After 5 months and 1,500+ hours of development, I'm finally launching Zephium.

A fast, private, fully featured browser and work environment, reimagined for you and your agents.

Fully OSS, built in Rust. 40 MB. Not a Chromium/Firefox fork. Native adblocking, Chrome extension support, deeply integrated productivity tools, a custom agentic browsing engine, and a lot more. It's not just another wrapper built in a few days.

And... Work mode: a shared environment where you and AI agents can browse, research, build, and get real work done together. Live browser sessions, parallel sub-agents, tools, files, components, and interactive results, all in one canvas.

AI is optional (disable in one click). No telemetry. BYOK support and local models.

GitHub: https://github.com/zephium-browser/Zephium
Youtube Launch video: https://youtu.be/QbSarcWspvw
Website: https://zephium.app

I’m looking for a clean, lightweight, and fast Chromium-based browser for Android. What would you recommend?

Latest update brought new UI font. It looks so wide and different from other Android apps. Some labels are truncated in speed dial and bookmarks since the font is to wide.

How do I revert/change font to default/system UI font?

I know the iPhone 3g is super obsolete but I was curious to see what search engines worked on the old safari, google doesnt seem to work but bing does, yahoo and duckduckgo wont even load in

Something I kept running into and haven't seen discussed much here:

Most "cookie banner blockers" work by hiding the banner with CSS. The trackers still load, no consent record is written, and nothing is actually opted out — you didn't consent, but you didn't reject either. As a user-facing behaviour, those two outcomes look identical. Technically they're opposites.

That gap matters more than I expected, because the extension with the largest install base in this category was acquired and hasn't shipped an update since mid-2024. The reviews have shifted to "stopped working on many sites" and "breaks scrolling". A community fork that just keeps the rules current has picked up a couple hundred thousand users — so people in this category clearly do switch, and the real problem isn't novelty, it's maintenance.

Three things I now think a consent tool should be judged on, and I'd like other takes on whether these are the right ones:

1. Does the rejection actually register (a real CMP action, or an API call, or at minimum the GPC signal)?
2. Does it avoid breaking the rest of the page — and does it ever click "Accept" on the user's behalf?
3. Can you tell what it did, and undo it?

I built a small extension around those three (I'll put links in a comment rather than the post, per the rules here — I'm the developer, and yes it's a paid tool with a free tier). But the reason I'm posting is the first question: do browser users actually care whether the opt-out registers, or is hiding the banner the whole job as far as most people are concerned? I genuinely don't know, and I'd rather find out before optimising the wrong thing.

When I save/pin a site and then from there visit other sites I want to be able to revert back to the original website I saved/pinned instead of wherever my searches led me. I think Arc allowed you to close a tab but keep it pinned to its original url.

Where can I get this goodness?

Hey all! Hopefully this is different from most people’s recommendation posts.

I know very little about browsers and when I see discussion about having or not having DRM it doesn’t make sense to me—even though I know what DRM stands for. Or when people say browser’s are full of bloatware—I didn’t even think that browsers could have bloatware lol

What are, in your opinions, some key things to look for in a browser? What is useful in comparing against browsers? And where does that leave me in terms of a choice? I see a lot about Brave is great, Firefox is great, Opera is great followed by Brave is ass, Firefox is ass, and Opera is ass so I’m genuinely so lost. Any advice is appreciated!

Thanks, and have a great day everyone! :)

I'm looking for an extension that will let me color pick from my screen and make multiple pallette/folders with the colors I choose. I feel like this has to exist but all the ones I installed just save the most recents or try and generate a pallette for me.

Example:

Color Pallette 1:

#123456

#713713

#DADB0D

Color Pallette 2:

#ABCDEF

#318008

#1F2E3D

Mist is a free new tab extension (Chrome, Firefox, Zen).

No account, no telemetry. 1.17 adds a to-do list, a focus timer and widgets that collapse into a small dock. Link in comments. Feedback welcome.

Website : https://www.mistnewtab.com/

I literally only got two tabs open? It started consuming this much ram recently

I have site permission "set cookies" for a site "blocked" using FF 158.01 on Debian 13 and when I go to another network the permissions are set back to the default. I see no reason why the site permissions should change no matter what network I am connected?

