The company behind Arc is now building a second, much simpler browser
theverge.comI'm glad I stuck with Firefox. At least you know it's not going to be abandoned.
Love Arc, and although I see a lot of pessimism around the announcement I don't see any issue with calling Arc "done" and only releasing bug fixes. Chrome would great today if they called it done 15 years ago. What else do we need?
> What else do we need?
Less, honestly. I don't want a more complex browser that tries to revolutionize my productivity or use AI to blow my mind. I want the old Chromium omnibox in a well maintained and open-source client that opens webpages and blocks ads. Anything more than that is unnecessary for my needs as a developer.
I just don't think you can make a business selling novelty browsers with subscription services built in. The people motivated to try new browsers are a small market motivated by incredibly disparate and unique reasoning. Trying to sell a replacement for "the everyman's browser" feels like the wrong audience to target when they're the least likely to switch. I've never loved dialectic reasoning, but browsers either have to remove things until you're unique by omission, or add things until you're so cutting-edge it hurts.
Pinned and grouped tabs would never have existed.
TIL that existed.