There was an issue with Zen about a year ago, it used to send Mozilla telemetry requests, and the developers had ignored any complaints on it. Anyone knows if the situation has changed since?
I found nothing on how private Helium is. People usually just say it is garbage because of the engine, but that’s not what I care about.
Helium is great. I love how it focuses on having 0 distractions. No popups, great default settings.
Used zen when it barely has a site, loved it, then they made changes and it sucked.
Helium is pretty no nonsense, wish they had containers
What were the changes that drove you away? I’ve been using Zen from the start and I can’t think of that many changes that you wouldn’t just be able to ignore/disable.
I had it well configured with specific community plugins, I reinstalled and the plugins were gone from the store, i had to pull out my old firefox scripts, the address bar was transparent because the rendering was changed or something
Dropped it for floorp, been smooth sailing since, doesnt try to be the arc browser
and the developers had ignored any complaints on it.
Source? I searched their GitHub issues, and it doesn’t seem like they do.
An old Lemmy post referencing a GitHub issue
This was long ago, that’s why I’m curious if something changed.
From a non-technical user, Helium ships with the Manifest V2 version of Ublock Origin and has all forms of telemetry removed. So it’s more private than the base Chromium browser. I switch between Firefox forks and Helium, depending on whether a specific website works better in a chromium browser or not.
Since my computer is having some memory issues, I keep an eye out for it. Watching a YouTube video in Firefox took around 700 mb, opened it in Zen browser and it took >1 gb. Zen overall doesn’t seem very responsive.
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I’ve been using Zen and really love it. As far as I know, they aren’t sending anything to Mozilla, but I never looked extremely deeply into that, so I could be wrong
Zen is my main browser and Helium is my main chromium-based browser. I love both very much 🥰💋💯
I’ve been using both, helium mainly for sites that needs webgl (mostly my self hosted stack) and jellyfin, Grimmory, and zen for docs, dev tools and things that requires login like codegerg, kagi, OSM etc, and also got librewolf for everything else
