The Arc Browser Is Finally Coming To Windows (neowin.net) 53
The Browser Company's Chromium-based Arc browser, which aims to rethink the whole browser UI with a sidebar for tabs and lots of personalization options, is finally coming to Windows. In a post on X, the Browser Company says it's sent out the first Windows beta invites. It's currently only available for iOS and Mac users. Slashdot reader dokjest shares the email they received: Hey there,
Hursh here, CTO at the Browser Co, with some exciting news! A little while ago, you signed up for a brand new browser, Arc -- one that The Verge called "The Chrome replacement I've been waiting for" and Shopify's CEO named as "the best browser." Well, starting today, we're onboarding our very first beta testers to Arc on Windows. And you're next!
Over the coming weeks, our team will be onboarding hundreds of beta testers to Arc. And come January, we'll be welcoming 1,000s of you from the waitlist every week. If you don't mind a few bugs and some rough edges, sign up as a beta tester and we'll prioritize your invite to Arc! For us, this period leading up to our Windows release is about crafting the very best version of Arc that we can. And that means learning from you -- what you love, what's missing, what doesn't feel quite right. It still feels surreal to say, but it really does all begin today. Follow along for some fun on isarconwindowsyet.com -- And we'll see you very soon!
- Hursh and The Browser Co Crew
P.S. If you have a friend on Windows with one too many tabs, who could use a better browser -- forward this on to them, too! If you want to get on the beta waitlist, you can sign up here.
Hursh here, CTO at the Browser Co, with some exciting news! A little while ago, you signed up for a brand new browser, Arc -- one that The Verge called "The Chrome replacement I've been waiting for" and Shopify's CEO named as "the best browser." Well, starting today, we're onboarding our very first beta testers to Arc on Windows. And you're next!
Over the coming weeks, our team will be onboarding hundreds of beta testers to Arc. And come January, we'll be welcoming 1,000s of you from the waitlist every week. If you don't mind a few bugs and some rough edges, sign up as a beta tester and we'll prioritize your invite to Arc! For us, this period leading up to our Windows release is about crafting the very best version of Arc that we can. And that means learning from you -- what you love, what's missing, what doesn't feel quite right. It still feels surreal to say, but it really does all begin today. Follow along for some fun on isarconwindowsyet.com -- And we'll see you very soon!
- Hursh and The Browser Co Crew
P.S. If you have a friend on Windows with one too many tabs, who could use a better browser -- forward this on to them, too! If you want to get on the beta waitlist, you can sign up here.
Yawn (Score:4, Insightful)
Yay, YAC (Yet Another Chrom*). This is not true browser diversity.
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yes, i tab center redux to move the firefox tabs to the sidebar, as i have unused space in the sided and prefer more lines... after all, wide screen can be made more useful like this. Chrome have the vertical tabs to the the same.
sidebar tabs are also much better when you have many tabs, as you can better read the title and can fit more visible tabs. but yes, not everybody like them, people that use just 2 or 3 tabs will look at it and complain about all the empty space
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What we need is real innovation: Put the tabs in the middle.
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A side bar would work if done right -- it'd unwaste all the horizontal screen estate that's there because of TV fetishism. For almost anything you do (coding, reading, etc) a portrait oriented screen works much better: humans can't handle too wide columns of text well. To some degree you can emulate that by splitting the screen in half, but that means that whenever you're not multitasking you're using only half of your monitor.
Then there come laptops which can't be portrait (at least within current design
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Re:Yawn (Score:5, Informative)
Oh, and:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-... [mozilla.org]
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-... [mozilla.org]
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-... [mozilla.org]
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-... [mozilla.org]
https://mrotherguy.github.io/f... [github.io]
Years of yawn...
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*I* wouldn't. But some people like that stuff :)
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But visually Arc browser radiates diversity. It's like Kathleen Kennedy took the default Chrome browser, but a chick in it, and made it lame and gay.
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Another one... Meh (Score:3)
The Browser Company's Chromium-based Arc browser
And another win for Google's monoculture...
*yawn*
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And also another computing thing named Arc. You'd think they could come up with a new trademark.
We have a whole CPU architecture, two GPUs (Synopsys, Intel), three archive formats, multiple email extension "standards", this here browser -- and of course, a Lisp variant (not that the latter is meaningful, there are more Lisp dialects than Lisp users).
More shite (Score:3)
Re:More shite (Score:4, Informative)
Are people really wanting this?
No. This is just a pet project of some guy who wants to "re-invent" something that doesn't need to be re-invented.
It's a stupid, pointless design that makes the content area of your browser smaller. Stuff that should be on top is now on the side, taking up almost one third of your screen. No thanks.
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Stuff that should be on top is now on the side, taking up almost one third of your screen. No thanks.
Bingo.
I think it's a nefarious plot to force us to buy widescreen monitors, but that's just me...
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Stuff that should be on top is now on the side, taking up almost one third of your screen.
I hear they also do mobile . . .
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Are people really wanting this?
No. This is just a pet project of some guy who wants to "re-invent" something that doesn't need to be re-invented. It's a stupid, pointless design that makes the content area of your browser smaller. Stuff that should be on top is now on the side, taking up almost one third of your screen. No thanks.
