What Arc users want in their browser

[Jack5079]

• https://reddit.com/r/ArcBrowser/comments/1479ni1/tradeoffs_thoughtfully_assessing_what_we_give_up u/ThatAdamGuy
  • Cross-platform'ness (including having a unified, searchable, anywhere-accessible tab history)
  • PWAs (particularly the ability to, say, run YouTube Music in its own switchable, keyboard-shortcutable-from-anywhere window)
  • Searching Google Drive via omnibox
  • Persistent visibility of / faster access to extensions (no need to hover or hit CMD-E, can always see extension badges like # unread, etc.)
  • Ability to open up all tabs in a bookmarks folder with one click
  • Bookmarklets (e.g., I have a handy "Whois" one)
  • Right side panel with native reading mode, access to bookmarks & journeys, supported third party integrations, etc.
• https://reddit.com/r/ArcBrowser/comments/1472o70/uninstalled_arc_hopefully_only_for_now u/koikahin
  • Although I get the opinionated approach and I am even supportive of it - indeed features generally come with a complexity tradeoff - Inbox Zero is a controversial approach for a reason, and removing auto-archive and letting all tabs sync feels like an easy fix without an accompanying complexity tradeoff (that I can see). Why lose that user-base then?
• https://reddit.com/r/ArcBrowser/comments/13uy4lw/3_basic_things_im_eager_for_arc_to_fix u/entityunnamed
  • cmd-z to undo within a site reopens closed tabs (we have a separate hotkey for this!)
  • Split screen where one side is pinned

[Jack5079]

https://arc.net/e/D338BF6C-5695-4AD1-8D6A-1C39158D22E7

General

• Option to change sidebar location (right or left)
• 2FA code integration
• iCloud keychain support
• Command bar should prioritize web searches over other items
• Fuzzy Search in command bar (e.g. "asv" matches "Add Split View")
• Change the position of the command bar by dragging it
• “Delete all/Hide all” button on downloads page
• Profile sync between devices, including Extensions (like Vivaldi does)
• More icons for tabs and spaces
• Built-in boost store
• Option for tabs to never be auto-archived
• When CMD+click opens a new tab in a different space, the popup should tell you which space the tab was created (by icon or space name)
• Different download options for different browser engines? (chromium or webkit)
• Pin the extension bar
• Resize sidebar so it only shows the favicons of the websites
• Option to reduce spacing between tabs
• Sync Chrome history (CMD+Y) with the Archived Tabs (eg. I delete a webpage on chrome history, it deletes it on archived tabs and vice versa)
• ❕Move the 3 dots (extensions/split view menu) to the top where the loading indicator is
• Arc-specific pdf viewer (rather than the standard chromium one)
• allow CTRL+K to delete until end of line in URL dialog (like it works everywhere else)
• Proper bookmark manager, able to sync bookmarks from other browsers
• Shortcuts for translation (not undo)
• Math operations in address and command bar (like in spotlight)
• enable minimized mini player for audio only websites like Spotify -The ability to add a single web page in the dock like the latest safari update in macos sonoma

Mobile (We are NOT porting)

• Ability to make default browser
• More theme options (custom colors like desktop)
• Add non-pinned tabs
• ❕Unpin tabs
• Horizontal mode
• View favorites from desktop/add favorites
• Sync passwords between mobile and desktop
• iPad/android app
• Make the address bar horizontally scrollable to switch between tabs
• Be able to create an Arc account on mobile
• Peek
• Edit easels and notes
• Ability to change search engine

Tabs

• Change where a new tab is created (top or bottom of current tabs or after the current active tab)
• New tab/blank page
• Option to lock a split view page (persistent on all pages)
• More informative split view icons + more options on what to do with split view tabs
• preview when you hover on any tab
• email preview for icloud.com
• Drag and drop a url to a split view tab to go to the url on the split view

Spaces

• Color picker should have a proper color spectrum grid, rather than a non-descript gray area
• Option to quickly choose from standard space colors/add a theme library/gallery
• Space indicator while sidebar is hidden
• Space-specific favorites
• Add an image as a space background
• ❕Incognito spaces/tabs, rather than a window
• Space-specific download locations
• open folder as new window without removing it from the original space

Little Arc

• Remember what profile to open Little Arc links in (automatically or via Air Traffic Control: "open with profile x in Little Arc")
• Shortcut to switch profiles (CTRL+1/2/3)
• Shortcut to open page in a certain space (CMD+O+2 for example)

Peek

• Shortcut (keyboard and trackpad, e.g. force click) to open a link in peek, similar to Little Arc
• Close peek with ESC rather than CMD+W
• Shortcut to open a common tab from peek instead of clicking the top right button

Easels/Notes (for mollernote)

• Add find (CMD+F) functionality
• View the history of easels and revert back to a version
• More colors
• More fonts
• Markdown support for text formatting and creating lists in Easels
• Change the color of text
• Use a notion page as an easel
• Change easel favicon
• Group items/move items together by holding shift and selecting
• Embeds for notes when linked into easels
• allow notes to be set to “anyone can edit”
• Fix horizontal scroll in easels! It's just always there and shouldn't be visible if there is no more content horizontally
• Markdown for notes and easels (eg. bold, italics, code block etc)
• add grid snapping and layout guides like e.g. in PowerPoint
• better grid snapping and option to disable
• be able to set size of easel page rather than a continuous page
• export easels to pdf or image

Other

• Mute button for PiP (in the player)
• colored traffic lights (close, minimize, maximize)

[Jack5079]

Heavily outdated and Tangent != Arc