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I tried Zen for a while (1-2 months). It certainly has some cool features. But in the end, I returned to Vanilla FF and installed Sideberry [0] with custom user
by Semaphor 1y ago
I tried Zen for a while (1-2 months). It certainly has some cool features. But in the end, I returned to Vanilla FF and installed Sideberry [0] with custom userChrome.css [1]. It gets me 99% of what I used with Zen (tree tabs, workspaces), but without annoyances/anti-features (inconvenient url bar for editing, frequent UI changes, cute animations that ignore prefer-reduced-motion, performance, security worries etc.).
I’m relatively happy with my setup [2] now, what I miss most from Zen would be the 2-level pinned tabs (pinned per workspace, and globally pinned), and the design of globals pins (instead of a line on the side as in [2], it’s a grid at the top for Zen), but not even close to enough that I’d want to return.
[0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/
[1]: https://github.com/mbnuqw/sidebery/wiki/Firefox-Styles-Snippets-(via-userChrome.css) https://github.com/mbnuqw/sidebery/wiki/Firefox-Styles-Snipp...
[2]: https://i.imgur.com/v9a6VRw.png https://i.imgur.com/v9a6VRw.png
- vinnymac 1y agoI did almost the same thing about 9 months ago. I am rooting for Zen despite currently maining with Firefox. I have to have all the browsers and nightlies installed anyways, so I might as well personalize it to work best for my needs. I imagine not everyone is like us, and something like Zen being zero config is a big deal.
- flashblaze 1y agoA big hurdle for me is the lack of Widevine which for some reason not a lot of people mention: https://docs.zen-browser.app/faq#why-cant-zen-browser-play-drm-protected-content https://docs.zen-browser.app/faq#why-cant-zen-browser-play-d...
- ravetcofx 1y agostrange Spotify works for me in Zen out out of the box on the Flatpak version.
- flashblaze 1y agoOnly affects Mac and Windows