It'll work great with Windows 11's centered taskbar icons! Design by morons! We're truly living in interesting times.
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Yes, but also no. Depends on the screen. On my 13" laptop screen, I really need all of the horizontal real estate I can get, as otherwise the site is rendered too small to read it. On my 32" 4k desktop screen, there is nothing to do with the horizontal real estate, but trading the extra for vertical space makes sense as it allows to fit more content on screen.
Whether this warrants a whole new browser for something anyone has been able to have by plugins for basically ever, that one is another question.
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content area of your browser smaller.
Then again, it isn't like web devs know what to do with more that 600-800 pixels of horizontal space.
Hell, I have most sites zoomed to 150% so I can kill most the white space and set the font to something I can read from a distance back.
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Are people really wanting this?
No. Just those spending billions on default settings.
If Chrome isn't the default, then someone smells blood in the water like no other.
Re: More shite (Score:3)
25 browsers (Score:3)
There are something like 25 active chromium browsers. They all claim to be the best one. I will not be trying most of them, I don't need another one.
Re:25 browsers (Score:5, Informative)
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There are something like 25 active chromium browsers.
There is still only one Netscape [seamonkey-project.org].. a far better setup that doesn't "phone home"
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There are something like 25 active chromium browsers. They all claim to be the best one. I will not be trying most of them, I don't need another one.
That's not fair. This is NOT just "another chromium browser"... this is one they eventually expect you to pay for!
too many chrome clone's already (Score:2)
Oh the irony. (Score:1, Troll)
I love it when Slashdot collectively complains about the singular nature of pretty much every browser being Chrome and "Yet Again (tm)" giving dominance to Google. AND also at the same time bitching about Mozilla's direction they're taking with their web browser.
So I think at this point pretty much everyone coming to complain about this "yet another clone of Chromium" can just put their diatribe on hold for a second and just hammer us all out a Web Browser, for us all to use. Any takers? Anyone? No?
That
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I hate that Slashdot has become this crap and lost all meaning of what it used to be.
Frosty piss! Pertified Natalie Portman likes hot grits!
Oh, wait, maybe Slashdot never had meaning, and has always been full of cantankerous curmudgeons and people waaaaay over there on the spectrum, bloviating before 'bloviating' was a term.
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I hate that Slashdot has become this crap and lost all meaning of what it used to be.
Frosty piss! Pertified Natalie Portman likes hot grits!
OLD GUY PEDANT ALERT:
Natalie Portman is naked and petrified. You pour the hot grits down your pants. Damned kids. Can't get anything right!
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Web Browsers aren't like "they used to be" in whatever idealized period you've got inside your head.
There are probably some eternal beings logging our requests to make tech like it used to be. When we die, we'll be presented with Netscape 3.0, or Win95, or a phone with no maps available, or whatever else we've asked for.
Two weeks later we realize... "THIS is the bad place!"
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Well, fuck you too. A 25th chromium browser is nothing to cheer. I'd be impressed if someone wrote a browser as you suggest but that is not what happened here. What happened here is that someone made a skin on top of free software, free software the phones home. What happened here is not what you are proposing happened here. The response you find here would be different had your scenario actually played out.
Re: Oh the irony. (Score:2)
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Lighten up Francis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
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Yawn (Score:3)
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Perhaps the parent poster is one of those Gen Z'ers I've been hearing so much about. Probably has a shelf full of participation trophies and wonders why no one thinks they are as special as mommy told them they were. Yes, old
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Nobody can provide a good browser solution because there's no good browser solution
Sophistry much?
you haven't actually said anything beyond "criticism bad."
Because what is here isn't "criticism" it is just cynicism. Case in point. [slashdot.org] Marked +4 Informative here. Comment boils down to this "sophistry" you speak of by simply dismissing the work as "just a reskin". So kindly go fuck yourself.
If you want meaningless praise, go watch marketing material
No I'd like actual discussion but the lot of you all are too dim for that. So instead I'll put as much thought into my replies as this comment here. [slashdot.org] Since that seems to be "going with the flow of traffic" for this site's mental capacity. Oh how about this one [slashdot.org]
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I am so tired of the contempt culture [aurynn.com] that makes up 99% of the commentary on this site.
lol take a step back a look what you just posted
Well, thank god! Finally! (Score:2)
Just yesterday I said to a friend how desperately we need yet another Chromium based browser since there are by no means even remotely enough pet projects of people who insist that they must build the better mousetrap, I mean, browser.
Tree Style Tabs (Score:5, Interesting)
I've been using Piros Tree Style Tab (ie Side Tabs) in firefox for 15 years now.
I still don't get the hate for Firefox. Works great for me.
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Tried this and wasn't impressed (Score:3)
Thorium - The fastest browser on Earth (Score:2)
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Why not in the Mac App Store (Score:2)
I actually wanted this and thought I could install after upgrading my OS. But noticed just now it is not on the Mac App Store, only a direct download from their site. Kinda turns me off.
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Are you f*@&ing kidding me?
None of the major browsers are. If you limit yourself to the app store then stick to Safari like a good little Apple serf.
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