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I seriously thought they had ported some novel browser engine to Win16, but even that, Windows 1.0, which IIRC didn't even have overlapping windows, would be ridiculous.

And apparently it's based on Chromium. Porting a brand-new browser engine to long-obsolete Windows is probably plausible. Porting Chromium, a very large beast with a lot of baggage, is much less likely.

> which IIRC didn't even have overlapping windows

that's why arc supports split browser tabs hahaha

You don't need overlapping windows for a browser.

The website does not even explain what Arc Browser does.

If you go to the actual arc.net site it does, this post is just linking to their documentation site with the release notes.

The main site does.

https://arc.net/

> “What’s Windows 1.0?”

It's a desktop environment for DOS that was released in 1985 :)

same