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What’s arc

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Yeah, not really seeing what this provides that I don’t already get from Firefox. If it can get some people off Chrome or Safari that’s good I guess, but at the end of the day is this just yet another Chromium based browser?

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Yep, same. FF has been my go to browser for years

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Arc has a lot of unique features, but these three are funamental. It took me a couple months to adjust my browsing habits, and it has ruined me. I literally hate using any other browser now.

Arc syncs tabs between windows. This allows new workflows that just are not possible at all in any other browser. I have five windows open right now, all showing the same set of tabs (which are split into groups, so not all tabs are showing the same group… but some are the same group, for example I opened Sideberry in a new tab in the same group, but I’m reading it in another window). This also obviously syncs between devices, so your work desktop, laptop, phone, gaming pc at home… all have the same tabs. All the time.

Arc automatically closes tabs for you. That definitely takes getting used to, but once you do get used to it, it’s awesome.

Finally, there are no bookmarks in Arc. Instead of bookmarks you can “pin” any tab which essentially disables auto-close for that tab. Unlike a bookmark, a tab doesn’t contain a fixed URL. For example i have a Lemmy tab, which by default is the homepage but it could also be this discussion temporarily, then go back to being the homepage again later today.

Those three are tied together in a carefully thought out user interface, with a bunch of other nice little touches like the way audio/video is handled if you’re not in the tab that’s playing media right now.

There are other major features in Arc too - for example the URL bar is, well, not a URL bar at all. It’s a command prompt where the default command happens to be “search the web/go to url”. Arc also has a growing set of Large Language Model integrations that might pan out into something interesting one day. And it has some half-baked stuff for teams/collaboration which may or may not eventuate into something interesting.

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