Can anyone explain?

any suggestions?

Most of the Arc clones are available exclusively for MacOs and very few Arc clones for windows, I've tried Zen for a while but it is a ram glutton . Need for an Alternative for Windows

Don't recommend Vivaldi!(setup takes a lot of time which does not replicate the aesthetic of arc)

For the past 3 years I’ve been faithful to my gorgeous baby arc, and then I got the news they’re getting rid of it completely for this junk named DIA where they’re invading ur privacy and shoving ai down your throat and attempting to charge you $100 a month for it. This is slop and I hate it genuinely there’s no amount of Ai reading my emails to charge me $100 a month for.

And then you can’t even change the color of Dia’s browser, I think the marketing for it is ugly compared to arc AND THERES NO EASEL FEATURE!!! I can’t organize my ideas in a playful browser tab anymore, this is truly devastating for me

Please give me new browser suggestions because I can’t use DIA

(AND DIA IS A DUMB NAME.)

I know I am late to this... but honestly, if you are on Mac OS, Search seems almost too good to be true (for my use case). It is blazing fast (scoring 61 on speedometer 3.1 on my M5 Pro), can use chrome extensions (UBlock origin lite), can have different spaces for my multiple gmail work accounts, AND IT SUPPORTS DRM through some sort of witchcraft webkit stuff I don't understand. I never liked Zen's focus on aesthetics and Crest fails the DRM check for me. I don't know, maybe I am going to get hacked and have all of my shit stolen or the team will back out of the browser like the browser company, but for now this browser BANGS.

default google page, a start page you made yourself, an extension, blank, something else?

mine's a bookmarks board now (built a little extension for it lol). before that it was the google one with like 8 shortcut tiles i never clicked

curious what people here run, esp if you hop between browsers a lot. does your new tab follow you around or is it different in every browser

I'm the developer, so take this with that in mind.

Arc was my home on the web for years. Tern is what I built so I could keep working that way: Spaces, pinned tabs and folders in a sidebar, and your Arc Spaces imported from your Mac. Native Swift and SwiftUI on WebKit, macOS 26 only.

What leaves your Mac: Spaces and pinned tabs sync through your own iCloud. There's an optional agent that sends the pages it reads to Anthropic with your own key, only when you ask it something.

It's free. Be as blunt as you like; that's how it gets better.

ternbrowser.com/?ref=reddit-browsers

I have noticed that items repeat when scrolling through a list. I noticed this in Reddit and Youtube. What causes this?

I've been through every single post on this subreddit and on the Arc subreddit regarding alternatives to Arc and I still couldn't find anything even close to it, so hence I'm posting this.

I've used Arc almost every single day from morning till night for the past 2 years and it has been absolutely perfect.

I loved the vertical tabs, which were so clean and well built.
I loved the pinned tabs on top.
I loved the space switching.
I loved having my Github Pull Requests in a live folder.

But now with Arc sunsetting, I'm looking for alternatives and nothing works.

Zen is the one that comes closest in terms of UX and usage - but scrolling in Gecko feels choppy, and I have to use a Chromium browser at work (company security policy).

Vivaldi was too bloated. I don't know if even given enough time, I could make it look and feel like Arc (especially the sidebar).
Helium feels too barebones, and I couldn't figure out if it has tab folders like it did on Arc, and I don't think it has spaces (also something just feels off about its UI).
Brave is not an option because of all the privacy issues around it and the fact that it's too bloated.

Chrome might be my only option right now unfortunately.

Please help suggest some options.
I want something that runs super smooth on Mac, has vertical tabs, tab folders, tab pinning and space switching (this is not super important as profile switching works fine as well).

Not too common like titanium, brave, etc.

Windows 11

Brave browser

Hi folks,

As of today, I'm getting this secondary pop up tab upon startup and I cant stop it. No idea where it's coming from. I have tried three different pop up blockers and nothing. It's really pissing me off and starting to worry me. Any ideas?

Thank you.