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Hi. First of all, I want to express my appreciation for the Zen browser and my respect for its creator and main maintainer. However, knowing that one person (plus a few contributors) is responsible for the entire project makes me a bit anxious over time.
Here are a few points to consider:
I understand that it's open source and many people can contribute, but one person still has to review all the code and accept the pull requests meaning that 1 person is in 100% control of the project.
While it's based on the Firefox engine with automatic updates, we still have additional code that needs to be secure and performant. Can one person manage this over the years?
What if the creator loses interest or if the project becomes too large to maintain? The Browser Company failed despite significant VC funding. What seems like a fun project now could become something entirely different in the future. Iām not sure if the author has plans to monetize it, but in my opinion, it will be impossible to continue without funding, as it will eventually require full-time work.
Regarding security, I know I can examine the code myself. But will you have time to check every pull request for security vulnerabilities? Can we trust this browser for sensitive activities like banking? I know that this is only a wrapper for firefox. But the wrapper can also cause some serious security issues. For google and firefox obviously you also have to trust them. But they have a lot to loose. Here because it's mainly one person work and we don't even know his real name, we have to be more careful.
I love this project and genuinely hope for its long-term success. However, I am concerned about its sustainability. What are your thoughts on this?
And I generally don't like to shit on other communities, but I was permabanned from the Arc subreddit for being just slightly critical of their moderation and they clearly have some attitude problems over there. It made me not want to use Arc anymore and switched back to SigmaOS (and honestly I like that one better anyway).
I do have Zen installed on MacOS, but I use Sigma as my everyday. Windows is strictly Zen. So you're doing something right, my dude.
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which is why Arc isn't the best example since The Browser Company is building something new anyway. They are probably going to take the lessons learned from Arc and then input them into a new browser. I know we don't technically know what they're currently building right now, but I hear it's just another browser.