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[–] [email protected] 7 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

https://zen-browser.app/

There is this one, it has a lot of momentum and it's been pleasant to use so far. Firefox + fancy features

[–] [email protected] 17 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Firefox + fancy features

Means that it completely relies on Mozilla's development work for the actual engine.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Yup,

The non chromium / non Firefox browser that comes to mind is https://ladybird.org/

But that's still a few years away

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Any idea what the story is behind that name? I feel like it will be outputting to some people.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Why would ladybird be off putting?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 hours ago

I am not agreeing with it, but just trying to get people to use anything other than the status quo when it comes to software/apps... If it has an odd name, they are less likely to use it.

Firefox was similar back in the mid 2000s.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

they hate LBJ?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Still not off-putting tho. laaady bird

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Lots of traction is a stretch.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

The discord (unfortunately) is active and they push out features often

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Relatively speaking, it's pretty active. Just not in the grand scheme of things. I've been putting off trying it out, but you just might have given me the push I need.

Rather sad about discord yeah.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Just not in the grand scheme of things

Yea that's fair, I haven't kept up with Arc (the chromium equivalent of Zen) but I imagine they're still ahead

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

I actually have some custom made Firefox user style that makes it look like arc :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Oof, bad news for you. Arc is on life support. The company is pivoting to development of a different browser.

Story about it from the verge.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I might consider that a good thing if it means that the Firefox version can pull ahead 😄

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

Yeah, I had given it a try a while back, I forget why I stopped. It seems like they fixed some of the annoyances I remembere maybe I'll give it another go.