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I just got used to Arc and now it’s getting sunsetted already? I get the learning curve bit, but Arc really felt like a fresh take on browsing. I hope Dia lives up to the hype — anyone here tried the alpha yet? Would love to hear your impressions!

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Zen browser is very promising as a hopefully long-lived alternative to Arc with essentially the same design. It’s missing a few important features (like folders, which should be coming any week now), but overall it performs more smoothly than Arc on windows. Though I’m still using Arc for work on my Mac (for now).

Dia is an “AI native browser,” and the Arc CEO said that browsers are going to be killed by AI chat. So if you want to get real work done, Dia is probably not going to be an option.

Seconding that Zen has been an amazing Arc replacement for those happy with Firefox based browser. The only challenge is daily driving both Zen and Zed as a code editor is a pain when it comes to macOS spotlight (/raycast).

might not meet your needs but I had similar issues and found an app called rcmd, it lets me easily bind keybinds to my commonly used apps, and you can also easily toggle between multiple windows of the same app via the keyboard

https://lowtechguys.com/rcmd/ - no affiliation, and probably other similar options are available

They’re not sunsetting it; they’re just keeping it in the same maintenance mode they told us about a year ago when they said the 2.0 browser would be getting all the new development effort. If you like how Arc works right now, you’re good.

I don’t know why it’s being reported like a new situation or a shutdown. You can see in the article comments that the author gets called out for misunderstanding and doubles down.

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