What's new in Wexond 5.2.0
Feb 18, 2021
- Features:
- Enabled dark themed scrollbars on websites supporting dark color scheme. #558
- Users can now uninstall extensions from their browser action context menu. #561
- Removed news provider; removed misleading buttons navigating tnon-existent extensions and downloads manager. #562
- Fixes:
- Fixed not working bookmarks importing service. #556
- Moved the Shield button tthe address bar. #557
- Fixed not working Google Sign In due tUser Agent restrictions. #559
New in Wexond 5.1.0 (Jun 23, 2020)
- Features:
- Added a fullscreen view #486
- Fixes:
- Fixed download item file name text wrapping. #475
- Fixed an issue where closing a window would cause other windows to malfunction. #503
- Fixed pinned tabs rearranging. #504
- Fixed copying images through context menu. #505
- Other changes:
- Upgraded to Electron 9.0.5/Chromium v83.0.4103.119 #502
New in Wexond 5.0.0 (May 6, 2020)
- Features:
- Added bookmark bar. #457
- Enable find in page menu button #459
- Added an option to change the address bar variant. #468
- Added search engines management in settings #420
- Disabled not working menu items #449
- Added outline to selected tabs in groups #441
- Added "media playing" indicator #440
- Added zoom dialog #436
- More supported Chrome extensions #437
- Changed tabstrip animations backend #421
- Changed font to system default font
- Removed night mode.
- New browser design
- Fixes:
- Fixed calculating extension popup size. #451
- Fixed window.close in extension popup not doing anything. #452
- Fixed high resources usage and performance issues by using BrowserView recycling technique for dialogs. #456
- Fixed invalid tabs count in the close warning. #460
- Fixed new tab page background image not caching. #464
- Fixed transparent background under BrowserViews. #442
- Fixed dialogs not toggling when switching tabs. #419
- Fixed history saving race conditions. #426
- Fixed find dialog not storing tabs info properly. #427
- Fixed Ctrl+W closing the app.
- Added missing Tab properties to Port.sender.tab object.
- Fixed race conditions when loading adblocker.
- Devtools theme now syncs with theme settings
- Other changes:
- Upgraded to Electron 9.0.0-beta.22 #463
- Reduced bundle size #415
- Disabled autofill #466
New in Wexond 5.0.0 Beta 1 (Apr 27, 2020)
- Changes:
- Upgraded to Electron 9.0.0-beta.19 #429
- Reduced bundle size #415
- Added search engines management in settings #420
- Disabled not working menu items #449
- Added outline to selected tabs in groups #441
- Added "media playing" indicator #440
- Added zoom dialog #436
- More supported Chrome extensions #437
- Changed tabstrip animations backend #421
- New browser design
- Devtools theme now syncs with theme settings
- Improved performance
- Reduced bundle size #415
- Changed font to system default font
- Removed night mode.
- Fixes:
- Fixed transparent background under BrowserViews. #442
- Fixed dialogs not toggling when switching tabs. #419
- Fixed history saving race conditions. #426
- Fixed find dialog not storing tabs info properly. #427
- Fixed Ctrl+W closing the app.
- Added missing Tab properties to Port.sender.tab object.
- Fixed race conditions when loading adblocker.
New in Wexond 4.0.0 Beta 4 (Apr 5, 2020)
- Changes:
- Upgraded to Electron 9.0.0-beta.13
- Added search engines manager (#420)
- Improved design
- Added basic zoom support (#398)
- Added option to toggle "Do Not Track" header (#400)
- Switched to a native-backed Chrome extension API implementation (#392)
- Added new tab page customization options (#409)
- Reduced bundle size (#415, #413)
- Reduced speed up time
- Improved performance
- Added notification about updates (#410)
- Added more keyboard shortcuts (#394, #405)
- Improved dialogs animations (#408)
- Improved menus on macOS (#406)
- Fixes:
- Fixed race conditions when saving history
- Fixed toggling dialogs when switching tabs (#419, #427)
- Fixed mouse backward and forward buttons not working (#399)
- Network error page won't show anymore on NET_ERROR_ABORTED (#401)
- Fixed print menu item (#397)
- Fixed downloads not showing progress
- Fixed downloads dialog animations
- Fixed saving tabs
- Fixed an issue where Wexond could hang when opening a download item
New in Wexond 4.0.0 Beta 3 (Feb 15, 2020)
- New features:
- Upgraded to Electron 8.0.0/Chromium 80.0.3987.86
- Added support for more Chrome APIs
- Added Chrome extensions popups
- Fixes:
- Fixed chrome.webRequest breaking websites
- Fixed browser actions sometimes loading twice
- Fixed some URLs starting with http:// crashing the browser
New in Wexond 4.0.0 Beta 2 (Dec 28, 2019)
- Changes:
- Currently selected suggestion's favicon should appear in the search box input
- Added dark mode for auth, find and permission dialogs
- Added ability to disable adblock with right click on the icon
- Added ability to edit bookmarks
- Added ability to rename bookmark folders (#382)
- Added Ekoru search engine
