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…

  • Jomn@jlai.lu
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    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.

        • melroy@kbin.melroy.org
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          2 months ago

          @Frozyre please keep it a bit friendly. I understand you are mad, but there’s no point in treating other people like this.

          • Frozyre@kbin.melroy.org
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            2 months ago

            Tell the assholes to keep it friendly themselves. I’m talking the fanboys. They who can’t handle differing opinions have no place in open discussion on any platform. Period.

            • melroy@kbin.melroy.org
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              2 months ago

              You actually started calling them to go to hell.

              Open discussions are of course fine, but your tone isn’t. Since we aren’t talking about handling different opinions now, you are just insulting people. So feel free to express any feedback you might have, but there is no need for insulting and swearing.

      • Frozyre@kbin.melroy.org
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        2 months ago

        I did but all you fucking morons are having your knee jerk reactions. It’s what I expected from dumb fucking fanboys with no lives who swear their allegiance to Firefox. Fuck you. lol

        • Allero@lemmy.today
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          2 months ago

          A bit more politeness goes a very long way.

          Try being more civil, this will earn you way more support, especially since you want to change people’s minds.

    • ocassionallyaduck@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Try Floorp.

      Also, maybe don’t compare clean chrome install to FF with a half dozen extensions installed. Extensions like Greasemonkey run literally any script you tell them to. An errant line of code and there goes your memory.

      Try again, apples to apples dude.

  • breadsmasher@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    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
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      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

    • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
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      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

  • RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    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
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      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
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        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

  • Gemini24601@lemmy.world
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    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
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    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.

    • Virkkunen@fedia.io
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      2 months ago

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

  • jay@mbin.zerojay.com
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    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.

  • TheJack@lemmy.world
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    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
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    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.

  • OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    I love Mulls new browser fork of Firefox but on Gos it weakens the security due to a sandbox implementation not being as strong vs Chromium. I hate big corpo who don’t. Brave seems to be the best mobile for now. Sucks but soon as sandboxing issue is fixed. Firefox FTW!