with the TF2 engineer’s voice
THE ARC IS DEAD?
The Arc Browser Is Dead
Submitted 8 hours ago by fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.howtogeek.com/the-arc-browser-is-dead/
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NotProLemmy@lemmy.ml 19 minutes ago
utopiah@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
No Linux build, not git link, why would anyone care?
Ulrich@feddit.org 1 hour ago
Because 96% of people aren’t using Linux to browse the web.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 3 minutes ago
it couldn’t be too popular as a windows only project. I assume it was too lite known, like I never even heard about it here or other places
termaxima@programming.dev 1 hour ago
I guess they lost their only selling point when Firefox added vertical tabs…
orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 7 hours ago
It’s dead and they’re replacing it with an AI-first browser. Gross.
If you want the main things Arc gives you (vertical tabs, tab groups), you can get them with Firefox or a Firefox spinoff like Librewolf.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 minute ago
tab groups in firefox are surprisingly good! even alongside a tab group management addon. they complement each other
simple@piefed.social 7 hours ago
Zen browser is basically FireFox made to look like Arc
orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 3 hours ago
Zen makes something like 84 external connections, which is around double what even Edge makes (and Microsoft has basically become a malware company).
abfarid@startrek.website 4 hours ago
Does any other browser let me open 2 windows with the same synced tabs? Also, permanent per-space tabs, please.
Ulrich@feddit.org 2 hours ago
The Browser Company, the developer behind the Arc Browser, has announced that Arc is going away
Where? Where did they do this? Why is there no link? They said several times, very recently, that it was not going away. They were just not going to be adding new features anymore.
Goodtoknow@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
Zen Browser is open source and in active development!
Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
No shit it died. They stopped supporting it and on top of it it’s a browser that requires you to be logged into an account to use, which is a turnoff to techie people who are the most likely to adopt nee things early.
Oh and Microsoft Edge can do most of the things Arc does.
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Yep. Save reason I won’t use Kagi and I don’t use AI much. Surveillance capitalism will only ever lead to authoritarianism and dystopia. I don’t want anything to do with it.
You can’t trust any company to not sell you out and pick your carcass clean.
farcaller@fstab.sh 7 hours ago
Isn’t kagi’s point that they store very little about you to the point there no search history and you have to pay for the service provided?
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Can you cite me some instances of surveillance from Kagi? Genuinely asking.
tyler@programming.dev 7 hours ago
What do you use instead of Kagi?
Also you can search without tying your searches to your account with Kagi.
OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 5 hours ago
what a fucking joke, the best thing it did was create the zen browser project, and before that Vivaldi existed that took the spot of zen without the hype
db2@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Never even heard of it until now.
Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
Most regular people just use what came with their computer, unfortunately.
So this is a case of a company that made a browser to appeal to techies that didn’t see widespread adoption, is pivoting to a new browser that is focused on the central conceit of a product that most techies decry…
Read the room, Arc. Read the room.
thesohoriots@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
It was a fun little experiment to use for about 15 minutes. Won’t miss it.
EtAl_isGitch@lemmy.world 13 minutes ago
I really liked the layout of Arc, but ended up going back to Firefox because uBlock still works on it.