The Browser Company’s Darin Fisher thinks it’s time to reinvent the browser
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#2I'm glad to see Darin working solely on the browser, and excited to see him in the SWE role!
When I was working on Chrome I had a strange leftover 1:1 with him (was a VP at that point.) He always impressed me with the deep understanding of the Chromium code stack and he did unblock my work as a SWE with that - An example: At at time I was struggling with an extra latency some callback incurred. He rightly pointed out that the other one (that backs the JS microtask) had smaller latency...and that was right! My problem was solved, by a VP, in the code!
Clearly he was wasting his time as a high-level manager, but I loved that fact. And that's why I cannot help but cheer this move.
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#3am i taking crazy pills?
> Arc, which has been in an invite-only beta for more than a year, is trying to rethink the whole browser UI
no one is ever going to dethrone chrome unless they start selling hardware filled with their crapware at a loss solely to suck ppl into the ecosystem and/or start giving away laptops as fast as possible for the same reasons
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no one is ever going to compete with firefox or brave on UI alone, because the ppl that have the wherewithal to move away from the edge and chrome apps that are thrust upon them with every hardware purchase, care more about if your shit is secure and privacy respecting than if your 'tabs are on the left' :|
> he thinks browsers are due for a reinvention — and why he thinks a startup is the best place to do it
ah yes, a loss-leading category of software is best done at cash-strapped startups... wonder where the revenue will come from
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#4Because it outdated
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#6am i taking crazy pills? > Arc, which has been in an invite-only beta for more than a year, is trying to rethink the whole browser UI no one is ever going to dethrone chrome unless they start selling hardware filled with their crapware at a loss solely to suck ppl into the ecosystem and/or start giving away laptops as fast as possible for the same reasons & no one is ever going to compete with firefox or brave on UI…
Nobody thought anybody could dethrone IE when Firefox came around. I don't think the goal of Arc is to be the browser that everybody uses, so much to be a useful browser for a lot of power-users.
With the industry standardizing (for better or worse) on a handful of rendering engines, it's not a big stretch to imagine a world where you can choose between different browsers and still experience the same web as everybody else (as opposed to the days past where choosing a niche browser meant accepting a worse web).
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#7am i taking crazy pills? > Arc, which has been in an invite-only beta for more than a year, is trying to rethink the whole browser UI no one is ever going to dethrone chrome unless they start selling hardware filled with their crapware at a loss solely to suck ppl into the ecosystem and/or start giving away laptops as fast as possible for the same reasons & no one is ever going to compete with firefox or brave on UI…
Nobody thought anybody could dethrone IE when Firefox came around. I don't think the goal of Arc is to be the browser that everybody uses, so much to be a useful browser for a lot of power-users. With the industry standardizing (for better or worse) on a handful of rendering engines, it's not a big stretch to imagine a world where you can choose between different browsers and still experience the same web as everybod…
> to be a useful browser for a lot of power-users
fair, but in that case they should be showcasing their security and privacy focused initiatives, and their source of angel funding...
otherwise how will it be anything other than spyware crap that funds itself by selling your data??
no group of power users will flock to a new browser without any transparency on the above
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#8am i taking crazy pills? > Arc, which has been in an invite-only beta for more than a year, is trying to rethink the whole browser UI no one is ever going to dethrone chrome unless they start selling hardware filled with their crapware at a loss solely to suck ppl into the ecosystem and/or start giving away laptops as fast as possible for the same reasons & no one is ever going to compete with firefox or brave on UI…
I can only speak for myself but I personally would switch to a fast, open source browser if it came within a set of built in and trusted features. Those include: adblock, Privacy features, fleshed out developer tools, better bookmark management, proper session management etc.
Chome/FF are fine and all but I wouldn't mind trying out a browser that rethinks the way things are done. Especially considering how much resources Chrome/FF currently eats up with the ~15 tabs I have open at any point.
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#10The most striking, and maybe obvious statement, the design of chrome the goal being to drive people to search in google. But of course! I suppose an ancillary design and usage goal is usage tracking in some form as well.