After many years of using FFox, I just tried a Zen install on Linux. It did not turn out as well as I hoped.
I did not have FFoxesr in the way the OS would have installed it (though it was still in the user folder). This meant that Zen did/could not see my bookmarks, extensions or passwords … and the options it offered didn’t work out. (It wanted an HTML bookmarks file … I had them saved as JSON … and a ‘CSV’ (??) passwords file … and found no extensions folder.) So, for starters, years of customizations had to be manually restored.
But, fair shake, I did manually re-install bookmarks AND extensions that had saved databases (e.g. UBO, NoScript, Block site. It ignored the sub-folders in the JSON bookmarks folders, dumping everything into their top-levels.) I had to re-create all the same settings.
After an hour of playing with what -was-there (without a menu bar … or a tab bar, all shoved together -by name- in a sidebar), I could discern no -truly useful- advantages to it. None. That was not offset by some pretty cosmetics (to work around). So even if you do get your customizations past the install, for long-time FF users I see no substantial advantages.
After many years of using FFox, I just tried a Zen install on Linux. It did not turn out as well as I hoped.
I did not have FFoxesr in the way the OS would have installed it (though it was still in the user folder). This meant that Zen did/could not see my bookmarks, extensions or passwords … and the options it offered didn’t work out. (It wanted an HTML bookmarks file … I had them saved as JSON … and a ‘CSV’ (??) passwords file … and found no extensions folder.) So, for starters, years of customizations had to be manually restored.
But, fair shake, I did manually re-install bookmarks AND extensions that had saved databases (e.g. UBO, NoScript, Block site. It ignored the sub-folders in the JSON bookmarks folders, dumping everything into their top-levels.) I had to re-create all the same settings.
After an hour of playing with what -was-there (without a menu bar … or a tab bar, all shoved together -by name- in a sidebar), I could discern no -truly useful- advantages to it. None. That was not offset by some pretty cosmetics (to work around). So even if you do get your customizations past the install, for long-time FF users I see no substantial advantages.