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Arc Browser Company: Chrome and Safari face a new challenger

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Re: Arc Browser Company: Chrome and Safari face a new challenger

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Post by ushakov »

agluszak wrote: post #34

> wide address bars wasting valuable space across the top of the screen to display what he calls “URL gibberish.” That's not "gibberish", in my opinion understanding what URLs mean (or even reading them at all!) is one of the most overlooked computer skills nowadays. If they look like gibberish that's because of: 1. Tracking parameters spam (?fbclid=qwerty) 2. Lack of knowledge that many parts of the URL can (and eve…

the issue is they have to sell this to the investors

what do they answer when investors ask a typical: "What makes you different from competition?"

their answer is: "We don't waste valuable space across the top of the screen to display URL gibberish"

the article is for business people, who could potentially invest into their Series A round, not for us tech people

Re: Arc Browser Company: Chrome and Safari face a new challenger

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Post by nskvortsov »

Browser tab problem is not about the web or the browser, it is about users' habits and discipline. If you suffer from this "problem" invest time in learning shortcuts for bookmark, typing to search history in the address bar, saving things in proper place for later reading and, above all, concentrate on one thing for more than 5 minutes.

Re: Arc Browser Company: Chrome and Safari face a new challenger

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Post by ushakov »

geogra4 wrote: post #28
225beef wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Im a beta tester for this product and it does use Chromium under the hood, pre-bundled with uBlock no less.

Well then it doesn't seem so groundbreaking then

i'd have liked to be a fly on the wall when they pitched this to the investors

Re: Arc Browser Company: Chrome and Safari face a new challenger

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Post by [deleted] »

agluszak wrote: post #34

> wide address bars wasting valuable space across the top of the screen to display what he calls “URL gibberish.” That's not "gibberish", in my opinion understanding what URLs mean (or even reading them at all!) is one of the most overlooked computer skills nowadays. If they look like gibberish that's because of: 1. Tracking parameters spam (?fbclid=qwerty) 2. Lack of knowledge that many parts of the URL can (and eve…

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Re: Arc Browser Company: Chrome and Safari face a new challenger

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Post by pvg »

nskvortsov wrote: post #42

Browser tab problem is not about the web or the browser, it is about users' habits and discipline. If you suffer from this "problem" invest time in learning shortcuts for bookmark, typing to search history in the address bar, saving things in proper place for later reading and, above all, concentrate on one thing for more than 5 minutes.

At the end of the day, it's a browser, not a boot camp. If user re-education worked designing software (and most other things) would be a lot easier.

Re: Arc Browser Company: Chrome and Safari face a new challenger

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Post by gman83 »

agluszak wrote: post #34

> wide address bars wasting valuable space across the top of the screen to display what he calls “URL gibberish.” That's not "gibberish", in my opinion understanding what URLs mean (or even reading them at all!) is one of the most overlooked computer skills nowadays. If they look like gibberish that's because of: 1. Tracking parameters spam (?fbclid=qwerty) 2. Lack of knowledge that many parts of the URL can (and eve…

At the same time, I think that more than 90% of people that I know have absolutely no idea how to read a URL, and are not going to learn. I think that just showing the domain for them wouldn't be so bad. I don't think I'm the target audience for this browser.

Re: Arc Browser Company: Chrome and Safari face a new challenger

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Post by kbyatnal »

why are all these comments so negative? I, for one, am very excited that talented developers and designers are reimagining such a core part of everyone's daily workflow. The embedded calendar / music player (along with auto archived tabs) is very cool - not sure how well it'll work in practice, but it's clear the team has put their heart into this. And more competition for Google/Apple is always good.
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