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Arc Will Change the Way You Work on the Web
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Re: Arc Will Change the Way You Work on the Web
#12Been using it for months for work and play and haven't looked back. It prevents accumulating tabs infinitely, and has a number of quality of life improvements that I now can't live without
I concur. Strangely enough for me to say — Arc changed the way I look at browsers. The UX is so much different and enjoyable. Not sure I want to get back to another browser after that. Now that I think of it — I might even be ready to pay for it. Yep, the change is that significant to me.
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#13I've tried Arc and have since reverted back to Firefox. It has a bunch of features I like, but one huge drawback that kind of kills it for me. Arc gives you persistent tabs across all open windows, and you wind up with (whether you want to or not) numerous open windows. That means I have to sift through 5+ open windows of identical tabs just to find the one window with the tab containing the Reddit comment I was in the middle of writing.
It ends up being more hassle than it's worth. Most of us use multiple windows to divide up separate, short-term pieces of work that we don't really need to persist very long, and Arc just doesn't deal with this scenario well at all. I think the only solution would be to somehow sync the state of all tabs across all windows (so my half-written Reddit comment appears in the same Reddit tab in every window).
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#14I had dismissed this as yet another tab management browser widget thingy, but I took a closer look at it. To me, what is really standout, is what they have done with "spaces." They are basically profiles, which is something no browser currently does well. Ultimately it comes down to being a cookie manager to an extent. I love the idea that I can have different accounts for various projects, and when I switch between…
Sidebery for Firefox is integrated with profiles pretty well.
In general, the article seems to be an overly excited marketing pitch for yet another closed source Chromium-based browser, the main feature of which seems to be a... vertical tab bar? Which seems to be mimicking Sidebery to a close degree? Underwhelming.
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#17> We’ve raised over $17 million dollars from a diverse group that includes the founders of Instagram, Stripe, Twitter, Zoom, Figma, and LinkedIn.
https://thebrowser.company/#15
> We may also de-identify or anonymize Personal Data to further our legitimate interests.
https://start.arc.net/privacy-rights-by-region
Closed source, as far as I could tell.
It looks like a really nice product but the combination of these little factoids and their divergence from claims made on the browser's primary marketing website does leave me feeling a little bit uneasy.
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#19I think Arc is an interesting browser, but not groundbreaking enough.
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#20This looks a lot like a combination of several Firefox addons made to work well together. Sideberry combined with the ideas behind Panorama (which nobody else seems to remember) offer a lot of these features it seems.
Looks Apple-only though, so I guess I'll never know the difference.