hello_hello [comrade/them]
pfp: ah_to_hk separatist Hong Kong political cartoon that ironically made Olympic gold medalist Vivian Kong look very based. (src)
If you already know your ins and outs of the Firefox about:config and policy templates and have set up your own comfy Firefox then Zen isn’t going to do you much good. But for people who use power user browsers like Vivaldi (or even shiver Opera GX) and want to find a Firefox equivalent that meets their needs ootb then Zen is a good option. I taglined it as the “Better Vivaldi to your Chrome” since the reason people would use a program like Vivaldi is for the UI enhancements. The issue of course is that both Vivaldi and Chrome are proprietary programs using a dominating web engine.
Zen isn’t as hardened ootb like librewolf but I think it will bring a lot more people over to Firefox because of its presentation.
it seems very foreign to me having always used horizontal ones
It is a shock for sure when I first used it, but you get used to it since the vertical tabbing is integrated with the Zen workflow (split view, side panels). It also frees up some space for navigation since you’re able to collapse it.
Privacy Badger is largely made redundant by uBlock Origin and can actually make your browser more easily fingerprinted
Interesting, I might have to look into this later
Does Sync work properly
Yup Sync works the exact same on Zen as in Firefox since Zen is just Firefox at its core. You just sign in as normal and your tabs should be there
You also mentioned add-ons not being enabled by default.
There are no pre-installed extensions (as compared to Librewolf which has ublock pre-installed), all firefox compatible extensions are compatible with Zen minus the ones that obviously clash with Zen’s design like vertical tab extensions. Just install them from the addons store as you do normally.
is the DRM-content playable on all Linux machines regardless of distro?
Yes, Mozilla handles the Widevine licensing for Linux but you’re locked to a lower level of DRM (720p instead of 4K afaik). There are extensions that re-enable HD content that just spoof your user-agent (your browser’s identity) to mimic a Windows or Mac machine.
Is it safe - am I not giving my Mozilla ID to a third party?
- https://zen-browser.app/privacy-policy
- Zen is just Firefox with a heavy paint job, so all the security issues are handled by Firefox and not the Zen team.
Linux users do like to yap a lot. It’s probably because there isn’t a constant stream of first time user experiences that the community can benefit from and that it’s a very online community. Also the generational gap is definitely there: I booted into my first Kubuntu install nearly two years ago and the Linux desktop is no where near where it was when I started (most of my info that I had before is outdated). I can’t imagine what it would be like for someone who has been using it for more than a decade.
If you want to talk to a Linux person about non-“I customized my terminal to do everything 1-5% faster” stuff you can always ask me questions!
He only removed the maintainers from the list with “.ru” domain names in their emails. So yeah, a eebil Ruzzian spy can still intentionally introduce malware in the kernel they just need to use an all american gmail account.
Absolute plonkers, I think it would be hilarious if they thought they could sneak this through people as if Torvalds himself didn’t design git to make it impossible to hide.
This in itself isn’t surprising, nor does it really hurt Russia in any material way since all this means is that Russian hardware and contributions aren’t allowed in Torvalds’ git tree.
What was disheartening was to hear Torvalds spit out the most racist shit imaginable while his co-maintainers try to do damage control. A person sent a revert patch and he went “Well did you know the Russian orcs are the natural enemy of Finns?”
RMS is a creep and Torvalds is a Nazi/Finnish, never meet your heroes I guess.
