The website design is really cool! I love it!
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
#272The website design is really cool! I love it!
I hate it; it looks like a Tiktok adshort and I gathered no useful information despite significant movement through the voluminous scroll bar.
Re: Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine
#273I've been wanting split view in FF for a long time, so I'm going to try this right now And I know somebody, somewhere, is going to argue that it should be the job of the desktop. I disagree. I don't want to have to create each context I want things to exist in, and manipulate that carefully. I like automatic context. That's why I like tabs in my browser and not a thousand windows. And that's why I enjoy my split view…
Re: Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine
#274Earlier quoted context omitted.
> which contributed to it being used only by a relatively small share of our user base. And that's why telemetry is such a brain dead idea. People then actually make decisions based upon "number of people using feature X" which is incredibly... lets just say "unwise".
wonder if we should just accept it as "voting" and monitor their telemetry experiment and spam the option we would like
You can vote for features on Mozilla Connect: https://connect.mozilla.org/
Re: Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine
#275Earlier quoted context omitted.
Firefox defaults lately are awful and out of touch... gestures for reload/back/forward? really? several decades and still not incorporating uBlockOrigin as a native feature? really? a convoluted only-4-containers shenanigans that not even the author understand instead of simply isolating private tabs per window like everyone asked over the years? using on android? too bad now you don't have half the settings availabl…
I'm a firefox-only user, and I read your comment in two ways. It's grumpy, but also on the point! Thanks, I feel similarly. What is your main browser btw? FF works for me in great ways, and I am highly productive with it, as long as some plugins still work: uBlock, tridactyl, foxyproxy. And for UI: sidebery, stylus. From time to time I feel I should turn my back towards FF when they come up with new decisions in thei…
Man you got my hopes up for a bit there since I remembered Kiwi browser was chromium based which after checking, it still is. From there website: "Kiwi is based on Chromium and WebKit." https://kiwibrowser.com/
Re: 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
#277I'll say it again, the golden standard for workspaces and sidebars is Sideberry and it's written for Firefox. Always glad to see new browser chrome efforts building on Firefox but it's such a high bar. Will still give this a try though.
Re: Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine
#278Does anyone know if Zen identifies itself as 'Firefox' at program-level when running on Windows? This is the biggest mistake that FF forks and offshoots make, since it makes it impossible to run Firefox and the derivative work at the same time.
Just tested with Zen v1.0.0-a.26. User agent reports: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:129.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/129.0 Exact match with Firefox v129.0.1: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:129.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/129.0
He's not asking about the User-Agent string sent to websites.
He's asking about how the browser identifies itself to the Windows operating system. According to him, other forks say simply "Firefox," which makes it impossible to run them alongside the official Firefox release.
Re: Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine
#279I don't know why but websites always feel downgraded with Firefox and its descendants. Long load times, incomplete/failed loads, bad font rendering, buffering.. It feels evident that webmasters only care for compatibility with Chrome et al. It felt that it was subsiding in between, but sites have again started breaking on it nowadays.
When a site doesn't work properly, please use this form to notify Mozilla: https://webcompat.com/issues/new
Re: Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine
#280I 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?
there is no search button. but you can search in the url bar, which will show you a button to switch to the corresponding tab