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Ask HN: Arc is dead, where should we move now?

4 points by Vishal19111999 ↗ HN
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.

23 comments

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ggm
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.
jay_kyburz
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.
ggm
Being an australian, I updated edgy to dodgy
mickelsen
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)
fithisux
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)

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

Will I be able to install Chrome Extensions on it?

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

Very stable.

endorphine
Firefox with uBlock Origin
lekker-kapsalon
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).

gaws
This is the correct answer.
mkbkn
Zen browser uses a lot of Arc features and is based on Firefox.
mirkodrummer
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
stringpiggy
I'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.