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Zen Browser - A very nice, Firefox-based, clean UI browser

This has gotten some attention, especially about a week ago, but I really hope more people will continue to try it and, if interested, support it. It is Firefox, but heavily modified to please a different audience that prefers a slightly different UI than Firefox. It has some of the appeal of Arc, Vivaldi, and the Sidebery extension.

In my view, it is very promising, and all competition in this space is good. Here it is on Github, also.

xnx ,

Switched to it as my default. Its store nice and their theme store system is great

mintiefresh ,

I’ve been using it everyday for the past 2 weeks and have enjoyed my time with it. Looks like a very promising browser.

The more Firefox the better.

MaggiWuerze ,
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Does it support Firefox Sync or offer a similar solution/integration?

mp3 ,
@mp3@lemmy.ca avatar

It uses Forefox Sync.

Noxious ,

Supports FF Sync.

c0smokram3r ,
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I’m digging it so far! Definitely nice to have more FF-based options 🦊

sodalite ,

now that I have been spoiled by floorp with workspaces, I have to ask… does it do workspaces? I can’t find it on the site if it does

theherk OP ,

It does indeed. There is a button in the top left for it by default.

sodalite ,

awesome, thanks!

land ,
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Finally, I can replace Arc browser! Floorp was terrible.

theherk OP ,

Floorp didn’t impress me either, but I’m not sure yet that I can 100% replace my awesome Arc workflow. The “Air Traffic Control” with profile / space combinations is spectacular. But I’ll find a way to make it work, because I really prefer FOSS when possible.

Noxious ,

I tried Floorp and didn't like it either, I'm glad there's a more promising looking project out there now. Still great to see more development in the Firefox/Gecko ecosystem. We don't need more Chromium garbage.

Naich ,
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Can you use FF extensions with it? The web site doesn’t say one way or the other.

noodlejetski ,

yes. it’s Firefox with some extra UI modifications, but it’s the same thing under the hood.

theherk OP ,

Definitely as already answered, but I’ll also add they have a “theme store” which is kind of a bespoke userChrome.css tool. It isn’t just themes, but it is in addition to, not in lieu of Firefox extensions.

Noxious ,

Yeah

cygnus ,
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The UI/UX is so good for a one-person team that I hope it embarrasses Mozilla into actually making serious improvements to their browser for the first time in a decade.

Maeve ,

With Google influence? I'd really love to see it, no sarcasm.

tias ,

The UI looks mostly like Firefox IMO. Critically, it’s just as slow as Firefox.

Princeofspace ,

Fast Profile switching? I’m downloading this immediately when I get home.

theherk OP ,

The profile switching is just that of Firefox, but with a button that makes it a bit more accessible. And there is the concept of workspaces within a given profile, but I haven’t quite figured out how to set it up best for my workflow yet.

Princeofspace ,

I jump between a lot of profiles for work and chrome makes that too easy. It’s the only thing holding me back from switching to Firefox.

theherk OP ,

I find that multi account containers suits most of my needs for this. I have a container locked to work sites that has a separate credential chain.

baduhai ,

I’ve used it for a bit, and it’s really really nice. I just don’t know if I trust it to keep up with security updates, especially something so sensitive as a web browser.

cygnus ,
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It’s just Firefox with a custom skin.

baduhai ,

I know, but that means it needs to keep its firefox source version up to date to keep up with security, and as its source diverges more and more from vanilla firefox, it’ll get harder to do that.

Plus they’ve already proved to be amateurs by enabling some things that really shouldn’t have been enabled: github.com/zen-browser/desktop/pull/927.

xan1242 ,

Yeah enabling remote debugging because the dev thought it made it easier is a pretty big oof.

But this is just strike one. It’s a one man show, after all, so cutting them some slack is warranted when it comes to this specific topic.

Nevertheless, your concerns aren’t unfounded. This project needs more contributors to be able to keep up. (Thorium is basically in the same boat)

baduhai ,

I’ll wait and see before I actually make a decision for real. But so far, not looking great.

mp3 ,
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So far it’s been in sync with Firefox Nightly.

baduhai ,

So far, yes, but it’s early days for it, and I suspect it will get harder and harder to keep up.

rotkehle ,

nice. gonna give it a try. the more Firefox in this world the better.

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