OK, call me an old-fashioned fuddy-duddy who just can’t get hip to the new hotness, but after trying the Arc browser for a week, I switched back to Safari with relief. While I am happy to have a not-Chrome-or-Windows-or-Cryptobros-Encumbered-Chromium-based browser in my pocket to fire up if I need to, I could not figure out what was so amazeballs about Arc.

Additionally, I found the interface confusing AF and difficult to navigate. I am also the kind of person who really hates WE’RE SO EXCITED TO TELL YOU FEATURES videos that take forever to get to the point (please, just let me read actual documentation than watch Sally in engineering blather on about how great your software is). More than anything, the constant stream of worthless engagement videos from The Browser Company as a method of telling me about features (old and new) kind of just put me off the whole project. Again, call me a fuddy-duddy…

I did like the (I guess it’s called) Peek feature when reading Lemmy.

Anyhoooo, I could not wrap my brain around what would make Arc “worth” switching to it for primary browsing over Safari (and the tight ecosystem linkages that cleverly or evilly depending on your point of view keep me wanting to use Safari to enslaved to it, again as you prefer to call it).

Is anyone actually using Arc? Why? What’s so great about it? Do you think it’s great or Is it just another flash-in-the-pan?