Hm… I’m torn now.

I’ve been messing with Zen recently and comparing it side by side with Firefox 136 there are things I like more in both.

Zen is much buggier, which makes sense, since it’s new and small, but I do like their approach to fullscreen mode, where you can manually set both the top and the side bars to pop up from the corner on hover. In FF’s implementation fullscreen now hides the top bar, but it leaves the side tabs on and you have to pop them on and off manually from the top bar, which is more of a hassle. I also like the idea of the floating search bar in Zen in concept, but in practice I’m always paranoid about whether a new search will stomp my current tab.

They’re both very close now, though. I imagine if you were making Zen and your key selling point was the Arc style layout you wouldn’t be happy about that.

i love vertical labs! with their vertical tables and horizontal chemistry distillers! vertical laser reflector maze thingies! no more wasting the horizontal space like normal boring labs!

Hardware video decoding is now enabled for AMD GPUs on Linux.

…It wasn’t before? I’ve got an AMD GPU and have been using Firefox for quite some time, and videos have always played smoothly.

Vertical tabs… in 2025.

Something we’ve had from extensions since what, 2010? Wow, much impressed.