4.0.0

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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