zen-browser/desktop has 45.4k stars and gained +411 of them in the last 7 days, a 0.9% change. It is written in C++, grouped under automation, web-frontend, released under MPL-2.0. A merged pull request waits a median of 37m from opening to merge, measured on 261 pull requests. Last pushed on 27 Oct 2026.
Star growth per time window: stars gained, growth percentage, the star count at the start of the period, and whether the figure was measured from our own two-hour intraday snapshots, daily snapshots, or GitHub’s rebuilt star history, for the last 6 hours, the last 12 hours, today, the last 7 days, the last 30 days, and the last year. A period with no current measurement is left blank rather than shown as zero.
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Stars gained
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Last 6 hours
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Last 12 hours
+9
0.0%
45.4k at 12:01
Intraday snapshots, measured 23:57
Today
+16
0.0%
45.4k on 27 Oct 2026
Daily snapshots
Last 7 days
+411
0.9%
45k on 18 Oct 2026
Weekly history
Last 30 days
+919
2.1%
44.5k on 27 Sep 2026
Weekly history
Last year
+9.5k
26.6%
35.8k on 26 Oct 2025
Weekly history
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9 Oct 2026First seen on GitHub Trending · rank 13· 9 days later
Stars: 44.7k when it entered our index, 45.4k on the last capture we hold (28 Oct 2026), so +723 in that span. That span is our own measurement window, not a claim about what happened before it.
We hold 32 mentions for it, the oldest dated 29 Jul 2024 and the first written into our database on 27 Oct 2026. Thread dates come from the source, not from when we fetched them.
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Phoenix is a suite of configurations & advanced modifications for Mozilla Firefox, designed to put the user first - with a focus on privacy, security, freedom, & usability.
32 items so far: 32 on Hacker News, 0 on Reddit; 0 in the last 7 days, 0 in the last 30. Checked by the pipeline, which re-scans trending repositories every few hours. Last check .
1. Zen Browser had remote debugging enabled by default and disabled the security prompt for it. Extreme incompetence or malice? https://github.com/zen-browser/desktop/pull/927 2. Social trackers are selectively allowed, unsigned extensions are enabled by default, and Enhanced Tracking Protection isn't fully implemented. There's just a theme of incompetence, trying to cover it up and just in gener…
There is a browser out there which does something like that for every site. It has a separate area for the tabs, instead of using the full window. That could be okay. But it has a margin around it. Which means that every single scrollbar for every single page does not go to the edge of the screen, completely sabotaging easily hitting the scrollbar. Welcome to the genius of the zen browser. https:…
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