/r/zen_browser
Zen Browser is your gateway to a faster, more secure, and beautifully customizable web experience. Built on Firefox, it combines cutting-edge privacy features with a sleek interface and powerful tools like split views, workspaces, and side panels. Whether you're looking to stay organized, boost productivity, or simply enjoy a seamless browsing experience, Zen has you covered. Join us to share tips, explore themes, and get the most out of your Zen journey. 🚀
/r/zen_browser
Some icons that I added to Bookmarks and appear in normal browsers dont appear in Zen. It's not a specific or important problem but I wanted to share. :)
There's already an option to have links that open a new window to open a new tab instead, it would be nice to have the option for those links to open in a glance instead.
On my personal browsing I like to dark theme enabling but when I'm working I like to have light theme enabled. As I have 1 workspace for each, it would be so great to be able to make a default theme for a workspace 😊
https://i.redd.it/7rnjb2u0mx0e1.gif
I loved my dark theme, but now that there is a transparency setting, I can't get the dark theme I liked anymore... How can we choose to remove them ?
Not a huge fan of Essentials / Pin tab release but we are not force to use them and Pinned tabs can have their design back with a mod.
I have a huge bug, when connecting to Google with SSO, a pop-up open and this popup cannot be closed even after force quitting Zen Browser.
Looks like to me that Zen Browser is failing on their promise of : "Customizeable, down to the last pixel". Would be happy if someone can explain me how I can actually fix those 2 first point without a new realease...
having 'tabs expand on hover' enabled outside of compact mode, then using compact mode and turning it off again makes tabs expand on hover stop working. you have to disable and re-enable the setting. which is inconvenient because I use compact mode if I want to hide the sidebar and searchbar, so having to go back into settings to fix that everytime I toggle compact mode gets really annoying
Please, DO NOT PANIC! Let me first talk about the idea behind this, pros and cons and then you can comment haha.
I had a random though today that the websites inside zen felt... secondary? Like, the most important part of a browser isn't being focused too much. I dont know if im explaining myself correctly.
Again, this is just an idea, even if people vote yes I probably wont implement it, so dont panic. And if it does get implemented, compact mode, split view, etc would still look the same.
Pros:
Cons:
Please let me know! I've been using it for a while in my dev build and honestly, it just feels... better. Again, please dont panic, this is just a post to know what you think about this idea I just had.
Thanks!
After keeping an eye on Zen for some time, and downloading it on and off, I think Zen is finally coming close to the Arc experience I wanted from Zen. I know I don't speak for everyone but the browser is so close to reaching that goal for me that it has me excited.
So here's my feature request for the devs whenever they get time to implement them and think if it's a good fit for the browser:
- Bigger and bolded Pinned Tabs. Right now, the text is too small and thin.
- Closing a pinned tab or an Essential tab removes it from the sidebar. This should not happen as I just want to offload the tab from memory but not from the sidebar itself.
- Love to see that workspaces can be switched with the trackpad but it's glitchy and not smooth and doesn't work sometime. Would love to see it fixed and properly working!
- Remove the workspace name from the top of the Pinned tabs (it's already there at the bottom, so it's not needed). Maybe there is a way to remove this already?
- Draggable tabs for split view. Much like Arc, you can drag tab on top of another and enter split view.
- One-click copy of URL and/or right-click on a tab to "copy link"
- Zen Glance's animation is too choppy. A smoother animation would go a long way to make it more intuitive and easy to use
- Side swipe (back gesture) on Zen Glance window to close it would be dope!
I think once these are implemented and smoothened out, I will jump to Zen full-time, and I am quite excited to see how it shapes up in the coming months. Good luck to the devs!
it was turned on previously, but now even after tweaking the privacy settings, it's not turning on
Hi all!
Is there any solution to remove the empty space above the first tab? I don't use Workspaces, and after disabling them, there is an unremovable empty space that looks weird.
Before toggling sidebar width
after toggling sidebar width
though it returns to normal after closing and re-opening the browser
Hello everyone!
