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  2026 March 25

I'm really enjoying Zen Browser
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  I have a bit of a reputation for being a browser hopper. But for the past week, I think I might have finally found a setup I can stick with for a long while! It solves my biggest pain points.

[Zen Browser](https://zen-browser.app/).

What I want:

- Switch between multiple browser profiles *within a single application window*
- Play music / videos in one profile and have it continue when I switch to other profiles
- A browser rendering engine that works for all the sites I use (sadly, big diffs in GitHub and most anything in Datadog are not useable for me in Safari)
- Bonus Points: Tiling tabs / split-view

I don't have strong feelings about vertical versus horizontal tabs. I don't use native browser bookmarks much.

Zen Browser is giving me all of this!

I have a pretty simple set up: 2 Spaces: Personal and Work. Each uses the built-in profile of the same name.

One point of confusion: If I make a second space that uses the Personal profile, it still has isolated cookies / sessions. So I'm not really sure what the relationship between Spaces and Profiles are, but I take it Profiles are a Firefox native thing and Spaces are not.

I did have to modify a couple of keyboard shortcuts:

- Remove Cmd+Shift+O. I can't remember what it does by default, but it conflicted with the Okta extension short-cut.
- Replace Cmd+Option+h for horizontal split. I use that OS-level shortcut all the time hiding all other windows.

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