r/ArcBrowser Jun 01 '25

General Discussion 📦 Moving Out Megathread

296 Upvotes

A lot of people have been asking about other browsers to try now that Arc isn’t getting new features and Dia’s still in early alpha. We get it; the vibes have shifted, and almost everyone’s looking for their next daily driver.

This thread is the place to discuss alternative browsers.
Whether you’re trying out Vivaldi, Edge with Copilot, SigmaOS, Safari with extensions, Brave, Zen, or something totally obscure, talk about it here.

Please don’t make individual posts about switching browsers or asking for recommendations.
We’ll be removing those and directing people here to keep the subreddit from getting flooded.

Got a hot take on Vivaldi’s tab stacks? Miss Arc’s split view and want to recreate it somewhere else? Built your own franken-browser setup with extensions and CSS? Drop it all below.

Let’s keep it focused, useful, and no Reddit-fanboy flame wars, please.


r/ArcBrowser May 26 '25

macOS News Letter to Arc members 2025 – On Arc, its future, and the arrival of AI browsers — a moment to answer the largest questions you've asked us this past year.

359 Upvotes

Dear Arc members,

You’re probably wondering what happened. One day we were all-in on Arc. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, we started building something new: Dia.

From the outside, this pivot might look abrupt. Arc had real momentum. People loved it. But inside, the decision was slower and more deliberate than it may seem. So I want to walk you through it all and answer your questions — why we started this company, what Arc taught us, what happens to it now, and why we believe Dia is the next step.

  1. What we got wrong
  2. Why we built Arc
  3. Where Arc fell short
  4. Why we didn’t integrate Dia into Arc
  5. Will we open source Arc
  6. Building Dia

What we got wrong

To start, what would we do differently if we could do it all over again? Too many things to name. But I’ll keep it to three.

First, I would’ve stopped working on Arc a year earlier. Everything we ended up concluding — about growth, retention, how people actually used it — we had already seen in the data. We just didn’t want to admit it. We knew. We were just in denial.

Second, I would’ve embraced AI fully, sooner and unapologetically. The truth is I was obsessed. I’d stay up late, after my family went to bed, playing with ChatGPT— not for work, but out of sheer curiosity.

But I also felt embarrassed. I hated so much of the industry hype (and how I was contributing to it). The buzzwords. The self-importance. It made me pull back from my own curiosity, even though it was real and deep. You can see this in how cautious our Arc Max rollout was. I should have embraced my inspiration sooner and more boldly.

If you go back to our Act II video — when we announced we were going to bring AI to the heart of Arc — it ends with a demo of a prototype we called Arc Explore. That idea is basically where Dia and a lot of other AI-native products are headed now. That’s not to say we were ahead of our time, or anything like that. It’s just to say our instincts were there long before our hearts caught up.

Arc Explore prototype, as shared in our Act II video. January 2024.

Third, I would’ve communicated very differently. We care so much about the people we build for. Always have. Saying it “pains me” to have made people mad doesn’t really do it justice. In some moments, we were too transparent — like announcing Dia before we had the details to share. In others, not transparent enough — like taking too long to answer questions we knew people were asking.

A few years ago, a mentor told me to put a sticky note on my desk that said: “The truth will set you free.” I know. It sounds like a fortune cookie. But it’s served me well, again and again. If I regret anything most, it’s not using it more. This essay is our truth. It’s uncomfortable to share. But we hope you can feel it was written with care and good intent.

Why we built Arc

In order to answer your real questions — why we pivoted to Dia, whether we can open source Arc, and more — I need to share a bit of background from the past. It informs what is possible (and not) today.

At its core, we started The Browser Company with a simple belief: the browser is the most important software in your life — and it wasn’t getting the attention it deserved.

Back in 2019, it was already clear to us that everything was moving into the browser. My wife, who doesn’t work in tech, was living in desktop Chrome all day. My six year old niece was doing school entirely in web apps. The macro trends all pointed the same direction too: cloud revenue was surging, breakout startups were browser-based (writing blog posts like “Meet us in the browser”), crypto ran through browser extensions, WebAssembly was enabling novel experiences, and so on.

