how is it different than [floorp]( https://floorp.app/en ) ?
You can determine this yourself quite quickly by visiting each site and comparing them.
Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine
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Re: Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine
#82Sadly didnt run for me on Windows on this Arm laptop although in mitigation I didnt try that hard & was in a hurry. I might have another look at it later. Uninstalled for now.
Re: Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine
#83I quite like the zen browser. It is privacy focused but also visually appealing. The feature that I like best, is that the browser does not take up a lot of space for itself. Even the top bar can be hidden. That way most of the screen is there to show the website.
This is the information I was looking for. Does it have the Arc style search box/dialog/palette that pops up when you need it?
Re: Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine
#84Someone pointed out to me that you can set eBay as the default search engine. That seems like a weird option. There can't be many that primarily uses their browser to access eBay, though I wouldn't rule out that people with this preference exists.
Re: Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine
#85Not many straightforwardly positive comments here so far, so I will write one. I'm a Firefox user but I've recently been tempted by Arc primarily because of its 'workspaces' feature and its minimal UI that gets out the way. I used Arc for several weeks and really got a taste for these features, so I'm really happy to see them come to a Gecko-based browser. Thank you, and keep it up! My advice would be: don't advertis…
Product presentation is a hard-to-develop skill. I agree that many aspects of the page are muddy.
I personally find their compact mode the cleanest I have ever seen. This is the entire window: https://imgur.com/hhfyeVz To access the address bar, move the mouse to the top, or type Ctrl+L. For the tabs, move the mouse to the left, or type Ctrl+1, 2… or Ctrl+Tab to cycle through.
I wish Firefox had such a compact mode.
Re: Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine
#86While I don't condone complaining for the sake of complaining, I really don't see why I would use this. Every argument feels very "floatey". When I think of browser devs, I don't think about fancy UI, and blazingly fast speeds! I think about engineers who know what they're talking about. I've never heard of floorp, and the arguments against librewolf are silly. On top of that, some of these "features" like themes, pr…
Sometimes (not necessarily here) just a better UI for existing features is enough to make a project succeed.
Re: Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’ve been using the sway family of window managers for nearly 20 years! (First ion2, then ion3, then i3, and now sway.) In all this time I’ve briefly used native tabs but mostly now use windows without title bars or any other decorations in split mode all of the time. Most of the day I simply have a terminal running tmux on the first workspace with vim in the first tmux window, shells in the others, and a browser on…
I used to also use i3 and later sway and I noticed I only ever tiled my terminals. I don't really remember why but I started using tmux (with tilish) and I liked that I can detach and reattach to sessions later. But at that point I'm just full screening windows so now I'm on gnome and use a single terminal window with tmux :) Edit: my journey of text editors has been vim -> neovim -> helix so I just have them open in…
As a very longtime VIM user, can you talk me into helix?
Re: Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine
#88Someone pointed out to me that you can set eBay as the default search engine. That seems like a weird option. There can't be many that primarily uses their browser to access eBay, though I wouldn't rule out that people with this preference exists.
Maybe they get some royalties by having it as an option?
Re: Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine
#89I got a weird error when trying to run the app from within the .DMG on ARM Mac, in case anyone who can look into it is reading.
It said "Zen Browser" is damaged and can't be opened, you should reject the disk image.
edit: it's a known thing to do with Apples security, workarounds in step 3 here:
Re: Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine
#90One thing almost all arc clones dont get right and I talked with other arc users about this is that arc when surfing has no ui besides the border no top bar not tabs you can hide everything if you want to.
I downloaded Zen and what do i see a top bar which I can not hide or at least I can not find how to do it.