Arc and Orion Browsers jayeless.net
@jayeless I’m a pretty rusted on Firefox user as it keeps everything in sync between Mac at home and windows at work but I keep seeing so many mentions of Arc I might need to take a look. Safari is convenient on apple devices but useless when you’re across platforms.
@meandering Arc is neat, but I don't think it has a Windows version yet, so if you need sync it may not be a great option. I used Firefox for years and I still want it to do well, but I got frustrated with them repeatedly taking away features/options that I used, haha
@jayeless How is Orion different from Safari? I see some features are different but overall very Safari-like. I like Arc's take on interface design.
@pratik I think the main difference is that it allows extensions (either Firefox or Chromium extensions are supposed to work). It's also supposed to be more performant, but really the extensions issue is why I've never considered using Safari itself.
@jayeless What extensions do you use? I use very few but do use bookmarklets for anything I want to share. I definitely miss them in Arc.
@pratik A handful – uBlock Origin, Bitwarden, Raindrop.io, ClearURLs and Brid.gy is my list. When I used Firefox I used more, stuff like Tree Style Tabs. Thankfully I haven't had any bookmarklets I've really relied on, so that's not so much a problem for me.
@jayeless Cool. I use 1Blocker, 1Password, Ghostery, Grammarly, Zotero, and one for Pinboard. I guess all of them could be available also on most browsers.
@pcora Yeah, by default it blocks ads and trackers. You can disable that on a per-site basis (or universally) if it makes things break, though. You can also opt into blocking other stuff on a per-site basis, like Javascript or web fonts :)