Asking after the privacy debacle and manifest. I'm not keeping up closely, but iirc Firefox is the browser recommended because of Ublock. After the privacy data issue I've noticed broken trust from Firefox users, recommendations in favor of switching browsers, and predictions saying Firefox is going downhill fast and that their forks won't be maintained for much longer.

So I'm here asking the seasoned sailors' thoughts, aye. Is this just a storm passing by or are you really considering jumping ship?

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[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I will say as nice as Zen seems (I agree that it's not bad), I don't really like the whole "vertical tabs" shtick. I mean, I can see why some people would like that, but personally I never got into it. It just looks weird to me and I like seeing more of my tab names (weirdly enough that's exactly what a lot of pro-vertical users claim is good about them lol).

Also, from a privacy standpoint, not a huge fan personally of the fact that unlike LibreWolf, Zen Browser doesn't have ResistFingerprinting enabled by default (not sure if it's even in there tbh).

[–] quickenparalysespunk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

i agree with wanting see more of tab title. for people who regularly keep 50+ tabs open, that is a pipe dream.

if tabs are so many that their iconized anyway, making the tab bar vertical and iconized isn't much difference.

and if the bar would expand on hover (hopefully in near future), like in Brave (not sure if it's a Chrome feature), then it can be wide enough to see plenty of title without reducing the webpage size most of the time.

[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

You know, I've been trying Zen and although I still prefer horizontal to vertical, I can see I was actually somewhat wrong about what I said.

The sidebar is actually expandable (they don't make that clear) and if you do expand it beyond its default, you can actually see more of each tab's titles. It actually helps a lot if you have a shitload of tabs.

If you are like me however and typically try to have only a smaller number of tabs pinned (or consistently open), typically no more than like a third of your screen width at most, then there really is not much of a difference unless you're already used to vertical over horizontal tab bars.

[–] quickenparalysespunk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 hours ago

I've been trying to keep less tabs open.

it's not easy while test-driving multiple search engines for every search lol