This guide is designed to help you easily find and download the version of Zen Browser that best fits your operating system and hardware. Whether you’re using Windows, Linux, or macOS - you’ll find the build for you, along with portable and installer options to suit your needs.
What happened to Generic and Optimized builds?
Why have optimized builds been removed?
For Windows and Linux, Zen Browser used to have the option to download optimized builds. These builds utilized AVX2 instructions to improve perfomance. These builds have been removed because of the following reasons:
The optimized version isn’t necessarily faster: Profile-guided optimizations (PGO) aren’t working with the optimized version because Clang fails to handle them properly, leading to a crash. As a result, we cannot build optimized versions if we want to include both PGO and Link Time Optimization (LTO). Additionally, AVX2 increases power consumption and is not ideal for heavy parallel computations.
AVX2 isn’t supported everywhere: There are still many devices that don’t support AVX2 instructions, which makes the installation process more confusing.
In conclusion, having optimized builds is not really worth it, especially if we want to have PGO & LTO.
P.S. all optimized builds will be automatically updated to generic starting from version
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Stable
Windows 🪟
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x86_64 💽
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arm64 💻
Linux 🐧
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x86_64 💽
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aarch64 💻
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Package Managers
- Arch User Repository 📂
AUR - Pacstall
comunity - Flatpak 🌐
flatpak install flathub app.zen_browser.zen
- Arch User Repository 📂
MacOS 🍎
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aarch64 (M-series chips) 💻
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x86_64 (Intel chips) 💽
Twilight
This is an automated daily build for testing purposes, so expect some bugs on this version.
Windows 🪟
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x86_64 💽
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arm64 💻
Linux 🐧
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x86_64 💽
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aarch64 💻
MacOS 🍎
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aarch64 (M-series chips) 💻
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x86_64 (Intel chips) 💽