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Wow what is this and why does it have that vaguely petrichor-like scent of vaporware?

by Grimm665 3y ago

ubercore 3y ago
It's actually pretty great, I really like it.
- Grimm665 3y ago
  Despite my snark, I am genuinely curious after seeing a bit of what it actually looks like in their design meeting video. What are the unique features and what do you like about it?
  - type0 3y ago
    We should like it, it's the Browser of New York!
  - ubercore 3y ago
    For me the spaces organization, and how they handle tabs is really nice. Cleaning up open tabs every night (being keeping the archive if you need to re-find) is nice, and moving certain tabs up to the favorites area that are long-lived is nice. There's nothing super major that changes for me, but if you're the type of person that collects tabs and then doesn't do a great job organizing them, it could be really nice.
still_grokking 3y ago
Especially as all it offers is a tab tree and split content windows. Something that you can have since ages in Vivaldi natively or with just two add-ons in Firefox. Also it's of course not a new browser. It's just the next Chrome GUI.
- RheingoldRiver 3y ago
  The "Peek" feature they showed in a tweet seems cool, is there an extension for that in Firefox? Where you can get a tab-within-a-tab to view an article or etc without opening a tab yet. I would definitely install an extension to be able to right-click "Preview Link" or "Preview Tab" or etc. I did a quick search for "Preview Link" and "Peek" and nothing really showed up. There was one "simple link preview" but I tried installing it and it just seems super buggy so I uninstalled.
  - udfalkso 3y ago
    The part I like lost about the peek feature is when it happens elsewhere in the OS. I click a link in outlook or iMessage and I pops up right there in context without jumping all the way to my browser. ESP nice for unsubscribe links in emails.
    - RheingoldRiver 3y ago
      do you mean that this Arc browser enables that?
      - udfalkso 3y ago
        Yea
        RheingoldRiver 3y ago
        Oh I'll admit that does seem like a selling point to have it installed at least. Does it have to be default browser or what's the UX like?
rattray 3y ago
I think they maybe just haven't updated that website much since before they launched the browser, whose website is here: https://arc.net/ https://arc.net/ I've been using it for a while and it's solid.

Wow what is this and why does it have that vaguely petrichor-like scent of vaporware?

ubercore 3y ago

It's actually pretty great, I really like it.

Grimm665 3y ago
Despite my snark, I am genuinely curious after seeing a bit of what it actually looks like in their design meeting video. What are the unique features and what do you like about it?
- type0 3y ago
  We should like it, it's the Browser of New York!
- ubercore 3y ago
  For me the spaces organization, and how they handle tabs is really nice. Cleaning up open tabs every night (being keeping the archive if you need to re-find) is nice, and moving certain tabs up to the favorites area that are long-lived is nice. There's nothing super major that changes for me, but if you're the type of person that collects tabs and then doesn't do a great job organizing them, it could be really nice.

still_grokking 3y ago

Especially as all it offers is a tab tree and split content windows. Something that you can have since ages in Vivaldi natively or with just two add-ons in Firefox. Also it's of course not a new browser. It's just the next Chrome GUI.

RheingoldRiver 3y ago
The "Peek" feature they showed in a tweet seems cool, is there an extension for that in Firefox? Where you can get a tab-within-a-tab to view an article or etc without opening a tab yet. I would definitely install an extension to be able to right-click "Preview Link" or "Preview Tab" or etc. I did a quick search for "Preview Link" and "Peek" and nothing really showed up. There was one "simple link preview" but I tried installing it and it just seems super buggy so I uninstalled.
- udfalkso 3y ago
  The part I like lost about the peek feature is when it happens elsewhere in the OS. I click a link in outlook or iMessage and I pops up right there in context without jumping all the way to my browser. ESP nice for unsubscribe links in emails.
  - RheingoldRiver 3y ago
    do you mean that this Arc browser enables that?
    - udfalkso 3y ago
      Yea
      - RheingoldRiver 3y ago
        Oh I'll admit that does seem like a selling point to have it installed at least. Does it have to be default browser or what's the UX like?

rattray 3y ago

I think they maybe just haven't updated that website much since before they launched the browser, whose website is here: https://arc.net/ https://arc.net/ I've been using it for a while and it's solid.