Re:Thoughts on Arc Browser
by chrishannah on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @06:48PM
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It's good to see someone enjoying Arc. It's definitely taking a fresh look at what a web browser should be. Just turns out it wasn't for me.
Re:Thoughts on Arc Browser
by genkiuncle on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @07:35PM
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Similar here, I've been using Arc for a couple of weeks and I'm pretty happy with it. I really enjoy the way it handles tabs, spaces and profiles.
Personally, I use 1Password for passwords & credit cards, and Raindrops.io for bookmarks, so jumping between browsers were fairly smooth for me.
One of the primary complaints in the post is password syncing, and I'm not sure that's a fair knock against Arc since it seems like OP would struggle to switch to _any_ browser that's not Safari (and they say as much just generally in the conclusion).
> I use iCloud Keychain for passwords on all of my devices, and of course, my bookmarks are synced via Safari. So when I tried to use Arc, nothing was in sync.
My experience was much better since I use 1Password. The extension was a little clumsy at first, but I gave the feedback and things were improved in the next release and I haven't had any issues since. Really any third party password manager with a Chrome extension should work fine.
Arc is weird, it's a different way of thinking about a browser. I've personally enjoyed it, but I can totally see why others wouldn't. The tl;dr of the post is "if you just want Safari you'll be happier with Safari" and I think that's a totally fair assessment.