They want me to give my email.to get a download link...
They know exactly what is needed for good browsing experience, don't they? :/
Arc Browser 1.0
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Re: Arc Browser 1.0
#172How is "The browser company" planing to make a return for their VC investors? In other words, when is the rug pull coming and what is it going to look like?
In the end, when all the other attempts fail, they'll settle for what all the other browsers do, direct some search traffic to Google or Bing to get a fraction of those ad dollars. With enough users, this is a completely reasonable strategy for now.
Re: Arc Browser 1.0
#173I got both Arc and SigmaOS and ended up splitting my time between the status quo, Firefox, and SigmaOS. SigmaOS is fast and has an interesting concept but I have two decades of muscle memory with Firefox and SigmaOS uses a completely different set of shortcuts, which are admittedly reasonable on paper.
yeah the shortcuts for Sigma are a total dealbreaker
Re: Arc Browser 1.0
#174I’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 wind…
Why wouldn't they do Linux? Isn't the whole benefit of browsers that they're the internet's compatibility layer, and shouldn't support be kinda baked into Chromium? Missing a chunk of (hopefully passionate in a good way) users like that sounds like a missed opportunity.
That said it's probably fine for them to iterate for Mac customers first, like apps releasing on iOS first before supporting Android.
Re: Arc Browser 1.0
#175In 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…
> Zero telemetry.
Q: Is Orion open-source?
A: We’re working on it!...[0]
Q: Is Orion truly safe if it’s not open-source?
A: The idea that "open-source = trustworthy" only goes so far...[1]
Re: Arc Browser 1.0
#176I’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…
I disagree that Tree Style Tabs are awful. I use it every day and it's rock solid. Firefox forever, yo! Whitest guy ever tries to make an F gang sign with his fingers
Long time TST user here. Yeah, it's actually very stable, even after the it became a WebExtension.
Last year I've used Sideberry extensively. It has some nifty features that TST does not have.
Do these two extensions look native to their host OS? Nope. I can live with that if don't need to use another closed source Chrome clone.
Re: Arc Browser 1.0
#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 wind…
Why wouldn't they do Linux? Isn't the whole benefit of browsers that they're the internet's compatibility layer, and shouldn't support be kinda baked into Chromium? Missing a chunk of (hopefully passionate in a good way) users like that sounds like a missed opportunity. That said it's probably fine for them to iterate for Mac customers first, like apps releasing on iOS first before supporting Android.
Vivaldi works on Linux (well, Ubuntu at least) and has top-notch tab management
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#178Their website still doesn't tell me anything useful enough about the browser to let me know if it's something that would interest me. It's all just marketing-speak.
Everything about this browser reminds me of Apple's product pages. All marketing speak, vague, empty promises, and loads of hype everywhere for things I'm doing already on what I have right now.
It worked for Apple so I can't blame them for trying, but it makes the entire thing feel so empty.
It looks like someone mashed the basic features Microsoft built into Edge into a a frame around Webkit with one or two cool features.
I don't want to go all https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 but Microsoft Edge seems to be doing most of the features this browser seems to have and more, and it's from a software company I expect to still exist in five years.
Re: Arc Browser 1.0
#179In 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 Falkon[0] by KDE.
Re: Arc Browser 1.0
#180In 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…
> Zero telemetry. Q: Is Orion open-source? A: We’re working on it!...[0] Q: Is Orion truly safe if it’s not open-source? A: The idea that "open-source = trustworthy" only goes so far...[1] [0] https://browser.kagi.com/faq.html#oss [1] https://browser.kagi.com/faq.html#ossprivacy
AKA they are 100% using telemetry.