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Re: Arc Will Change the Way You Work on the Web

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Post by a13o »

anhner wrote: post #9

NOTHING mentioned on this page can't be done natively or with extensions in other browsers. What is so revolutionary about it? And I won't even mention the landing page for the browser itself which is just 2 page scrolls of "Arc is a browser and more..." with signup links for the wainting list, no description of what it is, what it does, nothing.

The article's main claim is that Arc is the most transformative software in decades, plural, which takes us to a time before Google Maps existed, before all smartphone apps existed, and before online banking was ubiquitous. It's safe to say this article was written from somewhere on the hype curve.

Re: Arc Will Change the Way You Work on the Web

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Post by peatmoss »

JadeNB wrote: post #27
theshrike79 wrote: post #5

Arc is still just a fancy Chrome front-end. I refuse to use Chrome-based browsers just to keep things non-monocultural on the web. Even though I do know it's a losing battle.

> I refuse to use Chrome-based browsers just to keep things non-monocultural on the web. Even though I do know it's a losing battle. It was a losing battle to make anything other than Internet Explorer a first-class citizen on the web—until the alternatives became so much better that users and developers switched because they wanted to, not because they should. (Which is to say, keep up the fight—today's it a Google…

I remember the bad old days of IE dominance. For this reason I’m on Firefox at work and home. I don’t want to go back.

Re: Arc Will Change the Way You Work on the Web

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Post by aestetix »

orbital-decay wrote: post #14
aestetix wrote: post #8

I 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.

I had not heard of Sidebery, I'll have to check it out. Thanks!

Re: Arc Will Change the Way You Work on the Web

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Post by Toutouxc »

xrd wrote: post #46

OSX only right now, eh? Anyone on Linux replicated what is special about Arc? At first glance, I'm assuming this requires shifting my usage patterns, which sounds painful, though the rave reviews so far do indicate it is worth it. But, I wish there was a more granular breakdown of the problem statement and how they solve it. Auto-closing tabs sounds very scary and very interesting.

> OSX only right now, eh?

Right now yes, but also this [0]. Also, the OS hasn't been called "OS X" since 2016.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/ArcBrowser/comments/135rznb/arc_on_...

Re: Arc Will Change the Way You Work on the Web

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Post by gumballindie »

krono wrote: post #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 li…

If i could get even 1$ for reskinning chrome i would be so happy.

Re: Arc Will Change the Way You Work on the Web

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Post by solarkraft »

_cenw wrote: post #25

Arc is pretty unique in that is does away with bookmarks and instead sorts your tabs into three "tiers" - Favorites, pretty much like pinned tabs in every other browser, but these feel more durable, accidentally navigating away is not a thing and Arc doesn't really open multiple windows. - Pinned, which are bookmarks and tabs at the same time. - Today, which are ephemeral tabs that are automatically purged after 12 h…

Hey, nice, that's something I've waited for for a while!

I hope they'll eventually publish the code (when the company dies or something), so that I can use it.

Re: Arc Will Change the Way You Work on the Web

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Post by joshmanders »

JadeNB wrote: post #27
theshrike79 wrote: post #5

Arc is still just a fancy Chrome front-end. I refuse to use Chrome-based browsers just to keep things non-monocultural on the web. Even though I do know it's a losing battle.

> I refuse to use Chrome-based browsers just to keep things non-monocultural on the web. Even though I do know it's a losing battle. It was a losing battle to make anything other than Internet Explorer a first-class citizen on the web—until the alternatives became so much better that users and developers switched because they wanted to, not because they should. (Which is to say, keep up the fight—today's it a Google…

I'm really on the fence because I don't want a Google owned web, but at the same time, IMHO Chromium is the superior browser engine out there. I'd like to see it be pulled out of their control (donated by them willingly) and put into maybe like a browser foundation where all major browsers that are built on top of it vote and get a say in how it goes, just like most foundations.

I'd rather we have a single unified web experience than hacking around various browser engines to display on our sites.

Browsers should just be skins over this unified experience to add their own quirks they want, be it Google login shit or Microsoft's shit or even Brave's crypto shit.

Re: Arc Will Change the Way You Work on the Web

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Post by gibspaulding »

H12 wrote: post #36

I've been using Arc on my personal machine for a couple months now, and my favorite feature is one that surprised me: Tab persistence is opt-in Meaning that, unless you explicitly pin a tab, or stick it in a folder you create, it will get automatically closed after some period of time (in practice for me this meant between browsing sessions). Initially this surprised and annoyed me, but over time it prodded me to be…

It's been interesting seeing tab persistence slowly become the default in recent years. I've never quite understood it. Maybe it's just my way of coping with some sort of mild undiagnosed ADD, but if I open my browser for one thing and something else pops up I tend to forget what the first thing was so I've always set my browser up to open a single tab to about:blank (or at least some sort of blank page. It's gotten more complicated recently). It's always interesting to see how other people's brains work, but also validating to hear I'm not the only one with a need for "tidier browsing habits".
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