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Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by sevensor »

mananaysiempre wrote: post #108
cwrichardkim wrote: post #66

Atlassian 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!

Thus far I’ve found Jira’s AI features to be basically nonsensical (and they’re constantly annoying me with downright childish amounts of bling, like if you asked a five-year-old to design a product box). So that seems perfectly in character. All right, there’s a related-tickets feature that could have been great (witness the related-questions feature on Stack Overflow’s ask page, widely acknowledged to search better…

> Jira’s AI features to be basically nonsensical

Unlike its other features?

Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by Reagan_Ridley »

nicoka11 wrote: post #105
jimmydoe wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Zen is nice. Arc is still irreplaceable for its true separation of tab and window, it’s like tmux for browser, I haven’t seen any other browser do that.

Actually you can do it in chrome (having multiple profiles basically), but yeah nowhere as good as arc is, i'm using zen rn but still very sad for arc, I have some hopes they bring back arc to life (either directly or inside of Dia)

I think the one you replied to was referring the fact that Arc can have multiple windows (terminal) "attach" to same tab (tmux session), that has nothing to do with profile.

Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by crowcroft »

The strategic insight behind Arc was perfect – your browser IS the Operating System, and so we should build a browser that can function as that platform.

Arc had pretty good market validation with early adopters, they say that growth was flattened out but IMO that's normal for most products, and it's up to the company to find out WHY growth flattened and then solve that problem. Not kill the product and chase some entirely new idea about AI.

I wouldn't be surprised if the investors were fed up with the business and wanted out, pretty good exit all things considered.

Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by Reagan_Ridley »

whalesalad wrote: post #86
sniffers wrote: post #60

Building Dia was such a colossal mistake, and the folks running TBCNY seem to not understand. They believe they are reinventing the wheel, and every time I hear them talk I cringe.

Selling for over half a billion dollars sounds like zero mistakes were made.

Dia was built for VC, no user will really like it.

Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by [deleted] »

exabrial wrote: post #155

Arc brwoser literally required "creating an account" in order to... download text files (html) over a TCP socket, off the internet, and parse/display them. It could have been awesome. But this stopped me dead in my tracks. Hard pass and I gave them no recommendations to anyone.

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Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by Waraqa »

jshchnz wrote: post #141

$610M, all cash??? How were they worth that much... all they seemed to ever do was rebrand

"Arc isn’t just a Chromium fork. It runs on custom infrastructure we call ADK — the Arc Development Kit. Think of it as an internal SDK for building browsers (especially those with imaginative interfaces). That’s our secret sauce. It lets ex-iOS engineers prototype native browser UI quickly, without touching C++."

https://open.substack.com/pub/browsercompany/p/letter-to-arc...

Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by jlarocco »

edoceo wrote: post #170
pezgrande wrote: post #163

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Am I the only one having isses with Firefox on Linux? While playing videos the image sometimes freeze and the audio keeps playing. Ironically the best media-player so far has been Edge, even chrome have some issues. All installed from Fedora discovery store, so prob related to Flatpak packaging.

I'm on Gentoo using the firefox-bin package - things work great. Spotify all day, YouTubes, Vimeo, Zoom - even Teams works.

Yeah, same on Debian.

Even Teams video calls work fine. A lot of times it works better than the Windows client I use at work.

Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by Sebguer »

alberth wrote: post #156
ivanjermakov wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would anyone acquire a company that made a successful VSCode fork or a wrapped Chromium browser? I expect these people making such decisions to be far from understanding tech behind it.

Cursor is a VSCode fork, generating reported $500M+ in revenue and is only a couple years old. https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/05/cursors-anysphere-nabs-9-9...

Yes, and the person you are replying to is clearly referencing Windsurf which was another vscode fork...

Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by cryptozeus »

crowcroft wrote: post #173

The strategic insight behind Arc was perfect – your browser IS the Operating System, and so we should build a browser that can function as that platform. Arc had pretty good market validation with early adopters, they say that growth was flattened out but IMO that's normal for most products, and it's up to the company to find out WHY growth flattened and then solve that problem. Not kill the product and chase some en…

100% on point, classic case of drinking ai cool aid and killing what users wanted
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