I created this post to express my deep gratitude for Zen Browser and the amazing community around it.
I've been following Zen's development since the beginning and it's incredible to see how far it has come! With each update, the browser becomes more complete, with new features and an increasingly better user experience. What attracted me most to Zen was its minimalist design. Being able to use compact mode, hiding the top and side bars, gives me complete immersion in the web, without distractions.
I would especially like to thank u/maubg. Your constant presence and attention to the community are admirable! It's great to see such a dedicated developer who cares about user feedback.
I also thank all the users who helped me solve some questions I had along the way, and the developers who created extensions and modifications that further enrich the Zen experience.
Zen Browser has become my main browser and I can't wait to see what the future holds for it!
(I'm sorry for the misuse of the flair. Didn't found the right one for this post)
There are so many features that Arc windows didn't have but I wanted them. Recent announcement made me think about switching arc and now I've discovered zen, It's such a cool browser. I'm gonna list all the features that I wanted in arc that now I already have using Zen:
Tabs Sync with android device: Using Firefox android I can literally view all my opened tabs in my phone in my windows machine and vice versa
Full Borderless View: Just like Arc mac I wanted top bar hidden which wasn't possible in Arc Windows yet.
Bookmarks: Pretty much absent in arc and wouldn't have gotten them in it's lifetime. The reason I find bookmarks better than folders it because they can be exported and folders can't.
If I were to use arc more and depend more on folders then I'd have faced more problem in futue than now.
YOU CANNOT MOVE YOU FOLDERS TO ANY OTHER BROWSER IN FUTURE JUST IN CASE YOU HAD TO CHANGE IT. BUT YOU CAN MOVE BOOKMARKS.
Library feature: There is this Library icon in toolbar options and it is literally the library feature present in Arc Mac but not in windows. It combines Downloads, Bookmarks and history in one place.
More UI Customization: Because Firefox has all these CSS themes arc would never have had those except arc enahncements type feature what were those called again?
Future Support: If we talk about zen it's backed by firefox which is not going anywhere anytime soon and even if it does remember one thing: I CAN EXPORT MY BOOKMARKS BUT NOT FOLDERS.
Things that I miss from Arc Browser?
Folders and tidy tabs. For organizing tabs. Not for storing them for lifetime but organizing many tabs when I open tab. Like If I opened multiple tabs related to philosophy, plants and Anime. Then Tidy tabs could just organize these tabs into folders for me to follow it up later or just store them for near future.
Rename tabs: Please bring this feature.
Proper Control+ T workflow, Make it smoother and try replacing it with url bar.
Cool videos to showcase new features and their use cases. LOL I know zen is developed by one person and they cannot just start making videos for free on youtube. I'm just saying they nailed the story telling part with the help of their team.
Easels: Please bring a similar version of that feature to zen. (Or recommend some similar if an extension exists or something)
New and Exciting features: TBC Did bring vertical tabs and "Productivity" browsers into lime light at least that's how I started thinking about browsers. So, credit where credit is due.
Zap?: Yeah mac had that it was cool to customize website according to our own needs.
Pretty much it for now, Can't recall anything esle
idk what is the workaround on this i just installed Zen. spotify doesn't work it plays the video loop but not the music, and songs are also auto-skipped
If it includes CSS please kindly write a detailed step by step because I don't know how to use CSS
but how do I setup a shortcut for it? There doesn't seem to be a name for it in the shortcuts
Two profiles in same window,
Because I like to keep different extensions for different workspaces.
What do you guys think?
Essentially what I'm looking for is the equivalent of (SHIFT - CTRL - +) from Arc.
I'm really intrigued by Zen Browser, but I for the love of me can't figure out the split view.
When I open a new tab and browse somewhere, I would like to just open a new tab in split view, but whenever I enter split view it spits me on one of my other already loaded pages/tabs.
I might be stupid and there's something I'm not understanding, but I can't figure out how to do it.