Pavel Korytov :emacs:☮️<p>I think I'm liking <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/ZenBrowser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ZenBrowser</span></a>.</p><p>It's basically <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Firefox</span></a> but with vertical tabs, workspaces, and splits (and tab groups on the roadmap). After using it for a couple of days, I do feel like it's a better approach if the screen allows it. Splits aren't as necessary with a tiling WM, but still nice to have.</p><p>All my Firefox extensions work except for Firefox Color, which I used to generate a Firefox theme from my Emacs theme. I'll look into the browser's own theming mechanism if I stick with it; for now, there's a colorscheme which is close enough to my preferred `ef-duo-light'.</p><p>The browser is squarely mouse-driven out-of-the-box, but all the added actions (splits, compact mode, etc.) can be bound to keys. Even <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Tridactyl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tridactyl</span></a> seems to work without an issue, although I won't go through the pain of configuring the native messenger in Flatpak. I'll probably try to configure <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Vimium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vimium</span></a>, which would interfere less with the rest of the browser.</p><p>My largest doubt is about the project itself, though. It is not a fork but a collection of patches against the Firefox repo; there are 102 .patch files as of now. This is similar to <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Librewolf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Librewolf</span></a>, which, IIRC, had trouble keeping up with the upstream even with two core devs (until Dec 2023). Zen has one core developer. So, time will tell how sustainable the approach is.</p><p>Also, the repository weighs ~0.5GB even when cloned with `--depth=1'. I gave up on the full clone after it downloaded 1.2GB while still being at 0%. Something isn't right there.</p><p><a href="https://github.com/zen-browser/desktop/tree/main" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/zen-browser/desktop</span><span class="invisible">/tree/main</span></a></p>