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I've tried Zen Browser for 5 days as a replacement of Arc, and decided to give up for now. What I liked about Arc is: - Sidebar - Folder support in Sidebar - Multi profile support within a single window After testing several browsers, I picked Zen and I spent 5 days. Here's the screenshot.

It looks quite similar to Arc, right? But I've found some problems. 1. No folder support in Sidebar -> on their roadmap, though 2. Today I saw it consume 4-5GB of memory! I had 10 tabs open, and only 3-4 plugins installed. After relaunching Zen, it became alright for a while.

3. The most annoying thing was.. I configured the gradient color of the Sidebar, and it bled into webpages's background for some websites (I assume those without explicit bg color) And I cannot debug this because there are 4 different places that are related to colors 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

Actually it took me quite a while to just get to what I have now, and it was quite exhausting enough. I tried to fix the issue but it didn't work.

So my next step is to give Safari a try. It has Sidebar and the folder support in Sidebar as well. The memory usage should be quite optimized. But it has to open a new window for different profile which is a big downside for me..... so I'll just use a different browser for the secondary profile.

I don't use that profile that much. Or I could just stick to Safari and open a new window for it. Anyway, I'll probably come back to Zen in about half year or so, because I liked its flexibility but it seemed a bit immature to me. For now, I'm trying Safari.