Zen Browser | Privacy focused, open-source, Firefox Fork

Optimised for peak performance? Are there benchmarks to back this up?

Edit - their docs have benchmarks. They do not appear to have comparative benchmarks

edit - lol amazing

Their privacy is better than regular Firefox due to disabling telemetry etc, but librewolf does way more to protect against fingerprinting. The browser itself is quite good, although it shows that it’s in early development. Also I disabled send a do not track signal as it is used for fingerprinting

I like it so far. The weakness seems to be the size of the dev team and if the project has a future. Hopefully they are planning accordingly.

I went through a handful of threads and it seems mostly positive so far. One choice I wasn't sure about was that they're considering having a built in adblocker (based on something that's not ublock origin). I would prefer if the browser just shipped with ublock origin instead.

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/browser-extensions/

As far as privacy focused browsers go, Mull Mullvad Browser seems to be the best still. I was exploring Zen for my day to day browser.

I've been using it for about a week, both at work and at home, and I must say that it is great. It is nearly everything that I wanted from a browser. Especially since it is based on Firefox.

I've been so happy with it, that I even donated to the project.

Floorp is literally running with tons of optimizations and is shifting to the standard FF release instead of long term support build in their next major release. The optimizations though are like front and center, and it has TONS of privacy toggles and features.

That comparison is... Self serving let's say.

This looks like it good be a great replacement for Floorp. Thanks for sharing!

Idk much about the privacy features, but I've been using it for the past day and it's way faster and better optimised then floorp.

Tried it a bit yesterday on Windows. Opened a Github link in it and Windows Defender killed the app saying it was a threat. Definitely a false positive but seemed odd to see the entire app just die instantly, lol.

nixpkgs has been working on adding it for a month now but it uses “surfer” for compilation. It’ll be interesting to see how they end up building it in the Nix style. Looks like it’ll have to involve pnpm.

nobody uses iceweasel? For those who don't know, it is the version of firefox cleaned up by non ‘libre’ code mainly from debian and then taken over by parabola linux. For me it is the best together with mullvad.

I’ve checked it out, and it looks really good, sort of like arc browser. It’s very stylish, and since it’s Firefox-based, supports ublock origin. It’s obviously not finished yet though, so I’ll stay on Floorp until it reaches beta or stable. I’m totally switching once it gets there

So, how about the Cachy Browser from CachyOS? (aur)

This repository benefits from the knowledge and research provided by arkenfox, their documentation was vital to this revamp, so special thanks to their project. We do not use arkenfox's user.js but we try to keep up with it, and we also consider it a great resource for users who want to find their own setup.

We encourage users to find their own setup and to use our default configuration as something to build on top of. This is now easier thanks to the overrides, just place your own preferences in the proper location: -> ~/.cachy/cachy.overrides.cfg

Differences from LibreWolf:

• Enhanced security & privacy.
• Gentoo patches. Taken from Gentoo's Firefox.
• uBlock Origin added.
• Moonlight theme added.
• Preset for "Profile Sync Daemon" and Firejail/Firejail(hardened) available.
• Custom Rules for uBlock Origin.
• Custom branding.

Notes and thanks

Some of the older prefs in this project are taken from pyllyukko and many more were investigated on bugzilla.

Thanks to the whole LibreWolf community.

How does this one compare to the current OGs like Mullvad Browser and Librewolf?

Actually quite stoked about this as it boasts those librewolf privacy features while having a UI similar to Arc. Can’t wait for it to exit Alpha

More fox the merrier. We have Icecat, Iceweasel, Palemoon, Librewolf, Tor Browser, Mullvad Browser... I'm sure I'm missing many more for desktop.

Well, there is no native .deb package and "There is no plan for official .deb pkg".

Source: https://github.com/zen-browser/desktop/issues/328

I was daily driving it but started crashing after an update. I'll be getting back to it tho, I'm sure there has been like 4 updates in the last 24 hours...

I love options but does anybody else wish devs would put their heads together and focus on improving ONE app rather than launch a millon similar forks?

Has anyone tried loading arkenfox user.js on there? That's the bare minimum for me to use a Firefox-based browser. I'm not using that without hardening.

Are they based on Firefox ESR? That made me quit Floorp, it was pretty disappointing to be on a legacy reskin of Firefox.

How does this compate to Mullvad Browser?

I love Mulls new browser fork of Firefox but on Gos it weakens the security due to a sandbox implementation not being as strong vs Chromium. I hate big corpo who don't. Brave seems to be the best mobile for now. Sucks but soon as sandboxing issue is fixed. Firefox FTW!