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The Arc Browser Is Dead

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Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fne8w2ah@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.howtogeek.com/the-arc-browser-is-dead/

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  • orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • simple@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Zen browser is basically FireFox made to look like Arc

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      • orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts ⁨5⁩ ⁨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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    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Zen does

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    • pappabosley@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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      • farcaller@fstab.sh ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?

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      • Reverendender@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Can you cite me some instances of surveillance from Kagi? Genuinely asking.

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      • tyler@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        What do you use instead of Kagi?

        Also you can search without tying your searches to your account with Kagi.

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    • pappabosley@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      When i left Chrome, one of the things I was looking for was vertical tabs and was willing to try anything. I wasn’t fond of a mac first option, but I decided to try it. Installed it and the first thing it did was to force me to make an account, uninstalled it instantly.

      I’m not against the option of having an account, but forcing it makes me distrust them. Was not long after that there were also some major security flaws found as well. They really didn’t make it easy for people to change, almost like they thought the apple form over function would appeal more broadly.

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  • viking@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Never heard of that thing, but apparently it was Apple exclusives? Deserved death then.

    I’m hoping ladybug will be operational for mainstream use, before the enshittification of Firefox progresses too far.

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    • MITM0@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      LadyBird

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      • viking@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Right, thanks!

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    • Eyedust@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It wasn’t supposed to stay Apple exclusive. In fact, when I last used Windows there was a beta build out for Arc. However, there were also multiple Firefox styles in the CSS Store that made Firefox into Arc.

      Then Zen Browser came out, and I’m currently watching it get very popular. I don’t doubt that Zen Browser is one of the reasons Arc is shutting down. It’s nearly an exact copy, but now with more features (and is constantly coming out with even more faster than Arc can think of them).

      I’m excited for Ladybird as well, but I’m not expecting anything crazy when it comes out of alpha and beta. I fully expect to wait a bit, maybe download to contribute some troubleshooting, but it may not be viable as a main use browser for a long time yet.

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      • Zetta@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’ll be a great browser by 2029 IMO, and honestly that’s not that long compared to the development time all other browsers have had.

        We shall see, I’m excited to start testing it out next year when it’s in Alpha

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    • SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Well that’s shooting yourself in the damn foot.

      Apple users are a tiny percentage, and most of the sort that happily uses whatever Apple gives them without question or concern for other options. I have no idea what this thing did, but if it did something different than every other browser should start targeting Windows and Linux.

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    • Tungsten5@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Its not apple exclusive. I have it on both my macbook and windows computer

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  • db2@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Never even heard of it until now.

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  • utopiah@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No Linux build, not git link, why would anyone care?

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    • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Because 96% of people aren’t using Linux to browse the web.

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      • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That figure is entirely irrelevant when you need to target users who are willing to try a new unknown third party browser in the first place.
        And you’ll find orders of magnitude more of those among Linux users than you do on the Mac, which is where Arc launched on.

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      • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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  • Goodtoknow@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Zen Browser is open source and in active development!

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  • termaxima@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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    • d0ntpan1c@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Also Zen exists, which is a Firefox fork that implements the concept of Arc

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  • OmegaLemmy@discuss.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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  • bitwolf@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It probably has something to do with being only available on Macs for so long.

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    • Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Or them completely shifting development to their AI browser

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • obsolete@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    When I eventually managed to test Arc, I felt it was a very overhyped browser. I couldn’t see what the fuss was about.

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    • propitiouspanda@lemmy.cafe ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, I just don’t trust people’s recommendations of browsers.

      Most of them are too stupid to realize what’s going on and how they’re being herded like sheep.

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      • lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        What’s your recommendation then?

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  • EtAl_isGitch@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I really liked the layout of Arc, but ended up going back to Firefox because uBlock still works on it.

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    • JustARaccoon@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Try Zen, it used Arc as its main inspiration for the UI and features

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  • Adderbox76@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • thesohoriots@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It was a fun little experiment to use for about 15 minutes. Won’t miss it.

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  • KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So, no Windows, no Linux, no head?

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    • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There is a windows and mobile tab on their website

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  • Lederrucksack@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s very sad to hear. I am currently using Arc as my main browser for work (I am a web developer) since its launch on MacOS. Guess I need to switch browsers soon then…

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    • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s not dead. As far as I can tell the author just made that up, because they didn’t cite any sources, and the actual official sources indicate otherwise.

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  • NotProLemmy@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    with the TF2 engineer’s voice

    THE ARC IS DEAD?

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  • biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The Devs at the browser company said themselves that they aren’t killing Arc, it’s just on maintenance mode as they are working on another browser, an AI first one, which I have mixed feelings about personally.

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  • muusemuuse@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I hated arc but I really really wanted to like it. It was just too awkward to use

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  • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This was the browser that required an account to even start using, it was just ridiculous.

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  • Mwa@thelemmy.club ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I remember i used to use Windows i didnt like that i couldnt test arc Browser on Windows Sandbox

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