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What do you know about it?
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Have you used it? If so - what did you think?
I scanned this article...
Arc web browser review: a new way of using the internet - The Verge
Arc isn’t perfect, and it takes some getting used to. But it’s full of big new ideas about how we should interact with the web — and it’s right about most of them.
I got curious. But I quickly realized it's ridiculous that The Verge didn't make a video. Who in 2022 wants to read an article about interactive tech? A video is worth 10,000 you know the thing.
Ninja edit
It doesn't even have a Wikipedia page nor does anything else in the following...
Arc (Internet browser), a new generation of Internet browser currently developed by Darin Fisher of The Browser Company
Is the browser just some kind of beta thing that might simply get axed?
it runs the same underlying engine as Chrome
Ah great another chrome reskin
yeah, what a bummer. i refuse to use any chrome reskins, not even for the privacy, just because they run like shit. i'll stick with librewolf for now i guess
Really wish there'd be any momentum around a non-Chromium browser engine that's not literally paid opposition (Mozilla is funded by Google) but I understand it's an insane undertaking that's ludicrously complex since the web is an eldritch horror. Would need to be state funded if anything. Please Xi, we yearn for internet freedom.
The whole thing needs to be replaced. The entire set of web "standards" is dictated by Google at present and it's already way too complicated.
video content is objectively worse than articles.
okay now we've cleared that up, proceed with the discussion.
I'm pretty sure you can do just about all of that in Firefox with the right extensions.
Switching to the Arc browser is hard. You should know that right up front. It’s not that it’s technically difficult: Arc has some simple tools for importing bookmarks, it runs the same underlying engine as Chrome
that's a red flag, and not the good sort
I don’t get the hype about this thing. Having a massively oversized sidebar for your tabs and such was a silly idea when Omniweb did it in 2002 and it’s still a silly idea now.
Counterpoint: 16:9 is a silly resolution for interacting with text. Vertical space is a premium.
I used to have this addon that let me have tabs on the side, but rotate 90° and that was optimal IMO. You get used to reading sideways faster than you might think.
I don't know, this strikes me as being a bit too over-optimized to the point where a bigger hassle has been created from the attempt to address a smaller hassle.
I don't think putting the tabs on the side is that much of a hassle, especially if you're on your computer a lot.
This is trading the mild annoyance of reading text sideways and/or taking up a bunch of horizontal space with the mild annoyance of not having one or maybe two more lines of text on a webpage. And after all of this UI optimization, you still need to scroll down to read the next line of text after that
You stop noticing the tabs on the side when you get used to them, and 2-3 lines of text isn't nothing. That's a entire comment on hexbear.net!
Tabs on top is great for tall displays, but vertical tabs are so much better when your display is wide.
I can understand that on a small display like a steam deck or iPad mini in landscape, but on a larger laptop or desktop screen you might want to have a few windows open at once. That horizontal space can be quite useful for something else.
