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Speaking about browsers... Who's using Arc?
I opened a thread about Firefox days ago and already ditched it 
It's just too slow compared to Chrome. Then today I got an invite for Arc and am testing it now. It's awesome! I can hide the sidebar (there are no toolbars) and see the websites in full screen all the time. Then to switch between tabs, bookmarks or search or open any URL I can press CMD-T to open the command palette. It's super fast and very handy. I really like to see full screen websites by default.
Anyone else using it?
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Been using it since it first came out, just wish it wasn't only on macos.
Oh I hadn't realized it is macos only
Firefox scores 515 and chrome 528 in HTML5 test. if you can notice 2.5% difference, good for you. I can't tell any difference in speed at all .
https://html5test.com/
Regardless of the scores, to me Chromium browsers are noticeably snappier. What can I say
Perceived speed of the browser isn't all about the rendering engine alone. Ever since it came out, Chrome just seemed way faster than its competitors.
Yeah but chrome still flashbangs you every time you open it, even if you have the dark theme enabled
http://www.speed-battle.com
Site has no SSL, not sure if intentional.
just tried chrome, brave and firefox on this site. Chrome and Brave were neck and neck, and firefox has a good lead for me.
424.38 for Chrome
432.58 for brave
525.97 for Firefox
all results lower then the given stats here, but ive got a lot of background stuff going on at the same time. Based on the published stats, the difference is minimal and seems to vary a lot depending on the version of chrome or FF.
http://www.speed-battle.com/statistics_e.php
IMHO, if anything Firefox seems a tiny bit quicker in real world use, but honestly it's imperceptible for me. I use both browsers all the time, maybe it's got something to do with the underlying OS as to how the different browsers perform. Im using a Debian based OS
Anyway would love to try Arc, but until it makes it to linux ill just have to take the OP's word for it
Have you tested all browsers with NO extensions enabled?
Just tried that test, it seems pretty useless to me. It takes literally one second to run? What can it possibly test in that short time?
Please elaborate. I don’t see any slowness in Windows, Mac, Linux, windows on VMware/ Parallels, and so on.
its actually "snappier", not significantly faster. Been using FF for quite some years
I use firefox, cause fuck google.
In my experience FF stalls occasionally, while Chrome never stalls. Even the latest version of FF stalls sometimes. I have no idea why, but it happens. It's really experience breaking imo.
And de-googled chromium sucks
how about Opera?
How's Edge these days? it was really good at the start but unsure how much bloat they've added these days
since it was sold it’s crap. I’m using FF since years. An alternative could be Vivaldi
I had never heard of Arc before. I'll give it a try.
only have extensions in FF, but not sure I can disable it as it's gnome extentions > @Kousaka said:
Don't you mean "Aw Snap"pier?
edit: for chrome i mean...
hmmm not sure why, it's strange because chrome uses more resources. I quite often browse with a massive amount of tabs. Chrome frequently craps out and FF keeps chugging away.
are these bad experiences are based on old versions of firefox, and you just haven't used both for a long time.
Like i said i use both a lot, at the same time, speed I can't tell a difference, and stability FF stomps chrome, by an order of magnitude. I don't use any addon on for chrome. I only use it to translate foreign websites. As i live in country that doesn't speak my native language, I use it a lot.
Bad, only reason I used it was Opera built in vpn— I can open reddit and hentai there. Since I got myself a wireguard setup, Opera has no place anymore in my workspace.
I wonder who uses that for daily driver, that thing full of ads. I'm not joking.
Does Arc support Fido2/Webauthn?
It's a Chromium browser so it should support what Chrome etc support
I'm not. I don't like to pay with my email address. And especially not when there is no privacy policy or other information about the terms.
Just use https://github.com/bebasid/bebasid then forget about opera
I am trying to figure out about what ads you're talking about. I use Opera on my desktop alongside FF on a daily basis and I don't see any browser related ads.
I don't even use uBlock Origin anymore, as included Opera Ad Blocker do it's job well.
btw. it's not that hard:
Opera Ad Blocker
Oops I meant opera browser for Android. By ads, the opera application itself show ads, yeah no ads with opera desktop but the android apps still enforce ads.
No need, I used wireguard now.
I submitted a request in December when this thread first appeared. I cannot determine the exact date. Today (12 January 2023) I received an email notice to download a copy.
The link in the email is in the form: https: // company.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=[redacted]&id=[redacted]&e=[redacted]
The resulting download filename is "Arc-latest.dmg" - no date code or version number. The hashes for the .dmg file I downloaded are:
MD5: 93105e77ee6f3b95475c1e6f4f8acca2
SHA 256: e57cdcd7e58d404aa88fce78a151259799af58b1cad3fd32e7655e8433758a59
I ran both the .dmg and the .zip version of the .app through the VirusTotal website. No malware was found.
After all that, I learned that macOS 11 or later is required. I am still running an older version of macOS, but expect to be upgrading in a few weeks. In the meantime, I will give it a try in a macOS 12 virtual machine tomorrow.