- Added exporting bookmarks (#171)
- Added circles behind top sites favicons for better visibility
- Moved to nsis-web target on Windows instead of nsis
- Fixes:
- Fixed download info not updating when download item has been interrupted
- Fixed Save image as not showing up a save file dialog (#376)
- Fixed empty items showing up in the new tab top sites
- Fixed importing bookmark favicons
- Fixed bookmarks favicons not saving
- Fixed showing downloads dialog and Add bookmark dialog on screens with higher DPI
- Fixed adblocker sometimes blocking the same requests multiple times
New in Wexond 4.0.0 Beta 1 (Dec 8, 2019)
- Changes:
- Upgraded to Electron 8.0.0-beta.4/Chromium M80
- Speed up Wexond start time from 4 seconds to 1 second on SSD
- Install button in Chrome Web Store is now visible
- Added installing .crx extensions
- Drastically improved the browser performance by moving to the multi-process architecture
- Removed Overlay
- New menu design
- New search box design
- New app icon
- Improved tabs design
- The tabs colors now persist in unselected tabs
- Added new tab groups system
- Added dialogs animations
- Dialogs such as search box and menu are in separate processes and BrowserViews
- Separated browser dark theme from webContents night mode (#309)
- Added tabs searching in the search box
- Moved Settings, History, Bookmarks to separate WebUI pages in wexond:// protocol
- Improved WebUI pages design
- Added new tab page
- Added developer tools F12/Ctrl+Shift+I shortcuts (#323)
- Block injecting extensions content scripts into wexond pages
- Added loading tab animation when opening link in a new tab (#314)
- Proper support for opening HTML files in Wexond
- Reduce build size by ~15MB
- Improved favicons caching
- Improved history saving
- Moved .wexond folder from the user's home directory to the user's app data directory
- Wexond now saves user's decision about permissions (#213)
- Added error pages (#212)
- Set default user agent to Chrome's user agent (#341)
- Improved tabs rearranging after closing
- Added tabs preview (#346)
- Removed Multrin
- Use native and faster method for horizontal scrolling in tab bar
- Improved tabs switching performance
- Moved history logic to the main process
- Added tab groups colors customization (#307)
- Added an ability to search URL from the search box
- Added Add new tab to the right to the tab context menu
- Speed up pages loading
- Improved security by enabling Chromium sandboxing
- Added parallel downloading for faster download speeds
- Added downloads popup with a circular progress
- Closing the last tab now closes the entire window (#365)
- Added Save as and Save image as context menu options (Ctrl + S)
- Added Print (Ctrl + P) context menu options
- Shortcuts in context menus are now visible
- Replaced Ctrl+Arrow to Alt+Arrow shortcuts for in-page navigation
- Added View source context menu item (Ctrl + U)
- Improved suggestions system
- Added a warning dialog when closing the browser (it can be disabled in settings, also the design will change) (#266)
- New add bookmark dialog design
- Set open new tab page as a default startup option
- Added an option to change downloads location and an option whether to show a dialog before each downloaded file (#381)
- Added a new default Auto theme which syncs with the OS theme
- Improved adblocker cosmetic filtering
- Improved browser usability
- Improved overall browser stability by rolling out Wexond Nightly versions and better testing
- Fixes:
- Fixed an issue where mixpanel.com wouldn't load (#320)
- Fixed a crash when going to address bar settings (#313)
- Fixed some icons not inverting when changing to the dark theme (#311)
- Fixed an issue where dialogs would have a big, black border on Linux (#319)
- Fixed an issue where Wexond would display older versions of some pages due to unique user agent (#265)
- Fixed back and forward mouse buttons sometimes not navigating
- Fixed moving pinned tabs making all the other tabs collapse (#354)
- Fixed an issue where clicking on page suggestions in search box would do nothing (#355)
- Fixed BrowserViews not clickable on macOS
- Fixed an issue where Search in Google would still appear even after changing search engine (#312)
- Fixed an issue where downloaded files would not open on Linux (#321)
- Fixed an issue where importing Firefox bookmarks would crash the browser entirely (#325)
- Fixed duplicating tabs on new window creation (#348)
- Fixed loading extensions browser actions
New in Wexond 3.1.0 (Aug 29, 2019)
- Changes:
- Upgraded to Electron 6.0.5
- New features:
- Added Pin tab and Mute tab to tab context menu (#301)
- Added On startup settings (#302)
- Added F5 shortcut for reloading the page (#300)
- Improved adblocker's cosmetic filtering (#293)
- Wexond can now be set as a default web browser on Windows (#304)
- Fixes:
- Fixed dark mode not applying for web contents on startup
New in Wexond 3.0.1 (Aug 8, 2019)
- Fixed BrowserView not resizing correctly.
