The company behind Arc is now building a second, much simpler browser
www.theverge.com
The Arc browser isn’t dead — it’s just finished.

Just switched to arc on windows. It’s really buggy but I wanted to still give it a chance because it feels really nice when it does what it should. I hoped it will get better over time. Still hope so but I don’t believe anymore…

  • Nate@programming.devEnglish
    11·
    6 months ago

    I’ve been using the Zen fork of Firefox and have been enjoying it greatly. It’s still pretty early, and a lot of the Firefox issues are still there, but regardless it’s felt better than any other browser I’ve used lately.

    And since it’s Firefox, it’s unaffected by he Mv3 bullshit

      • Codilingus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        5·
        6 months ago

        It can install addons like any other FF fork, and there’s an entire settings tab with a long list of keybinds.

            • itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
              3·
              6 months ago

              I’m not sure I’ll stick to it yet, since I really heavily on vim bindings through Tridactyl, and I got a feeling they won’t play nice (yet?). Zen is also not packaged on nix yet, so configuring it declaratively is going to be a pain

              But I like what I see, so I’ll give it a shot! If it’s not for me, I can still recommend it to others, some of my friends are newly moving to Linux and I’ll take that chance to get them to ditch Opera, this might replicate some of the features quite nicely. Cheers!

    • laserkaspar@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      Just switched to it and really liking it so far. But it’s missing folders for now… But they say they will push them the day Mozilla releases them to stable Firefox. I hope this project survives!

  • Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    6 months ago

    The plan this time is to build not just a different interface for a browser, but a different kind of browser entirely — one that is much more proactive, more powerful, more AI-centric, more in line with that original vision.

    Who could have thought? These goons are so predictable…

  • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    If you want that style of UI use Zen browser, it’s based on Firefox and doesn’t require an account to use it.

    Arc is just another crappy browser based on Chrome. The account requirement was and is a huge red flag.

    • laserkaspar@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      Already switched to Zen. It’s great! Much better community, less buggy, and the dev actually knows what they’re doing. Split tabs still need improvement tho.

  • irotsoma@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    I stay away from proprietary stuff when there are great open source alternatives out there. A proprietary system will always be more driven by those funding it, than the needs of the user and nearly always turn users into products, selling their information.

    I’ve been using Firefox variants for a while. I use LibreWolf on desktop and Mull on mobile and a self hosted sync server so it works seamlessly. But there are others, or just use Firefox and disable or block telemetry. There are a few sites here and there that I don’t have the choice not to use and don’t like the privacy features or don’t render properly, so I keep Chrome around for emergencies. But that’s rare, mostly government sites.