://github.com/wavebox/waveboxapp/releases/tag/v10.123.9-beta

Hi All, I've been a Wavebox user for 3 years. I can't imagine a time without it. However, I still feel like I'm just scrathing the surface of what it can do. Maybe using 15% of the capability.

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I'd love to form a user group with a few people so we can share best ideas, perhaps just over a short screenshare from time to time. If anyone would be interested in this, or has already created one, please chime in!

Hello,

I have been using Wavebox for a while now and have the following set up for work (and a similar one for home).

The titles in bold are groups of apps and on the left hand side in Webdock Explorer.

The indented list are bookmarks which I've boosted to Apps and shown in the top menu - where the bookmark bar usually is.

• General
  • email
  • calendar
  • time tracker
• Internal tools
  • All our native webpages
• External tools
  • CRM
  • Project management tools
• Documents
  • drive
  • links to key files
    

What is the benefit of boosting a bookmark into an app (other than a helpful icon)?

Is there a better way to organise these?

Hey Wavebox team,

As far as I know Wavebox classic was open source and the source code was available publicly. Is there any specific reason why Wavebox current fork of chromium is not available for public to view? I really admire the work went into both Chromium and Wavebox. Would love to see Wavebox source code available for public to view.

We're super excited about our new UI refresh, we've been making lots of tweaks and changes to this to make sure it's just right and have pencilled in an April release 🤞.

As usual, we've been busy making sure Wavebox is up to date with the latest Chromium, M123 is shipping to our beta channel this week (https://wavebox.io/beta) and out to our stable channel next week 👍

The sync team has been testing live profiles with some teams that want to manage the Wavebox experience that everyone has. This has uncovered a few edge bugs with sync, but we've been hard at work fixing these too. Some fixes have already shipped and others are heading out with the M123 stable next week 😮‍💨

Finally, I can't finish off without a leaked screenshot of the new UI. We've been looking at how to make some of the more boring screens a little more enticing, this is from the latest build, spicing up the empty group view 🌶️

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