@ikpjr wrote:Having used Vivaldi and Edge ( other than Firefox ) but not Arc ( only have seen reviews about it ), what it is that makes it special
I like the vertical tabs and the absence of horizontal tabs. I'm using Tree Style Tab, which is nice, but misses in a couple of ways, namely the spacing is cramped. In Arc, when a bookmarked tab is open, you see that bookmark as opened, rather than a whole other tab.
Split view is very useful for doing things like researching on one side and taking notes on the other, or being in a meeting in one side and taking notes in the other. It's much easier to just drag one tab onto another to split the screen rather than opening a new window and resizing both.
When Arc is the default browser and a link is clicked in some other application, standalone window pops up with the requested website. You do the thing you have to do (e.g., log into a service) and dismiss the window or add it to your opened browser.
- Vivaldi, Opera and Edge have workspaces and Firefox can make use of 2 tab grouping addons to have similar functionality to Vivaldi's tab stacks and workspaces ( which correspond to Arc's folders and spaces usage concepts ) .
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FF has container ( tabs ) and Arc's containers are better in any way, if so how ?
Arc's workspaces are a much better implementation of working in two accounts/contexts at the same time. In Arc, the whole window is a workspace, so all tabs opened in that workspace belong to that workspace, which means all your Google work account tabs get opened as your work account without having to take that one extra step of opening a new work container tab. If I want to go to my personal account, I just ctrl+[number] pop back over to my personal space. The upshot is that I have one browser open, keeping the number of windows down to a minimum.
- What about userstyles.org and greasyfork, openuserjs and the like to install and share styles and scripts, are Arc's boosts better than the previous flow ?
I can't really speak to this as I haven't used those things.
All that said, I'm mostly using FF these days because of its privacy focus and its support of Manifest v2, but I do use Arc when I have to do lots of research.
