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Why I'm all-in on Zen Browser

After Arc's pivot to AI left power users behind, I found the browser I actually wanted.

It really has lost the power user features that made Arc special: the excellent tab sidebar is gone and profile switching is nowhere near as fluid. The previous one looked like it had been built in Perl in 1996, and was really optimized to use via the command line; the new one is what you’d expect from a browser that cares about non-developer users. But these are all weirdnesses that are inherited from the core Firefox product; Zen Browser has made the best of these raw ingredients and built something pretty special.

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