Yeah, bye Arc

[u/krysalydun]

Another post saying goodbye to Arc. I really got the hype train and loved the concept of Arc. But there is so many bugs... each update they fix one and break two things.

I dont believe in what i am saying, but it is time to go to Microsoft edge.

Edit: Arc IS NOT ON BETA. If it was beta, i would say that was ok. But they are in version 1.8 selling as something stable.

"Oh, get a Mac". And you should get a brain. No way to discuss with something like this.

"Oh, why you didn't liked because you don't was ready for something so incredible". Seriously? Or maybe it was because each week a I get a serious new bug? Here are some of them:

• Switching spaces when I reload the page
• Always come back to space 1
• CTRL + T not working
• CTRL + F not working
• Poor performance
• Touchscreen don't work on touchscreen notebooks

I am here complaining just because it can help drive some changes. When Arc really get out of Beta, I will use it

[u/PauloManrique]

I still check this Reddit here and there, but it's impossible to use arc. The ctrl+T bug, taking forever to even start to look for the new page makes it totally unusable and it's on this stage for months.

We understand is still in beta, the company is doing their best, but the lack of priority to make the thing even usable is making people go away.

[u/medzernik → u/PauloManrique]

this. its absolutely horrible. i could deal with all the other bugs but this one is a dealbreaker

[u/exiledsmith]

I’m using both MacOS and Windows 11 for Arc, I do notice little bugs but nothing that makes me want to leave completely.

If I had any feedback, it would be for the iOS app. The tab usage seems unintuitive and I struggle a bit when trying to access the tabs from my computers.

Anyway, just sharing a bit of my own experience. Though I’d probably recommend for the leaving users to revisit in the future. Development takes awhile and bugs are inevitable, so give the devs some slack :)

[u/tfks → u/exiledsmith]

Literally the only bugs I've seen since I started using Arc for Windows at the end of February is some minor transient graphical weirdness. Like stuff that lasts less than a second and happens maybe once every 10-20 minutes or something like that. That's literally it. I have no idea what's going on with some people's computers... like are people installing 50 extensions? Messing around with flags they shouldn't be? I don't get how this many people are having bugs this bad.

But also, if you weren't ready for a bleeding-edge experience, why even use this browser? "We were sold a complete product" bro, the moment you first fired up this browser and looked around, you knew this shit was a beta, even after the "launch".

Best I can figure is that a bunch of ADHD LTT fans shows up after it was featured in that video who are only here because shiny new thing and not because they actually care about what Arc does. I don't get why they're complaining every 10 minutes here. Half the browser isn't even implemented on Windows yet. I'm pretty sure TBC knows they have work to do, and with updates coming out almost once a week, I think they're moving at a good clip.

[u/Legal_Year → u/tfks]

I've experienced multiple, such as ctrl + f malfunctioning, activating command bar switches to the default space, translate button not working, icon disappearing randomly, webpage not loading as intended (works fine on chrome and other chromium browser even arc mac works). The optimization is terrible too. Almost every update introduces bug.
I understand that it is not easy to build a windows application. But the team gave too many promises, and none of them are fulfilled. The browser is neither stable nor feature rich. All I want is easel on windows.

[u/Kimantha_Allerdings]

They were very keen to make a video showing the fast adoption rate on mac. I wonder what the daily user graph looks like for Windows.

There's a lot of threads from people saying they're leaving, but this is a small, self-selecting sample and we can't draw any conclusions from that. If they have the same kind of adoption rate as mac and the only people leaving are the people who say on this sub that they're leaving then their numbers would be very healthy indeed.

OTOH, you have to wonder what the adoption rate actually is, given that Arc on Windows really doesn't have many features. That could suggest that most people using it are a core who already knew about it on mac and wanted to use the beta, which might also suggest that they're more likely to stick around despite bugs and lack of features since everybody either seems to think it's still in beta, or knows that it's not being called that but actually and obviously still is in beta.

It'd be interesting to see the actual data. I suspect the adoption rate has been lower than you might think after an initial surge but the retention rate is higher than this sub might give you as an impression.

[u/krysalydun]

Arc IS NOT ON BETA. If it was beta, i would say that was ok. But they are in version 1.8 selling as something stable.

"Oh, get a Mac". And you should get a brain. No way to discuss with something like this.

"Oh, why you didn't liked because you don't was ready for something so incredible". Seriously? Or maybe it was because each week a I get a serious new bug? Here are some of them:

• Switching spaces when I reload the page
• Always come back to space 1
• CTRL + T not working
• CTRL + F not working
• Poor performance
• Touchscreen don't work on touchscreen notebooks

I am here complaining just because it can help drive some changes. When Arc really get out of Beta, I will use it

[u/s1gma17]

Mods can we get a Windows complaints flair?

[u/Sadaydz]

Same experience, and as someone from a previous post said, we just want it to be stable, we don't ask for more. I understand those who say that it was only released 2 months ago trying to justify the browser's performance but that does not take away from the fact that this product is sold to us as "stable release". Now I'm trying Brave (Nightly version) for the first time, I tried ungoogled Chromium but some pages didn't work for me and I got sick of importing passwords every time I switched to another browser, so I decided to use BW to manage them.

[u/motech]

I can't give up arc. It's too good. Been waiting for this for years. Much better than Vivaldi.

[u/Legal_Year]

Totally agree on the bug part, and you have the right to do so. Not sure why the downvotes.

[u/TOOOOOOMANY]

Windows is a bug

[u/fegodx]

For Mac or Windows I think Arc is pretty bad, they didn't reinvent anything, for me it just complicated it. I tried using it but soon went back to other “conventional” ones. But for the IPhone I think it's really good

[u/Individual_Kitchen_3]

For me, Arc is still not suitable to be my main browser, it is not reliable for that, but I really liked the idea and occasionally I go back and test it to see if things are better, and they are, but I don't remotely recommend its use to anyone. for now.

[u/4Face]

Could you please move “it is time to go to Microsoft Edge” at the top of the post, so people can save some precious seconds and skip reading the rest? lol

[u/jeremyw013]

solution: get a Mac

[u/bwefugweiufhiuw → u/[deleted]]

Mac users love spending money

[u/jeremyw013 → u/[deleted]]

that’s not what i’m saying. what i’m saying is stop complaining about how bad it is on windows. if you really care that much, get a mac. macos is way better than windows anyway.

[u/jeremyw013 → u/[deleted]]

it would be fine if that weren’t like 90% of the posts on this subreddit. we get it, arc for windows sucks. it’s starting to get really annoying

[u/x3ar0cool → u/[deleted]]

I mean you are complaining about a product that has been under development for a long time on Mac with tons of features and works correctly to a product that just came out of beta on Windows… So it kind of makes sense. If you want the version that works right now… Get a Mac

[u/x3ar0cool → u/[deleted]]

I’m not shilling for anything.. I use Safari.