• What do you know about it?

  • Have you used it? If so - what did you think?

I scanned this article...

Arc web browser review: a new way of using the internet - The Verge

Arc isn’t perfect, and it takes some getting used to. But it’s full of big new ideas about how we should interact with the web — and it’s right about most of them.

I got curious. But I quickly realized it's ridiculous that The Verge didn't make a video. Who in 2022 wants to read an article about interactive tech? A video is worth 10,000 you know the thing.

Ninja edit

It doesn't even have a Wikipedia page nor does anything else in the following...

Arc (Internet browser), a new generation of Internet browser currently developed by Darin Fisher of The Browser Company

Is the browser just some kind of beta thing that might simply get axed?

  • Orcocracy [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    I don’t get the hype about this thing. Having a massively oversized sidebar for your tabs and such was a silly idea when Omniweb did it in 2002 and it’s still a silly idea now.

    • raven [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Counterpoint: 16:9 is a silly resolution for interacting with text. Vertical space is a premium.

      I used to have this addon that let me have tabs on the side, but rotate 90° and that was optimal IMO. You get used to reading sideways faster than you might think.

      • Orcocracy [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        I don't know, this strikes me as being a bit too over-optimized to the point where a bigger hassle has been created from the attempt to address a smaller hassle.

        • raven [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          I don't think putting the tabs on the side is that much of a hassle, especially if you're on your computer a lot.

          • Orcocracy [comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            This is trading the mild annoyance of reading text sideways and/or taking up a bunch of horizontal space with the mild annoyance of not having one or maybe two more lines of text on a webpage. And after all of this UI optimization, you still need to scroll down to read the next line of text after that

            • raven [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              You stop noticing the tabs on the side when you get used to them, and 2-3 lines of text isn't nothing. That's a entire comment on hexbear.net!

    • gaycomputeruser [she/her]M
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      2 years ago

      Tabs on top is great for tall displays, but vertical tabs are so much better when your display is wide.

      • Orcocracy [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        I can understand that on a small display like a steam deck or iPad mini in landscape, but on a larger laptop or desktop screen you might want to have a few windows open at once. That horizontal space can be quite useful for something else.