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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I am sure the article is written by chatGPT

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I expected so much more from a website called “techwavearena” /s

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Yeah, reads more like a wikipedia article than a news article, like someone took several sources and told ai to combine the info. Facts are great, but they don't make for a captivating read on their own. There's a sweet spot for opinion/reflection without too much bias that makes news sources worth reading.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Check out the official website, it explains many more features https://zen-browser.app/

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Is there any reason to use this over Librewolf?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The UI/UX. Nothing else, to be fair. They have some nice features (like 'glance'), too

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

no, if you don't care about vertical tab bar. also you can apply the betterfox scripts into your librewolf user.js.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

One thing that seems to be missing from most Zen promotion is that Firefox has a huge collection of add-on options/extentions. Hard to beat of you're reliant on several of them. Keeps me from even trying it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

Zen supports the add-ons and extensions from FF. (Source: been using it for about a month)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Zen is a fork of Firefox, supports Firefox extensions, and retains the built-in access to the Mozilla extension/theme stores from vanilla Firefox. If you go to install an addon, it even gives a popup to "Add to Firefox".

It's a good browser with only minor issues. I'm on Win10; automatic updates don't always succeed, and it seems like it blocks some communication between the 1password desktop app and the browser extension because I have to sign into each separately. Otherwise, I prefer it to Firefox in pretty much every way.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

It would be good for them to make sure it's clear that it's a fork of Firefox and supports addons in their marketing! Right now it's quite a ways down the home page.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago

While like other have said, extensions do work, I wouldn't expect zen to prioritize extension compatibility. I've been following development and it seems like a personal project