Package Details: zen-browser-bin 1.21.8b-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/zen-browser-bin.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: zen-browser-bin
Description: Performance oriented 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: 325
Popularity: 20.81
First Submitted: 2024-07-30 12:11 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2026-07-17 11:35 (UTC)

Dependencies (13)

Required by (3)

Sources (5)

Pinned Comments

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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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 ?

Larvey commented on 2026-05-19 14:30 (UTC)

@jshap Hi sorry about that! This package is mainly maintained via automation as lots of users would complain about the package not updating quickly enough due to my timezone being so different than the zen team.

It seems that the zen team removed/unreleased a release, so the automation assumed the newest version at the time (1.19.12b) was newer than 1.19.13b

Hopefully this doesn't happen again but if it does I'll try and come up with a solution that fixes that.

jshap commented on 2026-05-18 13:57 (UTC) (edited on 2026-05-18 16:30 (UTC) by jshap)

Hey, seems like you did commits for 1.19.12b -> 1.19.13b -> 1.19.12b -> 1.19.13b. For future reference you cannot push downgraded versions in the pkgver nor can you push a new version with the same pkgver and have it get picked up by people. Every commit you make to the AUR which is expected to be built by people needs to increment the pkgver in some way or people won't be notified of the changes.

For the case where you're pushing 1.19.13b -> 1.19.13b, you should bump the pkgrel so the visible package version in the AUR will go 1.19.13b-1 to 1.19.13b-2 and people will see there's a new commit.

If in the future you do have to do 1.19.12b -> 1.19.13b -> 1.19.12b, technically you should bump the epoch so the build would go like 1.19.12b -> 1.19.13b -> 1:1.19.12b, but to be honest unless it is pulled from upstream and it's expected that the next version will be a long way away you should avoid the epoch as it's sort of a sign that someone really messed up.

Wiki article on allowable PKGBUILD movements https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PKGBUILD#Version

Thank you for keeping track of this package!

EduardoStarZ commented on 2026-05-15 11:39 (UTC)

The sha256 checksum for zen-browser-1.19.13b-1-x86_64.tar.xz is failling upon updating the package.

cyberpunkrocker commented on 2026-05-13 16:20 (UTC)

This update was released way too early, the download is still not available.

gchamon commented on 2026-05-13 14:42 (UTC) (edited on 2026-05-13 14:43 (UTC) by gchamon)

@rhynzler @qexat

this release is still building in their CI, you have to wait until it's done https://github.com/zen-browser/desktop/actions/runs/25806125449

Note for the maintainer, if this package is updated automatically, consider bumping its version after the CI is done.

rhynzler commented on 2026-05-13 14:12 (UTC)

1.19.13b is a tag, not a release, that's why doesn't exists when downloading https://github.com/zen-browser/desktop/releases/tag/1.19.13b

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