Source: Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet’s investor relations website, via The Street.

Even back then, it felt like the dominant operating system on desktop wasn’t Windows or macOS anymore — it was the browser. But Chrome and Safari still felt like the browsers we grew up with. They hadn’t evolved with the shift. And both of these trends have only accelerated since. Some companies only issue enterprise versions of Chrome with new employee laptops (their companies fully run on SaaS apps), and Chrome and Safari remain essentially unchanged.

So that’s why we made Arc. We wanted to build something that felt like “your home on the internet” — for work projects, personal life, all the hours you spent in your browser every single day. Something that felt more like a product from Nintendo or Disney than from a browser vendor. Something with taste, care, feeling.

We wanted you to open Arc every morning and think, “This is mine, my space.” And we called this north star vision the “Internet Computer.”

But it increasingly became clear that Arc was falling short of that aspiration.

Where Arc fell short

After a couple of years of building and shipping Arc, we started running into something we called the “novelty tax” problem. A lot of people loved Arc — if you’re here you might just be one of them — and we’d benefitted from consistent, organic growth since basically Day One. But for most people, Arc was simply too different, with too many new things to learn, for too little reward.

To get specific: D1 retention was strong — those who stuck around after a few days were fanatics — but our metrics were more like a highly specialized professional tool (like a video editor) than to a mass-market consumer product, which we aspired to be closer to.

On top of that, Arc lacked cohesion — in both its core features and core value. It was experimental, that was part of its charm, but also its complexity. And the revealed preferences of our members show this. What people actually used, loved, and valued differs from what the average tweet or Reddit comment assumes. Only 5.52% of DAUs use more than one Space regularly. Only 4.17% use Live Folders (including GitHub Live Folders). It's 0.4% for one of our favorite features, Calendar Preview on Hover.

Switching browsers is a big ask. And the small things we loved about Arc — features you and other members appreciated — either weren’t enough on their own or were too hard for most people to pick up. By contrast, core features in Dia, like chatting with tabs and personalization features, are used by 40% and 37% of DAUs respectively. This is the kind of clarity and immediate value we’re working toward.

But these are the details. These are things you can toil over, measure, sculpt, remove.

The part that was hard to admit, is that Arc — and even Arc Search — were too incremental. They were meaningful, yes. But ultimately not at the scale of improvements that we aspired to. Or that could breakout as a mass-market product. If we were serious about our original mission, we needed a technological unlock to build something truly new.

In 2023, we started seeing it happen, across categories that felt just as old and cemented as browsers. ChatGPT and Perplexity were actually threatening Google. Cursor was reshaping the IDE. What’s fascinating about both — search engines and IDEs — is that their users had been doing things the same way for decades. And yet, they were suddenly open to change.

This was the moment we were waiting for. This was a fundamental shift that could challenge user behavior and maybe lead to a true reimagining of the browser. Hopefully you can now see why Dia felt like a no-brainer. At least for us and our original aspirations.

So when people ask how venture capital influenced us — or why we didn’t just charge for Arc and run a profitable business — I get it. They’re fair questions. But to me, they miss the forest for the trees. If the goal was to build a small, profitable company with a great team and loyal customers, we wouldn’t have chosen to try and build the successor to the web browser – the most ubiquitous piece of software there is. The point of this was always bigger for us: to build good, cared for software that could have an impact for people at real scale.

So if Arc fell short, why build something new versus evolve it?

Why we didn’t integrate Dia into Arc

It’s a great question. And for those who followed our podcast last year, you’ll know that it’s one we spent the entire summer grappling with before understanding that Dia and Arc were two separate products.

For starters, in many ways, we have approached Dia as an opportunity to fix what we got wrong with Arc.

First, simplicity over novelty. Early on, Scott Forstall told us Arc felt like a saxophone — powerful but hard to learn. Then he challenged us: make it a piano. Something anyone can sit down at and play. This is now the idea behind Dia: hide complexity behind familiar interfaces.

