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Zen is the best way to browse the web

5 pointsby RyeCombinator10 months ago

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scblock10 months ago
I saw this was based on Firefox, which is interesting, and downloaded the AppImage to at least look at it. Initial questions:<p>- Why does this launch full screen initially?<p>- Why doesn&#x27;t the light or dark theme selection include an option to follow the system settings? (Or does it and it&#x27;s just not obvious?)<p>- Why is the search engine list on first run a weird (and kind of stupid) list of Google, DuckDuckGo, eBay (excuse me?), and Wikipedia? Seriously if you&#x27;re telling me about this as a privacy focused browser (and your privacy policy seems relatively clear there) why is Google first on the list. Or on the list at all? And why two items that aren&#x27;t even general purpose search engines?<p>The web page isn&#x27;t clear so what is are the goals of this that would differentiate from upstream Firefox? Vertical tabs? I don&#x27;t even want them. A sidebar? Same story.