• 7oo7@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    When developers consider their project at “alpha” stage, users should really be wary of the consequences.

    So much hype around this browser and everyone touting it, but then, if something breaks and their profile is messed up, then people lose their mind and start cursing the devs.

    tldr; It’s an alpha build software, and users should treat it as such. Latest build is Alpha build - 1.0.1-a.17 (2024-10-31)

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    I’m always skeptical when something is called privacy focused and the article lists no privacy features.

    Does this actually provide any new unique privacy features or is it something akin to arkenfox where it is just getting everything upstream from firefox?

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      When I first heard about Zen, I’ve tested it with EFF like I do for all web browsers I experiment with (from most mainstream to most unknown). Unfortunately, it doesn’t offer a full privacy.

      Not everyone cares, but if this is something important for you, Librewolf has been the only one to come up with a full privacy protection result. Maybe you could achieve a good result if you use Arkenfox with Firefox… I didn’t try it.

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          Some sites don’t load because of some features disabled in Librewolf. You can enable them and have the sites load, but it defeats the purpose of the Librewolf configuration choices. Nonetheless this is still an option :)

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      Privacy wise it very much is still Firefox with different defaults (telemetry disabled, do not track enabled), the changes to upstream are mainly the UI and some performance enhancements

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    I am using it as my main browser right now, and I really like it. It replaced Arc Browser on both windows and macOS.

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    Been using this as my daily driver for a couple of months now. I really like the vertical tabs for home use (not work where I have far more tabs)

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      Huh, I’m the opposite! I feel like vertical (and tree-style) tabs are useful precisely when you have more tabs