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.

4 points | by Vishal19111999 1 day ago

9 comments

  • account-5 20 hours ago
    Firefox is good enough at this point. For those recommending zen just be cognisant of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43443494 which is not a good look for a "privacy" focused browser.
  • endorphine 1 day ago
    Firefox with uBlock Origin
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    • lekker-kapsalon 1 day ago
      Switched 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).

  • mirkodrummer 23 hours ago
    It'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
  • johnydoe 1 day ago
    I’ve been using https://sigmaos.com/ for the past couple of years, and it works very similar
  • ggm 1 day ago
    I 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.
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    • mickelsen 10 hours ago
      Yeah, 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)
    • jay_kyburz 1 day ago
      There 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.
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      • ggm 1 day ago
        Being an australian, I updated edgy to dodgy
  • orionblastar 1 day ago
    https://vivaldi.com/download/
  • mkbkn 1 day ago
    Zen browser uses a lot of Arc features and is based on Firefox.
  • fithisux 1 day ago
    I 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)

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    • Vishal19111999 1 day ago
      What's your review of Zen? Seems like a good option
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      • mkbkn 1 day ago
        Not OP, but Zen is very good. So good I now rarely use any Chromium based browsers.
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        • Vishal19111999 1 day ago
          Is Zen not on Chromium?

          Will I be able to install Chrome Extensions on it?

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          • mirkodrummer 23 hours ago
            It 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 17 hours ago
            It is FF based. I use Downloadstar to scrap lectures. Chromium does not have one.
      • fithisux 18 hours ago
        Fantastic, acceptable performance, no occasional sound like Chromium.

        Very stable.

  • billconan 1 day ago
    I will have to move back to chrome I guess
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