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Arc Browser is a game changer!

Manuchehr on May 06, 2024

Why Arc? After using Chrome for around 8 years I switched to Arc browser & I love it! Arc browser is based on Chromium which means y...
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Paweł Świątkowski

I tried it twice. I don't see anything game changing in it, to be honest.

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Sean Davis

I'm currently looking for my browser of choice, I'll have to give Arc a try, thanks for the quick run-down! I'm currently testing out Vivaldi and Brave, have you tried either of them before?

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Manuchehr

I tried Brave & it was good but it has no sync feature

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WebCraft Notes

Hi! Actually, it has. You can download it even on your phone and add your device to be synced.

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Manuchehr

That's great when I checked couple of years ago, it had no sync

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Edydeyemi

Brave actually has a sync feature

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WebCraft Notes

Hi @turtlewake. How is Vivaldi going? Is it worth to try? Just curious )

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Sean Davis

I enjoy it, it's the one I've used the most recently. Has a lot of nice features that that seem to flow well together. I haven't really ran into any major problems so far!

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NLxDoDge

And the funny part is that Arc still uses Chromium under the hood. So the memory problems are still going to be in some way or another.

Not that Safari or Firefox do it any better though.

The sidebar with folders is already possible in Edge, but I do like the splitting of 2 windows in the same application.

And I already found some bugs and reported them, so I am not gonna fully switch just yet.

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Ezekiel • Edited

Arc is the best.
I got it downloaded immediately when it came out for windows

Chrome Beware

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Vincenzo

Firefox is slow and too compliant, so most shitty tools that work on chrome for work did not on Firefox (some airtable features), Brave is okish but too much crypto rubbish on top, chrome is good but annoying, edge is just chrome but bad.

I thought after years of compromising with Firefox arc would be a game changer, but it's just a fad, it's a good looking ux exercise, but it doesn't have a Linux version planned, and most things can be achieved in any other browser.

I moved to brave and after clearing up all the crypto web3 junk I am having the time of my life.

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Andrew Bone

I don't really like Arc, I think I'll stick with chrome 😅

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Palmer

unless you're on linux

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Shrijal Acharya

Looking forward to its availability on Linux.

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Calin Baenen

Firefox? Are you Linux user? You can say "I use Arc btw" after using Arc (browser)...

Well, that has some nasty implications embedded...  :þ

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pynklu

And the most important part for developers gets skipped: devtools aren't fully functional on Windows yet..
Regardless, absolutely love it for my non-dev work.

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shroomlife 🍄

tried it for Windows but didn't feel it... was excited, but no not for me. staying with chrome for now.