How to Create a New Workspace in Zen Browser

Pressing Ctrl+Shift+A (Windows/Linux) or Cmd+Shift+A (Mac) — the specific binding has shifted somewhat across Zen releases — opens a prompt for creating a new Workspace, Zen's concept of a separate, named collection of tabs kept fully isolated from every other Workspace in the same browser window. **What a Workspace actually is**: unlike a bookmark folder or a grouped set of tabs within one shared list, a Workspace holds its own genuinely independent tab set — closing every tab within one Workspace has zero effect on tabs open in any other Workspace. Switching Workspaces replaces the entire visible tab set at once, closer conceptually to switching between separate browsing sessions than to simply scrolling through a longer combined tab list. **Naming and customizing a new Workspace**: the creation prompt typically asks for a name and, in most builds, lets you choose an accent color and icon, which then visually distinguishes that Workspace in the sidebar — useful for telling several Workspaces apart at a glance rather than relying purely on remembering which one is which by name alone. **A genuinely common use case**: separating a work context from personal browsing, or separating several distinct ongoing projects that each accumulate their own cluster of reference tabs, keeping each one from bleeding into and cluttering the others. A Workspace created for a specific short-term project can also simply be closed entirely once that project wraps up, without needing to individually identify and close each of its tabs from within a larger, mixed tab list the way you would in a single-Workspace browser. **Switching to the Workspace you just created**: once created, moving to it uses the next/previous Workspace shortcuts (covered on the workspaces category page) or clicking it directly in the sidebar, cycling through however many Workspaces you've built up in whatever order they were created. **How many Workspaces you can create**: there's no meaningfully restrictive limit in current Zen builds — the practical ceiling is really about how many distinct contexts are genuinely useful to keep separate before the switching overhead itself starts outweighing the organizational benefit, which for most users lands somewhere between two and five active Workspaces rather than dozens. **Related settings**: the sidebar toggle (Ctrl+B / Cmd+B) controls whether Workspaces and their tabs are visible at all as a vertical panel, and Compact mode (covered in its own action page) affects how much visual space each Workspace entry takes up within that sidebar once several exist side by side. **Deleting or renaming a Workspace later**: both are handled through the Workspace's own context menu (typically a right-click on its entry in the sidebar) rather than a dedicated keyboard shortcut — worth knowing that creating a Workspace isn't a one-way commitment; renaming it or accent-coloring it differently later is just as easy as the initial creation step. **Checking current bindings for your version**: because Workspaces are a genuinely actively developed part of Zen relative to its Firefox-inherited shortcuts, the exact default combination for creating and switching between them changes more often than Zen's stable Firefox-inherited bindings do — treat Zen's own in-app keyboard shortcuts settings page as the definitive source for your specific installed version rather than assuming any external reference stays current.