$610M, all cash??? How were they worth that much... all they seemed to ever do was rebrand
Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company
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Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company
#142Building 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.
why does everything need to be about making macho bucks? Make a good product and support it long term, don't sell out just to fill your pockets
Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company
#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hey, give them a break. Arc is like... 2 years old. You can't expect anyone to maintain legacy code THAT OLD! That's like 17 hot new frameworks out of date!
yea, I guess Google, Microsoft, Apple and Mozilla also ditch their work after only two years as well... Also 2 years or even 4 years is not that long at all
I'm not a mind reader but I think the post you replied to was sarcasm.
Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company
#144Imagine, a browser with the polished experience and performance of Jira
The one ticket Jira would never get? A speeding ticket.
Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company
#145What 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 t…
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.
In The Browser Company’s case, they have a lot of engineers who work on Chromium. Not sure about the other wrapper companies!
Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company
#146What 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 t…
> What was the Browser Company even doing?
Probably something like this all along.
If you have investors, and give away for free a product that costs a lot of money to develop, there is surely a strategy for those investors to get their money back, plus a lot more.
It doesn't always work, of course. But it seems to have worked well in this case.
Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company
#147I've switched to Zen browser recently (I like it's spaces and folder structure to organize work on a daily basis, same as Arc). fFox nightly is not there yet but it's getting close with tabs on the left..
I’m hopeful for Zen, not just as a successor for Arc but as a Gecko-based browser that sweats the small details. I appreciate that Firefox exists but it’s got a number of rough edges that’ve seemingly been forgotten.
One thing I noticed shortly after when I initially switch Arc a couple years ago from Firefox, ads were more targeted at me and I definitely felt more tracked online. I started using Zen Browser at work because they blocked Arc for Windows (Zen blocked as well but I can run the Twilight build without being blocked :D) and the more I used it I just like it better than Arc in general and it was nice to be back to using Firefox again. When Arc went into maintenance mode it was just that last thing to finally get me to move off of it and over to Zen everywhere.
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#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
What about ignoring that 0.1% of the websites that are so badly made they don't work on firefox? Do they really deserve your attention?
Sometimes yes. That 0.1% of sites could be me trying to buy a movie ticket or something. I'm not gonna cancel plans with a friend to see a movie because I need to protest Google that badly.
Did that really happen or is that theorical? I've never been unable to buy a ticket on firefox.
Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company
#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
Selling for over half a billion dollars sounds like zero mistakes were made.
why does everything need to be about making macho bucks? Make a good product and support it long term, don't sell out just to fill your pockets
When someone comes knocking on your door with a check for $610 million let me know if you have the restraint to say no and go back to work.
Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company
#150What a shame! I've loved Arc, haven't been able to give it up even though it's now maintenance-only. It was nearly dead, I'm sure Atlassian will finish it off.