new today,
better tomorrow
What's new in 1.9b
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