# zen-browser/desktop

> Zen Browser is a Firefox-based browser focused on productivity and a calmer internet. It targets users who want a customizable browser with vertical tabs and workspaces.

- Magnitude: 2.4 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 44,740 total · +12 stars today, ≈ 24 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Apps · Language: C++ · License: MPL-2.0 · Created: 2024-03-28 · Last push: 2026-10-04
- GitHub: https://github.com/zen-browser/desktop · Homepage: https://zen-browser.app · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/zen-browser/desktop

## Useful for

- Replace Firefox with a browser featuring vertical tabs and workspaces
- Build the browser from source for a custom Firefox-based build
- Report a bug or request a feature via GitHub Issues and Discussions

## Why it’s here

- 12 stars so far today, about 24 expected by the end of the day.
- Over the last two days the pace is 1.8× that of the previous week and a half.
- GitHub Trending C++ today: #1, +38 stars.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 1,799
- Issues and pull requests: 12,004
- Watchers: 105
- Average over the last week: 22 per day
- Usual pace: 20 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 2
- Latest release: 1.23b (2026-10-03)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-05 … 2026-10-04: 14, 29, 28, 33, 21, 17, 19, 26, 17, 15, 20, 23, 19, 20, 16, 20, 16, 17, 15, 22, 11, 29, 20, 21, 19, 17, 14, 22, 40, 12

## Spotted in now

- GitHub Trending C++ today: #1, +38 stars

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-04 13:56 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.