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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/36873644

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[–] ominouslemon@sh.itjust.works 49 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It's pretty sad that new and innovative companies only exist to get sold to big corporations these days. And I'm saying that as someone who did not like Arc

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 9 points 21 hours ago

The best thing The Browser Company ever did was unintentionally making someone else decide to create Zen.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I liked some of the features of Arc. Fortunately they've pretty much all been added to Zen since then.

[–] dan@upvote.au 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I completely forgot that Zen is Firefox-based. I've been avoiding some of these newer browsers because they're based on Chromium. I'll have to try it out!

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 2 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

What do you currently use? I've been consistently enjoying Waterfox.

[–] dan@upvote.au 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

I'm just using regular Firefox at the moment. I briefly tried Floorp but it felt a bit slow.

Well, except at work where we're forced to use Chrome for security reasons. They rely on Chrome Enterprise as part of their endpoint security solution, which has features like preventing copying from sensitive/confidential work webapps then pasting onto non-work sites, and other features that big companies use.

[–] sfxrlz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 21 hours ago

This is the way

[–] mintiefresh@piefed.ca 6 points 1 day ago

Let's hope Zen doesn't get bought by someone.

[–] dan@upvote.au 17 points 1 day ago

Unfortunately that's the goal of a lot of startups. A startup is considered "successful" if they get acquired by a large company and employees of the startup make a lot of money.