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@envolution Such a fulfilling answer. I'm so grateful.

@moudah7 You should know that this package compiles from source - this can take somewhere between 3-6 hours depending on your hardware. Traditionally people would prefer the faster install times of zen-browser-bin as it just installs the upstream binaries.

Unless you are sure you would prefer to use this self compiling package, you're probably more interested in the -bin version.

As for maliciousness - neither zen-browser nor zen-browser-bin have suspicious code in their installation scripts - and both trust upstream to not do anything nefarious - it would be akin to installing directly from their official download channels.

I am a new user of archlinux and this is the first package I am going to install since I was previously using it on Ubuntu. I've read the archwiki tutorial on how to install packages from the AUR but there are a lot of things I don't understand such where do I get the validpgpkeys from and how to check if I am dealing with a malicious package. Can someone please help me?

@SmashedSqwurl good looking out. been checking back here regularly over the past few weeks.

For anyone like me who's impatient for the latest version, these changes to the PKGBUILD built 1.12.10b successfully:

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 2356071..9077df4 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@

 pkgbase=zen-browser
 pkgname=("$pkgbase")
-pkgver=1.12.8b
+pkgver=1.12.10b
 _zen_version=${pkgver//_/-}
-_firefox_version=138.0.4
+_firefox_version=139.0.1
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc='Experience tranquillity while browsing the web without people tracking you'
 url='https://zen-browser.app/'
@@ -78,8 +78,8 @@ source=("git+$_repo.git#tag=$_zen_version"
         0001-fix-desktop.zen.patch
         0003-do-not-disable-system-extensions.zen.patch
         0004-fix-package-json.zen.patch)
-sha256sums=('e3674302567bcc1b676fbce24e019590aa71193d19dc2142c13a31e8b08be0e0'
-            '3fd30db08dad90b339e08d27db1e3aab03a174817d336314327dc5305c145056'
+sha256sums=('65fed0c913a09d500c9dd955fe95dbdfceb36b30944ef939a512af805b4f66c6'
+            '5b716ee9e6339a0de8e42f81c1d7dadca5c03e91ee9b2fa8e78357a631b499b0'
             'f55ed69dc6f90f898f91d24966b203cb7fb10211ce62405e3ccb8b3069014990'
             '36bff2af04da55da0cc71f960d921889ccf21c11fcd8343087c144dfcc50f10a'
             '803c3f456abfc1acd963b594cf684aed2453534e7ab951abc38efa0351b648a1')
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ ac_add_options --prefix=/usr
 # ac_add_options --enable-hardening
 # ac_add_options --enable-optimize
 # ac_add_options --enable-rust-simd
-# ac_add_options --enable-linker=lld
+ac_add_options --enable-linker=lld
 # ac_add_options --disable-install-strip
 # ac_add_options --disable-elf-hack
 # It seems to be overwritten by surfer internal mozconfg, let's keep it for now
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ ac_add_options --with-system-nss
 # Features
 # ac_add_options --enable-alsa
 # ac_add_options --enable-jack
-# ac_add_options --enable-crashreporter
+ac_add_options --enable-crashreporter
 ac_add_options --disable-updater
 # ac_add_options --disable-tests
 END
@@ -209,6 +209,8 @@ build() {
   # Breaks compilation since https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1896066
   CFLAGS="${CFLAGS/-fexceptions/}"
   CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS/-fexceptions/}"
+  LD=ld.lld
+  RUSTFLAGS="-Clink-arg=-fuse-ld=lld -Clink-arg=-Xlinker"

   # LTO needs more open files
   ulimit -n 4096

Even after patch I still finished with:

Configure complete!
Be sure to run |mach build| to pick up any changes
  Parallelism determined by memory: using 24 jobs for 24 cores based on 62.7 GiB RAM and estimated job size of 1.0 GiB
 0:14.84 /sbin/make -j24 -s merge-zh-CN
 0:17.56 W 0 compiler warnings present.
Hey! Builds initiated with `mach build $A_SPECIFIC_TARGET` may not always work, even if the code being built is correct. Consider doing a bare `mach build` instead.
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...

Thanks @SmashedSqwurl, that did the trick

@match0x0: It's pulling in a newer version of surfer that expects a tests directory to exist. It's been fixed in the latest zen-browser dev branch, but in the meantime I was able to work around it with this change to the PKGBUILD:

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 4c5bb30..aed97dd 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -129,6 +129,8 @@ prepare() {
   msg2 "apply patches"
   git apply -3 "$srcdir"/*.zen.patch

+  sed -i 's|"@zen-browser/surfer": "^1.9.20"|"@zen-browser/surfer": "1.9.20"|g' package.json
+
   msg2 "prepare dependencies"
   pnpm config set store-dir "$srcdir"/pnpm-store
   pnpm install

Running into the following error when building.

SUCCESS You should be ready to make changes to Zen Browser.

        Remember to change the repository in configs/common/mozconfig to your own.
        You should import the patches next, run |surfer import|.
        To begin building Zen Browser, run |surfer build|.


> zen-core@1.0.0 surfer /home/user/aur/zen-browser/src/desktop
> surfer import


   ERROR An error occurred while running command ["import"]:

         Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, scandir '/home/user/aur/zen-browser/src/desktop/tests'


00:00:00 Exiting due to error.
 ELIFECYCLE  Command failed with exit code 1.
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in prepare().
    Aborting...

Anyone running into the same?