We’ve been anticipating it for years,1 and it’s finally happening. Google is finally killing uBlock Origin – with a note on their web store stating that the …
Except Vivaldi has a built-in ad blocker
They aren’t killing it. They’re just shuffling it off their platform. Move to Firefox, Ladybird, or Zen Browser. Theres plenty of alternatives. Hopefully Servo makes a comeback
I’m fairly tech illiterate but I want Ladybird. Please tell me what to do with this.
You can look at it because it’s not available to use until 2026 according to their site.
Get the word out. I want a million browsers/engines so people are forced to adhere to standards
Agreed. I had no idea there was a possible third option outside of Firefox and chromium based browsers. We need competition.
I just hope whatever they’re building works with all the webforms. I found once that a webform wouldn’t load on Firefox (some store’s checkout). I had to switch to chrome to check out.
I tried Zen again after this article and it’s improved a lot since 2 months ago.
I’m still missing some keybinds (some keybinds I used on Vivaldi are not available, and some keybinds that are available (workspace switching) don’t seem to work),
also missing my custom theme from Vivaldi (I might just fork a Zen theme and make it that way) ,
and I still have some issues regarding the ability to remove the top bar (namely, when getting the URL bar with Ctrl-L, it calls the entire top bar instead of just the URL bar, and I can’t seem to make that disappear with just ESC. Sometimes it just hangs there no matter what I do, just for the sake of being annoying. Also, it’s not even disabled, just hidden and if you accidentally hover over the top of the window, it’s back! Absolutely infuriating!)
but other than that, it’s pretty great!
It’s actually quite impressive for Alpha software. What’s with 2024 and super stable Alphas of projects that make power user capabilities accessible and easy to use for everyone? First, COSMIC DE and now Zen Browser!
Zen rocks, I under estimated how much faster it would be with the AVX2 build!
