I Gave Up On Chrome.

Yep, I'm an Arc user now. Sue me. Doesn't mean I don't still love Google Chrome and everything it's done for the web. Nor does it mean Arc is perfect.

S/O Ph4se0n3 for the awesome edit 🙏

[ventic]

This seems significantly less convenient than Firefox Multi-Account Containers for my use, but I'm very happy to see some innovation in the browser UI space. It has been stagnant for too long.

[SickBeard]

"I switched from Chromium to Chromium"

[billywang]

Theo is far too opinionated and brash without having formed his thoughts well enough and making sure he knows exactly what's going on

[mrt_]

*crosses fingers* Please say that you're switching to Firefox, PLEASE!
Edit: bruh, you're switching from Chrome, to a closed source chromium fork. I'd rather use an open source browser that isn't just another chromium fork. Also you can do similar stuff on Firefox with a little tweaking and a few add-ons. Also, no Linux support... no thank you.

[bielarusajed]

Tabs in the sidebar is a really great feature. Before Arc I was that crazy person, who used Edge on Mac and Edge on Linux just because it has vertical tabs.

[Archcorsair]

I've had access to the windows beta and its total booboo. It's unusably buggy/unstable and feels like it only has a fraction of a fraction of the features that mac has implemented.

[xcz]

The URL bar in full view is a MUST for any front end developer who works on multipage sites with dozens, hundreds or more routes. In fact, I wish I could increase the font size of the URL so can read more easily!! So Arc might work for personal use, but incognito chrome or firefox is a must for front end dev work

[Ebbzzor]

The whole video and it's criticism are useless when he doesn't understand the difference between spaces and profiles.

[pooolll]

While watching your video I agreed with your critique about spaces and profiles. But then I gave the spaces feature a go and having spaces not coupled to profiles makes a ton of sense. If you want the functionality of spaces being treated like different profiles, arc lets you do that. It's also very explicit when you create a new space about that. Moreover, I just wanted sectioning between work and non work but I still want a shared session between them. Spaces gives me that. I would rethink the critique there tbh. Not really a shortcoming of arc, but overall do agree that there are loose ends that they still need to tie up.

[thomas_]

Definitely would like to see a reaction to that Arc video on how they approached building their windows platform in Swift.

[jck]

i cannot take the thumbnail selfies seriously

[GarethPW]

Spaces and profiles being separate concepts is a great feature IMO. It turns spaces into an organisational feature without forcing you into a different session. And you still get the option to tie profiles to your different spaces if you so choose.

[boccobadz]

Twitch works with Edge vertical tabs no problem. Separation, grouping tabs, profiles, etc. Why would you use Arc if it's just worse Edge?

[twothreeoneoneseventwoonefour]

3:00 oh nooo. Oh no. I currently have like 50-70+ tabs open (and try to keep it around that number all the time), and some of the tabs I have are open literally for MONTHS. They are not pinned(not static at all), they are more like "todo" but not as much strong as to put them somewhere in bookmarks, or a note. First group is like some github issues I currently have in work (maybe like 5-6), others is some immediately useful learning material, other music, and sometimes some random stuff as well. Youtube does have "watch later", but it became so cluttered there that I just open it as a tab instead. I feel that I am, surprisingly, very productive with this setup, and overall with the chaotic style of organizing stuff.

[thanaen]

The Arc for Windows beta program is depressing to be honest, there has been only 72 persons enrolled in a month

[mascit]

it's always good to have competition. nonetheless, one shouldn't consider "shipping new features" as a reason to ditch a browser. We all agree that a browser is just.. a browser. Honestly what I care the most is stability, efficient resource consumption and no anti consumer moves.

[Darkitz]

arc windows release kinda taking a while

[nielskersic]

Arc is defintiely not perfect, but man it's a joy to use. I never expected to be ditching Chrome within a year when I got my Arc invite in 2022

[timseguine]

I might switch to a sidebar for tabs because I am one of those people who has so many tabs open you can't even see what they are anymore.

[stormofrage]

I can't see anything special in Arc, Edge, Sidekick offer vertical tabs also and the experience are more intuitive than Arc exp.