Comment on The Arc Browser Is Dead

orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• simple@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Zen browser is basically FireFox made to look like Arc

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  • orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Zen makes something like 84 external connections, which is around double what even Edge makes (and Microsoft has basically become a malware company).

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    • simple@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This was patched, and the vast majority were just fetching thumbnails.

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    • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Number of external connections means little without context of the content and what they are for.

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• WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  tab groups in firefox are surprisingly good! even alongside a tab group management addon. they complement each other

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• abfarid@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Does any other browser let me open 2 windows with the same synced tabs? Also, permanent per-space tabs, please.

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Zen does

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    • abfarid@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ok, thanks! Good to know there’s a backup plan. For now Arc still works fine, just no updates anymore.

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• pappabosley@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They’re obviously going for a zero adoption policy and trying to think of the most repulsive options

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