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Zen Browser | Privacy focused, open-source, Firefox Fork (zen-browser.app)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Just stumbled upon this project, seems rather new as my DNS blocked its domain by default for being too new hehe.. Anyone had a chance to try it yet? Its got some hefty promises, like having equally strong privacy features as Librewolf. I'll be giving it ago at least, almost sounds a bit too good to be true...

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (12 children)

So, how about the Cachy Browser from CachyOS? (aur)

This repository benefits from the knowledge and research provided by arkenfox, their documentation was vital to this revamp, so special thanks to their project. We do not use arkenfox's user.js but we try to keep up with it, and we also consider it a great resource for users who want to find their own setup.

We encourage users to find their own setup and to use our default configuration as something to build on top of. This is now easier thanks to the overrides, just place your own preferences in the proper location: -> ~/.cachy/cachy.overrides.cfg

Differences from LibreWolf:

Enhanced security & privacy.

Gentoo patches. Taken from Gentoo's Firefox.

uBlock Origin added.

Moonlight theme added.

Preset for "Profile Sync Daemon" and Firejail/Firejail(hardened) available.

Custom Rules for uBlock Origin.

Custom branding.

Notes and thanks

Some of the older prefs in this project are taken from pyllyukko and many more were investigated on bugzilla.

Thanks to the whole LibreWolf community.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (11 children)

Definitely very interesting! Thanks for sharing. Was thinking about trying CachyOS too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (10 children)

This OS is good and I've used it for 6months but I want to switch because it packed all of these theming inside and you cannot really remove it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, the themeing is there. But you can easily uninstall it and other core CachyOS-packages, they're just packages after all. (I've done it)

The other way would be to start with Arch and add CachyOS repositories, that way you can also profit from the v3/v4 packages.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

That's cool but the CachyOS repo is not the most interesting thing, the pre-optimized desktop is really nice

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