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

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Post by basisword »

EnragedParrot wrote: post #13

I'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 t…

>> 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

I think that’s a big assumption.

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

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Post by KlayLay »

hokumguru wrote: post #34

A really interesting factoid about Arc that I'm not sure many know about: their upcoming Windows app is written in Swift and SwiftUI. They've contributed significantly to the language to get it building on Windows and are re-implementing Win native backends for some of Apple's core libraries. All of this will be open source when they're done (or so they claim).

Source for this? SwiftUI depends heavily on Apple/macOS-only APIs, both in use and design.

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

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Post by drunkan »

nine_k wrote: post #44

Pretty nice. Good thing I have Firefox. Using Tree Style Tabs and a few accompanying extensions, I can group my tabs the way I like, fold / expand groups and subgroups, rearrange, etc. Using the Auto Tab Discard extension, I can keep rarely-used tabs offloaded from RAM, so having 200 tabs is not a burden any more. I can also open several Firefox windows, and move tabs around to form topic groups, for instance. I can…

I’m interested to know what extensions you are using?

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

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Post by sylens »

I really like Arc for a few of the reasons mentioned in the article:

- It does the best job at managing multiple profiles that I've seen. You can have a single profile apply to multiple "spaces" or just one profile per space, whatever you want. Makes it really easy to swap back and forth between personal and work.

- The "Peek" functionality when previewing links to tweets or viewing media from Discord is really nicely done and saves your tab list from becoming polluted with temporary browsing

- The pinned tabs functionality has a great little feature that easily lets you reset back to the original page you pinned the tab for. I have a HN pinned tab that I use to browse to comments sections like this one, but if I hover over the favicon, it shows that clicking it will take me "back to pinned tab" or in my case, the HN front page. Really nice hidden functionality.

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

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Post by JohnFen »

joshmanders wrote: post #59
JadeNB wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 we…

> Browsers should just be skins over this unified experience to add their own quirks they want

Oh, no. Please no.

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

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Post by JohnFen »

sylens wrote: post #85

I really like Arc for a few of the reasons mentioned in the article: - It does the best job at managing multiple profiles that I've seen. You can have a single profile apply to multiple "spaces" or just one profile per space, whatever you want. Makes it really easy to swap back and forth between personal and work. - The "Peek" functionality when previewing links to tweets or viewing media from Discord is really nicel…

I don't tend to use tabs much. Is there anything compelling in Arc for users like me?

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

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Post by jonas-w »

KlayLay wrote: post #82
hokumguru wrote: post #34

A really interesting factoid about Arc that I'm not sure many know about: their upcoming Windows app is written in Swift and SwiftUI. They've contributed significantly to the language to get it building on Windows and are re-implementing Win native backends for some of Apple's core libraries. All of this will be open source when they're done (or so they claim).

Source for this? SwiftUI depends heavily on Apple/macOS-only APIs, both in use and design.

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