Arc Will Change the Way You Work on the Web

[ace (Adam Engst)]

@adieb

There are 3 dots at the top right of the Arc window and extensions can be accessed from there too.

Yep, that’s the same control as is used for the Split View controls. I’m not wild about how small and hard to see it is, but on the other hand, I can’t really see needing to use it hardly ever.

@fischej

So are we all "Methodical Adventurer"s to start? Do we get level-ups for time using the browser?

Hah! Yeah, I didn’t mention that little Easter egg. I used the randomize button to try out a bunch of different once, which is how I ended up being a Dazzling Dabbler.

@m.c

only to be stuck at the first hurdle: requiring an account to use the tool.

While ARC says it won’t sell data - and only share it with their partners for service support - they are tracking full telemetry - not aggregating, and explicitly associating with one’s own id.

I find The Browser Company’s privacy policy to be clear and reasonable. It explains what they collect and why, and nothing seems problematic to me. They are up front about how they don’t know what sites you visit or what you type into other websites, and they don’t sell data. An account is necessary to sync your data between devices and store data like Notes and Easels.

https://thebrowser.company/privacy/

@m.c

for the research geeks out there, 20 years ago, we presented “hunter gatherer” (full paper here)here’s the video of the interaction

Sorta Easel - don’t ya think?

Very cool! And it was fun seeing the AskTog site again.

@johnn1jm

ARC is a little piggy , too. Nearly 2 gigs of memory with not much browsing.

I’m not seeing that. The main app is consuming 693 MB of RAM and there are various Renderer processes for open pages, but that’s like any other Chromium browser. I’ve noticed no overall issues associated with performance in very heavy usage on my 2020 27-inch iMac, which is relatively low on the performance curve compared with M-series Macs.