Hi, i am having a problem whenever i open a new browser window, all tabs on my pinned and essentials would open as well. Sometimes they even got opened twice or thrice, so if i have 6 tabs running then its gonna be 12 or 18 tabs in operation and it affect my pc performance immensely. Does anyone know a fix for this?

Hey everyone!

Downloaded the Zen Browser a couple of days ago. Love it so far. Simple, fast and customizable. Already made some modifications, and I'd like to share them as a Mod, but can't figure out how to do that.

Could anyone suggest any links? Thanks.

Zen - no full screen mode

Zen- Side bar opening on non fullscreen mode

Zen - full screen mode

Zen - Side bar not opening on full screen mode (my cursor is in edge of the screen)

Arc - full screen mode

Arc- Side bar opens even on full screen mode

I'm facing this issue on Windows, Zen version - 1.7.4b

just got the bonjour extension for the wallpaper, but i hate the icon of it appearing whenever i open a new tab, is it possible to change?

At installation time, I said to make it compact and I only see favicons. I assume there's a way to change to a view that includes part of the title. But I can't find it.

I dont know if this is normal for Google Services like Slides to only work smoothly on their own browser.
But I tried the same Slides on both Zen and Chrome, and it's almost unusable in Zen as its super slow.
When I try Chrome, it's working fine.
Just wondering if this is normal or perhaps if there is a way to make it faster as I hate to use Chrome.
Appreciate it if there's anything guys.

I've figured out how to associate containers with workspaces and make certain URLs only open in particular workspaces. Now I'd like to assign a custom search engine to each workspace.

I currently use DuckDuckGo as my default search engine.

Let's say I've created an individual workspace purely for YouTube. If I'm in that particular workspace, I'd like any search I enter into the URL bar to go through YouTube rather than DuckDuckGo, without me having to manually select the YouTube search engine each time.

Is this possible? Thank you in advance for any advice!

Is there a way to have your pinned tabs, essential tabs, and workspaces sync across devices?

I’m moving here from Arc and that’s one thing I loved.

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Desktop Window Manager's GPU utilization changes massively when I have it opened (in the image, I had only Zen browser opened). When idle, the Desktop Window Manager's GPU utilization didn't go higher than 1.8%. With Zen browser opened, it varies a lot and it can go even to above 27%. My GPU is a 3060 ti. Is this normal?

I arrived to test Zen after watching Theo's famous video. I've been a hardcore Chroumium browsers user for many years now.

So, I'm now trying Zen on my MacOS M1 machine. But I don't get a lot of things:

- Why themes don't work? I set a theme, even the included ones by default, and after switching windows or workspaces the theme is reverted to the one that comes by default. I've seen some posts here in reddit about the workspaces feature being the cause but I don't get how this basic issue seems to not being officially disclosed anywhere.
- How do I remove the sidebar and toolbar transparency? I don't like the transparency there.
- How do I use the split view functionality that you can activate in Settings? The keyboard shortcuts don't work for me :/
- Why many default keyboard shortcuts don't work?
- Why setting a new keyboard shortcut is SO hard (key presses are wrongly recognized, it's very hard to persist a new shortcut, there's no option to revert a single hotkey, etc,)
- What the heck are "pilled" buttons?

That being said, I think the main UI concepts introduced by Zen are great and I look forward to seeing this product evolve.

Thanks!

Is there any option for opening a new tab into a selected custom page?

I currently use the option for a custom page in a new window, but I would really appreciate the same thing for the new tabs, as other browser do.

I constantly work on reports in a tool called Domo. Recently switched my work setup to zen and just realized that all my reports look like this with text overlapping. Is this a known issue?

I can't seem to set a shortcut to this, just keyboard combinations.

Is this possible? Looking into similar to Arc behavior for splitting / adding tabs

Hi all,

That's my very first post on Reddit; let me know if this is the wrong location.

