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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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Is there any reason that they couldn't build this ui on top of chrome? I've seen quite a lot of chrome based browsers with interesting uis

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

So it's just another Chrome skin with rearranged tabs. Jeezus.

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

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It's hard to read articles with this unabashed of a tone, feels like much of the company's own claims are uncritically re-printed.

As they say, if no one in the article is mad that it's printed, it's PR, not news

Google might be mad given the accusations that Chrome features are killed if they lower Google searches.

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

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

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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.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which issues do Firefox fail to solve?

I frequently cannot log in to my bank with Firefox. The problem is that my bank's website was made by a bank, but as a Firefox user this impacts me in my daily life.

Conversely, one of my banks returns a server error if you visit from Chrome. Their "solution" was to put a banner at the top advising an alternate browser.

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

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Darn, I was hoping this would be about https://arc.io. I know it's not very popular on hn because "how dare they use my bandwidth and cpu" but I think it's really cool. A viable business model for websites that doesn't require cramming things full of ads.

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

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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.

beyond a slightly different UI, there's nothing you can "reimagine" in a web browser

embedding third-party services is a feature that is prone to break often

Chrome became the #1 because it was technically advanced (faster) but more importantly - endorsed by a search giant

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I frequently cannot log in to my bank with Firefox. The problem is that my bank's website was made by a bank, but as a Firefox user this impacts me in my daily life.

How would this be solved by an up and coming browser that isn’t based off Blink/Chromium and why can’t Firefox do the solution?

at least according to this article from last year Arc is chromium based.

https://www.protocol.com/browser-company

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

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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.

This mindset/rant does not work in the real world. When a large enterprise company tried it, (Apple), they were widely mocked for blaming users for “holding it wrong”.

It is not up to developers to determine how users use their tools. The best you can do is hint and nudge, but it is not your decision at the end of the day.

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