Zen Browser takes the best of Google Chrome and brings it to Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Firefox is far from dominating the market as it did just a few years ago. The browser is third in market share behind Chrome and Microsoft Edge, but the developers have set out to return to the figures of the past by taking the best from their competitors.

Chrome has thousands of forks, builds that add new features or fix bugs in the browser. Zen Browser is a Firefox-based search engine that offers more privacy and customization optionsUsers claim that it is a mix between Mozilla Firefox and Arc.

This Firefox fork is one of the latest additions to the search engine. The company behind Mozilla usually releases updates almost every month to add small new features and security patches, but lately it has not been innovating enough to compete with Chrome or Edge.

Zen Browser has a totally different navigation system than Firefox with a interface designed by and for large monitorsThe search engine has a feature that is not available in many similar systems with the ability to split the screen into tabs and sort pages.

Zen Browser takes Firefox’s code and improves it

Zen has taken the source code of Firefox and has added improvements to the interface with a tab bar on the left instead of at the top, a feature that can be used on ultra-wide monitors as it can be expanded to see the title of each page.

The management of the pages on the screen is not managed by the computer as in most systems, but by the browser itself. Users You can manage the layout of tabs to improve multitasking.

Users who use Windows 11 virtual desktops could benefit from Zen Browser. The Workspaces tool improves the experience with new features such as quick profile switching, page management, and tab groups. Firefox integrated these features for a few months, but ended up removing them because almost no one used them, although Chrome added them shortly after.

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Tags: Chrome, Browsers, Firefox