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Fred Ehrsam
@fehrsam
Has anyone used Arc / The Browser Co's browser? If yes, worth?
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Yitong
@yitong
My primary use case for it is guiding the browser UI when reading or taking screenshots. Not super interesting but also switching is super low since it’s pretty close to chromium
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Nat Emodi
@emodi
Switched to Arc a couple weeks ago from Chrome It’s very good — better workflow I’ll keep using it
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Justin Hunter
@polluterofminds
Just recently switched back after trying Arc for a month. I like what they are trying to do but extensions feel like second class citizens and doing dev work in Arc is not nearly as smooth as Chrome.
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albert
@thatguyintech
really loved it when i tried it out but i had a lot of issues with my coding/development workflow so i went back to brave/chrome
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Integrated Kyle e/acc
@kylesamani
as far as i can tell, almost all the features in Arc are things that already exist in MacOS via tools like Alfred and BetterTouchTool
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@l0wlevelcr0w
Yes. I like it quite a lot, but for two things. 1. It destroys battery life and is a big resource hog. It'll lag xcode simulator, vs code and discord if you have all running with arc 2. The adblock extensions don't work as well as on brave. Otherwise it is great and I'm happy to use it over brave and chrome.
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Alex Palmer
@thatalexpalmer.eth
Arc has been my default for months.
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JB Rubinovitz ⌐◨-◨
@rubinovitz
Haven’t figured out a workflow that makes it worth it yet. I typically declare tab bankruptcy every day though and create my own knowledge graph/index of the web on other platforms.
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tomu
@tomu.eth
yes, but didn’t switch from brave so far
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avi
@avichalp
yes, to the point that now i use discord and spotify within arc
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Landon
@lndnnft
i used it for ~3-4 months and ended up switching back to chrome. its definitely nice but I had some major issues w/ it. notably, the left sidebar started to annoy me, just something about it puts me off and everything starts to feel misaligned. along with that, just like *too much* going on. too shiny, too fancy.
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Matt Galligan
@mg
It’s been my default browser for going on a year now and it would be really, really tough to move back to Chrome or Safari at this point. It may not be for everyone but it’s really awesome for me.
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Yash Karthik
@yashkarthik
i tried it out. i like the "fluidity" of it. but my existing workflow doesn't fit it into. (i guess i could with work) so now im back in firefox
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Josh Stark
@js
switched a few weeks ago and haven't looked back mostly love the vertical tab bar / cmd + T action bar is very intuitive
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@billzh
Made the switch from chrome. Good UX and its auto archive feature unclutters my tabs. But may run into performance issues if you have multiple windows open with something like browser-based vscode
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@j4ck.eth
i fully switched and would have a hard time going back. i use folders, spaces, and keyboard shortcuts a lot. i really like it overall my least favorite part is how extensions work but u can access them from keyboard shortcut so that’s nice
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@pdr
I’ve mainly been using it for discord. Here are some other casters trying it https://searchcaster.xyz/search?text=Arc+browser
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Denis Igin 🇺🇦
@di
I love their 90's feel website 👾 https://arc.net/
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Deepa
@deepa
The only thing for some reason that does not work for me is keeping my various gmail tabs open. I have few email accounts and I tried to keep them saved in different tabs but when I go back to them they switch to another account. Still trying to figure that bit out.
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