Arc users, what are you moving to?

mosselman 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I’ve built my own, Ariadne.

Nobody but me has it and it is great!

It has all the arc features except for the AI ones. It has nested tabs: when you open a tab from a tab it nests it underneath its parent. Infinitely.

I added right click menu items such as copying the urls of multiple selected tabs in one go, copying the urls of downloads, multi-part downloads. I am thinking of making downloading media from visited pages a first class citizen.

I’ve also optimised the memory usage for people like me with hundreds of tabs.

It has ad-blocking and fingerprint evasion built-in.

I am going to build in some markdown extraction features to quickly copy pages for my llms and maybe an mcp server for my local agent to read the web through. I’ll have to see though.

Having a browser work exactly how I want it is great. I have hotkeys that I need for things that weren’t possible for me before without hammerspoon.

I might release it at some point.

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rglover 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Nobody but me has it and it is great!

The zen of this position is severely underrated.

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ValentineC 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

How are you handling upstream updates?

	▲	mosselman 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Every night I update the browser from upstream and do a rebuild. It is a bit cumbersome right now as I have to run it on an SSD attached to my mac. The whole codebase requires quite a bit of storage that I don't have a maxed enough mac for. I might look into being able to build it on a server at some point, but it works for me.

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jotato 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I moved to the Helium browser several months ago.

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juicypeach 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Same. I love it.

	▲	brzz 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		n'thed

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herunan an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Moved to Zen as soon as I noticed Arc went on maintenance mode. Never looked back.

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knes 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I've been on Helium for some time. it's great (for now)

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Ardakilic 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Helium browser. Never looked back.

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uriahlight 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Most Arc users have long since migrated to Zen. I personally have never liked either of them. It's hard to step away from Vivaldi. Although Vivaldi runs Chromium, it in 2026 is basically what Opera 12 was in 2016 (before they crippled the browser with the Chromium re-write). Vivaldi just has too many features. The only browser I've found that is comparable to Vivaldi's feature-set and customizability is Floorp.

	▲	jaffa2 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		i too like vivaldi for the same reasons. i use brave, chrome for google stuff, firefox if i need a third browser but i use vivaldi mostly. except on mac where i still use safari

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odo1242 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm on Zen Browser

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mjazwiecki 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

maybe good time to reverse engineer it using AI and then open source it?

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deppep 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

once again, back to firefox

	▲	Ardakilic 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You could try Zen browser. It's like Arc, but Firefox based. Or if you like Chromium engine you could try Helium Browser, which I moved to personally and never looked back.