Package Details: zen-browser-avx2-bin 1.0.1.a.19-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/zen-browser-avx2-bin.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: zen-browser-avx2-bin
Description: Performance oriented Firefox-based web browser - Utilizes AVX2 for better performance
Upstream URL: https://github.com/zen-browser/desktop
Licenses: MPL-2.0
Conflicts: zen-browser
Provides: zen-browser
Submitter: ptr1337
Maintainer: ptr1337 (Larvey)
Last Packager: Larvey
Votes: 29
Popularity: 12.41
First Submitted: 2024-08-03 14:14 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-11-10 23:50 (UTC)

Dependencies (13)

Required by (1)

Sources (4)

Pinned Comments

siliconmeadow commented on 2024-09-16 07:11 (UTC) (edited on 2024-09-17 09:58 (UTC) by siliconmeadow)

It might be worth updating the description to explain the difference between this package and zen-browser-bin. From what I've deduced, this is the package known as specific and the zen-browser-bin is the generic package. Furthermore the reason you'd use this package instead of the other, is that your CPU architecture is one in this list:

https://docs.zen-browser.app/guides/generic-optimized

Don't use it if your CPU is not in this list.

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Larvey commented on 2024-11-10 05:26 (UTC)

Package is already up to date with 1.0.1-a.18

rayz3r0 commented on 2024-11-10 05:21 (UTC)

1.0.1.a.18 is out now (for real)

rayz3r0 commented on 2024-11-07 05:32 (UTC)

oh right, my bad sorry

Larvey commented on 2024-11-07 05:20 (UTC)

Version 1.0.1.a.18 is NOT out yet. At least according to github. 1.0.1.t.18 is out, but thats twilight which would be the zen-twilight-avx2-bin package.

rayz3r0 commented on 2024-11-07 05:17 (UTC)

version 1.0.1.a.18 is out, please update the AUR

Larvey commented on 2024-10-29 22:27 (UTC)

@McCio good catch. I have gone ahead and pushed that change. Thanks!

McCio commented on 2024-10-29 20:36 (UTC)

Hi, should this list pulse-native-provider instead of pulseaudio as audio dependency? Using pipewire (with pipewire-pulse) and seeing pulseaudio as optional for audio support is a bit deceiving (yes, audio is working perfectly).

siliconmeadow commented on 2024-09-16 07:11 (UTC) (edited on 2024-09-17 09:58 (UTC) by siliconmeadow)

It might be worth updating the description to explain the difference between this package and zen-browser-bin. From what I've deduced, this is the package known as specific and the zen-browser-bin is the generic package. Furthermore the reason you'd use this package instead of the other, is that your CPU architecture is one in this list:

https://docs.zen-browser.app/guides/generic-optimized

Don't use it if your CPU is not in this list.

Larvey commented on 2024-09-14 16:00 (UTC) (edited on 2024-09-14 16:00 (UTC) by Larvey)

Changing the .desktop file to the following contents and renaming it from zen-browser.desktop to zen-alpha.desktop fixes the icon not working (showing wayland icon in KDE overview for example), as well as matches upstream's desktop file:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Zen Browser
Comment=Experience tranquillity while browsing the web without people tracking you!
Exec=/opt/zen-browser-avx2-bin/zen-bin %u
Icon=zen-browser
Type=Application
MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;application/x-xpinstall;application/pdf;application/json;
StartupWMClass=zen-alpha
Categories=Network;WebBrowser;
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
X-MultipleArgs=false
Keywords=Internet;WWW;Browser;Web;Explorer;
Actions=new-window;new-private-window;profilemanager;

[Desktop Action new-window]
Name=Open a New Window
Exec=/opt/zen-browser-avx2-bin/zen-bin %u

[Desktop Action new-private-window]
Name=Open a New Private Window
Exec=/opt/zen-browser-avx2-bin/zen-bin --private-window %u

[Desktop Action profilemanager]
Name=Open the Profile Manager
Exec=/opt/zen-browser-avx2-bin/zen-bin --ProfileManager %u

kirie commented on 2024-08-20 23:52 (UTC) (edited on 2024-08-23 10:32 (UTC) by kirie)

The desktop entry needs a "%U" at the end of the exec line to open links outside the browser. This issue is related but seems to be resolved: https://github.com/zen-browser/desktop/issues/161

For the icon to work in some cases it also needs "StartupWMClass=zen-alpha". It doesn't seem to use the file on GitHub from the same release. Once I installed the Flatpak it also uses it's patterned icon for the AUR package.

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