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Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by netghost »

petralithic wrote: post #117

What 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…

There was an interview with the founders not long ago on Every's podcast: https://every.to/podcast/inside-the-browser-company-why-they...

I never really got where the innovation was in Arc, and never got a chance to see or try Dia, but the interview at least gave me some empathy for what they were going for.

Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by felarof »

jimmydoe wrote: post #73
ghm2199 wrote: post #43

I'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..

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.

We are in early stages, but as a big Arc fan myself, we want to bring build this feature.

If you can raise a github issue, we can get to work asap https://github.com/browseros-ai/BrowserOS

Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by pezgrande »

avazhi wrote: post #138

lol Hug Firefox close, it's an awful world out there, especially with Google being given the greelight to continue their monopolising with Chrome. I remember being tempted by this thing when it first came out - their asinine sign up waiting list kept me from pursuing it further and then I forgot about it until they eventually fully dumped it and moved into full AI-enshittification territory. There are really 30 years…

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.

Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by arnvald »

Cu3PO42 wrote: post #26
arnvald wrote: post #17

I really appreciate that there's a company trying to reimagine browsers. Arc was an interesting idea, I used it for a few months, but in the end I switched back to Firefox. I haven't tried Dia yet, and now I'm not sure if I should. I do think that selling a browser is going to be an extremely difficult task, so having an enterprise software machine with huge customer base might help it, but Atlassian strikes me as a…

If you liked Arc, you should try Zen. I understand it brings many of the same ideas to a Firefox base.

Thanks for recommendation, I'll give it a try

Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by Leo_666 »

felarof wrote: post #158
al_borland wrote: post #58

I lost all faith in The Browser Company when they went into a maintenance-only mode with Arc to shift to Dia, without any real announcement. Just a reply to a Twitter post calling them out. They figured no one would notice. I think they eventually addressed it after some public pressure, but I don’t think they sold the decision well. AI seems like a feature to add to existing browsers, not something that needs its ow…

I was a big fan of Arc too, they should at least open sourced it after abandoning. Anyways, now we are building BrowserOS, an open-source alternative to Dia -- https://github.com/browseros-ai/BrowserOS

I'm also a big fan of Arc, and I'm currently a heavy user. I have zero interest in the upcoming Dia release - I feel like Dia is a step backward compared to Arc.

Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by Insanity »

In terms of newer browsers, I started playing around with Zen after seeing a post about it on HN some weeks ago. So far, really liking that experience. It's not without bugs (i.e, 'compact mode' shortcut works about 50% of the time lol).

But, the UI is good (to me), and I like that it's based on FF rather than another Chromium shell.

I should say though, I don't consider myself a 'power user', and I'm not a web developer so never user the dev tools.

Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by pluc »

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!

There's piles of money to be made training a model on content they have access to

Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by cmrdporcupine »

ozim wrote: post #120
ch4s3 wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What a cursed thought.

If that agent does jira stuff instead of me so I don’t have to ever see it again then I am all for it.

It's amazing how good Claude is at interacting with it. Via jq or other CLI tools or MCP.

"Look at Jira and tell me what am I supposed to be working on this week" is a super power

Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by nailer »

ivanjermakov wrote: post #125
petralithic wrote: post #117

What 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.

Because those companies own the customers.

Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by edoceo »

pezgrande wrote: post #163
avazhi wrote: post #138

lol Hug Firefox close, it's an awful world out there, especially with Google being given the greelight to continue their monopolising with Chrome. I remember being tempted by this thing when it first came out - their asinine sign up waiting list kept me from pursuing it further and then I forgot about it until they eventually fully dumped it and moved into full AI-enshittification territory. There are really 30 years…

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.
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