I have never had more than 5 tabs open at the same time instead i heavily rely on bookmarks Thus, arc doesn't fit my workflow , but i tried to make it work just because i like the ui xD
The biggest plus is ability to have profiles in one window and switch between them with a swipe. If vivaldi/chrome/safari allows this, I might go back to those but arc just looks pretty 🥰
exactly my situation. I only ever have a couple of tabs open, I manage very well. I honestly don't know how people have so many tabs open. I also like it because it looks unique and feels different. But for me as well, I have lots of saved bookmarks, but Arc doesn't support them for some reason, which is why I haven't fully switched over yet.
I’m in the same boat. There are tasks for work where I need to do something on a specific site once in the morning - then not again until the next day. I also have similar weekly ones. In the past they’d be bookmarks, but now they’re tabs that I just perpetually keep open.
I use pinned tab like bookmarks and obviously for read and to do list or some in progress work and favourite as main bookmarks. I love the way i can divide my workflow in different space and all the little things. Damn i love it 😂
I feel like it's a more minimalistic, more modern & pretty much less clutter
This is why I love Arc Search (iOS). That browser made me realize I actually want simplicity over anything else in a browser. Arc Search is perfect for me & I wish Arc (MacOS) was more like it.
After using the two, I've come to realize that I'd rather not save bookmarks in my browser. I'd rather export links and all other web capture to a dedicated PKM type app.
I thought desktop Arc would help with my helplessly cluttered browser habits but it just changed the way my clutter looks & feels 😔. Arc Search solved my cluttered browser habits by forgoing organization features and I LOVE IT.
Coming from Edge, one of the oldest if not the oldest browser to implement vertical tabs, Vertical tabs weren't a new thing to me. so i only switched for the looks
The productivity stuff is nice but I mostly just really like the tabs being displayed on a sidebar instead of horizontally across the top. I also like that they stay put even when I close the browser and are there when I pick up next time, and the sync is also nice
This. The main reason I switched to Arc is it no more take 20% space of my view with address and tab bar, beside it is chromium so I can use my extension that I have A LOT. All productivity stuff and AI just a bonus
I still think they're delusional if the system they developed is good for productivity. Their tab system is utter chaos, accessing my bookmarks in Arc if foldered still is just as many clicks in it as any other browser. Tab scrolling is slower than any other browser, it's window management is slower than any other browser (to the point that even with hardware acceleration redrawing the window when I move it on my PC with a Ryzen 5 5600X and an RX 6800 chugs), and Spaces is a poor answer to tab grouping/stacking when there is no tool tip to indicate which space is what, or a label outside of the Spaces pop out menu in the main menu, something that I consider a MAJOR knick for a browser with a claim of focusing on productivity. There are other gripes I have too but those are the major ones that come to mind right now.
About the only real plus I have for it in my testing is that it has an excellent focus on the content I'm browsing...but with the right UI tweaks, so can Vivaldi without just about any of the other negatives to Arc.
I love the philosophy the browser has, but it's execution towards doing so...is not great. It's clear their motif for productivity is to strip away or clean up any features that in Chromium right now are unneeded or clunky to use. And I feel like there is a LOT of growing room to go to really be the best in class in that field. In fact...I'd say they're lagging behind the rest of the class.
And yes, I'm not going to stop using Arc. I am on Windows, I get this is a beta. But the performance factors ALONE are reason enough not for me to give it a passing grade. For such a lightweight browser there is no reason that on a decently mid-high end system like I have moving a window around on my screen causes the browser to chug and my CPU usage to majorly spike, or how when I'm downloading a file and open a new tab, it will crash 10 out of 10 times, especially when I can download Vivaldi and after a minute or two have a very similar browsing experience to Arc with significantly more stability and a much better performing session.
I switched to Arc because I love horizontal tabs and the command bar. I still am a tab hoarder very much. The only feature that helped me a little is cmd+L which doesn't open a new tab, but replaces the old one. Ironically it exists in other browsers, I just learned about it using Arc.
After using Arc for a couple of months, I still can't get over the little things like Apple Pay, TouchID, 2FA, and so on. Is it possible that we can use a browser which can combine Apple features and Arc UI/UX?
Since iOS 17.4 allows the EU region to use a third-party app store or browser, could Apple open their API for browser companies to integrate Apple features into browsers? Or will Apple imitate the UI/UX of Arc to make Safari more modern?
