Navigator
A visual view of every app and tab in Wavebox, now with three views, Space filters, and an Insights panel that shows where your time and memory actually go.
Navigator is the bird's-eye view of your Wavebox. Open it to see everything that's open, jump straight to any tab, put the heavy ones to sleep, and check what your browser has been up to today, this week, or this month.
Launch Navigator
- Webdock, bottom left. Click the 🧭 compass icon. To add it, go to ⚙ Settings > General Tab > Webdock and choose which controls are displayed.
- Toolbar, top right. Add the Navigator icon via ⚙ Settings > General Tab > Appearance > Customize Toolbar.
- ☰ Wavebox Menu > Navigator.
- Keyboard shortcut. Set your own under ⚙ Settings > General Tab > Keyboard Shortcuts > Application > Open Navigator.
Navigator opens in its own window, so it can live on a second screen while you work.
Find your way around
Along the top you'll find the three views (Spaces, List and Map), a search box that matches tab titles and URLs, and a live readout of your whole Wavebox: how many tabs are open, how much memory they're using, and how much memory sleeping tabs have saved you today.
Below that, a row of Space chips filters everything. Click a Space to see just that client, project, or part of your life; click All Spaces to zoom back out.
Spaces view
Your Wavebox arranged the way the webdock thinks about it: each Space in turn, with its Groups and the apps and tabs inside them. The quickest view for “where did I leave that tab” when you know whose work it belongs to.
List view
Every app and tab in one sortable list, each row showing its title, URL, Space and Group, plus real-time memory and CPU. Sort by memory to find what's heavy, then act from the row itself: the 🌙 moon icon sleeps a tab instantly, the ✕ closes it.
Map view
The memory map. Every Space becomes a tile, sized by how much memory it's using, with the tabs inside sized the same way, so the thing eating your RAM is also the biggest thing on screen. Extensions get a tile of their own with per-extension memory, which is often where a mystery slowdown has been hiding. Along the bottom, a Using No Memory strip collects everything that's asleep and costing you nothing.
Insights
Insights answers the question task managers never do: not just what's using memory right now, but where your browser time actually went. Switch between Today, Yesterday, This Week and This Month to see:
- Memory Saved, the total your sleeping apps and tabs have handed back.
- Time in Wavebox.
- Most Used Apps and Most Used Spaces, each with a time bar, which is a surprisingly honest record of which client got your week.
- Counters for apps/tabs slept, tabs created, sites visited, notifications and apps used.
If you bill by the hour, Most Used Spaces is the closest thing to a timesheet your browser will ever volunteer.
Three jobs Navigator does well
- Free up memory in ten seconds. Open List view, sort by memory, sleep the top offenders with the 🌙 icon. Done.
- Find out why things feel slow. Open Map view and look for the oversized tile. If it's in the Extensions group, you've found the culprit most support threads take a week to reach.
- End-of-week review. Open Insights on This Week and see which Spaces got your hours. Handy for invoicing, sobering for everything else.
Related: Task Manager for raw per-process numbers, Sleep & performance for tuning when tabs sleep, and Quick Switch for jumping between recent apps without leaving the keyboard.