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Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company
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#112Would Atlassian be building a agentic version for their AI Coding agent - Rovo.
What a cursed thought.
Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company
#113Arc Browser is an excellent "what could have been" story. The UI came together amazingly fast, there was excellent posts every week with updates from the project lead, and it felt fresh and exciting. It would be an amazing open source project, but there just not a good way to monetize it. There's no other browser, including newer projects like Zen, with a better ui. I would strongly encourage Atlassian to open source Arc.
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#114Atlassian owns: jira, confluence, trello, bitbucket, loom, and a couple of other small products It doesn’t feel like a strong strategic or product fit. These are all complex power user products meant to serve enterprises at scale. Integration doesn’t seem useful either. Bummer but congrats to the team!
Atlassian broke both Trello and Bitbucket for me, so at least, thanks for acquiring these browsers before I got a chance to get attached?
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#115Atlassian owns: jira, confluence, trello, bitbucket, loom, and a couple of other small products It doesn’t feel like a strong strategic or product fit. These are all complex power user products meant to serve enterprises at scale. Integration doesn’t seem useful either. Bummer but congrats to the team!
Arc will probably become a product for Atlassian paying users
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
> let's invent a "secure enterprise browser", because there's too much interoperability on the web Enterprise browsers are an existing category, and even Google offers an enterprise version of Chrome. The idea of an enterprise browser is that all of the interoperability that has been built has been between the desktop and web servers. Most desktop browsers don't have many features that allow an organization to manage…
Enterprise Chrome is just regular Chrome with remote policy enforcement. It isn't a different browser.
From an engineering perspective, most browsers are "pretty much just Chrome(ium)", but that's not what I'm talking about here. The delivery mechanism isn't really relevant from a product perspective. It is a different product with a different price and different features.
Also, my point was just just say that there's a market for something like this. Chrome Enterprise is not even really that competitive of a product in the space.
For the most part, default Chrome and Firefox are designed primarily for B2C use cases.
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#117What was the Browser Company even doing? First they had a successful consumer product with Arc as a Chrome clone, then they decided to shut it down for...a whole new browser called Dia that essentially acted as a browser extension that so many vibe coded clones were made of?
What was even the point of all this roundabout engineering and the time and manpower to do so? What a waste. This seems more like an acquihire than actually about IP.
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#118I've been trying to find a Chrome replacement since they finally cut the cord on manifest v2. I know Firefox is the "right" option, and I'm fully in favour of chipping away at Chromium marketshare (even if the EU is determined to solidify it further with demands of Apple to allow non-Safari rendering in iOS) but I've used it in the past, and even if it's fine 99% of the time, there is that occasional website that has…
Vivaldi has a built in adblocker, no crapware, and is by the original founder of Opera. Also based on Chromium. My personal fav right now.
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#119Alas the last piece of information falls into place