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Zen Browser

✨ Experience tranquillity while browsing the internet with Zen! Our mission is to give you a balance between speed, privacy and productivity!

🖥️ Compatibility

Zen is currently built using Firefox version 137.0.2! 🚀

• Zen Twilight - Is currently built using Firefox version RC 138.0!
• Check out the latest release notes!
• Part of our mission is to keep Zen up-to-date with the latest version of Firefox, so you can enjoy the latest features and security updates!

🤝 Contribution

Zen is an open-source project, and we welcome contributions from the community! Please take a look at the contribution guidelines before getting started!

Issue metrics

We keep track of how many issues are closed at the end of the month in docs/issue-metrics. We use this to keep track of our issues and see our progress! 📈

Versioning

Zen uses Semantic Versioning, meaning versions are displayed as a.b.cd where:

• a is the major version
• b is the minor version
• c is the branch prefix
• d is the patch version

Branches

Zen is divided into 2 main branches. We use dev for development and stable for stable releases. The dev branch is where all the new features are added and where twilight builds are generated. The stable branch is where the stable releases are generated.

We divide into 2 branches in case there’s any really important security update (for example) that needs to be released before the next stable release. This allows us to do patches without releasing unstable versions to the public.

📥 Installation

Supported Operating Systems

Zen is available for Linux, macOS, and Windows. You can download the latest version from the official website at zen-browser.app, or from the GitHub Releases page.

If you don’t see your OS listed below, that’s because we already have it in our downloads page! Make sure to check it out!

Windows

Winget

winget install --id Zen-Team.Zen-Browser

macOS

• Requires macOS 10.15 or later
• Available for ARM and Intel architectures

You can also install Zen using Homebrew:

brew install zen-browser

Linux

Arch-based distributions

yay -S zen-browser-bin

Other Linux distributions (Tarball or AppImage)

• Tarball install:

bash <(curl -s https://updates.zen-browser.app/install.sh)

• AppImage install:

bash <(curl https://updates.zen-browser.app/appimage.sh)

AppImage install requires zsync for the Update feature

• Again, if you don’t see your OS listed above, that’s because we already have it in our downloads page! 🔄

To upgrade the browser to a newer version, use the embedded update functionality in About Zen.

👨‍💻 Development and Contributing

Some components used by @zen-browser as an attempt to make Firefox forks a better place, and for other to enjoy the beauty of OSS. You can find them here.

Run Locally

In order to download and run Zen locally, please follow these instructions.

Special Thanks

Special thanks to… EVERYONE 🎉! Checkout the team and contributors page here

Third Party Code

Zen couldn’t be in its current state without the help of these amazing projects! 🙏

• Zen’s default preferences are based on BetterFox
• Gradient image extracted from Arc Palette
• icons.css has been modified from Edge Firefox (MIT licensed file).

🖥️ Comparison with other browsers

Thanks everyone for making Zen stand out among these giants!

📄 License

Zen browser is under the MPL 2.0 LICENSE. All the code is open-source and free to use! Attribution is appreciated but not required.