72 points by Palmik 5 days ago | 42 comments
imiric 5 days ago
For someone who's tried both: any reasons I should consider switching or not?
According to [this page][1] Zen is slightly faster than LibreWolf. But honestly, performance has been acceptable for me, so it's not something that would compel me to switch.
ranguna 5 days ago
Personally I've never felt the need to customise the visuals of Firefox, so I'll stick with Librewolf.
mossTechnician 5 days ago
> We try to disable all telemetry data collection in Zen Browser. But, we may have missed some. Check the below links for more information.
dartharva 5 days ago
akimbostrawman 5 days ago
- aus5.mozilla.org
- firefox.settings.services.mozilla.com
- location.services.mozilla.com
- push.services.mozilla.com
- redirector.gvt1.com
- s2.googleusercontent.com
- services.addons.mozilla.org
- support.mozilla.org
- zen-browser.app
Why even bother with this instead of just Firefox or an actual private fork like LibreWolf...
trallnag 5 days ago
ivanmontillam 5 days ago
What's the differentiation among all of these smaller niche browsers? Can't we escape sameness?
More context: It's not that I don't care about privacy, I do. I'm just fine with some defaults. I don't need (or want) something like Tails. There's some level of privacy that becomes unwieldy to manage.
rakoo 5 days ago
subsection1h 5 days ago
It's literally one line in userChrome.css:
#TabsToolbar { display: none }
Is one line in userChrome.css worse than one line in user.js (where other Firefox customizations are made)?pvg 5 days ago
jhickok 5 days ago
* there are bugs-- for example, I have been unable to launch Zen and I just get the bouncy icon on my macos task bar.
* when using the minimal tab view on the left hand pane, you cannot easily close tabs on a laptop because there is no "X" on hover-over
* for some reason youtube is less reactive than chrome. when I watch YT vids I frequently tap the right arrow key to skip ahead a few seconds, and there is a noticeable delay between zen and chrome. For now, I continue to use Chrome for YT videos.
acheong08 5 days ago
jhickok 5 days ago