Instead, everything lives in the sidebar to the left of the screen.
These tabs appear grouped in the sidebar so you might keep them together.
Arc is a web app that wants to change this.
By default, Arc closes new tabs after 12 hours unless you pin them.
Proactive tab management is a cornerstone of the Arc experience, and we think it’s for the better.
It’s a bit likemacOS Spotlightorapps like Alfred and Raycast.
It allows you to do virtually everything simply by typing, without taking your hands off the keyboard.
Web services like Google Docs also work with the Command Bar.
The idea here is to keep tabs organized into separate areas which you could recall as you need them.
You might have different spaces for personal, work, or school tabs.
Different spaces are colored differently, allowing you to tell them apart at a glance.
On top of this, different spaces can have different profiles.
Arc is different in that it includes a few nice-to-have extras out of the box.
Easels let you create scrapbooks or mood boards.
you’re able to add text, shapes, arrows, and your own drawings.
Arc also functions as a note-taking app, with Notes appearing as tabs alongside your standard tabs.
Notes can be shared as read-only web pages online.
Lastly, Arc also includes Boosts.
These changes persist until you delete the relevant boost.
These features can pretty much all be added to other browsers with the right combination of extensions.
The most obvious thing (at the time of writing in May 2023) is a Windows version.
Arc also lacks many of the optimizations you might expect from your primary web net online gate.
If privacy is your main concern, we’d recommend givingFirefoxa go instead.
