Package Details: zen-twilight-bin 1.18t.2026.01.21-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/zen-twilight-bin.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: zen-twilight-bin
Description: Unstable Nightly release of the Performance oriented Firefox-based web browser
Upstream URL: https://github.com/zen-browser/desktop
Licenses: MPL-2.0
Conflicts: zen-twilight
Provides: zen-twilight
Submitter: Larvey
Maintainer: Larvey
Last Packager: Larvey
Votes: 9
Popularity: 0.084784
First Submitted: 2024-10-08 23:37 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2026-01-22 05:33 (UTC)

Dependencies (13)

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Sources (5)

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Larvey commented on 2024-12-24 02:27 (UTC)

As of Beta build 1.0.2-b.4, the optimized "avx2" version of zen is no longer built/provided. More info can be found here: https://github.com/zen-browser/desktop/wiki/Why-have-optimized-builds-been-removed%3F

Because of this, zen-twilight-avx2-bin can no longer be updated, and all updates will continue on zen-twilight-bin

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Larvey commented on 2025-10-08 15:25 (UTC)

@avenkidur thanks, the package has been updated to make ffmpeg4.4 a dependency. And the zen-browser-bin package will also get the dependency when the next Zen update releases.

avenkidur commented on 2025-10-05 19:51 (UTC)

zen-twilight-bin version 8813c51-1 (Zen Twilight 1.7.7t / Firefox 135)

Firefox has updated its optional dependency from package ffmpeg to ffmpeg4.4

Software decoding of AAC was lost, and then restored after installing ffmpeg4.4

rayz3r0 commented on 2025-05-27 20:40 (UTC)

Hello,

The zen-twilight-bin package needs automatic cache invalidation since Twilight updates very frequently as a nightly build.

Issue: Current SKIP checksums cause stale binaries to be reused from cache, requiring manual yay -Scc before updates.

Solution: Add a prepare() function for automatic cache management:

prepare() {
    # Force fresh download for nightly builds
    rm -f "$SRCDEST"/zen-browser-$_realpkgver-*.tar.xz 2>/dev/null || true
}

This ensures every update fetches the latest binary automatically without any manual intervention, which is essential for frequently updating nightly builds.

tretrauit commented on 2025-02-02 10:19 (UTC)

Please change the file extension from .bz2 to .xz because they now compress the linux version with .xz

Larvey commented on 2024-12-24 02:27 (UTC)

As of Beta build 1.0.2-b.4, the optimized "avx2" version of zen is no longer built/provided. More info can be found here: https://github.com/zen-browser/desktop/wiki/Why-have-optimized-builds-been-removed%3F

Because of this, zen-twilight-avx2-bin can no longer be updated, and all updates will continue on zen-twilight-bin

00ein00 commented on 2024-12-12 13:06 (UTC) (edited on 2024-12-12 13:07 (UTC) by 00ein00)

this package is broken, doesn't load any pages, just shows a blank page with logo as background, and an address bar at the bottom left, that seems to load pages, but again are not displayed.

Evrenos commented on 2024-11-21 00:17 (UTC)

oh, btw, i wasn’t talking about the twilight build. if there was a git package of the dev branch, that’d be nice. but as you said (based on the dev), it takes time to build from source, so no worries. thanks for replying!

Larvey commented on 2024-11-21 00:05 (UTC)

Twilight is technically not a -git package. Sure, it releases nightly like most git packages, but its based on the twilight release, not the newest version of the master branch.

A git package requires building from source, which this does not do. Building from source also apparently takes a very long time (according to the devs).

Evrenos commented on 2024-11-20 23:53 (UTC)

wouldn’t it be better if there was a git package?

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