Arc has native support for cosmetic improvements. Those are called Boosts and you can interactively create your owns in just a few clicks, and also add custom CSS/JS if needed.
I use this extensively to declutter/dedistract most websites I visit: Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Medium, Gmail, YouTube, and so on. It's a real life-changer!
I really like the vertical tabs of Arc. I have actually used Firefox vertical tabs with nested tabs in the past and I loved the worflow.
Being able to have the rabbit whole of tabs when you are going deep on some topic very self contained is awesome. When I am finish, closing the group would clean all my tabs except the ones I wanted in the first place. I miss that.
I do not use it right now because it took me some time to setup, and there was no easy way of making it declarative (as code) for sharing across devices and keeping the config for future use. I might try it again if I find a way.
In regards to Arc, I gave it a go, but I dislike some things:
- It is not open source, neither the boosts, as it appears.
- It is Chromium based. I want Firefox or others to keep having a share in the market. I don't dislike or hate google, but I do not want a company to dominate the web (might be too late?).
- Only available in macOS, iOS ?! Not sure if it is still the case.
Roughly around when the oligoculture started, and browsers stopped being "user agents", what a coincidence!
We need more browsers that focus on user features, not website features. The web is basically beyond feature-complete already, but the tools we use to interact with it are so basic. Like riding a horse on an interstate!
That feature wasn't big to my browsing style, Arc's way of nesting browser views suits me more, but Orion's Saved Window feature seemed clumsy to me and I'd filed my issue on Orion Tracker.
> Hope Arc and Orion eventually decide to go open source.
From Orion’s FAQ:
> Is Orion open-source?
> We’re working on it! We’ve begun with some of our components and intend to open more in the future.
> Forking WebKit, porting hundreds of APIs and writing a browser app from scratch has been challenging for our small team. Properly maintaining an open-source project takes time and resources we’re short on at the moment, so if you want to contribute at this time, please consider becoming active on orionfeedback.org.
I use this extensively to declutter/dedistract most websites I visit: Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Medium, Gmail, YouTube, and so on. It's a real life-changer!
See the Boosts shared by other users here: https://arc.net/boosts