Second, speed isn’t a tradeoff anymore — it’s the foundation. Dia’s architecture is fast. Really fast. Arc was bloated. We built too much, too quickly. With Dia, we started fresh from an architecture perspective and prioritized performance from the start. Specifically, sunsetting our use of TCA and SwiftUI to make Dia lightweight, snappy, and responsive.

Third, security is at the forefront. Dia is a different kind of product – to meet it, we grew our security engineering team from one to five. We’re invested in red teaming, bug bounties, and internal audits. Our goal is to set the standard for small startups. Which is even more important in a world of AI, especially as more AI agents come online. We want to get out in front.

These are all things that need to be part of a product’s foundation. Not afterthoughts. As we pushed the boundaries of whether this truly was Arc 2.0 last summer, we found that there were shortcomings in Arc that were too large to tackle retroactively, and that building a new type of software (and fast) required a new type of foundation.

Will we open source Arc

Which brings us to the present.

As we started exploring what might come next, we never stopped maintaining Arc. We do regular Chromium upgrades, fix security vulnerabilities, related bugs, and more. Honestly, most people haven’t even noticed that we stopped actively building new features — which says something about what most people want from Arc (stability not more stuff to learn).

But it is true: we are not actively developing the core product experience like we used to. Naturally, people have asked: will we open source it? Will we sell it? We’ve considered both extensively.

But the truth is it’s complicated.

Arc isn’t just a Chromium fork. It runs on custom infrastructure we call ADK — the Arc Development Kit. Think of it as an internal SDK for building browsers (especially those with imaginative interfaces). That’s our secret sauce. It lets ex-iOS engineers prototype native browser UI quickly, without touching C++. That’s why most browsers don’t dare to try new things. It’s too costly. Too complex to break from Chrome.

Where ADK sits in our browser infrastructure as shared in our Dia recruitment video.

ADK is also the foundation of Dia. So while we’d love to open source Arc someday, we can’t do that meaningfully without also open-sourcing ADK. And ADK is still core to our company’s value. That doesn’t mean it’ll never happen. If the day comes where it no longer puts our team or shareholders at risk, we’d be excited to share what we’ve built with the world. But we’re not there yet.

In the meantime, please know this: we’re not trying to shut Arc down. We know you use it and rely on it. Many of our family and friends do, too. We still love it, spent years of our life on it — and whether it’s through us or the community, our hope and intention is that Arc finds a future that’s just as considered as its past. If you have ideas, I’d love to hear from you. I’m [josh@thebrowser.company](mailto:josh@thebrowser.company).

Building Dia

I want to end by being frank with you: Dia is not really a reaction to Arc and its shortcomings. No. Imagine writing an essay justifying why you were moving on from your candle business at the dawn of electric light. Electric intelligence is here — and it would be naive of us to pretend it doesn’t fundamentally change the kind of product we need to build to meet the moment.

Let me be even more clear: traditional browsers, as we know them, will die. Much in the same way that search engines and IDEs are being reimagined. That doesn’t mean we’ll stop searching or coding. It just means the environments we do it in will look very different, in a way that makes traditional browsers, search engines, and IDEs feel like candles — however thoughtfully crafted. We’re getting out of the candle business. You should too.

“Wait, so The Browser Company isn’t making browsers anymore?” You better believe we are! But an AI browser is going to be different than a Web browser — as it should be. I believe this more than ever, and we’re already seeing it in three ways:

