The Browser Company (Arc)

And then mouse button lock, which is an accessibility thing.

So I don't really necessarily need this, but it's a way to more seamlessly handle drag and drop of things, whether they're files or things within an app or whatever it is, where you can kind of... lock the mouse button on so you don't have to you know like hold it down as you move the thing around like okay you know it's fine like i don't i don't need it i'm not there yet but i'll be 80 in about two weeks i'll need it eventually um and then the inevitable sadly uh you know with the browser company had come up with their arc browser which is uh you know unique and and one of those things that was kind of hard like how do I explain this? It was like, if you pulled any 10 people, nine of them would be like, no, this thing's not for me.

The 10th one was like, oh my God, this changes my life.

Like it was kind of a hard little hurdle because they changed a lot of kind of common browser interactions.

And I'm not 100%.

But I had to get on to talk about the ARK and the browser company.

So just a quick backstory here.

ARK was this amazing browser from the browser company.

That a lot of people liked.

loved.

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And I like the, I have nothing against it.

why I can't trust new browsers after arc.

And the reason that I'm recommending this now is because yesterday the browser company announced that they are sun setting arc.

So this is a 14 month old blog post.

Um, but, uh, the browser company announced that they are sun setting arc and, uh, it's probably the most predictable thing ever, uh, because, uh, when, you know, they got acquired by Atlassian and you could, you could kind of just see the writing on the wall there, right? They're like, where, no, this is feature complete and we'll still do, uh, like chromium updates.

And we promise.

And yeah, You know, I decided to jump ship as soon as they made that blog post.

New criterion? It's one criterion.

One of my new criterion for switching is how long has the company been around? Right.

ARK stopped being developed a couple of years ago.

The browser company, which is the company that made it, Josh Miller, the CEO, I think has been on both this show and on Decoder talking about this stuff recently.

They did some of the most interesting work in browsers over the last several years, but they pivoted in a big way to AI.

They now make this browser called Dia.

We just had Mike Cannon-Brooks, who's the CEO of Atlassianon.

He was big up in Dia all over the place.

Their vision of this is the same as the browser company had.

It's the same as Josh had the whole time, which is your operating system is irrelevant on the desktop.