Really cool but so far noone was able to package it for NixOS: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/327982
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
#302Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mozilla maintains a Firefox extension that does split view in the browser. Its called Side View. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/side-view/
"This add-on is not actively monitored for security by Mozilla. Make sure you trust it before installing." What?
A lot of legitimate Firefox Addons say that. Just means Moz can't manually review every single extension if they want to allow their users a good extension experience...unlike developing Chrome extensions
Re: Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine
#303I hope a sustainable Firefox fork emerges soon because it seems Google's illegal default search deals (aka the only thing keeping Mozilla afloat) are coming to an end. That's a great thing in general, but it would really suck if FF died and we all got stuck with Chrome derivatives. Personally, I wouldn't mind paying for my web browser if it's good. I wouldn't pay for Mozilla's FF, but I would pay for a fork of it by…
Mozilla could keep building FF without Google, but it would require that 90% of the C suite get laid off and dedicated focus from the company...
Nah, they would just enshittify like everyone else. This world is trash. The only hope is it pisses off enough people for them to contribute to some open competitor, the circle of softwarelife
Re: Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine
#304Not 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…
You should try Firefox Mozilla containers https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account... This is official supported add-on
This is the main reason I still use Firefox. Being able to have multiple color-coded containers for my different Azure roles at work, and being able to set a custom socks5 proxy on each container so I can route certain container tabs through a different VPN service.
Re: Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine
#305I've recently made a similar (more modular) project which compiles various features and patches them into a Firefox profile. It can compile themes, hardening, userscripts, userstyles and more into a clean firefox profile, basically removing the bloat from firefox while still being fully customizable: https://github.com/explosion-scratch/firebuilder
This looks really great. One thing I have never seen done is having the url bar completely removed and put everything in the sidebar. That would really save some vertical space. Since you seem to know your way around the firefox sources, do you think that's possible?
Im not sure - most of what my project does is compile multiple people's modifications together, I feel like I saw one such repo recently, I'll reply if I find it
Re: Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine
#306The website design is really cool! I love it!
Design is meaningless when there is zero content. The site has no information to help me in making a decision of whether I should try it out. No technical information at all.
Re: Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine
#307Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bookmarks are perceptually longer-term than open tabs, so there may be more reluctance to save to a bookmark. (E.g., if planning a trip to Italy, do you want to bookmark some blogger's food recs for Rome, forever?) But worse is, it relies on recalling the text in the bookmark's title to resurface it. You might not remember the page title, but you can always scan through open tabs.
I wrote love the ability to associate a TTL with bookmarks. Let me bookmark for 3 hours or 2 days or forever. Of course the 3 and 2 are user choices. Mostly the way I deal with this now is sharing the tab to another Firefox on a different computer then use it there and decide it's fate.
This is an interesting idea for a feature, that I think I would like too. I like to save things to maybe look at later and a TTL would manage automatically dropping them from bookmarks in case I never actually want to look at it later.
Re: Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine
#308Earlier 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…
For Android, I've been using Firefox Beta as my daily driver for over a year, it works flawlessly, and about:config is available.
yeah, even the very own devs HATE the defaults someone (who?) decided for android.
first there was a non documented setting to remove the blacklist for extensions... when they blocked access to about:config then everyone started using firefox dev... now they removed the block from nightly (i guess using real bleeding edge dev annoyed them)...
anyway, this only proves me point even harder.
Re: Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine
#309Earlier 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…
> several decades and still not incorporating uBlockOrigin as a native feature? really? Might be better that way. AdBlockers are fast-moving, with a dedicated, diligent working community. Outside the browser, they probably can work better.
the extension already incorporates a interface to select/finetune/update the rules.
for the past decade updates to the extension itself have been UI only.
Re: Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine
#310Earlier quoted context omitted.
> several decades and still not incorporating uBlockOrigin as a native feature? really? Might be better that way. AdBlockers are fast-moving, with a dedicated, diligent working community. Outside the browser, they probably can work better.
Not just that, but why would Mozilla pick the winner here? Everyone complains about the side effects of default search engines, let's not do it again with ad-blockers! And anyway, their Google contract certainly prevents them from doing shipping ad-blocking by default.
because that was the original promise with extensions! contribute without the red tape, and if enough people like it, we will incorporate.
heck dev tools started as someone cloning IE dev tool as an extension... there were two... the IE clone and a dalvik debugger... mozilla had no problem picking the winer and incorporating in the official build.
> their google contract
stop normalizing this! they officially denie this arrangement exist! so they cannot use it as an excuse.