I haven’t played around with it yet, but it looks neat

This small but mighty update includes some exciting new features and improvements to Zen, such as passkey support for MacOS, and a media player controller that’s fully integrated with Picture-in-Picture mode.

The link from the button: https://zen-browser.app/release-notes/#1.10.1b

  • g5pw
    204·
    5 days ago

    I was a user, I even recommended it to people, but since the discovery of this issue I feel uneasy to continue using/recommending it. That dev response is appalling.

    • blaze@programming.dev
      2·
      2 days ago

      Wow, thanks for bringing this to light. I just installed Zen and started contributing to it, it’s sad to see this. What browser do you use now?

      • g5pw
        2·
        2 days ago

        I got back to Firefox, I’ll try Floorp next, just to see how it goes.

    • juli@lemmy.world
      1·
      4 days ago

      Why would you be recommending a alpha/beta software to people? It just went stable last week, and I still wouldn’t recommend it based on how young the project is.

      Recommends people to use alpha/beta software. is surprised it has alpha/beta issues.

      I honestly feel uneasy trusting any advice you have.

      • g5pw
        2·
        4 days ago

        Wow, harsh.

        It’s not like this is an oopsie bug, this is a major vuln knowingly indroduced by the dev, and their response is somewhat shocking.

        I recommend plenty of alpha/beta software to people, of course with the disclaimer that it’s not done yet, but sure, feel free to not trust me at all, stranger :)

        For the record, I did not encounter major bugs in my ~1 month of usage.

    • IDew@lemm.ee
      8·
      5 days ago

      You can disable the state-less empty tab if you set zen.urlbar.replace-newtab on disabled in about:config

      Found in release notes 1.8b:

      Added support for a state-less empty tab (only enabled if ‘zen.urlbar.replace-newtab’ is enabled)

      • YungOnions@lemmy.world
        2·
        4 days ago

        Thanks for this, but that setting was already disabled, unfortunately. This feels more like a bug than a deliberate result of a chosen setting.

    • Otter@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      3·
      4 days ago

      It changes very fast, I’ve been going through a cycle of

      • months with no issues
      • a week of dealing with a very annoying issue

      They changed the new tab / split tabs feature recently and I think it broke some things