new today,
better tomorrow
What's new in 1.12b
A nice update that brings some cool new features and fixes!
We are also excited to announce that we've joined floss.social!
In response to recent privacy concerns, we've significantly strengthened Zen's privacy measures. Previously, we only disabled telemetry, but some minimal pings were still being sent. Now, Firefox telemetry has been completely stripped out from the core.
Additionally, onboarding pages and initial Essentials favicons are now locally bundled and our website no longer relies on any external services, CDNs, nor Cloudflare services. Initial Essentials selected on startup will only be loaded when the tab is clicked on, so connections won't be established until you explicitly enter the tab. We also changed our onboarding Essentials options to more privacy and productivity focused sites.
Only critical security updates and other non-telemetry-related services remain. As a result, the number of external connections has dropped from 82 to around 20-10 — factoring in that Zen's site is loaded twice (for the welcome page and privacy policy).
Psst. With the release of Firefox 138, folders are just around the corner!
✨ New
Updated to Firefox 138.0.1
Increased privacy and reduced initial connections at startup
Added a really smooth animation when downloading files. Thanks to @BrielOtero on Github!
New, fully containerized Essentials are out! It allows having different Essentials based on your workspace's container. It can be enabled by going into 'about:preferences' -> 'Tab Management' -> 'Enable container-specific Essentials'
Automatic Picture-in-Picture won't activate if the video is muted
Added homepage button and export/import buttons to the mods page for easier access. Thanks to @Pdzly on Github!
More efficient workspace switching, by only animating what we need and warming up the tabs before switching
New looks for the URL bar!
The Essentials layout receives a nice revamp to better use the space
Added a search engine selection form for the onboarding page
Double clicking on the sidebar slider will now reset it's width
Did internal refactoring to certain components in order to comply with Firefox's new security standards.
🐞 Bug Fixes
Fixed a crash when no loaded tab is present on the ⌘ctrlTab menu
Fixed alert boxes cutting off halfway on split view (Issue #7564)
Fixed moving split view tabs into other workspaces not working (Issue #7840)
Fixed 'Paste-And-Go' always navigating in the current tab, even after ⌘ctrlT is pressed
Panels UI not rendering add-ons correctly, and overflowing outside the screen on Linux (Issue #7633)
Fixed URL bar unfocusing when pressing the newtab button
Fixed Glance freezing when opening tabs in other workspaces (Issue #7864)
Fixed duplicating tabs being stuck on 'New Tab' text (Issue #7900)
Fixed an empty newtab opening when closing with a pinned tab selected on the previous session
