Enhanced Privacy : Private Window Launches Without Startup Questions (use defaults)

[henri]

Hi,

Firstly, thanks for making an awesome browser!

I look after a small privacy focused tool called SPB (Start Private Browser). It is really great to see the no-telemetry by default. Maybe also add a command line flag to disable automatic updates as well for sensitive environments.

So my idea, please consider removing (stopping) the startup configuration questions for Zen when it starts up for the first time and is starting a private browser window from the CLI.

Most browsers (including FireFox, Brave, Chromium, Palemoon .etc have this functionality).

This feature would be so excellent. It would mean that when users are using SPB to start new Zen sessions they will just be able to get started and get the functionality of the SPB fish snippets for navigating the inter-webs without needing to create a template first on each system they use.

Alternatively, if a command line option is added that prevents the initial startup questions, I could update SPB to feed those over when SPB is using the Zen browser.

Thanks again for making Zen. So awsome. Looking forward to see how the project progresses. It is already very impressive.

Henri

[henri]

I am about to update SPB to have some experimental support for Zen so you can grab the latest version and give it a whirl to see what I am talking about.

[henri]

Experimental support has been added for Zen on both MacOS and Linux. It is possible to work around this problem by creating a template :

start-private-browser --new-template zen --browser zen --standard

Complete the setup manually.

Then you must quite the browser. Then exit the template.

start-private-browser --edit-template zen --browser zen

Then you will be prompted to set Zen as your default browser or not. Make a decision when prompted. Make any other alterations to the template you like and quit / exit Zen.

Finally, you may now load that template and avoid the startup messages :

start-private-browser --template zen --browser zen

Also, I added a hack into SPB for MacOS as the Zen browser seems to not jump to the foreground when loaded. I am not sure if this is a bug or a feature. I have not seen this happen with any other browser. So figured it was a good idea to keep things consistent for SPB users.

Thanks again for all the hard work making an awesome cross platform browser.