— Manuel Moreale rants about Arc’s new AI-powered search.
There are probably 700-billion-trillion pages out there but ARC has picked 6. Why those 6? No idea. Have those 6 paid to be there? No idea. Should I just trust that those 6 are reputable sources? Yup.
I wanted to quote more sections but almost the whole post is worth quoting. I suggest you read the whole piece yourself.
— Firefox 1.0 New York Times Ad. I remember how excited I was Firefox 1.0 came out. Finally a good, secure, free browser I could recommend to friends.
— Web Roulette is a new web browser app for iOS, but it only lets you access a random page from a customisable list of pages. You swipe left to access a new site, and if you’ve swiped enough you can shake your device to access a random site that isn’t on your list. I can see that this is fun and useful. Instead remembering hundreds of sites you want to visit occasionally, you can have Web Roulette take care of the hard work to remember those sites. The more sites you have selected the better. But I also worry that Web Roulette will have a terrible impact on my already terrible productivity. (via)
— With Arc Brower’s updated Boosts feature, you can customise any website by changing colours, fonts, or text size. By far the most useful feature is Zap, which removes content from a website by merely clicking on the element. It’s a great, intuitive tool to de-clutter enshittified websites like Twitter or Youtube.
— Mozilla froze part of Firefox’ user-agent string because some websites wrongly identify the browser as Internet Explorer 11.
— The Browser Company have hired Darin Fisher to build Arc, a new browser:
Arc is full of new ideas about how web browsers can work: it combines bookmarks and tabs into one app switcher-like concept; it makes it easy to search among your open tabs; it has built-in tools for taking notes and making shareable mini websites.
Arc is very different from other browsers. The breadth of new functionality in Arc is overwhelming at first. I initially toyed around with Arc for an hour and then didn’t open it for a couple of weeks. But I came back, and it’s growing on me.
Most of our work happens in browsers today, meetings, emails, calendars, or writing. And Arc does an excellent job of grouping all those aspects into spaces, split panels, keeping important tabs open, closing others automatically. Overall it’s a more organised browsing experience.