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Goodbye, Arc Browser, you were an interesting concept.

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Arc Browser? Never heard of it.

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Never heard of this one. Guess it can make room for another one I’ll never hear of…

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I tried it briefly in its like beta testing days. Deleted it shortly after and forgot about it until I saw this post just now.

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Lack of knowledge about it is possibly its biggest demise. It was supposed to be a next-gen AI browser. I have had it installed for several months but just couldn’t bring myself to use it regularly.

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never heard of it either

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I heard of it, and I think it was more catered to Apple than PC (though I think they had a PC version). I was going to try it, but before I could even open it, the browser required that I create an account. There was no way to use it without an account.

That was a hard “no” for me. Uninstalled and never gave it a second thought.

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Never heard of it, but if I had, this would have stopped me from trying it as well!

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The Browser Company, who made the Arc Browser are already trying again with a new browser called “Dia”. Time will tell if this one will be more used or at least more well known. I am glad that I do not have a fledgling browser company, there are some big players in that field to compete against.

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Maybe, just maybe, they learned their lesson about forcing a profile??

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While looking for (other) articles to feature in tomorrow’s newsletter, I ran across the below which reminded me of this topic:

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Interesting. I read the topic, and it sounds like Zen is very similar to Arc without the AI integration. I could be concerned for Zen lasting long personally. It feels like they are trying to reinvent the wheel for browsers.

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Same, unfortunately. I did really like the way the UI worked, but I migrated to a new PC and it brought over basically nothing so I found myself going back to my old browser(s) instead.

Along with that, I was really not a fan of the fact that they had no idea how they were going to monetize the platform and stay alive… my guess is that’s the real problem.

I did really like the workspaces and the way pinned apps worked in Arc, though. Maybe we’ll get a Chrome/Edge skin with similar functionality one day?

Their other project has some AI stuff IIRC (haven’t looked into it myself) but I didn’t really notice anything AI in my time with Arc, did I miss something?

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I completely forgot about this! It started as Mac only. I happened to be daily driving an M-series Mac Mini at work during that time for testing, though, so it wasn’t a problem for me to give it a spin, and it was available for Windows by the time I switched back :joy:

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Sadly, I’ve never heard of it, or ever saw it being promoted anywhere.

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Arc Max was the AI that was included with Arc Browser. It had some interesting features, some that I was interested in were auto renaming of tab titles and downloaded files to make the names more organized and concise.

The info on Arc Max is still up: Arc Max – Browse the web with AI

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I just noticed this article today, apparently the new browser that The Browser Company has been working on - Dia is now in beta. I am not sure if it will end up being my daily driver, but I will likely try it out to see what it’s like.

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