HACKER Q&A
📣 Vishal19111999

Arc is dead, where should we move now?


I've been using arc for a while and have loved it.

As it is getting discontinued, opening this thread for discussion on where to move from here.


  👤 account-5 Accepted Answer ✓
Firefox is good enough at this point. For those recommending zen just be cognisant of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43443494 which is not a good look for a "privacy" focused browser.

👤 endorphine
Firefox with uBlock Origin

👤 orionblastar

👤 fithisux
I use chromium (through scoop) and Zen the last 8 months and I feel very very productive.

I just keep an Edge install / profile for my work because the company uses outlook and azure. But the real work is on the above (jupyter/ reading lecture notes/ bookmarks / social media / github+bitbucket)


👤 mirkodrummer
It's sad they ditched a good browser I would have paid for for a new browser that has a ai chat on the side(what it seems to be so far). Anyway the best it's still Firefox/Zen imo

👤 stringpiggy
I've moved back to Chrome and am testing out tab managing extensions. Not sure which one I'd like to go with yet, open to recommendations.

👤 johnydoe
I’ve been using https://sigmaos.com/ for the past couple of years, and it works very similar

👤 mkbkn
Zen browser uses a lot of Arc features and is based on Firefox.

👤 ggm
I went Brave. Some people (lobste.rs) dislike it because of some practices they regard as dodgy in commercialisation/scraping of sites. But, it conforms to chrome codebase and appears to work well.

👤 billconan
I will have to move back to chrome I guess