| Git Clone URL: | https://aur.archlinux.org/zen-browser-avx2-bin.git (read-only, click to copy) |
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| 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: | 12 |
| Popularity: | 8.41 |
| First Submitted: | 2024-08-03 14:14 (UTC) |
| Last Updated: | 2024-09-16 15:36 (UTC) |
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.
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
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.
if anyone needs i made a updated pkgbuild to latest 1.0.0.a.18 if this package can be updated even better but here's a link to it: https://files.catbox.moe/efyncd.gz
The tag has been removed, once again. They made a release, when I pushed it since it run through my pkgctl check automatically, and also tested the version on my machine.
Why did you "release" a.16? It's not even out yet.
Pinned Comments
siliconmeadow commented on 2024-09-16 07:11 (UTC)
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 asspecificand thezen-browser-binis thegenericpackage. 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.