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520 points kevinyew | 3 comments | 04 Sep 25 12:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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ghm2199 ◴[04 Sep 25 13:31 UTC] No.45127081[source]▶
I've switched to Zen browser recently (I like it's spaces and folder structure to organize work on a daily basis, same as Arc). fFox nightly is not there yet but it's getting close with tabs on the left..
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1. cosmic_cheese ◴[04 Sep 25 14:55 UTC] No.45128000[source]▶
I’m hopeful for Zen, not just as a successor for Arc but as a Gecko-based browser that sweats the small details. I appreciate that Firefox exists but it’s got a number of rough edges that’ve seemingly been forgotten.
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2. CarbonNanotubes ◴[04 Sep 25 15:05 UTC] No.45128121[source]▶
One thing I noticed shortly after when I initially switch Arc a couple years ago from Firefox, ads were more targeted at me and I definitely felt more tracked online. I started using Zen Browser at work because they blocked Arc for Windows (Zen blocked as well but I can run the Twilight build without being blocked :D) and the more I used it I just like it better than Arc in general and it was nice to be back to using Firefox again. When Arc went into maintenance mode it was just that last thing to finally get me to move off of it and over to Zen everywhere.
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3. ghm2199 ◴[05 Sep 25 09:30 UTC] No.45136659[source]▶
Arc is based on chromium I believe and that has manifest v3 which means poorer ad blocking afaiu. I won't touch any chromium implementation with a 10 foot pole because of this exact reason. Arc also does not allow you to export bookmarks natively. i had to use a 3p script to do it