Zen Browser
zen-browser.app
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Just stumbled upon this project, seems rather new as my DNS blocked its domain by default for being too new hehe… Anyone had a chance to try it yet? Its got some hefty promises, like having equally strong privacy features as Librewolf. I’ll be giving it ago at least, almost sounds a bit too good to be true…

  • breadsmasher@lemmy.worldEnglish
    53·
    2 months ago

    Optimised for peak performance? Are there benchmarks to back this up?

    Edit - their docs have benchmarks. They do not appear to have comparative benchmarks

    • Mubelotix@jlai.lu
      2·
      2 months ago

      I believe it’s just a build with all modern cpu features enabled. At the cost of undefined behavior when ran on older computers

  • RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    26·
    2 months ago

    There privacy is better than regular Firefox due to disabling telemetry etc, but librewolf does way more to protect against fingerprinting. The browser itself is quite good, although it shows that it’s in early development. Also I disabled send a do not track signal as it is used for fingerprinting

    • Nobilmantis@feddit.it
      4·
      2 months ago

      Also I disabled send a do not track signal as it is used for fingerprinting

      Doesn’t this only make sense if it is off by default on that browser? I assume if it is on by default, most people will just keep it on, thus making users of that browser that turn it off stand out more. No?

      • RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        6·
        2 months ago

        Firefox doesn’t enable it by default, so if you turn it of any chance of being perceived as just another Firefox user is gone. It may not be a measurable difference but as basically no site respects it and those that do aren’t a big problem in the first place it doesn’t matter all that much

  • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
    17·
    2 months ago

    I like it so far. The weakness seems to be the size of the dev team and if the project has a future. Hopefully they are planning accordingly.

    I went through a handful of threads and it seems mostly positive so far. One choice I wasn’t sure about was that they’re considering having a built in adblocker (based on something that’s not ublock origin). I would prefer if the browser just shipped with ublock origin instead.

    https://www.privacyguides.org/en/browser-extensions/

    As far as privacy focused browsers go, Mull seems to be the best still. I was exploring Zen for my day to day browser.

  • Jomn@jlai.lu
    12·
    2 months ago

    I’ve been using it for about a week, both at work and at home, and I must say that it is great. It is nearly everything that I wanted from a browser. Especially since it is based on Firefox.

    I’ve been so happy with it, that I even donated to the project.

  • jay@mbin.zerojay.com
    8·
    2 months ago

    Tried it a bit yesterday on Windows. Opened a Github link in it and Windows Defender killed the app saying it was a threat. Definitely a false positive but seemed odd to see the entire app just die instantly, lol.

  • Gemini24601@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 months ago

    I’ve checked it out, and it looks really good, sort of like arc browser. It’s very stylish, and since it’s Firefox-based, supports ublock origin. It’s obviously not finished yet though, so I’ll stay on Floorp until it reaches beta or stable. I’m totally switching once it gets there

    • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      Until something comes out saying otherwise, Mullvad browser seems to be the best privacy wise.

      I believe Zen is better than default Firefox out of the box, but you can get the same effect in regular Firefox by toggling some options.

      I liked Zen for the UI changes. It’s nice having the tabs on the side and a customizable sidebar

  • ocassionallyaduck@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 months ago

    Floorp is literally running with tons of optimizations and is shifting to the standard FF release instead of long term support build in their next major release. The optimizations though are like front and center, and it has TONS of privacy toggles and features.

    That comparison is… Self serving let’s say.

  • soyboy77@lemmy.ml
    3·
    2 months ago

    I love options but does anybody else wish devs would put their heads together and focus on improving ONE app rather than launch a millon similar forks?

  • TheJack@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 months ago

    Well, there is no native .deb package and “There is no plan for official .deb pkg”.

    Source: https://github.com/zen-browser/desktop/issues/328

  • Noxious@fedia.io
    2·
    2 months ago

    Has anyone tried loading arkenfox user.js on there? That’s the bare minimum for me to use a Firefox-based browser. I’m not using that without hardening.

    • Virkkunen@fedia.io
      3·
      2 months ago

      Probably not, as the image says Zen is based on the latest Firefox and Floorp isn’t.