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The In Vogue Arc Browser Arrives On Windows

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Arc has become something of a cult hit on the Mac by offering a different slant on web browsing. It has a distinct design, placing furniture such as the address bar and tabs down the left-hand side of the browser window, instead of at the top.

Other novel Arc features include “easels”, which are similar in concept to Apple’s Freeform, providing a blank canvas where you can jot down ideas and collate images, pulling together photos and information on all the places you’ve shortlisted for a vacation, for example. Picture-in-picture video, meanwhile, lets you carry on watching web videos even if you’ve navigated away from the page the video was on.

The Browser Company also said that it will “sunset” some of the lesser-used features on Mac, without revealing exactly what these soon-to-be-vanished features are. The company is also hiring staff to develop a version of the browser for Android. Dubbed Arc Search, the mobile browser is again a very different beast to most browser, behaving more like an AI-powered search engine. You enter a query and ask Arc to “browse for me” and it comes back with a neatly formatted page of answers that don’t require you to visit third-party websites. Whether that’s a good thing for the third-party websites providing the content in the first place is a different matter...

 

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