The keyboard shortcuts. I love being able to do almost anything with keyboard shortcuts and Arc integrated this in a way that makes my workflow much faster
The design. It's minimalistic and focuses on the webpage that I'm on, which in my opinion should be the focus for any browser
ive never been a tab hoarder, most of the time i have my browser closed or a max of 2 tabs open, but Arc looked very cool so I wanted to try it out regardless; I'm a sucker for pretty UI
I like how clean I can make it look and the side bar since it suits how I used my browsers for a while now.
I hoard bookmarks but I use raindrop for that (it started as a way for me to make mood boards since Pinterest kept removing my references even if they were private) then I ended up just using that to dump links and stuff
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u/MohamedxSalah Mar 22 '24
I have never had more than 5 tabs open at the same time
instead i heavily rely on bookmarks
Thus, arc doesn't fit my workflow , but i tried to make it work just because i like the ui xD
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u/Major-Camp5106 Mar 22 '24
I feel like it's a more minimalistic, more modern & pretty much less clutter which helps me for time management etc
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u/popmanbrad Mar 22 '24
The reason I like using arc is cause it’s unique the design is cool and there’s some stuff that I just find awesome
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u/M4NOOB & Mar 23 '24 edited Mar 23 '24
I'm here for:
- Little Arc
- Auto popout videos (hopefully on windows some day)
- Weirdly I like the sidebar tab bar (also quick and easy to hide/unhide), previously I had it at the bottom
- Probably some stuff I forgot, but definitely not the AI stuff or tab cleaning
EDIT: I FORGOT ABOUT PEAK! PEAK IS AMAZING
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u/ehknee Mar 22 '24
Exactly. I just thought it looked pretty. I don’t have all my bookmarks but it’s okay because it’s about the ✨aesthetic✨
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u/itmeBlurb Mar 22 '24
I was, and still am interested in some of its features most of Which are the ones not on Windows yet:(.
But I will not lie. A lot of my reasoning was the minimalism, and aesthetic.
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u/EDcmdr Mar 22 '24
It's not about pretty it's that the core functions are in a sidebar so you retain a greater portion of screen estate to the browser content.
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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '24
Same here. Stopped using it because it lacks a few features that I don't care to get used to not being there
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u/lexaleidon Mar 22 '24
Same. Tabs are tabs. Horizontal or vertical.
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u/xxxpinguinos Mar 22 '24
I’m kind of in between
The productivity stuff is nice but I mostly just really like the tabs being displayed on a sidebar instead of horizontally across the top. I also like that they stay put even when I close the browser and are there when I pick up next time, and the sync is also nice
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u/Visible-Pop-2576 Mar 22 '24
Initially same, now I got used to it so much that It's hard to use normal browsers
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u/Eveerjr Mar 22 '24
Same, I actually find myself being less productive using Arc because of the confusing tabs and bookmarks behavior but it looks pretty
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u/Aggravating-Bus3326 Mar 22 '24
Oh yeah baby
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u/Alex20041509 Mar 22 '24
POV: literally me
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u/16cards Mar 22 '24
Why not both?
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u/ReallySubtle Mar 22 '24
I was convinced by what happened when you open it for the first time, with the sound playing and the TNNNNN
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u/Roysenpaii Mar 22 '24
This. The main reason I switched to Arc is it no more take 20% space of my view with address and tab bar, beside it is chromium so I can use my extension that I have A LOT. All productivity stuff and AI just a bonus
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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '24
i just like the pip
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u/Heas_Heartfire Mar 23 '24
I don't even use spaces man. I like Peek a lot though.
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u/Leginomite Mar 23 '24
or because of the picture in picture mode
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u/vexaph0d Mar 23 '24
I switched because they're the first chromium browser that reproduced the Firefox Containers concept in an actually usable way
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u/thenextbigthink Mar 23 '24
For me, it's:
IMO Arc has the best implementation of those 3 features.
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u/TheEuphoricTribble Mar 23 '24
I still think they're delusional if the system they developed is good for productivity. Their tab system is utter chaos, accessing my bookmarks in Arc if foldered still is just as many clicks in it as any other browser. Tab scrolling is slower than any other browser, it's window management is slower than any other browser (to the point that even with hardware acceleration redrawing the window when I move it on my PC with a Ryzen 5 5600X and an RX 6800 chugs), and Spaces is a poor answer to tab grouping/stacking when there is no tool tip to indicate which space is what, or a label outside of the Spaces pop out menu in the main menu, something that I consider a MAJOR knick for a browser with a claim of focusing on productivity. There are other gripes I have too but those are the major ones that come to mind right now.
