The stars hypothesis is interesting but I think it was genuinely caused by that youtuber recommending it. The reason it started 2 days before the video's release is because he gives early video access to his patrons, if I had to guess. And that's the only genuinely sus thing about it.
It is worth waiting for some commit history and consistency to be shown before recommending it on the privacyguides site though
It's also a very interesting project since it's basically Arc but on Firefox which runs on all Operating Systems.
I think it's unfair to compare it to Brave which is literally just chrome with an adblocker and crypto. If Arc was open source then it would easily have a lot more stars.
It's good to be skeptical but I think they know what they're talking about. It's the forum for privacyguides which has been around since 2021, and previously as privacytools since 2015. Many of the people in the thread are active maintainers of the recommendations and knowledge base, where they apply a pretty rigorous set of standards. In fact, I think the only thing you can reasonably knock them for is being too cautious with new tools, but I think that's a good instinct in this case, especially since you don't really lose much by waiting to make sure something is legit and not a honeypot or flash in the pan
I dont get the appeal of the big chonky bar on the left. Whats the point of it? Genuine question because when i look at it it just seems like a lot of redundancy with stuff you can already have in the top bar of mosts modern browsers like firefox/librefox
When I saw that and "container tabs", I thought it was going to have a good implementation of vertical tabs, but it really doesn't. No easy folders, no organizational features...If they add some stuff that makes it meaningfully different from Firefox, I might give it some thought, but right now, there's really no point. Better keyboard shortcuts or something would even make me switch, but that bar seems useless now.
In the screenshot, it's in a sort of "mini mode" and the side bar is the tab manager/etc. You can set both that and the url bar to hide and then show on mouse hover. It looks nice but when I was messing with it it feels like it adds more time in your workflow. You have to hover right at the edge too which is annoying to hit if you have your OS bar at top of screen and/or if you have multi monitors with one on the left, since the pressure point is right on the edge. I can see it working on maybe a laptop where screen real estate is a bigger deal though.
God damn it, I just switched to Floorp last week and then you drop this sexy ass looking browser on me? Looks like I'll be messing around with it tonight. This looks tight as fuck.
E: anyone know if Firefox sync is supported? Might be a deal breaker for me if I can't bounce tabs between phone and computer.
Oh, nice! I'd been trying to install the latest release from the .dmg which results in an error saying the .app is damaged, but brew seems to work perfectly. Thanks for the heads up
I've been using this in combination with librewolf and I really like it. I'm not a huge fan of vertical tabs when you have over 30 tabs, but it's good for websites you visit often.
I tried the alpha version of this on my linux box. Strangely, I couldn't visit zen-browser.app while using i. Most other sites I tried were fine though.