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.

No shit it died. They stopped supporting it and on top of it it’s a browser that requires you to be logged into an account to use, which is a turnoff to techie people who are the most likely to adopt nee things early.

Oh and Microsoft Edge can do most of the things Arc does.

Never even heard of it until now.

Zen Browser is open source and in active development!

what a fucking joke, the best thing it did was create the zen browser project, and before that Vivaldi existed that took the spot of zen without the hype

Never heard of that thing, but apparently it was Apple exclusives? Deserved death then.

I'm hoping ladybug will be operational for mainstream use, before the enshittification of Firefox progresses too far.

No Linux build, not git link, why would anyone care?

The Browser Company, the developer behind the Arc Browser, has announced that Arc is going away

Where? Where did they do this? Why is there no link? They said several times, very recently, that it was not going away. They were just basically going into maintenance mode.

please know this: we’re not trying to shut Arc down.

- 2 weeks ago

It probably has something to do with being only available on Macs for so long.

When I eventually managed to test Arc, I felt it was a very overhyped browser. I couldn't see what the fuss was about.

It was a fun little experiment to use for about 15 minutes. Won’t miss it.

So, no Windows, no Linux, no head?

I really liked the layout of Arc, but ended up going back to Firefox because uBlock still works on it.

Most regular people just use what came with their computer, unfortunately.

So this is a case of a company that made a browser to appeal to techies that didn't see widespread adoption, is pivoting to a new browser that is focused on the central conceit of a product that most techies decry...

Read the room, Arc. Read the room.

That's very sad to hear. I am currently using Arc as my main browser for work (I am a web developer) since its launch on MacOS. Guess I need to switch browsers soon then...