- Fixed production build not bundling Wexond Dark Reader.
- Fixed dark theme not loading on startup.
New in Wexond 3.0.0 (Aug 7, 2019)
- Changes:
- Updated to Electron 6.0.1/Chromium 76.0.3809.102
- Revert Chrome extensions functionality.
- New features:
- Added built-in Wexond Dark Reader for making all websites dark (#264)
- Added settings page (#278, #223, #220)
- Added bookmarks folders (#236, #240, #243)
- Added bookmarks importing (#249)
- Added multi windows support (#250, #253, #254, #255)
- Added incognito mode (#271)
- Added autofill with saving passwords (#260, #259, #256)
- Added better menu for macOS (9b185a4)
- Added keyboard shortcuts. List of all keyboard shortcuts can be found here (#251)
- Improve Wexond start speed (#263)
- Added tab tooltip showing full title of the tab (dda396c)
- Added bookmarks dialog with folder picker
- Fixes:
- Enabled popup windows (670875b)
- Fixed tab context menu not hiding in some cases (9791658)
- Fixed an issue where attached windows didn't show after closing Wexond (a767998)
- Fixed an issue where permission dialog would not hide when in Overlay
New in Wexond 2.2.4 (Jul 29, 2019)
- Fixed critical errors on startup
- Added support for 32 bit systems (#258)
New in Wexond 2.2.3 (Jul 1, 2019)
- Changes:
- Improved Top Sites title hover
- Moved history and bookmarks from center to left
- Removed circle items hover
- Fixes:
- Fixed quick toggles not working
- Fixed dialog windows on macOS when in fullscreen mode
New in Wexond 2.2.1 (Jun 27, 2019)
- Changes:
- Improved history design
- Fixes:
- Fixed performance regressions with adblocker
- Fixed basic auth password field is plain text (#211)
New in Wexond 2.2.0 (Jun 27, 2019)
- Changes:
- Added permissions dialog (notifications, microphone etc.) (#209)
- Added basic auth dialog (#115)
- Moved find in page to a separate window (#205)
- Connected weather card with weather API (shows weather only in Warsaw) (#206)
- Added quick toggle for capturing windows (Multrin) (#210)
- Fixes:
- Fixed window drag zone
- Fixed Windows titlebar controls on light background
New in Wexond 2.1.1 (Jun 26, 2019)
- Changes:
- Starting download now will show a notification (#201)
- Fixes:
- Fixed problems with windows attaching (#207)
- Fixed clicking on a in-progress download item caused a freeze (#202)
- Fixed search box inserting text at the end of input (#204)
- Fixed freeze when opening a downloaded file
New in Wexond 2.1.0 (May 15, 2019)
- Changes:
- Added theming system with dark and light color schemes
- Added quick toggles to overlay
- Always on top (#129)
- Dark mode (#119)
- Wexond Shield
- Updated quick menu layout
- Added right click menu for tabs:
- New tab
- Reload
- Duplicate
- Close
- Close others
- Close tabs from left
- Close tabs from right
- Revert closed tab
- Scroll click on tab now closes it
- Fixes:
- Remove 'set Wexond as default browser' dialog on every startup on macOS
New in Wexond 2.0.2 (May 12, 2019)
- Changes:
- Upgraded to Electron 5.0.1/Chromium 73.0.3683.121
- Multiple HTML files now open in the same instance of Wexond
- Web-specific icons now hides when the selected tab is associated with a window
- Fixes:
- Fixed crash caused by saving favicons of some websites
- Fixed building errors on macOS/Linux (#192)
- Fixed closing selected tab rearranging tabs immediately
- Fixed Overlay not hiding properly when pressing esc
- Fixed esc not navigating back in bookmarks
- Fixed moving window when in Overlay (#192)
- Fixed Windows scaling issues when attaching windows
New in Wexond 2.0.1 (May 1, 2019)
- Fixed BrowserView not showing when previously selected tab was associated with a window
New in Wexond 2.0.0 Beta 11 (Apr 22, 2019)
- Changes:
- Newly created tabs (by opening a link in new tab) are opening next to the currently selected tab.
