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Thoughts on Arc Browser

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Re: Thoughts on Arc Browser

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Post by jnrk »

r_singh wrote: post #66
satvikpendem wrote: post #15

I've used it, it's fine I guess, nothing super outstanding. I don't want to be that guy on HN, but the way they market themselves as being some revolution in browsing while simply wrapping Chrome like others like Vivaldi (which also has a lot of customization), Edge, Opera etc is not that interesting. It's even less so when I would lose adblocking due to Manifest v3 because, really, how long will these browser makers…

It’s next to unusable for me, still using Safari + Firefox.

> It’s next to unusable for me [...]

May I ask why?

Re: Thoughts on Arc Browser

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Post by mozball »

bananarchist wrote: post #80
thatloststudent wrote: post #35

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Tree style tab [0] exists, and you can change Firefox's userChrome.css [1] to hide the tab bar. To make old tabs sleep (not quite delete, but close), use Auto Tab Discard [2]. 0 - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta... 1 - https://gist.github.com/akersten/8fa7d36960b10c5ae18c01ada3d... 2 - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-tab-disc...

I don't use extensions

You should. The extensions mentioned by parent comment are mozilla 'recommended'. i.e. manually reviewed and vetted by Mozilla.

Re: Thoughts on Arc Browser

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Post by tontonius »

tontonius wrote: post #57

Got invited this summer and was a bit skeptic at first (been trying different browsers on and off for the last couple of years). I knew nothing about the browser and had no real expectations. I have to say I was a bit impressed by the onboarding, the UX, and the attention to detail. (Perhaps because I work in UX) Thought I'd try it for a week before eventually switching back to Chrome because of some missing feature…

in case anyone of you ever come back to this thread lol

https://arc.net/gift/1138fc8b

Re: Thoughts on Arc Browser

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Post by Gbox4 »

Fnoord wrote: post #44
imbnwa wrote: post #32

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Isn't this what XUL was? Admitedly I'm aware its arch was too complex to compete with Chromium's speed and security features, but way before Electron, I was using desktop apps built with XUL like Songbird for my music app, as well as a Twitter client whose name I can't recall now (of course, Thunderbird as well). Maybe they threw the baby out with the bath water a little bit by electing to concede to WebExtensions AP…

You can make PWAs of nearly every page. I do this to make 'apps' of Netflix and such. Don't have offline storage though, but at least you don't need the Electron stuff and you decide the extensions it runs (uBlock is a welcome candidate). There's also containers in Firefox.

How do you do this? Do you wrap the website with a PWA-friendly HTML template, then load the desired website in an iframe?

Re: Thoughts on Arc Browser

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Post by r_singh »

jnrk wrote: post #81
r_singh wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s next to unusable for me, still using Safari + Firefox.

> It’s next to unusable for me [...] May I ask why?

Btw, it's improved a lot since I used it for the first time! Cool, can use it for a few activities now :)
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