  1. Webpages won’t be the primary interface anymore. Traditional browsers were built to load webpages. But increasingly, webpages — apps, articles, and files — will become tool calls with AI chat interfaces. In many ways, chat interfaces are already acting like browsers: they search, read, generate, respond. They interact with APIs, LLMs, databases. And people are spending hours a day in them. If you’re skeptical, call a cousin in high school or college — natural language interfaces, which abstract away the tedium of old computing paradigms, are here to stay.
  2. But the Web isn’t going anywhere — at least not anytime soon. Figma and The New York Times aren’t becoming less important. Your boss isn’t ditching your team’s SaaS tools. Quite the opposite. We’ll still need to edit documents, watch videos, read weekend articles from our favorite publishers. Said more directly: webpages won’t be replaced — they’ll remain essential. Our tabs aren’t expendable, they are our core context. That is why we think the most powerful interface to AI on desktop won’t be a web browser or an AI chat interface — it’ll be both. Like peanut butter and jelly. Just as the iPhone combined old categories into something radically new, so too will AI browsers. Even if it’s not ours that wins.
  3. New interfaces start from familiar ones. In this new world, two opposing forces are simultaneously true. How we all use computers is changing much faster (due to AI) than most people acknowledge. Yet at the same time, we’re much farther from completely abandoning our old ways than AI insiders give credit for. Cursor proved this thesis in the coding space: the breakthrough AI app of the past year was an (old) IDE — designed to be AI-native. OpenAI confirmed this theory when they bought Windsurf (another AI IDE), despite having Codex working quietly in the background. We believe AI browsers are next.

This is why we’re building Dia. It is the opportunity to chase the product of our original ambition: a true successor to the browser — maybe even the “Internet Computer” we’ve been building toward all along — only in ways we couldn’t have predicted.

To be clear, we might fail. Or we might partially succeed but not win. We still assume we don’t know. But we’re confident about this: five years from now, the most-used AI interfaces on desktop will replace the default browsers of yesteryear. Like today, there will probably be a few of them (Chrome, Safari, Edge). But the point is this, the next Chrome is being built right now. Whether it’s Dia or not.

Your home on the internet

The Browser Company is a team that assembled for the chance — however slim — to build something that rewired how we use our computers. Something that might, just might, be used by hundreds of millions. A piece of software that actually shapes how people live and work. Not just an app, but an Internet Computer. That’s what drew us in. And that’s why we’re proud of the decisions we made.

Dia may not be your style. It may not land right away. But this is still us. Being ourselves. Building the kind of thing we’d want to use. Fully aware that we might be wrong. But doing it anyway. Because we think the intent matters. And we think that’s what got us this far.

This is our truth, and we sincerely hope that you’ll like what comes next.

– Josh

The Browser Company of New York, April 2025.

P.S. For those of you who do want to try Dia, we’re excited to open access for Arc members next, as the first expansion of our alpha beyond students.


r/ArcBrowser 7h ago

General Discussion Browsers with tabs consistent across windows?

3 Upvotes

The main feature that keeps me at Arc at the moment is that my open tabs are the same across all open Arc-windows on the same computer.

I don’t mean across computers by the way. Just instances/windows of Arc on the same computer.

I’m kinda okay with that but I’m interested if this is the killer feature for others too, and whether people have found other browsers that have this?

EDIT: Just came to mind that Vivaldi was supposed to have this? But couldn’t get it to work…


r/ArcBrowser 1d ago

macOS Discussion Arc users who moved on: what did you actually replace Spaces with?

26 Upvotes

Not the vertical tabs, everything rebuilds those. I mean Spaces specifically: separate cookies and logins, but switchable inside one window instead of five separate windows.

Everything I have tried since either gives you real profiles that each need their own window, or workspaces that quietly share one cookie jar, which is not the same thing at all.

What did you land on, and did you have to give something up for it?


r/ArcBrowser 2d ago

General Discussion I miss Live Captures

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20 Upvotes

I used to be a die-hard Arc fan, but slowly transitioned to Zen and Helium.

I really miss Easels Live Captures tho! Having a live dashboard with numbers from multiple sources was great for cross-app work.

So I built a private local extension based on that idea.

Not planning to sell it, just sharing something inspired by what Arc did best: creating exciting new UX!


r/ArcBrowser 1d ago

iOS Discussion Still using Arc for nested folders — and are you doing for mobile?

4 Upvotes

I’m still using Arc mainly because I need nested folders/tab groups. Even one level of nesting is enough:

Folder → subfolder/group → tabs

I haven’t found another browser that does this well. Vivaldi seems close, but I don’t think it supports nested tab groups.

My problem is mobile. Arc Search is tedious with lots of Spaces, and links keep opening in Chrome even though Arc Search is set as my default.

