• 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?

  • 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!