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Ask HN: Arc is dead, where should we move now?
I've been using arc for a while and have loved it.
As it is getting discontinued, opening this thread for discussion on where to move from here.
- billconan 1y agoI will have to move back to chrome I guess
- billconan 1y agojust found https://zen-browser.app/ https://zen-browser.app/
- Vishal19111999 1y agoHow does it compare to Arc?
- ggm 1y agoI went Brave. Some people (lobste.rs) dislike it because of some practices they regard as dodgy in commercialisation/scraping of sites. But, it conforms to chrome codebase and appears to work well.
- jay_kyburz 1y agoThere are plenty of people here who don't like them either. "Edgy" suggests they are kind of cool. Being an Australian I would use "Dodgy" instead.
- ggm 1y agoBeing an australian, I updated edgy to dodgy
- mickelsen 1y agoYeah, vertical tabs since 2023, included adblock, mostly vanilla Chrome except for the crypto offering that you can just turn off (still seems interesting as a ramp I may eventually use, but through another profile)
- fithisux 1y agoI use chromium (through scoop) and Zen the last 8 months and I feel very very productive. I just keep an Edge install / profile for my work because the company uses outlook and azure. But the real work is on the above (jupyter/ reading lecture notes/ bookmarks / social media / github+bitbucket)
- Vishal19111999 1y agoWhat's your review of Zen? Seems like a good option
- mkbkn 1y agoNot OP, but Zen is very good. So good I now rarely use any Chromium based browsers.
- Vishal19111999 1y agoIs Zen not on Chromium? Will I be able to install Chrome Extensions on it?
- hollowturtle 1y agoIt is Firefox based, as for extensions no, it uses Firefox store, but popular extensions(like u block origin) are usually published on multiple stores
- fithisux 1y agoIt is FF based. I use Downloadstar to scrap lectures. Chromium does not have one.
- fithisux 1y agoFantastic, acceptable performance, no occasional sound like Chromium. Very stable.
- orionblastar 1y agohttps://vivaldi.com/download/ https://vivaldi.com/download/
- johnydoe 1y agoI’ve been using https://sigmaos.com/ https://sigmaos.com/ for the past couple of years, and it works very similar
- endorphine 1y agoFirefox with uBlock Origin
- lekker-kapsalon 1y agoSwitched to Firefox from Safari a few years ago, it has been great so far. The only problem I encountered is with the containers feature, I couldn’t set it up for Google products (got an infinite redirect).
- gaws 1y agoThis is the correct answer.
- mkbkn 1y agoZen browser uses a lot of Arc features and is based on Firefox.
- hollowturtle 1y agoIt's sad they ditched a good browser I would have paid for for a new browser that has a ai chat on the side(what it seems to be so far). Anyway the best it's still Firefox/Zen imo
- account-5 1y agoFirefox is good enough at this point. For those recommending zen just be cognisant of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43443494 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43443494 which is not a good look for a "privacy" focused browser.
- stringpiggy 1y agoI've moved back to Chrome and am testing out tab managing extensions. Not sure which one I'd like to go with yet, open to recommendations.