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[–] otter@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day 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 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Firefox + fancy features

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

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day 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 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour 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 3 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

Why would ladybird be off putting?

[–] MisterD@lemmy.ca 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago

Still not off-putting tho. laaady bird

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

they hate LBJ?

[–] Statick@programming.dev 0 points 15 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.

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 2 points 1 day 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 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Lots of traction is a stretch.

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

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

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 23 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.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 3 points 22 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

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 15 hours ago

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

[–] addison@programming.dev 2 points 22 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.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

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