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[–] otter@lemmy.ca 10 points 5 months 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

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Firefox + fancy features

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

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 months 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

[–] Statick@programming.dev 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] xnx@slrpnk.net 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Why would ladybird be off putting?

[–] MisterD@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

Still not off-putting tho. laaady bird

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

they hate LBJ?

[–] Statick@programming.dev 0 points 5 months 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.

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 2 points 5 months 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.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Lots of traction is a stretch.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 months 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.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months 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

[–] addison@programming.dev 3 points 5 months 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.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 months ago

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