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Re:Arc Browser for Windows 1.0, Now generally available by givinguflac on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @12:27PM (#40212819)
My first thought from the headline was “What’s Windows 1.0?” Then I clicked and realized it’s Arc Browser 1.0 for Windows.
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Re:Arc Browser for Windows 1.0, Now generally available by asveikau on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @12:34PM (#40212923)
I seriously thought they had ported some novel browser engine to Win16, but even that, Windows 1.0, which IIRC didn't even have overlapping windows, would be ridiculous.

And apparently it's based on Chromium. Porting a brand-new browser engine to long-obsolete Windows is probably plausible. Porting Chromium, a very large beast with a lot of baggage, is much less likely.

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Re:Arc Browser for Windows 1.0, Now generally available by perrohunter on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @12:38PM (#40212985)
> which IIRC didn't even have overlapping windows

that's why arc supports split browser tabs hahaha

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Re:Arc Browser for Windows 1.0, Now generally available by Narishma on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @12:48PM (#40213102)
You don't need overlapping windows for a browser.
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Re:Arc Browser for Windows 1.0, Now generally available by LukeShu on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @12:35PM (#40212934)
> “What’s Windows 1.0?”

It's a desktop environment for DOS that was released in 1985 :)

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Re:Arc Browser for Windows 1.0, Now generally available by danielfoster on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @12:34PM (#40212917)
The website does not even explain what Arc Browser does.
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Re:Arc Browser for Windows 1.0, Now generally available by starshadowx2 on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @12:38PM (#40212994)
If you go to the actual arc.net site it does, this post is just linking to their documentation site with the release notes.
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Re:Arc Browser for Windows 1.0, Now generally available by ziddoap on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @12:37PM (#40212975)
The main site does.

https://arc.net/

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Re:Arc Browser for Windows 1.0, Now generally available by philosopher123 on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @12:32PM (#40212895)
same
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