I tried the Zen browser for a week. At first, I really loved it, and kept raving about it to my co-workers. And then in the span of a single week, they made two completely bone headed design changes, with seemingly no direction or plan, and I knew I was out. I remember one of them was a floating address bar, but I don't remember the second, I just remember even the options to revert back to the previous behavior only half worked.

"Wouldn't it be neat if" is ok for some projects, it's not for a tool that I rely on so heavily to be consistent. I also liked Brave for a bit until I ran into a render engine/compatibility issue and when I checked the patch notes realized it was just run by Crypto-bros.

For now I'll stick with Firefox (profiles for Work and Personal) and qutebrowser (because keyboard is 'the way').

Hey I really liked Zen too! But I’m having trouble opening new tabs, like when I’m on a random webpage on the first tab, I go Ctrl T and the prompt comes up. I type in a search query or a URL and when I press enter, it’s a toss up whether the browser decides to override the current tab I’m on or actually load it in a second tab. Is anyone else facing the same issue or did I misconfigure something?

anything good like this for phone? i really like how it looks and that it's open source

I use it as second browser, and yes, it's a nice one.

Is there a community on Lemmy for zen browser?