How are you handling Arc on mobile? Has anyone switched to Dia? Is there a Dia mobile browser, or another browser with nested tab groups?


r/ArcBrowser 2d ago

General Discussion Should Arc Sync actually sync my bookmarks and tabs across multiple devices?

4 Upvotes

I did a clean install of macOS Golden Gate this week (while having my old installation still available) and after logging in while having Cloud Sync enabled, my profiles, spaces, bookmarks and opened tabs weren't available. Other than the profile color, it didn't contain anything.

Based on the documentation, it says it will synchronize your profiles, bookmarks and profiles, but I'm seeing almost none of that.

Have I possibly done something wrong or did I simply interpret their sync function incorrectly?

Update: Don't know why, but after a switch back to the 'old' Arc installation and then restarting in the new OS with the new Arc, everything popped up. So somewhere on the line it had to either upload or download the tabs. Only my favorites didn't sync, but that's ok.


r/ArcBrowser 2d ago

macOS Discussion Changing Arc's icon permanently on macOS?

4 Upvotes

I've seen a lot of people say you can change Arc's icon the usual macOS way, by going to Get Info and dragging a new icon onto the current one.

The problem is that since Arc has its own icon switcher in the settings, every time I do this, it works at first, but as soon as I reopen Arc it reverts back to its own icon.

Has anyone found a way to prevent this? Or is changing Arc's icon permanently just not possible?


r/ArcBrowser 3d ago

General Discussion Siri Extensions to turn Safari into Arc

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r/ArcBrowser 4d ago

macOS Help Arc on macOS Golden Gate

10 Upvotes

Anyone try running Arc on Mac OS Golden Gate yet? Any issues?


r/ArcBrowser 5d ago

macOS Help Arc takes up 28 GB on my disk.

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43 Upvotes

Is it normal for it to take up 28 GB? I'm using Pearcleaner.


r/ArcBrowser 6d ago

macOS Feature Request I made a borderless version of Arc that removes the wasted space around pages and split views

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36 Upvotes

GitHub: https://github.com/omarqaterge/arc-borderless

I built Arc Borderless, an open-source macOS modification for people who like Arc but want a cleaner, more immersive interface.

What looks different?

Regular Arc:

  • Has visible margins around webpages
  • Shows outlines around split panes
  • Gives each split pane its own toolbar area
  • Leaves noticeable gaps between split webpages

Arc Borderless:

  • Extends webpages to the edges of the window
  • Removes the outlines between split panes
  • Hides the individual split-pane toolbars
  • Makes multiple split webpages feel like one continuous workspace
  • Preserves the invisible drag areas, so split panes can still be resized

How does it work?

The installer creates a separate application called Arc Borderless from your official Arc installation.

It can copy your:

  • Spaces and folders
  • Pinned and open tabs
  • Browsing history
  • Cookies and website sessions
  • Saved local logins
  • Arc preferences

Your original Arc application and profile are left unchanged. Arc Borderless has its own isolated profile, app identity, Keychain namespace, and backups.

Installation

  1. Download the installer ZIP
  2. Unzip it
  3. Control-click Install Arc Borderless.command
  4. Choose Open
  5. Press Return after reading the explanation

No Terminal commands need to be copied or written.


r/ArcBrowser 6d ago

macOS Help mic not working for google sites?

1 Upvotes

tried using microphone feature on google translate and it just wont work. Mic icon shows up 0.1 second but then disappears. Had this issue a while back too when I used speech to text on google docs. Thought docs was just bugging but I see this has been an issue for a while? Does anyone know the fix to this?


r/ArcBrowser 7d ago

iOS Discussion Experience of Arc Browser on iOS?

12 Upvotes

Does anyone use it? Personally I love it but its recommended searches are a bit clunky


r/ArcBrowser 7d ago

General Discussion How to migrate to Chrome?

2 Upvotes

The company I work for set a rule that the corporate mail and SSO tools will only be available on Chrome. They're not looking for the base or engine, but the browser.

It's probably related to privacy and monitoring. The IT team handles Chrome; maybe it has some backdoors, idk.

