tag: browsers

Unfortunately, there is one aspect of Zen/Firefox that doesn’t look to be configurable (that will probably be a deal breaker without a lot of retraining my brain) – The Location Bar won’t autocomplete to browsing history first ahead of executing a search for the string in the field. Example: If I’ve been to espn.com, in Arc if I type “es” then the first thing that matches is the history entry and I can just type “es↩” and go. In Firefox, the default first entry is to execute a search for the string “es” and the second entry is “espn.com” if I’m lucky (requiring “es↓↩”). It doesn’t look like this behavior is configurable either.

As a precautionary measure, running an experiment with Zen Browser as an Arc replacement. Given a bit of customization, I was fairly happy with the result. The recent Arc updates are essentially Chromium upgrades which really isn’t surprising given the company’s pivot to Dia (a new AI focused browser). Definitely not for me, so I’m glad Zen is at a point where I can drop it in.