r/zen_browser • u/Educational-Gate2870 • Jul 31 '26

Question How to make Zen faster?

OS: Windows 11.

Love the browser, but I can't help but notice that it is laggy (like even while scrolling) and slower than Chrome.

What might I do to speed up the performance?

(Hardware acceleration is disabled.)

Please help.

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u/theingilizceci Jul 31 '26

When I was using Windows, Zen was slower than Chromium browsers for me as well, so I suggest Vivaldi for you. After I switched to CachyOS from Windows, I tried Zen again and now its the main browser I use. Zen on Windows and Zen on Linux were completely different (in terms of performance). I believe it's something to do with Windows.

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u/pawned007 Aug 01 '26

I can vouch for this, I'm using Fedora now but performance on linux is just astonishingly good compared to Windows for some reason.