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5.2.0

17 Feb 22:37
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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 to non-existent extensions and downloads manager. #562

Fixes

  • Fixed not working bookmarks importing service. #556
  • Moved the Shield button to the address bar. #557
  • Fixed not working Google Sign In due to User Agent restrictions. #559

Other changes

  • Upgraded to Electron 11.2.3. #545

5.1.0 - Fullscreen mode

23 Jun 18:23
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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

Wexond 5.0.1 - Bug fix for macOS

06 May 12:08
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Fixes

  • Fixed process hanging up due to endless loop when changing themeSource on macOS. #469

Wexond 5.0.0 - Changeable UI variants, bookmark bar, better extensions support

05 May 16:26
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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

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5.0.0-beta.1

26 Apr 22:15
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5.0.0-beta.1 Pre-release
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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.

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4.0.0

26 Apr 21:57
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Changes

  • Upgraded to Electron 9.0.0-beta.19
  • 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
  • Removed night mode (built-in darkreader)
  • 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
  • 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
  • Added support for more Chrome APIs
  • Added Chrome extensions popups
  • 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)
  • Devtools theme now syncs with browser settings
  • Temporarily disabled not working menu items (#450)

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
  • 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
  • Fixed chrome.webRequest breaking websites
  • Fixed browser actions sometimes loading twice
  • Fixed some URLs starting with http:// crashing the browser
  • 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
  • Added missing Tab properties in Port.sender.tab object
  • Fixed transparent background under BrowserViews (#446)

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4.0.0-beta.4

04 Apr 20:36
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4.0.0-beta.4 Pre-release
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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

4.0.0-beta.3

14 Feb 16:27
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4.0.0-beta.3 Pre-release
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New features

  • Upgraded to Electron 8.0.0/Chromium 80.0.3987.86
  • Added support for more Chrome APIs
  • Added Chrome extensions popups
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Fixes

  • Fixed chrome.webRequest breaking websites
  • Fixed browser actions sometimes loading twice
  • Fixed some URLs starting with http:// crashing the browser

4.0.0-beta.2

22 Dec 17:25
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4.0.0-beta.2 Pre-release
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NOTE: the auto-updater in 4.0.0-beta.1 has been broken. Please install this version manually.

Changes

  • Currently selected suggestion's favicon should appear in the search box input
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  • Added dark mode for auth, find and permission dialogs
    image

  • Added ability to disable adblock with right click on the icon
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  • Added ability to edit bookmarks

  • Added ability to rename bookmark folders (#382)
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  • 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

4.0.0-beta.1

08 Dec 16:15
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4.0.0-beta.1 Pre-release
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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

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