Package Details: zen-browser-bin 1.23b-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/zen-browser-bin.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: zen-browser-bin
Description: Official package for Zen, a privacy-focused, feature packed Firefox-based web browser
Upstream URL: https://github.com/zen-browser/desktop
Licenses: MPL-2.0
Conflicts: zen-browser
Provides: zen-browser
Submitter: ptr1337
Maintainer: Larvey (NextWorks)
Last Packager: Larvey
Votes: 340
Popularity: 12.20
First Submitted: 2024-07-30 12:11 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2026-10-03 12:18 (UTC)

Dependencies (13)

Required by (6)

Sources (5)

Pinned Comments

Larvey commented on 2026-07-26 14:05 (UTC) (edited on 2026-07-26 14:06 (UTC) by Larvey)

Seems that somebody has made malicious requests to merge this package into "ffmpeg-full", as well as to orphan this image. Please note that this is NOT a valid request, and that you should not install whatever ffmpeg-full is.

Hopefully AUR will deny these requests, but please be alert and double check when updating packages.

Larvey commented on 2025-08-04 15:08 (UTC)

@ratbox

The releases on the AUR are done automatically every hour. The issue is that sometimes the zen team does a release, then the script runs and updates the AUR package. And then they undo/remove the release. If this happens again simply wait another hour and the script will automatically update the AUR repo with the newest published version.

Thank you for understanding

Markil3 commented on 2025-07-18 20:16 (UTC)

For those coming from https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/aur-general@lists.archlinux.org/thread/7EZTJXLIAQLARQNTMEW2HBWZYE626IFJ/, note that the malware is from zen-browser-PATCHED-bin. This package has not been compromised.

Latest Comments

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VoxCineres commented on 2026-08-11 21:10 (UTC)

Per @starblursd's comment, I can confirm ffmpeg4.4 is now required for live video support on youtube as well. Might be worth adding it to the dep list.

starblursd commented on 2026-08-08 02:17 (UTC) (edited on 2026-08-08 02:20 (UTC) by starblursd)

the newest update to ffmpeg (from cachy repo and extra) seems to have broken or changed to a new codec version for whichever one is used by twitch.tv, causing the player to display the message 'video is not supported by your browser'

installing ffmpeg4.4 alongside ffmpeg fixed for me

cedric.lamalle commented on 2026-07-31 17:04 (UTC)

Hi!

Regarding my last comment, I just updated my packages and now zen-browser was upgraded correctly!

Cheers.

cedric.lamalle commented on 2026-07-27 18:41 (UTC)

Hi, since more or less two weeks I can´t update the package, I am getting an error about a missing zen folder :

==> Making package: zen-browser-bin 1.21.9b-1 (Mon Jul 27 15:12:42 2026)
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Found zen-browser.sh
  -> Found zen.desktop
  -> Found policies.json
  -> Downloading zen-browser-1.21.9b-1-x86_64.tar.xz...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed  Time    Time    Time   Current
                                 Dload  Upload  Total   Spent   Left   Speed
  0      0   0      0   0      0      0      0                              0
100 88.15M 100 88.15M   0      0 21.27M      0   00:04   00:04         23.54M
==> WARNING: Skipping verification of source file PGP signatures.
==> Validating source files with sha256sums...
    zen-browser.sh ... Passed
    zen.desktop ... Passed
    policies.json ... Passed
==> Validating source_x86_64 files with sha256sums...
    zen-browser-1.21.9b-1-x86_64.tar.xz ... Passed
:: (1/1) Parsing SRCINFO: zen-browser-bin
==> Making package: zen-browser-bin 1.21.9b-1 (Mon Jul 27 15:12:47 2026)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Found zen-browser.sh
  -> Found zen.desktop
  -> Found policies.json
  -> Found zen-browser-1.21.9b-1-x86_64.tar.xz
==> Validating source files with sha256sums...
    zen-browser.sh ... Passed
    zen.desktop ... Passed
    policies.json ... Passed
==> Validating source_x86_64 files with sha256sums...
    zen-browser-1.21.9b-1-x86_64.tar.xz ... Passed
==> Removing existing $srcdir/ directory...
==> Extracting sources...
  -> Extracting zen-browser-1.21.9b-1-x86_64.tar.xz with xz
==> Sources are ready.
==> Making package: zen-browser-bin 1.21.9b-1 (Mon Jul 27 15:12:51 2026)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> WARNING: Using existing $srcdir/ tree
==> Entering fakeroot environment...
==> Starting package()...
cp: cannot stat 'zen/': No such file or directory
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package().
    Aborting...
 -> error making: zen-browser-bin-exit status 4
 -> Failed to install the following packages. Manual intervention is required:
zen-browser-bin - exit status 4

I ran yay -G zen-browser-bin and ls the created folder:

total 60
drwxr-xr-x 3 user group  4096 jul 27 15:04 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 user group  4096 jul 27 15:04 ..
drwxr-xr-x 7 user group  4096 jul 27 15:04 .git
-rw-r--r-- 1 user group    84 jul 27 15:04 .nvchecker.toml
-rw-r--r-- 1 user group  2941 jul 27 15:04 PKGBUILD
-rw-r--r-- 1 user group    89 jul 27 15:04 policies.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 user group  1519 jul 27 15:04 .SRCINFO
-rwxr-xr-x 1 user group    52 jul 27 15:04 zen-browser.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 user group 26956 jul 27 15:04 zen.desktop

There really are no zen folder!

hayewood commented on 2026-07-27 17:11 (UTC)

Screen sharing does NOT work with this package when using Sway + Wayland. Vanilla firefox and chromium both work just fine. I put in an issue on github, however, I am not confident that is the correct place.

https://github.com/zen-browser/desktop/issues/14685

Larvey commented on 2026-07-26 14:05 (UTC) (edited on 2026-07-26 14:06 (UTC) by Larvey)

Seems that somebody has made malicious requests to merge this package into "ffmpeg-full", as well as to orphan this image. Please note that this is NOT a valid request, and that you should not install whatever ffmpeg-full is.

Hopefully AUR will deny these requests, but please be alert and double check when updating packages.

tyusha commented on 2026-07-14 08:27 (UTC)

How can I install an extension from AUR? None of them work.

sharun commented on 2026-06-21 19:16 (UTC)

seems like ffmpeg4.4 dependency is no longer needed?

teleprint-me commented on 2026-06-19 23:40 (UTC) (edited on 2026-06-19 23:41 (UTC) by teleprint-me)

dbus-glib is deprecated and is not required by this package. Not sure if that package slipped through or not. I'm wondering what the justification is for its inclusion.

nealinux commented on 2026-05-25 12:31 (UTC)

Why still use old version ffmpeg 4.4 ?

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