Comment on My Thoughts on the Zen Browser

shiftymccool@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  True. The biggest difference seems to be that Arc is based on Chromium and Zen is based on Firefox. Given the two, I’d pick Zen just for the engine diversity.

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  • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not even that. In addition to being proprietary, it requires an account to use.

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    • JustARaccoon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Should clarify that you’re talking about Arc there

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      • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes, true.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      ?? You need an account to use a browser? That’s a huge no from me then…

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• ff0000@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Except Arc is basically abandoned by the company. Also Zen runs on Linux. Looks are somewhat similar but 🤷‍♀️

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  • shiftymccool@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Looks are somewhat similar but 🤷‍♀️

    It’s a straight up copy. Somewhat similar… JFC

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• rfr_Foglia@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But open source and built from Firefox

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