Gecko Wolvic 1.8.1 and Chromium Wolvic 1.2.1 Released

Today we’re releasing Gecko Wolvic 1.8.1 and Chromium Wolvic 1.2.1, which are mostly bug fixes with a little bit of enhancement added in, as a treat.

In the previous release, we made a change to how new tabs were opened, making opening in the foreground the default. This change was more controversial than we expected, so in this release, we’re restoring the default behavior to opening new tabs in the background. If you liked the foreground-opening behavior, we added a new preference where you can choose whether you want foreground or background as the default.

While we were doing work in that area of the codebase, we also added tab-order memory—Wolvic now correctly preserves the order and placement of tabs between sessions, so they match what you saw last, both in order and in foreground/background state.

Beyond that, the list below covers all the fixes we landed in these releases. As always, if you’ve found a new problem or have another issue, please send us your feedback or, if you prefer, file an issue on GitHub. Thanks, and we hope you continue to enjoy Wolvic!

Gecko Wolvic 1.8.1 and Chromium Wolvic 1.2.1 Release Notes

Tabs

• Open tabs in background by default.
• Add an option in Settings > Display to open new tabs in the background or in the foreground.
• Preserve the order of tabs when reopening Wolvic.

Content

• Disable headlock when in VR videos.

Gecko

• Fix an endless redirection bug that prevented the user from accessing sites protected by Cloudflare.
• Updated User Agent to reflect our current Firefox/Gecko version.

PICO

• Allow downloading environments in the PICO 4 Ultra.
• Use the correct input profile, fixing problems with the controllers.
• Disable and hide the controller when positioning information is unavailable, which typically happens after the controller has been inactive for a while.

Huawei Vision Glass

• Keep the phone screen on while the glasses are connected to it.