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: 341
Popularity: 12.46
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.

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soetl commented on 2025-10-07 15:26 (UTC)

I confirm that without ffmpeg4.4, software decoding of hevc, h264, and aac does not work. You can see this dependency in the firefox package in the extra repository.

Larvey commented on 2025-10-07 13:23 (UTC)

@lone-cloud, could you link to the firefox PKGBUILD you speak of? I took a look at firefox-bin and it has the same dependencies as this package, so I am not sure what you mean.

lone-cloud commented on 2025-10-06 23:13 (UTC) (edited on 2025-10-06 23:13 (UTC) by lone-cloud)

ffmpeg is an incorrect dependency for this package that will break some video (ex. h264) playback for users that don't have it. Look at firefox's PKGBUILD for proper dependencies to run a firefox install. ffmpeg4.4 must be used for the zen browser. You'll know your shit is broken if you go to the Media section of about:support and a bunch of codecs are not software-supported.

shrs commented on 2025-10-01 04:33 (UTC) (edited on 2025-10-01 04:34 (UTC) by shrs)

Zen failed to launch on 1.16.2b-1

Temporary solution is to downgrade to 1.16.1b and optionally remove these (mine won't work without removing these):

sudo rm -r /opt/zen-browser-bin/
sudo rm /usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/zen-browser.png
sudo rm /usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/zen-browser.png
sudo rm /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/zen-browser.png
sudo rm /usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/zen-browser.png
sudo rm /usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/zen-browser.png
sudo rm /usr/share/applications/zen.desktop

Then download install 1.16.1b manually:

makepkg
yay -U zen-browser-bin-1.16.1b-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

msnspk commented on 2025-09-06 17:01 (UTC)

@mrjxtr

Read the first pinned comment

mrjxtr commented on 2025-09-06 15:47 (UTC) (edited on 2025-09-06 15:48 (UTC) by mrjxtr)

This is the latest on github. Release build - 1.15.4b (2025-09-05).

why is this already 1.15.5b? I could not download Release build - 1.15.5b because that does not exist yet

AUR Explicit (1): zen-browser-bin-1.15.5b-1
:: (1/1) Downloaded PKGBUILD: zen-browser-bin
  1 zen-browser-bin                  (Installed) (Build Files Exist)
==> Packages to cleanBuild?
==> [N]one [A]ll [Ab]ort [I]nstalled [No]tInstalled or (1 2 3, 1-3, ^4)
==> 
  1 zen-browser-bin                  (Installed) (Build Files Exist)
==> Diffs to show?
==> [N]one [A]ll [Ab]ort [I]nstalled [No]tInstalled or (1 2 3, 1-3, ^4)
==> 
==> Making package: zen-browser-bin 1.15.5b-1 (Sat 06 Sep 2025 11:46:45 PM +08)
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Found zen-browser.sh
  -> Found zen.desktop
  -> Found policies.json
  -> Downloading zen-browser-1.15.5b-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
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404
==> ERROR: Failure while downloading https://github.com/zen-browser/desktop/releases/download/1.15.5b/zen.linux-x86_64.tar.xz
    Aborting...
 -> error downloading sources: /home/mrjxtr/.cache/yay/zen-browser-bin 
    context: exit status 1 


:: (1/1) Parsing SRCINFO: zen-browser-bin
==> Making package: zen-browser-bin 1.15.5b-1 (Sat 06 Sep 2025 11:46:46 PM +08)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Found zen-browser.sh
  -> Found zen.desktop
  -> Found policies.json
  -> Downloading zen-browser-1.15.5b-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
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404
==> ERROR: Failure while downloading https://github.com/zen-browser/desktop/releases/download/1.15.5b/zen.linux-x86_64.tar.xz
    Aborting...
 -> error making: zen-browser-bin-exit status 1
 -> Failed to install the following packages. Manual intervention is required:
zen-browser-bin - exit status 1

souravas commented on 2025-09-04 03:26 (UTC) (edited on 2025-09-04 03:27 (UTC) by souravas)

If anyone is facing this error in the latest version:

==> ERROR: One or more files did not pass the validity check!
 -> error making: zen-browser-bin-exit status 1
 -> Failed to install the following packages. Manual intervention is required:
zen-browser-bin - exit status 1

This is caused by AUR checksum mismatch (the upstream tarball changed since the PKGBUILD’s last update). To fix this, you can do a clean rebuild:

# yay
rm -rf ~/.cache/yay/zen-browser-bin
yay -S zen-browser-bin

# or paru
rm -rf ~/.cache/paru/clone/zen-browser-bin
paru -S zen-browser-bin

This fixed the issue for me.

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