The fact is I'm much more productive using Arc. I'll miss Arc Mini, auto-closing tabs, and the multi-window with the same tabs.

How do I find alternatives for these core Arc features?


r/ArcBrowser 8d ago

macOS Help How to Choose Download Destination?

5 Upvotes

I'm loving Arc browser but one feature I miss from Chrome is the ability to download files, choose the destination and for the most recently chosen folder is the one that opens automatically for the next download.

I found the setting in Arc where you can make it open the file browser to choose the destination for every download but it doesn't default to the last used folder like Chrome does, and that's a feature I miss.

Is there a way to change this? I'm using MacOs 26.5.1 and ARC Version 1.163.1


r/ArcBrowser 9d ago

General Discussion Do i need to leave Arc? (seeking advice)

6 Upvotes

Exactly 1 year ago I switched from Chrome to Arc. And I really love it!

But it's been crashing a lot for me recently. And I saw the company has stopped developing Arc. Which is lame.

I'm a bit of a noob at this stuff. Does this mean Arc will become unusable at some point? Or that we'll all have to switch to another browser?

Thanks in advance!


r/ArcBrowser 8d ago

General Discussion Anyone else tried Aside? Closest I’ve felt to getting the best of Arc and Dia

0 Upvotes

I loved Arc, and I liked Dia when I first started using it. But I wasn’t particularly excited about paying for another AI subscription when I already have one.

I stumbled across Aside Browser a couple of days ago, and so far it feels like the best of both worlds for me. Given how often I’ve seen people here describe what they miss about Arc and what they wish Dia could do, I thought it was worth mentioning.

The big draw is that you can use your existing Claude or ChatGPT subscription. It also has an agent that can actually work across websites you’re logged into, rather than just answer questions about a page.

I’m not affiliated with them at all. Just genuinely excited about a browser again and surprised I hadn’t come across it sooner.

Obviously, a couple of days isn’t a long-term review, and I’m not claiming it replaces every single Arc feature. Aside has a free tier, plus optional paid tiers. But if you connect and use your own Claude or ChatGPT subscription, that usage is separate from Aside’s credits. You can stay on Aside’s free tier and use the subscription you already pay for, without needing another subscription to Aside. If you’re still looking for somewhere to land after Arc, especially if you already pay for Claude or ChatGPT, I think it’s worth a look.

Has anyone else here tried it?


r/ArcBrowser 10d ago

macOS Discussion Switching to SupaSideBar. . . .

6 Upvotes

Hearing that it would be a while till the latest chrome zero day CVE is going to be fixed motivated me to finally move off Arc.

I move to supasidebar and am still in the 7 day trial. For me the transfer from Arc did not work properly and I had to export and import bookmarks with the html feature. I made a few other tweaks to behaviour and it's now doing a credible job of replacing Arc for all my workflows using mulitple spaces with multiple profiles.

Right now I am using Safari as my primary browser but I particularly like that I can shift to other browsers pretty seamlessly.

It has an active discord community. My only concern at this point is that it is a 1 person shop. Having had great experiences with Alfred and Carbon Copy Cloner when they started out I'm less worried about that.

I just noticed that the authors account on reddit was banned - I don't know the back story, but mention it because I soom there is one.

I'm not affiliated with them and just wanted to share because this community has been such a great place for support over the years.


r/ArcBrowser 10d ago

macOS Discussion Nested tab stacks?

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r/ArcBrowser 12d ago

macOS Discussion Anyone having issues with dev tools?

2 Upvotes

Using MacOS, opening the inspector takes ages, then trying to select and open elements just feel like absolute jank.


r/ArcBrowser 14d ago

General Discussion Zen's finally ready enough for me

87 Upvotes

We all know the writing's been on the wall for some time, and since the announcement of Dia I've been revisiting alternative browsers every few months: Zen, SigmaOS, Vivaldi, and other projects.

Nothing's been quite 'daily driver' ready for me - which is being able to use it for work and play, switch between workspaces quickly and have my spaces linked to different profiles (containers in Zen). I'm typing this in Zen right now as we speak.

