A farewell to Arc browser

Re:A farewell to Arc browser by huskyr on Thursday October 22, 2026 @06:05PM (#50201719)

History feels like the only part of Firefox that is still stuck somewhere in the late noughties. They should just copy what Chrome and Safari have done and make it a webpage instead of a separate window.

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Re:A farewell to Arc browser by cosmic_cheese on Thursday October 22, 2026 @06:33PM (#50202015)

Slight correction with Safari, it uses a native NSOutlineView rather than a webpage, but the point that history works better in the main browser window stands.

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Re:A farewell to Arc browser by da_chicken on Thursday October 22, 2026 @08:27PM (#50202992)

Honestly, I haven't found browser history to be useful anymore. Not in 6 or 7 years. Too many sites are SPAs with server-side state, breaking the back button, breaking multiple open tabs in the same application, or breaking both.

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Re:A farewell to Arc browser by queenkjuul on Thursday October 22, 2026 @08:35PM (#50203055)

I go hunting for pages i read months ago and need to reference again pretty often. Browser history containing only the site and title isn't great for that but it's what i have

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Re:A farewell to Arc browser by forgotpwd16 on Friday October 23, 2026 @03:37AM (#50205624)

Firefox's visible UI is made of webpages. They just decided to open this webpage in separate window without an option to do otherwise. Still can access it by visiting `chrome://browser/content/places/places.xhtml`.

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