I haven’t tried to import into Arc for about a year, obviously, but I don’t think any browser can import another’s tabs or tab groups.
Looking at Chrome now, tabs remain as ephemeral as ever, and making them into groups seems like a way of reducing but not solving the information overload problem inherent in top-mounted tabs. But it’s all too easy to close a tab inadvertently or, if Chrome crashes, to lose all your open tabs. (Been there, done that, many times before switching to Brave and then Arc. The only solution is to restore the entire Chrome folder from Time Machine.)
You can pin tabs in Chrome, which prevents accidental closing, but pinned tabs can’t be in groups, thus eliminating them as a useful way of organizing more than a handful of sites.
Safari does far better, putting tabs in a sidebar where you can read their names, allowing them to be grouped, and allowing groups to have a mix of pinned and unpinned tabs. Safari’s approach is pretty close to where Arc is, albeit without the concept of separate workspaces.
As you can see in the screenshot below, I’ve built up four workspaces with probably hundreds of pinned tabs. Almost anything I do regularly on the Web, I can access with a couple of keystrokes or clicks. And I can get to it all on the iPhone in Arc Search with a few taps too.
