My Thoughts on the Zen Browser
My Thoughts on the Zen Browser
popcar.bearblog.dev Checking out the Zen Browser
My thoughts and first impressions of the Zen Browser!
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One way to solve the “content appearing offset to right” problem is to move your tabs to the right side. Works pretty well for me..
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Been my daily driver for a WHILE now. Works fine for most things. Every now and then I run into some oddities.
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Nixpkgs has been working on packaging it for more than 6 months now. That is a damning timeframe for both Zen and nixpkgs in IMO equal parts. In Zen’s case, that means that they are packaging their app in a very unconventional way and lagging with security updates, breaking standards (which usually means they are amateurs). In nixpkgs case, that means nixpkgs needs better
buildMozillaMach
support.
I used it in an appImage and came away unimpressed. Using it in a tiling WM, I loved the minimalism….but I just wish it had better security and rendered webpages better. On Brave, websites literally look sharper than on Zen.
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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).
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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.
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It's still a beta, I think it's unfair to complain about drastic changes until it comes out
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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"
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I've been using it for weeks and I think I'll stick with it. It feels fresh and relaxed at the same time.
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