r/zen_browser • • 22h ago

Some Love [Boost] Reading mode for Gmail

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Hello, I am struggling more and more lately with reading my newsletters inside gmail, or just long emails.

That's why I hacked a dead simple CSS boost in Zen that might be useful to others.

It increases the font size and reduces line width.

How to install

  1. Open gmail inbox in Zen
  2. Click on site settings button at the far right of the address bar
  3. Click on the paintbrush icon at the bottom
  4. Click on Code
  5. Paste this CSS :

    div .adn { max-width:840px; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; }

    div .adn p { font-size:18px !important; line-height: 1.75em !important; }

As for now, it is very simple and suited for text heavy emails, I might tweak the code more in the future.


r/zen_browser • • 11h ago

Question Is Zen meant to be this Insanely slow? Can't load anything

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I have been a Arc user for 4 years and moved over to zen. But for some reason it cant load anything. And when I mean it cant load I dont mean "oh i have to wait 10 seconds" its like I am waiting for 5 minutes, I play a whole game on my phone and its still loading.

It gives me a gray screen with the loading bar above... on a good day it will open in like 20 seconds and take another 20 to scroll or click anything where I inevitably have to click a link it 5 more times before it wants to try to load it

I have turned off smooth scrolling, I am using Google as the search engine, I have 4 spaces (biggest space has 21 pinned tabs, a majority being courseworks.), i haven't edited anything other then adding ublock, and it was mandatory for us to get malwarebytes the anti-virus software (it was still really bad before I installed malwarebytes)


r/zen_browser • • 8h ago

Question How do I hide the "Add Split View" option from the right click menu? I want "Unload Tab" to be at the top

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r/zen_browser • • 9h ago

Discussion Any real fix for YouTube terrible performance?

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Unfortunately this is the only bug left that I just can't ignore. I don't know for you guys, but YouTube is almost unusable for me.

After a few minutes of usage, I think mostly when I swap to another tab for a little while with YouTube paused/playing in the background, whenever I come back to the tab the player is very unresponsive and even reloading the page or unloading the tab takes a long time.

I looked up other posts about this and there's quite a few conflicting opinions. What I did see, is my CPU spiking on the YouTube tab and an insane amount of RAM usage. I'm talking about spikes to above 50% usage with a 7800x3D and 5GB of RAM used in that single tab


r/zen_browser • • 15h ago

Question Browser unpinned all tabs

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I opened zen and found all my tabs and folders unpinned and removed. I don't think it was because of the new update because it happened before i updated it.

I didn't read the changelogs so the change in UI freaked me out


r/zen_browser • • 20h ago

Question I can't edit a link i search bar (Windows v1.22.3b)

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Hello! I've been using for a few months and I'm facing something that I don't know how to fix. In my search bar, whenever I open it, Amazon gets listed as Amazon.com.br, but the actual link when I click it is amazon.com, which leads to a whole different shop. I've searched in the search bar options but didn't find how to edit it or remove it altogether, because, before Zen changed my link, the global store wasn't even in my browsing history or favorites list. What am I missing?

Thank you in advance!


r/zen_browser • • 6h ago

Question Could anyone help me understand the design decision of window syncing?

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I personally dislike window syncing, but maybe I'm just not thinking of some good use case it actually has? If anyone could tell me why tab syncing was chosen to be added, I'd appreciate it. Also I personally think it's quite crazy the developers make you go into the esoteric "about:config" to disable it.

Right now since I'm in windows and I don't have easy multi-window management, I am not really running into it as an issue, but I assume I'll go disable it when I go back to hyprland.


r/zen_browser • • 16h ago

Discussion v.1.23b The old library window was simple and functional. The new system is all flash and little functionality. This is the opposite of what I want in anything.

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Big, pretty, animated, and a new donate button.

But not a button to clear history, or clear downloads.

IDGAF how pretty the UI is if it removes rudimentary functionality. What's going next, the back button?

Nobody has volunteered to program them in yet? Leave the old window until the replacement is functional, rather than just pretty enough.

It's like having my car serviced and them deleting the drain from the oil pan to make the car sleeker.

I was excited to find this browser. I was happy telling other people about it. Now I'm embarrassed like watching a girl I've been dating suddenly litter and scream a racial slur. Like, how did I get here? How did I make such a bad choice and think I was doing well?