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Use Zen Browser if you still want Firefox based browsing with the better ergonomics; No AI, tracking or telemetry included.
Or Librewolf
Is it FOSS?
It is
I’ll have to check it out!
How is this different to Firefox? Vertical tabs, containers (workspaces), tab previews (glance).
Looks interesting but I can't figure out what makes this different to what I can already do in Firefox.
It is different in that it breaks every few releases. Otherwise Firefox is sufficient if vertical tabs is the aim. I used zen for over a year before I just got tired of the constant breaking.
I had a similar experience when I tried it a few years back
still breaks. I'm not a fan of it.
I do like Floorp though. slightly bit more customization, fairly solid Japanese dev team that doesn't release something until everything is rock solid so you know updates aren't going to break anything. I can't even recall the last time Floorp broke if ever.
When I tried floorp a few years back, it never even felt in a working condition. Probably much better now, but the second I tried any of the customizations, things seemed to break and get stuck. Firefox has been solid for me since before it was Firefox.
I stick with zen because of spaces. I have a few, e.g. common browsing, work or serious topics, finances, shopping. Each of them I assigned default containers that they will run. And each if them have different pinned tabs related to the spaces.
It's been so long since I switched that I honestly forgot how Firefox base is. I think before I switched I used sideberry to do all that spaces thing but zen is more integrated feeling.
There's just something that hits it for me that it's indispensable for me.
I've been contemplating the switch in the past few days. How long have you been using it? What are some pain points that you had?
Been using zen browser for quite some time. I use a session saver add-on and that one works weirdly due to how Zen has spaces and how that works. The way I understand zen's spaces is like they are browser sessions that can be run simultaneously. Each of them have their own pinned tabs for example, can have default containers they open in, on top of the universal whole browser pinned tabs they call essentials tabs; that's limited to 12 for now.
Sideberry and tree style tabs might not work as you expect because of the changes the zen team made