Another year and another browser. I have recently switched to the Zen browser as my main window into web services. Initially on my Windows 11 PC, it now sits with my Fedora Linux laptop and Gondolin housed PC. The browser is based on Mozilla Firefox, with a clean and beautiful UI that enables focused browsing, side loading tabs grouped into configurable ‘Spaces’, and split page view for two pages at once. I’ve really taken to it.
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| Zen Browser on my Laptop |
At the weekend I test the quality of Roll20 WebRTC, and if that goes well, then it will be a full switch over for all devices.
This was another small step in my journey to step away from my complete dependence on American owned tech. I expect that it will be a long and slightly bumpy ride. I am conscious that I type this on Blogger and had to enable Google cookies to allow me to load up the image above from my local drive. It’s a nuanced world, with an uncertain future after the present American administration is replaced. My concern has reached sufficient heights that I am considering leaving Google Drive as my main cloud storage, despite its quality and UK housed servers, for Proton.
Let’s see how I get on. I am reaching out to friends to check on their own preferences and solutions.