• manualoverride@lemmy.world
    24·
    6 months ago

    I genuinely thought this was satire, never heard of either and have only just started with LibreWolf… now I have more options to research!

    • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      6 months ago

      same here; this comm is always good at making me aware of what i don’t know (which is a lot. lol)

  • Hearthbell@piefed.socialEnglish
    9·
    6 months ago

    I use Floorp, haven’t tried Zen though. I remember some drama of Floorp temporarily closing it’s source but I believe it’s open source now. I like it for the side bar it comes with, it’s pretty useful for multitasking but I guess you could just open two windows and place them side by side

    • brrt@sh.itjust.works
      342·
      6 months ago

      A dev made a mistake when the product was still in alpha and fixed it immediately after becoming aware of it. Let’s never use the product ever again!

        • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
          5·
          6 months ago

          Not OP, Remember, it’s hard to read true tone through text. It read to me is sarcasm, but not particularly spicy, and also not entirely inaccurate.

          I do wish we could all have less tone issues. This place is getting a bit toxic, but fuck, it’s still better than Reddit.

          ;)

  • codenul@lemmy.ml
    7·
    6 months ago

    Both are using Firefox base

    I like to test browsers through www.browseraudit.com although im not sure how reliable the results are. I tend to stick with Browsers that score high 390’s / 400.

    In case you are wondering, Floorp scored a 400, while Zen scored a 397. Not bad at all

    Weird that both taskbar icons for both browsers are the same? (Yellow circle with white “W” on it). Both were downloaded for linux, zipped.

  • Pudutr0n@feddit.cl
    61·
    6 months ago

    I tried zen and then someone told me something concerning I forgot about by now so I switched back. Floorp I’ve never even heard of, but I’d have a hard time taking anything called that seriously.

      • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        6 months ago

        That only seems relevant if one uses the defaults, and if you care about privacy you probably don’t, so idk what’s the goal of this little experiment other than just curiosity.

        It’d be a whole lot more useful if it was “here’s the connections these browsers made after enabling all privacy-preserving settings they offer”.

        • DrDystopia@lemy.lol
          4·
          6 months ago

          A lot of users care about privacy but find it unattainable due to technical difficulties.

          • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
            25·
            6 months ago

            That’s my point, checking a few boxes in the settings is the bare minimum if you care about it, so idk what’s the value in comparing defaults.

            And privacy is often a tradeoff, if a browser doesn’t have the strictest by default, it’s probably because the ones who forked it didn’t consider it a good tradeoff.

  • 4am@lemmy.zip
    3·
    6 months ago

    Zen video playback was awful for me, but I like almost everything else about it.

  • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    6 months ago

    I generally tend to stay with browsers I know. It’s tedious enough hardening Firefox and getting everything down to a note. I do have Librefox onboard but I rarely use it.

  • spinning_disk_engineer@lemmy.ca
    3·
    6 months ago

    Consider if a theme could accomplish what you want: It seems like they all use firefox under the hood, and if all you want is appearance, you shouldn’t need to change your entire browser. Keeping in mind that a smaller fingerprinting pool is less anonymous, if you care about that.

    I haven’t actually used any other than librewolf though, so if switching provides any features you care about, go for it.

  • Zerush@lemmy.ml
    2·
    6 months ago

    I use Vivaldi and Zen as second. I need the sync function and I don’t want an Mozilla account, nor an third party solution. Vivaldo offers full sync ee2e no knowledge in the own server in Iceland.