- Fixes:
- Fix critical error on macOS and Linux, because of which it wasn't possible to navigate to any URL (#182)
- Fix Ctrl + R reloading whole browser instead of current page
New in Wexond 2.0.0 Beta 10 (Apr 19, 2019)
- Changes:
- Added grouping windows into tabs (like in Multrin)
- Changed adblock engine to @cliqz/adblocker which has cosmetic filtering and outperforms other adblockers
- Fixes:
- Fix shield icon badge not resetting when navigating to another page
- Fix find in page buttons being not responsive
New in Wexond 2.0.0 Beta 9 (Apr 16, 2019)
- Changes:
- Changed Overlay background color to dark gray
- Added built-in adblocker
- Added find in page
- Fixes:
- Fixed downloaded items not opening
- Minor performance improvements
- Fixed auto update button position
New in Wexond 2.0.0 Beta 8 (Apr 15, 2019)
- Changes:
- Removed Overlay blur to greatly improve performance (#168)
- Added bookmarks (#11)
- Now user can select whether to show bookmarks or top sites in Overlay
- Added basic downloads manager
- Fixes:
- Fixed bookmarks not opening links (#145)
New in Wexond 2.0.0 Beta 7 (Apr 12, 2019)
- Changes:
- Improved Overlay design
- Added support for Overlay multiple contents like history
- Added history manager (#10)
- Added some animations to Overlay
- Added a weather card concept
- Overlay now hides when pressing ESC key
- Added .html files association (#123)
- Fixes:
- Fixed crash when closing selected tab group (#163)
- Fixed disappearing toolbar (#163)
- Removed blurred screenshot when navigating back or forward
- Fixed opening new windows via window.open (#162)
- Fixed _self links opening in a new window (#164)
New in Wexond 2.0.0 Beta 6 (Apr 9, 2019)
- Changes:
- Upgraded to Electron 5.0.0-beta.8/Chromium 73.0.3683.104
- Toolbar is now 2p smaller in height
- Improved tabs design
- Changed Overlay design
- Added Top Sites to Overlay
- Added tab groups with random colors from predefined material palette
- Add tab button now opens Overlay instead of an empty tab
- Fixes:
- Epanded click area of tabs to improve the U
New in Wexond 2.0.0 Beta 5 (Apr 1, 2019)
- Additional info: Changes
- Added a blurred page screenshot behind Overlay
- Small design fixes
- Added icons to Overlay menu items
- Bottom sheet now automatically expands how much as possible
- Fixes
- Fixed favicons caching and displaying
New in Wexond 2.0.0 Beta 2 (Feb 19, 2019)
- Changes:
- Upgraded to Electron 5.0.0-beta.3/Chromium 73.0.3683.2
- Activate search box when user has started typing in new tab with hidden Overlay
- Handle BrowserView new-window event properly
- Support HTML fullscreen properly
- Added tab spinner
- An update icon is now shown when a new update is available
- Fixes:
- Fixed BrowserView not focusing when selecting tabs
- Fixed BrowserView not resizing properly when maximizing the window
- Fixed critical error when refreshing a BrowserView
- Fixed window's fullscreen state didn't persist
New in Wexond 2.0.0 Beta 1 (Feb 18, 2019)
- Changes:
- Upgraded to Electron 4.0.4/Chromium 69.0.3497.106 (#132)
- Added Overlay with suggestions and bottom sheet
- Added support for trackpad navigation (#37)
- Added support for website's theme-color (#122)
- Added partial support for insecure websites (#38)
- Added support for Mouse3 and Mouse4 navigation
- Fixes:
- Rewrote tabs system, which boosted performance critically
- Rewrote whole browser to use BrowserView instead of <webview> to also improve significantly performance and fix resizing lags and issues (#144)
- Fixed last tab closing (#143)
- Fixed newly saved favicons not displaying (#137)
- Regressions:
- Temporarily removed extensions API due to complete rewrite of the browser
New in Wexond 1.0.0 Beta 2 (Oct 29, 2018)
- Added new applets design such as bookmarks and history
- Added new menu design
- Added new tabs and address bar design
- Added support for uBlock Origin
- uBlock Origin is installed by default
- Added support for opening HTML files via Wexond
- Improved performance
- Added keyboard shortcuts
- Fixed weather card timezones
New in Wexond 1.0.0 Beta 1 (Jul 26, 2018)
- Right navigation drawer with all settings, bookmarks, history etc.
- Added bookmarks
- Added better history
- Better suggestions
- Better tab system
- Added workspaces (previously tab groups)
- Rewrote to TypeScript and styled-components
- Add wexond-package-manager to manage themes and extensions
- Add weather and news to the new tab page
- Completely new design
New in Wexond 0.2.0 (Feb 15, 2018)
- Add history layout (wexond://history).
- Add tabs grouping.
- Add favicons saving system.
- Favicons are now in suggestions and history.
- Add main menu (when you click three dots, the main menu will show).