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Zen browser is my daily browser since many months now. Most of your fair criticisms I have solved with Zen Mods and playing around in the settings.
The Widewine limitation is really why I will always keep another browser to fall back to: I recently discovered that all of Udemy is non-playable in Zen.
Been my daily driver for a WHILE now. Works fine for most things. Every now and then I run into some oddities.
Cool to see a possible replacement for Arc coming up now that The Browser Company put it aside. I loved it’s way of kind of forcing you to use a single window, but multiple instances of it, as well as Little Arc. Will keep monitoring Zen to see how it develops.
Looks just like Arc
But open source and built from Firefox
True. The biggest difference seems to be that Arc is based on Chromium and Zen is based on Firefox. Given the two, I’d pick Zen just for the engine diversity.
It’s just… A browser…
With an opinionated way of how to navigate the internet, it’s maybe the most important app you can use
Been using it for a while, I like it, but they do push out some questionable updates every now and then. Bugs I can understand, but forcing design changes on people aren’t great. Calling out the new tab change they made, I ended up changing a setting to deactivate it. Right now it’s my preferred browser, but I’m still open to looking into alternatives (Mac/Linux).
Like the other person said, beta software is expected to go through pretty large design changes. It’s not a matter of “forcing it on the user” it’s a matter of “my software isn’t ready yet, I’m not certain what my vision is, and if you’re not willing to put up with me figuring out what I want out of this software then wait for it to release and I’ll keep it stable from there”
It’s in beta, so large changes are to be expected. I don’t think it’s fair to blame them for design changes right now.
