Why I Swapped Chrome for Arc

Yesterday’s reel went viral, which was pretty cool. I appreciate the comments, and I saw there was some displeasure from the anti-Chrome crowd. If you’re sticking with Firefox, you can still use the extension I mentioned. But for the rest of you, I want to show you my actual daily driver.

I don’t use standard Chrome. I use Arc, a Chromium-based browser that's totally reworked. You’ll notice the lack of a typical tab bar. Instead, your tabs live in a sidebar. Hit Command + S, and it slides out.

It’s organized in a way that makes a lot of sense. You can drag your favorite sites to the top to give them bigger icons. Below that, you have workspaces. I have one for a card game I’m working on, one for personal projects, and one for social media. Here’s where it gets fun. If I want to look at Bluesky and Threads at the same time, I just drop one into a second column, like having two screens in one window.

There’s also a feature called the Peek Window. If you see a link you want to check quickly, you can Shift-click it. It opens in a small, temporary window that you can expand or close without cluttering your main view. You can even set up rules so specific URLs always open in a specific workspace.

Try it out and let me know what you think.