The Arc Browser is Now Available for All iOS and Mac Users (theverge.com) 29
Following two years of testing, The Browser Company's Arc is graduating from its waitlist phase, launching its version 1.0. Arc, the Mac and iOS browser, aims to redefine online interaction by incorporating tools for note-taking, collaboration, webpage personalisation, among others. The Verge adds: We've covered Arc a lot in recent months, both because it's a good browser and because it's a big new idea about how you use the internet. The Browser Company's ultimate plan is to build "the operating system for the internet." Arc isn't just a place to see webpages; it has tools for taking notes, making visual and collaborative easels with others, redesigning webpages to your liking, and more. (Personally, I love Arc's picture-in-picture mode above everything else, especially now that it works with Google Meet calls.)
Arc 1.0 doesn't seem to come with any splashy new features. Rather, The Browser Company seems to just feel like it's ready to launch more widely. Arc has been pretty stable for me in recent months, though it does run into some of the same performance issues you'll find with any browser based on the Chromium engine -- you can always open a couple dozen tabs and watch your computer grind to a halt.
YACC (Score:5, Informative)
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It does have some nice features for chronically online folk.
Re:YACC (Score:5, Informative)
>"And? Chromium itself is just a UI layer sitting on top of a WebKit knockoff so"
You are kidding right?
Google completely controls Chromium. It is NOT WEBKIT. Every single Chromium-based browser user gives Google more and more power to do crap like this:
https://tech.slashdot.org/stor... [slashdot.org]
Just posted here TODAY. And it is far from the first shot in the takeover actively happening. People are just handing over total control of the web to Google.
So no, the grandparent poster is correct. Seek out and use non-Chrom* everywhere you can. Like Firefox. And support other non-Chrom* browser development, like the examples the GP posted. And complain loudly at anything that doesn't work correctly outside the Google-sphere. We cannot have a healthy ecosystem, or open standards if Google wields this type of control.
Re:YACC (Score:4, Informative)
Webkit was based off of Chromium though.
You have that backwards. For a while Apple and Google worked somewhat hand-in-hand on Webkit. Then eventually Google forked it and went their own way.
And of course Webkit was originally based on Konqueror.
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So, Konqueror went on its old way too with its original Webkit!
Why (Score:4, Insightful)
What's the point of making browsers for iOS if they're all forced to use Webkit?
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This
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Chrome has a desktop mode for iOS. I use that almost exclusively.
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tools for note-taking, collaboration, webpage personalisation, among others
Bells, whistles and other fluff that a non technical user might be interested in having.
Oh look they reinvented Lotus Notes (Score:4, Funny)
Let's see how this incarnation of a "god app" goes for them \_()_/
Re: Oh look they reinvented Lotus Notes (Score:4, Funny)
Leaving Windows, iPadOS, etc. users in the dark? (Score:2)
Can I install it on a cheap Chromebook or a Raspberry Pi or one of its clones?
Re: iOS (Score:2)
WebKit provides a perfectly capable browser engine, and you can do a lot with an application on top of that. Think of the large number of applications that embed web views, yet provide functionality beyond a simple browser.
Requires an account just to use (Score:1)
Attack vectors... (Score:2)
Attack vectors everywhere....
This happens so often - Oblig xkcd [xkcd.com]
based on the Chromium engine.....dead stop there ! (Score:2)
Meh (Score:2)
Looks weird and uses Chrome. Not thanks.
Requires a login to use... (Score:3)
Any browser that requires an account to use is already off the list.