So it's Microsoft Edge? https://www.howtogeek.com/697986/how-to-enable-and-use-verti...
Vertical tabs was in Opera when it was good, it was probably there a decade ago. Its spiritual successor Vivaldi also has this.
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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Constant crashes that lose open tabs, layout glitches where display gets offset from ui trigger points (including on this site), downloads that just fail / don't work. You'd think that this would have me stop using it, but I really don't want to use Chrome/Brave/DDG so have just been putting up with it.
Anecdotally I've never experienced a single one of those bugs in Firefox on Android as a heavy user.
I second this.
Only use ff mobile and never have any issues
Re: Arc Browser Company: Chrome and Safari face a new challenger
#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
Im a beta tester for this product and it does use Chromium under the hood, pre-bundled with uBlock no less.
I would like to read more about this. Do you have links?
Seeing as its a closed beta, I don't really have any links to any reading material on the app - However here are some screenshots however showing the Chromium pages within Arc Browser and some of the supporting files within the app bundle.
https://imgur.com/a/DXE1x0m
Re: Arc Browser Company: Chrome and Safari face a new challenger
#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
Firefox on desktop is pertty solid, despite some controversial decisions. Firedox on android has a lot of issues.
Which ones? On principle, I never use chrome on android. Am I missing some killer feature?
Firefox has image rescaling that doesn't blow chunks at non-integer scales.
For example scaling up the page 120% to be able to more easily read text that the designer made too small doesn't turn all the images on the page into a blurry mess like it does on Chrome.
I've tried reporting bug reports to the Chromium project, but they can't seem to understand the concept and keep misfiling the reports as duplicates of irrelevant bugs and closing them as fixed without having fixed the problem.
Re: Arc Browser Company: Chrome and Safari face a new challenger
#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which ones? On principle, I never use chrome on android. Am I missing some killer feature?
Constant crashes that lose open tabs, layout glitches where display gets offset from ui trigger points (including on this site), downloads that just fail / don't work. You'd think that this would have me stop using it, but I really don't want to use Chrome/Brave/DDG so have just been putting up with it.
I rarely find any of those things. I mean, it does crash, but once every six months, which I don't see as constant.
Hehe, we are on the same boat about not using other browsers. I have been use firefox for the last 18 years, I will continue to do so.
Re: Arc Browser Company: Chrome and Safari face a new challenger
#136>A Startup Wants to Rescue You From Browser Tab Hell Vivaldi, Edge and Firefox already do this with vertical tabs. Vivaldi also has the excellent tab search.
Checkout Fast Tab Switcher in firefox. Far preferable to vertical tabs. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fast-tab-swit...
You can also search your open tabs in Firefox's address bar by first typing % in the address bar: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/search-open-tabs-firefo...
Re: Arc Browser Company: Chrome and Safari face a new challenger
#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The majority of browsers that were commercially closed software didn’t make it Keep in mind that the last time this was tried, free/open-source alternatives were on-par if not better and the web was much less hostile. Nowadays, not only is the web teeming with hostility that can best be addressed by a browser, but the closest free/open-source solution (Firefox) is half-baked and doesn't actually solve many of these…
"Half-baked" means Firefox adopts slogans like "protecting the open web" and it purports to represent the interests of web users, however its true goals are to generally to match Chrome feature-for-feature and preserve the status quo on the web which is that it provides an optimal medium for advertising. It gets over 90% of its financial support from Google, not web users. From the comments some people's idea of a fu…
An Electron-like framework using Servo would be great! I opened an issue on that repo and Mozilla said no.
Then they fired a bunch of people so…welp.
Re: Arc Browser Company: Chrome and Safari face a new challenger
#138I will tell you what: I like they are trying something new. I'm not sure if it is gonna work, but if we stop to think, the last invention on web browsing user interface was the tabs, and maybe tab grouping more recently, but like they were invented in the 90s, so it's nice to see some someone trying something new, some new approach.
Re: Arc Browser Company: Chrome and Safari face a new challenger
#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would like to read more about this. Do you have links?
Seeing as its a closed beta, I don't really have any links to any reading material on the app - However here are some screenshots however showing the Chromium pages within Arc Browser and some of the supporting files within the app bundle. https://imgur.com/a/DXE1x0m
Thanks for the snapshots and info.
Re: Arc Browser Company: Chrome and Safari face a new challenger
#140"Arc Browser" is just Chromium + uBlock + some GUI enhancements I really wish that articles about "new browsers" should state up front what (if anything) they are built on top of. Each time I am hopeful that someone has taken on the monumental task of creating a new, better, or at least different web engine/ browser. The competition would be good. The near impossible complexity in writing a new web browser from scrat…
> Each time I am hopeful that someone has taken on the monumental task of creating a new, better, or at least different web engine/ browser. The competition would be good. What would be the benefit of having a browser with a new web engine?
> What would be the benefit of having a browser with a new web engine?
It would be beneficial if it can be more easily modified and customized and the pieces can be taken apart and used independently or combined differently. Furthermore, some parts might be able to be made more efficient in some ways.
And then, actual progress and actual improvements can be made; to be improved would mean some things might need deliberately differently, etc. This way it can be one design mainly or only for advanced users who are assumed to know what they are doing, etc.