* Closed source<p>* Requires an account to use<p>An absolute shame in this day and age. But I have a feeling it's a requirement considering they raised $20M before even having a product ready.<p>Which leads to another point - what are they going to do to make sure they make a return for their investors?
I like that they're doing something new and that their rendering engine is interchangeable.<p>But I won't be using a closed-source browser again, thanks to Chrome.
I quite enjoy Arc on macOS.<p>The UI "just clicks" for me:<p>- named persistent spaces for groups of tabs, some can be pinned, some can be ephemeral
- spaces can have different profiles, so switching to personal stuff in a work context is no different than switching to any other space
- side-by-side tabs within spaces give an iPad-like split screen experience in the browser. I know the OS is meant to do this, but honestly window management in macOS is totally fucked and achieving the same thing is really hard.<p>Overall it's made navigating the web more effortless, and I hope other browsers copy. Safari tried with Tab Groups, but it's a pale imitation and when I go back it's vertical tabs that I miss most.
I tried signing up for it earlier this year, but they sent an email with a tracking link to download software I'm supposed to just install blindly. Doing things that way in 2023 struck me as so horrifically out of touch that I just passed on bothering with it.<p>Clearly a distinctly minority attitude, but I guess that's life.
I love Arc on my mac. I know it's not for everyone, but it does so many things right (for me) that going back to another browser is a major impediment to my workflows.
According their site <a href="https://www.isarconwindowsyet.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.isarconwindowsyet.com/</a> they currently onboarded 7 users at this point. Hardly worth the news, I think.
This is great, although I wish the new mobile app they’ve alluded to was a higher priority (but I realize that’s being greedy).<p>Arc isn’t for everybody but if it “clicks” which requires getting over a somewhat steep learning curve it is great.<p>It’s also fair to question why it requires an account, but anything syncing across devices would (unless you handle that manually with version control or something else).<p>Arc is exactly what Chrome might be if it wasn’t beholden to an advertising-first company. The innovation within the Chrome app itself has languished & browser extension development and policy are prohibiting more & more significant user experience changes (not just blockers). Arc not only diverges from Chrome with a ton of nice user experience changes, it also adds new types of functionality like ad hoc browser extensions called Boosts that can be shared (very similar to UserScripts). So many posts that say this browser-based on Chromium is problematic because it constrains diversity in the browser market, but I wish more people would just try it out. It is a step in the direction. Maybe someday they will swap out all of what remains from Chromium, but to what end? Maybe the best thing about Chrome (and Chromium) is that it enables smaller companies to jump-start new concepts in browsing.
<a href="https://arc.net/security#browser-engine" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://arc.net/security#browser-engine</a><p>> List of Disabled Chromium Features
> Google account sync, metrics reporting, telemetry/crash reporting.<p>...<p>> Logging & analytics
> Sentry for telemetry/crash reporting.
> Segment for telemetry
> FAQ
> Why does Arc require an account to use<p>I find Arc's marketing around the lack of Google features a little disingenuous. They claim to not log any PII data, which is admirable, but they don't mention IP addresses as PII data and most likely <i>do</i> have that incidentally, or might need it for abuse prevention, and they haven't had third party security audits.
I’ve been using Arc for a couple days now and love it. It’s been a while since I’ve adopted a tool (besides developer tools) that I felt truly increased my productivity and enjoyment in my day-to-day activities.
<a href="https://thebrowser.company/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://thebrowser.company/</a> >
- We love the internet, but it can be overwhelming
- What if a browser could help us make sense of it all<p>My response to this.<p>Everyone uses the internet and thus by making such statements, this company can engage a lot of people.<p>I think this is an example of a problem that is far less "problematic" than what this company is trying to claim<p>At least, I was hoping for something more "revolutionary".
I have seen tabs on the left side, colours representing the workspace you find yourself in, themes and similar ways of organizing all the different websites you visit.<p>In the end of the day, here is my take (I would love to be proven wrong, though).
This is another attempt at trying to organize all the tabs you have open.
It is and not a solution to the problem they describe.<p>TL;DR
Another fancy browser to consider.
The way it's written up made it seem like it was a cloud based browser with a separate client app on the user's OS.<p>The first time I read about this, I didn't get the point. It seems to mostly be about aesthetics and maybe some noise suppression. I still don't see why I should run this over Firefox.
Out of topic - Why people even have all those tabs open? I may have one or two pinned and that's it? Why are you even in "need of organizing tabs"?