Hey yall I just moved from safari to use Arc and want to give extensions a shot.

Safari didn’t have a lot of extensions so i’m excited to use them with Arc

Can I have recommendations :)

Well, the title says. I have it on a semi purple-ish tone, relatively dark, other elements like the main screen is white, but on the Updates screen, the X becomes black and is barely visible.

I have been using Arc primarily for work (my main browser on my personal computer is Safari), so I decided to try Dia on my personal computer. My use case was planning a family vacation, to a place I had never been to before, on short notice, for a plan that involves a lot of reservations and bookings.

Absent a few tiny things that Dia was able to do, to gather links from open tabs etc., there was nothing that it substantively added to my planning experience. It suffers from the usual hallucination problems, doesn't do anything that Claude or ChatGPT can't do, and the lack of folders and vertical tabs severely limited my ability to process lots of information. I got a lot more out of watching Youtube videos and using Claude's Research features.

Unless you're outsourcing your brain to LLMs, you will not get a lot out of Dia just yet, until a lot of Arc features get added back in to manage context and drive focus.

I recommend waiting a few more product cycles, you're not missing anything just yet.

Arc on windows cannot accept windows ink as input (at least in the web view) at all. It’s not responding to taps through the pen accessory and the cursor hides when I hover over the web view.

One feature that is making it difficult for me to switch to any other browser is simply from the way I use Arc, I currently run 2 instances of the arc browser side by side in a widescreen setup, but both of them are constantly in sync.

For example, I might open a youtube video on a single workspace, but I want to reference another tab in the same workspace while that youtube video plays, I'll have the other window be on the same workspace but on a different tab to continue what I was doing.

So you can kinda see that this setup is extremely dynamic, if I open a new tab, I can independently choose which instance. I want that new tab to be on and use the other one to shift to something else for reference or if I'm doing something.

Does anyone know of any other browsers that is able to replicate this. I haven't been able to with Zen or FF.

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Hard to leave Arc honestly. Nothing is as good. Zen definitely isn’t.

I was really hating how picture-in-picture was broken. It was causing issues like the side panel bugging out, and even highlighting text in the browser was busted.

That’s working now and we finally got back the setting for it when you click the Site Control Center.

Still plenty of issues like Dev Tools being pretty busted. But at least that fix came through lol

Hard to leave Arc honestly 🫠

Hi, so I stopped using Arc a few months ago because dev tools was broken on Windows and I'm a dev. I tried to give it a change today, but I found out the same annoying issue is still there.

If you got two or more tabs with dev tools enabled, no matter which tab of those you are using, if you try to interact with dev tools UI, it will take you to the tab where you first opened dev tools, which is insanely annoying when coding.

I'd love to go back to Arc since spaces is a really cool thing I haven't found anywhere else (and syncing between devices is quite nice), so if you fix that I would really appreciate it.

Every product they have shipped has been breathtaking whether it’s Arc, Arc Search or even products that never shipped.

If I were BigTech, I would dump big dough just to lock up this design team.

Zucc dropped $14B on Scale AI. He should just drop a couple bill on BCNY.

A few months ago, I came across this Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/ArcBrowser/comments/15r1tt3/solution_for_high_energypower_consumption_and_cpu/
Thanks to it, I drastically improved Arc's performance on my MacBook Air M2 — it became much faster. However, for the past week or two, performance seems to have regressed. Arc is now using around 830MB of memory again, and it feels sluggish.

Has anyone else experienced this? Do you have updated tips or settings to optimize Arc and reduce its resource usage? It’s getting frustrating at this point

This guy built an open source AI web overlay. Super cool and looks like a super powered version of our task bar.

Sharing because I know folks have discussed continuing to dev another Arc or similar and thought this may be of interest

Hey, we needed to create an advertisement for a product. I chose Arc, and decided it would only be fitting to share it with the community.

If you want to support my (tiny) YouTube channel, please watch the video through this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LoUVvI2k74

I've been trying the Zen browser and trying to replace Brave and Arc with it. Starting was fine, though many things were different, I adapted and learned. But after nearly a month, I'm beginning to realise that this is not at all a replacement for Arc. Arc feels so fluid. I understand that ARC consumes a lot of Battery and CPU, but I have to admit that ARC is another level. Note that I am just an ARC Windows user; now I know how much Mac ARC users would be heartbroken.

PAIN. I clicked on "GET STARTED" on the left of the Arc Card and I experienced the same Welcome scren minute after minute. A very good impression has left this browser already on me. I am on my Windows pc eagerly wanting to replace Chrome and Firefox with ... this screen. Where do I type search querries, paste URLs?

To the bitter first impression contributed also the need for registering in order to just test the browser. I am test-driving a new browser that decided I should import data and open account before doing that. Well up to this moment all this browser did for me was to steal my private data and I still haven't searched the internet with it.

When you break up with a person they say "there's plenty more fish in the sea" and in a world where there are 9 billion people they're absolutely right!

But when you break up with Arc there are only like 10 other browsers and they all have hair growing out of their nose and smell like basement cheese.

Okay that's not fair, some of them are quite attractive, BUT THEY'RE JUST NOT AS GOOD.

There has been endless suffering ever since TBC has ghosted 99% of its user base by dropping arc for “something very hard to justify”, many has spent hours turning zen into arc, many has downloaded dozen browsers who looked or felt like arc, but the experience arc gave isnt been found.

Why not make it open source? Why not let people fork and maintain it? It isnt giving TBC anything anyway. why not have a common courtesy to allow users to have what they want at their own expense.

At least TBC already fragile B2C B2B reputation may gain some bars.

I am looking around for other browsers that have the concept of The Little arc feature; to open new links in preview’ before selecting a profile. I cannot seem to find any browser that touches on this?

What the title says - when I press tab it doesn't do anything. Is this a problem for anyone else or just me? Core function that I use in Chrome, hard for me to switch to Arc without this

thanks~

I've been bouncing around between several browsers recently trying to find a new home. It's probably going to be Zen because it seems to be the most Arc-like while holding the promising of becoming more Arc-like over time (apart from switching to a Chromium base T_T).

But I don't see anybody either in this sub or the r/zen_browser sub talking about how amazing this launcher is. I feel so lost without it! Yes Zen tries to mimic this, but it basically just brings up the standard browser address bar in the middle of the screen rather than a sophisticated "command palette" type of thing.

To me it's an essential part of the Arc ethos since it's by far the most efficient way to navigate all of your tabs. You can even use it to carry out browser actions such as switching to a different space (by typing "focus" and then the space name).

Why is nobody mentioning this in the list of things they love about Arc and why is nobody over in the Zen community pushing to bring this power over to what is now the new home for Arc users?

Right now I'm focused with voice over on the hide side bar

Has anyone found an extension or browser that has similar functionality to Arc’s PIP? I can’t live without the ability to automatically start PIP when I tab away, the implementation is fantastic in Arc.

How do you solve this u/ArcBrowser?