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Re: Arc Browser 1.0

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Post by gcanyon »

I've used Arc probably 90% of the time for the past two months. One thing that I haven't seen mentioned anywhere (even in their literature): it's very lightweight on memory usage.

I've noticed recently that Safari uses 1/3 to 2/3 of a gigabyte for each youtube tab, or gmail, or .

Arc uses roughly 25% of that.

Also, Arc's efficiency as tabs build up seems to grow faster than Safari's although that's harder to quantify. But in concrete terms, Safari puts my M1 Air's memory into the yellow in activity monitor almost immediately. Arc regularly stays green with 20-30 tabs open.

There are other nice things to consider, but that's huge for me.

Re: Arc Browser 1.0

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Post by webmobdev »

unshavedyak wrote: post #133
Terretta wrote: post #126

In case you are interested in a wrapper for WebKit instead of for Chromium, but one that lets you use your favorite Chrome and Firefox extensions: Orion Browser by Kagi: Very fast. Zero telemetry. Lightweight, natively built with WebKit, made for you and your Mac. Industry-leading battery life, privacy respecting by design and native support for web extensions. Orion supports Firefox and Chrome browser extensions nat…

Can't wait for Orion to support Linux. As a Kagi subscriber it makes me feel salty, even though i understand focusing initial scope haha.

Try Palemoon - it is a decent multi-platform hard fork of Firefox with better privacy preserving options.

Re: Arc Browser 1.0

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Post by rogerclark »

thiht wrote: post #114

I’ve used Arc as my main browser on my work laptop for the last few months and I love it! It solves pain points I’ve actively tried to solve with Firefox, but couldn’t. It’s no surprise HN is skeptical about « yet another browser », so here’s what I like specifically about Arc: - it supports tab tiling. I can see 2 tabs next to one another easily. This is NOT solved with window tiling, it’s clunky and clutters the sp…

Arc is pretty good. The vertical tabs are great, and the same tab list appears in all other windows you have open. For someone who easily loses track of tabs, this helps dramatically, and prevents the situation where you have multiple windows open, each with similar tabs.

The other great feature is the "Little Arc" window that appears when opening links in other apps. This lets you check something out, close the window, and resume what you were doing, preventing you from getting sucked into the Web and away from the conversation you were having.

I don't find much else compelling, but these are both really nice. For some reason, I don't care at all about the tiling system or the Boosts feature (modifying pages to remove elements, change fonts, etc) even though people talk about those a lot. If they can think of one or two more really useful features (and communicate them properly on the website) then they'll gain a lot of users.

At least, they'll gain a lot of users on the Mac. The biggest downside is the lack of Windows and Linux support. They're working on Windows. I don't see them doing Linux at all, but who knows.

Re: Arc Browser 1.0

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Post by mishac »

KomoD wrote: post #101
bronxpockfabz wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why? Of course so they can have their "registered users" count as high as possible to get another round of VC funding, so that they can drag this thing all the way to the IPO and get a nice and fat exit :)

And then after all that the enshittification begins, unfortunately.

requiring an account on day one makes me wary that the whole thing is pre-enshitified.

Re: Arc Browser 1.0

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Post by jdgoesmarching »

thiht wrote: post #159
prmoustache wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would you want your browser to manage themes and window management (tiling, links outside of web) while it is the job of the OS/desktop environment?

Because I disagree on that

This made me laugh, it’s a perfect response to someone stating a preference as if it were a law of computing.

Re: Arc Browser 1.0

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Post by toyg »

basisword wrote: post #122
toyg wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The way some people can raise tens of millions on absolute vaporware, in 2023, continues to astonish me.

It’s a fully functioning publicly released product. That’s the opposite of vaporware.

They started raising in 2020 for a browser, a no-hope project in a commoditized consumer market dominated by giants with strong network effects. The software might not be vapor but the money will definitely be.

Re: Arc Browser 1.0

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Post by nsonha »

thiht wrote: post #114

I’ve used Arc as my main browser on my work laptop for the last few months and I love it! It solves pain points I’ve actively tried to solve with Firefox, but couldn’t. It’s no surprise HN is skeptical about « yet another browser », so here’s what I like specifically about Arc: - it supports tab tiling. I can see 2 tabs next to one another easily. This is NOT solved with window tiling, it’s clunky and clutters the sp…

> tab tiling

I think tab tilling in Arc is only good if you use ultrawide screen and/or stay in browser for your workflow, other wise it's yet another layer of window management (windows, tabs, tiles in windows) you have to remember.

When you use smaller screen it would be good if instead of resizing the tiles to try to fit the sreen, maybe keep them the same size but alow horizontal scroll to go through them?

Re: Arc Browser 1.0

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Post by mishac »

fnfjfk wrote: post #91
dizhn wrote: post #9

https://thebrowser.company/values/ I don't think I want to have anything to do with this company. Super cringe. I get the impression that Arc will be a form over function product reflecting someone's understanding of good design and insisting on it. Not that I'd use a closed source browser anyway.

Cringe is an understatement… I would love to see a company that simply stated the point was to make money. Finance companies feel no shame at this, why are tech companies so cringe with the mission and vision stuff?

It got baked into the silicon valley culture for some reason. When the rebellious innovators à la Wozniak and the Berkeley folks merged with trillions of VC spewing finance bros, a weird amalgam was created where while everything is in reality about money, it needs to be sugar coated with drivel about wanting to change the world and solve world hunger via the application of middle out compression algorithms

Re: Arc Browser 1.0

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Post by pndy »

dizhn wrote: post #9

https://thebrowser.company/values/ I don't think I want to have anything to do with this company. Super cringe. I get the impression that Arc will be a form over function product reflecting someone's understanding of good design and insisting on it. Not that I'd use a closed source browser anyway.

This is the 12th link from this domain over last 10 months and it finally got enough attention to reach the main page with over 150 comments. About 7 months ago browser page had nothing but a field for an email address to put you on waiting list.

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=arc.net

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