Arc Browser | Setting up Spaces & Profiles

Get started with Spaces and Profiles to keep your online lives separate with Callan - separate logins, cookies, favorites, search histories and more!

0:00 - Intro
0:50 - An intro to Spaces
1:57 - Create a Space
2:23 - Personalize your Space
3:57 - An intro to Profiles
6:44 - Customize your Profile settings
8:16 - Create your first Profile
10:22 - Recap!
11:34 - Chat with me!

[utac]

This is the number one feature that made me switch over 100%

[SeonggyuLee]

I got to know this feature and it made me change my default browser to arc. And then, as I got used to it, I absolutely fell in love with this browser.

[MacAutomationTips]

This video appeared in my timeline just when I needed it. I was wondering how I could have different favorites in different workspaces, you explained the answer. Thanks.

[davilira]

Finally another browser that has a similar feature to Firefox's containers, surprising how not very talked about it is the usefulness of being able to separate logins and histories, without having to also manage different sets of settings and extensions (and is honestly the main reason I stick to it, besides maybe customization)

Certainly will consider this if it's ever on Linux

[adebiyial]

I've been trying to use Arc as my daily drive and while I understand its approach to organization, I feel a lot of friction. I have a default space but 4 different profiles. My original way of thinking about this is the same way a browser like Chrome works: each tab (pinned, favorites, regular) belong to a different profile. The friction with Arc is that switching between profiles only affect the favorite tabs, every other tabs persist. This is problematic because even though I'm now logged into applications with my work email in my work profile, the tabs/applications from my personal profile still persists. I won't be able to access them anyway, but it causes a lot of clutter and disorganization (which defeats the purpose) because now I can't tell what tab really belong to what profile.

I think the basic reason for this is that Profiles are a subset of Spaces, when it should be the other way round? Or maybe I don't just get it and the friction and disorganization is by design?

[somefishhere]

Great tutorial Callan! love your clear examples and love how you used an Easel at the end

[chei]

"Profiles are not synched between computers" -> thats already a showstopper for me

[xLuisCumbi]

Switching now to Arc, literally right now, thanks for the video

[waytolegacy]

I have just downloaded for the Windows, and it lacks many many "cool" things icluding gestures, show archives command and what not. Even can't apply the texture in the theme in windows! Arc is not the same if it doesn't have these features.

[simonsinclair]

Thank you. I was reading about it on the Arc tweet and wondered how to do it 👍

[ebouchut]

Thanks for the overview. It is very helpful and crystal clear.

[zabraetinod]

Why windows version don't have as many features as Mac version

[sai]

I didn't know something like profiles existed. I really got frustrated with the account logins getting conflicted with other spaces. Now finally got the solution.
My suggestion is most people use spaces to have different profiles. So, it's better you create a new profile with every new space by default implicitly. If not at least educate the users on profiles and give option to create them right when they create a space

[phil]

A lot of smart and convenient choices. What would have helped me a lot is if it would have been mentioned at 3:07 that if you don't pin a tab, they disappear after 12 hours. It's done so quickly in this tutorial and the auto disappearing is not mentioned that it created an extremely frustrating experience.

So I created different spaces and added tabs to them. To check if they will be saved, I closed Arc and reopened it and yes, they are all saved. So I crated dozens of tabs in different spaces, renamed each individual tab. The next day, without shutting down my laptop or closing Arc, all the tabs were gone. So I had to start from scratch. Why is a tab not auto pinned if I rename it? Why are tabs automatically removed without even asking? This is so confusing.

[AdamPrzewoski]

Wait, I don't have any profile section in my general settings, as shown in 7:04. Why?

[GarethPW]

Really need a way to choose which profile is the default and gets to be synced. I want to use Arc for personal browsing and for work. But having started out using it for work only, I can't find any way to move all my cookies, passwords, etc. into a work profile in order to repurpose the default one. Any help would be appreciated!

[tanmaysharma]

Waiting for all these features to be available in Windows OS...

[allanjunli]

Need an option to make a space belong to a profile, some spaces only make sense under certain profile. Also need a way to easily identify which profile I'm on and shortcut to switch between profiles.

[ulrichg.]

Nice Video, but I do not understand, how I could move the document between my personal and my business profile!?
The shown document (around 5:20) seems to sit inside the personal account of Google Docs. It was previously mentioned, how great it is to have the personal, and the business Google Accounts separated between those two profiles within arc.
If I move the Tab with the document, my understanding so far is, that I do not move the document from my private Google Account into my Business Google Account, but instead move my private Google Account into the Business Profile instead, which was earlier said is great to have this separated across the Profiles within Arc.
Do I miss something important, or was it just a bad example?

[antncrn]

Hey ! I've noticed that the top bookmarks (with the big icons) are changing depending on the space, but on my version of Arc it doesn't, does anybody know if it is possible to replicate the same behavior ? Or was it like that before, and now it's the same favorites for all spaces ?