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1.9b
Mar 7, 2025

What's new in 1.9b

Firefox 136.0
GitHub Release
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Another nice update for Zen! This time, we've added a new feature that allows you to drag-and-drop tabs into the browser to split them!

✨ New

Updated to Firefox 136.0

Added support for a drag-and-drop tab split feature that also groups tabs in a nice UI!

Implemented a more complete JPEG XL decoding and OS support, allowing things such as animated images and more

Allow having full URL without https in sidebar (zen.urlbar.show-domain-only-in-sidebar)

Add preference to hide one-off search buttons (off by default, zen.urlbar.hide-one-offs)

Added martial arts emoji to the default emoji set

MacOS users can now control what window material they have (zen.widget.macos.window-material, 1 to 7, default is 2)

Added support to drag-and-drop tabs from other windows while in compact mode

Small improvements to padding around the website and URL bar

Favicons should render with better corners now

Did some improvements to the default onboarding essentials selection as some people had concerns about them

🐞 Bug Fixes

Fixed pinned tabs being subject to appearing on the essentials container

Fixed opening bookmarks on empty tab pages

Fixed automatic Glance opening from the edge of the screen

Fixed background gradients not showing the colors in the correct order

Fixed creating essentials being in the wrong order

Fixed watermark not waiting enough time and startup layout

Fixed reordering tabs not being correctly saved for pinned tabs

Fixed bookmark items not opening

Fixed not hiding empty tab from add-ons, crashing the browser on some cases

Fixed compact mode sidebar animating on an empty state and not animating properly when having the URL bar floating

Fixed expanding glance not opening in the correct position when having container specific essentials

Fixed external links not opening in the correct workspace container

Fixed the AppImage version not being able to set itself as the default web browser

Fixed closing the browser in an empty state opening about:blank on startup

Fixed Linux users crashing when closing the laptop lid

Fixed dragging tabs from different windows crashing the browser if they are from different containers


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