I use Tableau 2023.1, but Zen doesn't render the dashboards correctly, and it doesn't render PDFs correctly either. I have the latest Zen version running on Win 11.

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Hello! I really want to make the switch to Zen, I love the UI and most things about it, but when i tried it over the weekend I could barely use it because of horrible performance.

I don't know why or how to fix it. whether it's watching a stream or just browsing a normal website it's not responsive at all especially while playing games but using the same websites doing the same things on another browser works perfectly fine. I have a 2070S and 32GB DDR5 RAM with a 7800x3d so surely it can't be my pc?

I tried disabling/enabling hardware acceleration and nothing changed.

Has anyone else had this problem and has a fix?

I have been using Vimium C (browser extension) as my fuzzy finder to switch between all my tabs for a few years now Its very simple, concise and imo, a very efficient way of moving through tabs

But since that is just a browser extension, there are a few problems

• On protected pages (settings, addons page, pdf-pages etc) it will not function, because extensions arent given high enough priority on those pages, which I understand
• If I ever were to click on the wrong link or tab I cant switch back to the correct one with the extension because it wont load until the page has loaded, so I just have to wait
• The extension itself has a few quirks that I dont like, but ive lived with since there is no better alternative, and I would gladly make the entire thing from scratch in the way I want it to be

So what I wanted to know, from anyone on the team or anyone else that would know this, can I make a mod with html, css and js, just like an extension, so that I can use a native fuzzy finder (with all the features available in vimium c) that wont have any of these permission or any other problems in the zen browser

And since it will be available as a mod, anyone could just download it and receive an elevated browsing experience

I have many years of web-dev experience and I could easily make something like this in a week or two and all I really want to know is, is this even possible - if so, then could someone point me to the guide that tells me how to make a zen mod

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Sometimes, when I start Zen, this button to personalize the sidebar appear, but I don't know how to hide it. Please help.

Hello everyone! Is there a way to remove the space above the Tabs when using Sidebar Expand on Hover Mod?

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Hiding the workspace indicator doesn't work for me

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It really bothers me so much. Hope someone can help!

I saw that I am not the first one to ask that and I found this thread - https://www.reddit.com/r/zen_browser/comments/1hu605e/can_bookmark_bar_be_container_aware/

More or less i have nothing to add to it other that is it possible and if not is there a place to submit new feature requests?

Other than that since I am trying to move to all open source softwares big up for the initiative and its shame that I am not a developer, else I really like to help.

I used Brave for over 6 years, and at some point, the UI just started feeling stale—so much so that opening it became an actual eyesore XD. I needed a change.

So, I started lurking around the browser sub for recommendations, and that’s when I stumbled upon a post showcasing a customized Zen Browser UI. And wow—I was blown away! Still, I was hesitant because Brave’s built-in ad blocker had never let me down. But I figured, why not give uBlock Origin a shot? I’d heard its fables, and honestly? No regrets.

I’ve also noticed a lot of people here migrating from Arc. Since I’ve never used it, and at first glance, it seems pretty similar to Zen—what made you make the switch?

I know this has already been asked a 100 times, but there are so many half incomplete confusing methods everywhere. Can somebody please jut give me a single step by step centralized guide to making the sidebar and top bar translucent?

Hey, forks! Is there any way possible to create the shortcut key to toggle between the different layouts of the look and feel? I know currently it is not present and most of users don't even need it. But I want it and like me, there may be some users present who can also find this very experience-enhancing feature. If there is an ask then the development of anything is possible😊.

Some one help me for the love of god

I switch workspaces way too often for this to keep happening. no matter which of the stock themes I use (dark / auto - dark) once I switch workspaces (whether using shortcuts, swiping, manually clicking to change workspaces) the theme resets/changes to light background, and text sometimes doesn't invert to even try to match it. I JUST WANT IT DARK ALL THE TIME :((

I turned off all extensions and have never installed any themes except one called dark carbon when i was trying to solve the issue myself but to no avail.

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