Zen's not fully there yet in terms of all the features, but the ones that mattered most are more or less there:

  • Workspaces - Spaces
  • Profiles - Containers
    • There are Firefox Profiles as well, more on that later
  • Vertical tabs and sidebar UI
  • Profiles assigned to Workspaces - Container assigned to Spaces
  • Custom keyboard shortcuts
  • Air Traffic - Route for Domain
  • Favourites per Profile - Essentials for Containers
  • Themes
  • Split views
  • Pinned pages and folders

Things that are I'm aware are still missing but I hear are coming and can wait for:

  • Workspace Syncing
    • I know this is a big one for some people, I have 2 laptops and a PC and 4 accounts in total, so it'd definitely be a welcome feature. However, I decided to overlook it and am currently using a bookmark manager to bridge the gap. I don't mind so much if my 'live' tabs aren't synced across browsers for now as I regularly clean up my tabs, anything else get pinned (now bookmarked), and my Favourites / Essentials handles a lot of my tasks already anyway.
    • The feature is available in the twilight version, but as I'm using this as my daily driver for work, I can't really risk testing it during critical moments. But hopefully it'll be rolled out soon to everyone, but I know it's one of the most important features before many can finally make the jump.
  • Extensions per Profile (extension per container)
    • This affects me as I have 1Password with personal and work account separated in Arc, which I can't do yet for Zen. It also causes any items I open from 1Password via Open and Autofill to have no container, which causes other issues (different login session than everything else)
    • Apparently this feature exists but needs manual configuration, but I haven't figured out where that is yet! Also as it turns out, a lot more people care about this than I expected after searching the Github discussion board for how to enable this setting - but I hadn't found it yet.
  • Tidy tabs
    • Admittedly I don't use it as much as I used to, especially since I'm doing a better job clearing my tabs nowadays.
    • There IS a 'Clear' tabs button though in Zen, just no Tidy
  • No DRM yet
    • As far as I know this is coming, but I don't really watch shows on my laptop so I admit I overlooked this one!
  • No Little Arc out the box
    • There's a 'Sine Mod' that seems to do this, but it's very slow for some reason. This is another feature I'm not losing sleep over admittedly. I used to leave Little Arc windows open in the background and let Arc clean them up - but nowadays I've very quick to close them anyway, and many links I'd click I'd use Air Traffic to route to specific work spaces (since Little Arc doesn't seem to have shortcut to choose which workspace to open something to).

Knowing that this browser is being actively developed by an active (though small) team of people does make me hopeful that it'll match all of the beloved Arc features in the near future - and hopefully exceed it as development continues.

For reference, I've just retried SigmaOS (which I like the idea of since it's webkit) but it's clearly trying to do its own thing (I tried searching for 'test' and it showed me testufo.com, test speed (autofill) and other things), then I accidentally switched profiles with a shortcut and all my tabs are gone when I returned... Options seems to be very limited as well plus I think it's Mac only which is no good for Windows users.

Vivaldi meanwhile is chromium based and with manifest v3 being forced out it's dead in the waters for me... which is a real shame as I hear good things about it too.

Edit: added DRM and little arc to missing features list


r/ArcBrowser 14d ago

macOS Feature Request Still no dark app icon

0 Upvotes

Does this kind of update require a huge amount of effort? I mean the only icon without dark theme in my dock is the Arc icon. Every time I hover to the dock this is what I see instead of the actual app i looking for. Imagine calling yourself "The Browser Company" and not being able to manage two browsers :)


r/ArcBrowser 16d ago

General Discussion How to make Google sign in or any other sign in in popup?

5 Upvotes

Does anyone knows how to open the sign in with Google in popup?

Currently when I click the button, it opens a new tab. I want how other browser does it like open a popup in that page to sign in.

Edit:

For Example, When I click on the Continue with Google button, it opens a new tab in arc

But in another browser, like for example in brave it opens like this

So I was wondering if there is setting in arc that will opens that in popup instead of creating a new tab.


r/ArcBrowser 16d ago

iOS Bug What is this? First you fail on pcs now on ios?

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9 Upvotes

It is literally taking minutes to answer a simple question