I have a pretty standard theme set up, but I use reader mode a lot. Is it possible to have a translucent effect on reader mode as well, so that the reader looks similar to the sidebar, rather than a black background? I understand translucency doesn't look great for lots of websites, but setting it up just for reader mode, which is a very controlled environment, might work well.

https://preview.redd.it/n1xkuvw6s98e1.png?width=2338&format=png&auto=webp&s=3d76c7820c7912f985c91a7a219ad13c4d67a6f7

https://preview.redd.it/p0qxh7tkm98e1.png?width=742&format=png&auto=webp&s=c753772aba8a047aaca1dcbb4dd8719833c71618

Hey everyone, I wanted to ask if anyone else has come across this problem/glitch when playing videos in Zen? I tried reinstalling the browser, but the issue persisted. Has anyone experienced this problem and potentially found a solution?

When I click and drag the empty area underneath the tabs, it behaves as if I clicked and dragged the window top bar.

The browser goes window mode and moves as I move my mouse.

That's pretty annoying and I do that frequently by mistake.

Are there any settings that I can disable that?

Hi there,

So as of a handful of updates ago, tabs in zen keep crashing. This happens every 10 minutes or so. Initially I decided to wait for the beta, but it hasn't resolved my issue.

I've reinstalled the browser completely, cleared all user settings, removed all mods, removed all extensions, and nothing seems to work.

I'm on very common, modern hardware.

14900k, 4090.

Is anyone experiencing something similar? And is there a way I can pull logs on what's causing the crash?

Would love to keep using zen but it's getting bad enough that I'll have to switch away soon.

If a previous animation is in progress the sidebar collapses/expands instantly

Is there any way to disable this feature? I often accidentally drag the sidebar, causing the window to move around.

I would like to set f13 (which my caps lock key is currently bound to) to the Toggle Sidebar's Width command. When I set it as the shortcut, Zen recognizes it just fine, but it does not actually perform the action when i press the shortcut button. This seems to apply to all function keys 13 - 24. This is really annoying because Firefox has a bunch of in built shortcuts to do assorted things, which i cannot figure out how to disable, so i cant just set it to be F6 or some other function key.

When running npm run bootstrap, it outputs

> zen-core@1.0.0 bootstrap
> surfer download && surfer bootstrap

00:00:00 Adding addons to mozbuild...
00:00:00 Discarding browser/extensions/moz.build...


SUCCESS You should be ready to make changes to Zen Browser.
	
	Remember to change the repository in configs/common/mozconfig to your own.
	You should import the patches next, run |surfer import|.
	To begin building Zen Browser, run |surfer build|.

00:00:00 Bootstrapping Zen Browser...
Passing through to |mach bootstrap|
00:00:01 fatal: your current branch 'zen_browser' does not have any commits yet
00:00:01 Error running mach:
00:00:01     mach bootstrap --application-choice browser
00:00:01 The error occurred in code that was called by the mach command. This is either
00:00:01 a bug in the called code itself or in the way that mach is calling it.
00:00:01 You can invoke ``./mach busted`` to check if this issue is already on file. If it
00:00:01 isn't, please use ``./mach busted file bootstrap`` to report it. If ``./mach busted`` is
00:00:01 misbehaving, you can also inspect the dependencies of bug 1543241.
00:00:01 If filing a bug, please include the full output of mach, including this error
00:00:01 message.
00:00:01 The details of the failure are as follows:
00:00:01 subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '('/usr/bin/git', 'log', '-1', '--format=%ct')' returned non-zero exit status 128.
00:00:01   File "/home/heinrich/Documents/desktop/engine/python/mozboot/mozboot/mach_commands.py", line 50, in bootstrap
00:00:01     bootstrapper.bootstrap(command_context.settings)
00:00:01   File "/home/heinrich/Documents/desktop/engine/python/mozboot/mozboot/bootstrap.py", line 433, in bootstrap
00:00:01     (checkout_type, checkout_root) = current_firefox_checkout(
00:00:01                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
00:00:01   File "/home/heinrich/Documents/desktop/engine/python/mozboot/mozboot/bootstrap.py", line 774, in current_firefox_checkout
00:00:01     _warn_if_risky_revision(path)
00:00:01   File "/home/heinrich/Documents/desktop/engine/python/mozboot/mozboot/bootstrap.py", line 923, in _warn_if_risky_revision
00:00:01     if (time.time() - repo.get_commit_time()) >= NUM_SECONDS_IN_MONTH:
00:00:01                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
00:00:01   File "/home/heinrich/Documents/desktop/engine/python/mozversioncontrol/mozversioncontrol/__init__.py", line 824, in get_commit_time
00:00:01     return int(self._run("log", "-1", "--format=%ct").strip())
00:00:01                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
00:00:01   File "/home/heinrich/Documents/desktop/engine/python/mozversioncontrol/mozversioncontrol/__init__.py", line 115, in _run
00:00:01     return subprocess.check_output(
00:00:01            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
00:00:01   File "/usr/lib64/python3.12/subprocess.py", line 466, in check_output
00:00:01     return run(*popenargs, stdout=PIPE, timeout=timeout, check=True,
00:00:01            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
00:00:01   File "/usr/lib64/python3.12/subprocess.py", line 571, in run
00:00:01     raise CalledProcessError(retcode, process.args,

Though it says I'm on the zen_browser branch, I'm actually on the dev branch, though it may be a different git repo. I'm running x86_64 fedora.