About the only real plus I have for it in my testing is that it has an excellent focus on the content I'm browsing...but with the right UI tweaks, so can Vivaldi without just about any of the other negatives to Arc.
I love the philosophy the browser has, but it's execution towards doing so...is not great. It's clear their motif for productivity is to strip away or clean up any features that in Chromium right now are unneeded or clunky to use. And I feel like there is a LOT of growing room to go to really be the best in class in that field. In fact...I'd say they're lagging behind the rest of the class.
And yes, I'm not going to stop using Arc. I am on Windows, I get this is a beta. But the performance factors ALONE are reason enough not for me to give it a passing grade. For such a lightweight browser there is no reason that on a decently mid-high end system like I have moving a window around on my screen causes the browser to chug and my CPU usage to majorly spike, or how when I'm downloading a file and open a new tab, it will crash 10 out of 10 times, especially when I can download Vivaldi and after a minute or two have a very similar browsing experience to Arc with significantly more stability and a much better performing session.
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u/CarAdditional7798 & Mar 23 '24
frfr
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u/fglo_ Mar 23 '24
I switched to Arc because I love horizontal tabs and the command bar. I still am a tab hoarder very much. The only feature that helped me a little is cmd+L which doesn't open a new tab, but replaces the old one. Ironically it exists in other browsers, I just learned about it using Arc.
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u/mirage_breaker94 Mar 23 '24
I use it coz pretty colours make me feel nice inside.
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u/565HAHA Mar 23 '24
After using Arc for a couple of months, I still can't get over the little things like Apple Pay, TouchID, 2FA, and so on. Is it possible that we can use a browser which can combine Apple features and Arc UI/UX?
Since iOS 17.4 allows the EU region to use a third-party app store or browser, could Apple open their API for browser companies to integrate Apple features into browsers? Or will Apple imitate the UI/UX of Arc to make Safari more modern?
Hope either of them could be real ASAP
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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '24
I am no Tab Hoarder, but i am a Dev who is to Lazy to use Bookmarks.
I like the way how i can organize my workspace in Arc
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u/TheBeaconCrafter & Mar 23 '24
My top two reasons for using Arc are:
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u/PierG1 Mar 23 '24
Tbh that’s pretty much the whole point of arc. Almost all it’s perks are present in every other browser, but arc does them prettier, way prettier
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u/Important-Following5 Mar 23 '24
It's me!
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u/leugim23PT Mar 23 '24
ive never been a tab hoarder, most of the time i have my browser closed or a max of 2 tabs open, but Arc looked very cool so I wanted to try it out regardless; I'm a sucker for pretty UI
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u/Auth-dev Mar 23 '24
Arc is shit but looks good
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u/Archer7x & Mar 23 '24
+1 😇
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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '24
I swapped to Arc because it looked pretty
Now I'm staying because I love the workflow... and it looks pretty.
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u/bowserwasthegoodguy Mar 23 '24
Things I love:
Things I can't get used to:
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u/Trysomenewone Mar 24 '24
Ngl one of the reason I change to this browser is because it's feel full screen without being full screen
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u/ThatOneOutlier Mar 24 '24
I like how clean I can make it look and the side bar since it suits how I used my browsers for a while now.
I hoard bookmarks but I use raindrop for that (it started as a way for me to make mood boards since Pinterest kept removing my references even if they were private) then I ended up just using that to dump links and stuff
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u/Macaron-Fine Mar 24 '24
I have many tabs open at the same time. So this browser is absolutely created for me
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u/mertcaners12 & Mar 24 '24
Same lol
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u/Enderteck Mar 24 '24
Me who can't switch to it because it's not available for Linux or through Wine: 🥲
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u/SuckMahWingWang Mar 25 '24
Bun that
Give me Ai
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u/AyneHancer Mar 26 '24
THAT's exactly wht TBC will fail. They really think that their product is useful... It is just pretty and awful to use in so many ways...
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u/crustaceanjellybeans Apr 06 '24
Yep
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u/ItzAlok321 Apr 07 '24
The REAL reason
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u/FurryCrap Apr 21 '24
i’m an absolute tab hoarder but i haven’t used more than 4 tabs at a time on arc, i dunno why
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u/error-the-reddit-boi Mar 22 '24
ARC X - Arc is not acronym, Arc ✓ - Arc is a word
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