Technology

59587 readers

2478 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Arc Browser - Changing focus when the main product isn't even finished? (www.theverge.com)

submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

41 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Just switched to arc on windows. It's really buggy but I wanted to still give it a chance because it feels really nice when it does what it should. I hoped it will get better over time. Still hope so but I don't believe anymore...

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 52 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Why would anyone use a browser that requires you to login, especially after that: https://kibty.town/blog/arc/

[–] solsangraal 23 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

i tried it with bogus accounts just to see what all the hype was, and yea... it's just bloatware pretending to be something "new" and "innovative" just to get suckers to sign up with their actual info

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I really like the vertical tabs, the split profiles, the quick notes and the mini windows for links from other applications. If there is a prior product with all these features I’d love to try it. Please send a link.

[–] solsangraal 5 points 4 weeks ago

how cheaply our data is bought...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

All of those are problems which extensions already mostly solve. Firefox has tree style tabs, sideberry and tabstash. You can hide the horizontal tab bar with css. You can create multiple profiles in Firefox, and you can open separate isolated windows for each. Notes depend on your chosen software, but simple browser-only extensions exist. I don't care about mini windows; that is a non-issue already solved with tab mgmt keyboard shortcuts.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

What I’m reading here is that it is new for a browser to offer all those features. You’d need to do a bunch of customisation to reach a similar result otherwise. It’s fine that people don’t care about it, but that doesn’t make it less new.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Firefox has all those things already (albeit vertical tabs are experimental still). Just without the AI marketing and the built-in identity theft.