EDIT: I just ran it on a windows machine and it still doesn't work.

Can we make it so that instead of registering the touchpad swipe as a gesture and playing the workspace switching animation, what if we switch the workspaces while the user is still doing the swiping motion.

Kind of like arc and also the windows "Desktops" which I think by default you can switch using 4 finger swipe and it feels natural, by following your touchpad until the animation finishes,

All of this is on a laptop of course.

Also the animation which is currently implemented seems to be kinda broken as when you switch workspaces, it instantly switches to the new workspace's tabs and then plays the animation, which breaks the animation effect. If the above request is too hard to implement, at least please make the animations better

https://preview.redd.it/6dzf1hcrl78e1.png?width=542&format=png&auto=webp&s=1205785da46a5512f325a46119cfdaf00ee5f190

Hello. Korean is displayed as garbled text on my Notion page. I've tried changing the text encoding using an extension, but it doesn't work. The same issue occurs in the browser's default settings, and there are no problems on other web pages. For reference, the page appears correctly in Firefox.

I love this browser but this is my one personal gripe with it. Is the technology there yet?

I am testing the Zen browser, it has many bugs when it comes to customize some single elements (like position of a specific button), but thing that I really don't like is, when I open a new profile (or the browser) for the first time, Zen shows "welcome to the calmer Internet" screen and I have to press 6 times "next" button before I can start to use the browser. Why there is no way to skip it? Will it be added in the future?
I know I can just simply press ESC, but then the screen will appear again after browser restart...

Oh, I love it!!!! Bless your heart!

https://i.redd.it/ofteu3ysw68e1.gif

Edit: Sorry Cheff, mb😭, didn't see that you cooked this!

Hey there everyone! I've been using zen for a little while now and I noticed that I can't properly customize the home page wallpapers? For most people, this wouldn't be a problem, but for me, since I'm a photographer, I like to see my work displayed on my regular browser (I know a, little egotistical but that's beside the point). I'm just curious on how I can change the homepage on the home tab that isn't the default set of colors and photos that are just baked into the browser? I'll attach photos on what I see, and I'd prefer to not do like crazy code editing, but it can be done lmao. I just noticed that this feature was available on chrome and I love that feature so much. The photos of what I see on zen as well as a screenshot of the chrome customization stuff are attached.

I hope this gives y'all more info on what I'd like to solve, and I trust y'all to be able to come up with a solution if y'all haven't already!
Thx :)

https://preview.redd.it/pdcwi69zt68e1.png?width=2257&format=png&auto=webp&s=8f44b45350a4c6818c081201c285bfc2a57b8553

https://preview.redd.it/6ia73bs8u68e1.png?width=1374&format=png&auto=webp&s=7f2b897c090bc676aa7c8c6b52c15bb2912d7428

No extensions interfering and browser.tabs.allow_transparent_browser set to false but still this happens

Zen

On Firefox it looks normal

Firefox

Private Tab icon overlapping

In the private browsing, the private tab's icon overlapped with the forward and back arrows.

https://preview.redd.it/38dn0kfba68e1.png?width=3072&format=png&auto=webp&s=281019f05e25936762b1d688d0fc963b06d6af3f

Couldn't find way to return back to just using the top address bar, maybe I'm just a little dumb idk. Hope, this isn't a repeat post.

https://preview.redd.it/e7wrc348968e1.png?width=1918&format=png&auto=webp&s=6e2fbc61d416985011b1dc776bb6cd9afd6dde6b

Does anyone know how to disable the "transition" where when you full screen on a video, the screen goes black for a second then transitions to the full screen mode?

Heyy!! For the record, i've been using zen since its 1.0.0-a.5 release and it has been an incredible, amazing experience till this second.

I have one request only for maubg (coolest guy ik) and his team: Can we please have screen sharing settings in zen? Idk if this is a bug or not but when I screen sharing my screen specifically in Google Meet, there's no "also share audio" thing which makes the stuff that i shared in the screen is inaudible. And I do see that there is no settings about screen sharing.

Really wish and hope that there are advanced features for screen sharing

Yeah probably that's it, thank you!!

I know it's weird, I didn't specifically set Shift-Cmd-C to Opening Inspector anyway, and currently Shift-Cmd-C is already correctly set to Copy Current URL, yet the behavior is actually opening inspector. I don't even know how to "unset" it.

https://preview.redd.it/nfldxkm7c58e1.png?width=1478&format=png&auto=webp&s=3616a7e7b2ea7ef5b005c93cc4730c82b2ced9c0

https://reddit.com/link/1hiz99x/video/vc7v8etqv38e1/player

In compact mode, the color is broken.

Somebody else with this error?

https://preview.redd.it/azwgukp3j38e1.png?width=616&format=png&auto=webp&s=b5ff9ee75d41b266c662bda0cecf7bd9c8cffc51

I've been using it since october i think and like i just can't believe how much i love it hehe. I've never been big on browsers or stuff like that, but ever since I started using it, I've been having a blast looking at all the different setups ppl have come up with.

Not only is it super pretty, it is firefox based, open source and the zen mods made by the community? wow. it's crazy fr. i even love the new log0 (controversial opinion here maybe? lol) i love the single toolbar, the compact mode, the way bookmarks now show up at the top when hovering, that's a god tier functionality for me.

i could go on and on honestly but imma leave it here

https://i.redd.it/53h7mjfxh38e1.gif