Zen Browser Reviews and Details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Crest – an Arc-inspired open-source browser for Mac

  Why do we need this if there's already Zen? (https://zen-browser.app/). - Source: Hacker News / 4 days ago

• Crest – an Arc-inspired open-source browser for Mac

  Appears to use Chromium by default, and also ship WebKit to toggle for individual websites: https://crestbrowser.com/guides/engines/ Of course this comment section also warrants a mention of Zen Browser, another Arc alternative that's been going for a while already, is based on Firefox, and is available cross-platform: https://zen-browser.app. - Source: Hacker News / 4 days ago

• Firefox 157

  Hmm, I don't know - I've been using Zen [1] primarily the last couple of hours and it seems to have come a long way since I last tried it. Thanks for sharing carbonyl & brownsh, they seem quite cool. Just not sure they'd be the perfect fit for me as my primary browser. [1] https://zen-browser.app/. - Source: Hacker News / 13 days ago

• I Switched to Brave Browser

  There is also Zen which is quite active: https://zen-browser.app/. - Source: Hacker News / 18 days ago

• I Switched to Brave Browser

  > I LOVED Arc. I assume you've heard of it, but just in case you haven't: you should try Zen! It's basically Arc, but based on Firefox, but open source and, more importantly, actively maintained. https://zen-browser.app. - Source: Hacker News / 18 days ago

• Search – A small, fast WebKit browser for macOS, by Office Commun

  Https://zen-browser.app/ - if you would like a super minimal daily driver. - Source: Hacker News / 22 days ago

• My battery kept dying at coffee shops, so I built Junction

  Anyway here's what kicked this off: I was at a coffee shop, on battery, working in Zen like always, and my battery just dropped off a cliff. Way faster than it should. So I switched to Safari for a bit just to see, and yeah, night and day. - Source: dev.to / 24 days ago

• Hang on to Your Firefox

  Other people do fork Firefox though, like Zen browser https://zen-browser.app/ https://github.com/zen-browser/desktop. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in performance and AI compute

  If the browser being Chromium-based isn’t a hard requirement, it may be worth checking out the Firefox-based Zen Browser[0]. Its UI is very similar to that of Arc, to the point that I’d call it Arc’s spiritual successor. [0]: https://zen-browser.app/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• Zen-desktop: Desktop ad-blocker for Windows, macOS and Linux

  Not to be confused with Zen Browser[1], or Citrix Xen Desktop[2], or Zen Desktop the desktop blur tool[3], or a desktop with Ryzen CPU... Perhaps I should try running this Zen ad blocker with Zen Browser inside a Xen Desktop on a Zen core and see what happens. Hopefully I can find some bug, so that I can file an interesting and confusing bug report. :) [1] https://zen-browser.app/ [2]... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• Mozilla: The state of open source AI

  Yes, Firefox itself is a “general purpose” browser, and that’s probably for the best in terms of wide market appeal. Other developers have taken the engine and made power-user-focused browsers with it. Lately I’ve fallen in love with Zen (though after 2 months of use its pinned tabs features still confuse me a bit). https://zen-browser.app/. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Google Chrome's Next Update Will Mark the End of Popular Ad Blockers

  I'm going to advocate for Zen here. https://zen-browser.app/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Mozilla is working on a big Firefox redesign, here is what it looks like

  The question is rather if Mozilla can win this catch-up game and win new users. If they do this they should rather IMHO simply upstream the stuff done by Zen [0], which IMHO has a much more modern look and feel. Btw: there is still quite some users that are lost if UI changes. Particularly older people might simply use pre-installed Edge if they have to get used to a new design anyway. My parent in law were still... - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Tabs Later: A Tab Hoarder's Journey to Sanity

  I've recently migrated to Zen [0] and its a breath of fresh air. I agree with comments arguing bad bookmark UX is part of the problem. Zen's approach is a vertical tab sidebar with workspaces and folders. Crucially, it distinguishes pinned and ephemeral tabs. The approach is much more natural to me than either bookmarks and tradition tabs. [0] https://zen-browser.app/. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features

  The solution for the (as of yet) small group of people who cares about these things is very simple: community driven forks. With the bonus that you also get a set of great (and per fork different yet handy) features. These include: Waterfox (Firefox) - https://www.waterfox.com/ Zen Browser (Firefox) - https://zen-browser.app/ Librewolf (Firefox) - https://librewolf.net/ Helium (Chrome/Chromium) -... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features

  My preference is Zen (https://zen-browser.app/), but there's also LibreWolf (https://librewolf.net/) if you want a less customized fork. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• Mozilla's new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox

  So that's it then. Zen is going to eat their market share for lunch. https://zen-browser.app/. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• Nook Browser

  Both the browser and the website look remarkably similar to https://zen-browser.app/. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• So Long, Firefox, Part One

  A lot of people are switching to Zen Browser, which essentially is a heavily modified, extremely moddable/themable and UX driven Firefox: https://zen-browser.app/ Zen really becomes particularly awesome if you run a alternative Wayland compositor like Sway, Hyprland, Mango, Wayfire and friends due to the window management in those environments. As a example:... - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• Firefox profiles: Private, focused spaces for all the ways you browse

  Zen [0] can bridge that gap. I have it set up so that each workspace in practice maps to a specific container. [0] https://zen-browser.app/. - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

• I tried 6 next-gen browsers - here's what I found

  I was in the market for a new browser that would persuade me to switch from Comet’s underlying UX sacrifices. This is when I stumbled upon Zen. Zen is much like Arc, designed to be a minimal, modern, user-friendly browser. - Source: dev.to / 11 months ago