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✅ Secondary Windows

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A secondary window in Wavebox is a separate browser-like window that opens alongside your main window. It gives you a flexible space for browsing or accessing sites and tools without cluttering your main window.

Benefits

  • Side-by-side Browsing: Keep the main Wavebox window focused on your critical apps while exploring websites in a separate window.
  • Unlimited: Open as many as you like!
  • Continue where you left off: Secondary windows will stay open between restarts. Go to: Settings > General Tab > On Start-Up > Continue Where you Left Off.
  • Multiple Tasks: Open separate windows for research or temporary tasks.
  • Multiple Monitors: Have multiple windows open on each monitor!
  • Tab Sessions: Use secondary windows with Dashboard Collections to save tabs as a session to use again and again.
  • Chrome-like Experience: Secondary windows are more like Chrome than the main Wavebox window.

Creating a Secondary Window

  • UI New Window Button
    • In your main Wavebox window toolbar (top-right) look for the “New Window” button (a blue globe icon). Can't find it? Click here.
    • Click it to open a secondary window.
  • Open an App
    • Hover over a Group to see the tooltip menu, and then hover over any app. Click on the 'open' icon on the right-hand side to launch the app in a new window.
    • From the Group tabstrip, right-click on a Group icon and select 'Move to new window'. The app in the main window will show a holding page message until the secondary window is closed.
  • Keyboard Shortcut
    • Go to Settings > General > Keyboard Shortcuts.
    • Assign a shortcut for 'Create a new window' (e.g., <kbd>Ctrl+Shift+N</kbd> or <kbd>Cmd+Shift+N</kbd>).
    • Use that shortcut anytime to open a new secondary window.
  • Wavebox Menu (☰)
    • Open the Wavebox main menu (the hamburger icon).
    • Select New Window.
  • Webdock Tool Icons
    • At the bottom of the webdock look for the 'New Window' button (a blue globe icon). Can't find it? Click here.
    • Click it to open a secondary window.
  • Right-click a Tab, Page or Link
    • Right-click on any page and select 'Open page in new window'.

Spaces

  • New windows will belong to the Space you are in when created.
  • You can easily change the space of any tab in a secondary window:
    • Click on the tab
    • Click on the Space indicator icon on the right of the address bar.
    • Click on 'Open in Space'.
    • Select the Space from the list (if you are signed-in to the tab you may need to sign-in again).

Using Secondary Windows

  • Managing Windows: All your windows are listed in the app's native menu bar (at the very top of your computer) under the Window tab.
  • Address Bar: Type URLs or search queries at the top, just like in a regular browser.
  • Tab Handling: Click the + icon to open a new tab, or right-click a link and choose Open in New Tab.
  • Chrome Tab Groups: Use tab groups like you do in Chrome.
  • Bookmarks Bar: Use as in Chrome. Enable via Settings > General > Appearance > Show Bookmarks Bar > Toggle ON.
  • Extensions: Access installed extensions in the toolbar (top-right).
  • Incognito Mode: Click the ☰ Wavebox Menu top right and select 'New Incognito Window'. Or add the icon to the toolbar so that it's always available.
  • Sessions: Save secondary window tabs as a dashboard collection session to reopen later.
  • Drag Tabs (secondary windows): Drag and drop tabs between secondary windows.
  • Drag a tab (from secondary to main window):
    • Align the secondary window tabstrip with the main window tabstrip.
    • Drag the tab from the secondary window and it on the main window tabstrip.
    • Note that you cannot drag the last tab from secondary windows.