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The Arc Browser Is Dead (www.howtogeek.com)
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[-] [email protected] 141 points 3 days ago

It’s dead and they’re replacing it with an AI-first browser. Gross.

If you want the main things Arc gives you (vertical tabs, tab groups), you can get them with Firefox or a Firefox spinoff like Librewolf.

[-] [email protected] 86 points 3 days ago

Zen browser is basically FireFox made to look like Arc

[-] [email protected] 36 points 3 days ago

Zen made sense until Firefox rolled out vertical tabs, but there's little reason to endure all the growing pains and bugs now you can set up basically the exact same thing directly on FF.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Why do people want vertical tabs? It feels as if it just takes up more space, and my muscle memory after all these years makes me move to the top. I always go back to horizontal tabs after using vertical tabs for a day.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago

Because web content is increasingly mobile and vertical-oriented. So the horizontal space is usually empty anyway.

Sometimes new things take time to get used to but if you try it for more than a single day you may find that you like it.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Makes sense. The sites I am using most probably have not adopted the new style yet. And like I said, the hardest part is the muscle memory of looking at the top for my tabs and moving my mouse to the top to select a tab.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

because when you have more than 8 tabs open on a horizontal tab row, the tab handles start to become narrower and tab titles become unreadable and almost useless. with vertical tabs tab titles can be as long as you see fit, and the tab title does not take away space from other tab handles so more can fit. essentially its more space efficient I think.

but I don't use it because my firefox theme breaks down when I set up vertical tabs, and everything will be white, even though I don't even use userchrome customizations

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

I prefer the overview I get with them. I’m on an ultrawide monitor so it’s not like I’m sacrificing horizontal space either.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah, on a widescreen or 4K, I can see the appeal.

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