[colelyman]

Agreed, to make it even more interesting Browser Company discontinued Arc earlier this year. So not only did they do all of the things OP listed, but also didn't have a current product when acquired.

[MarcelOlsz]

My experience with Arc was installing it, asking myself "I have to pay to change the app icon? wtf" and uninstalling it. Horrendous UI as well.

[odo1242]

Personally I liked the UI (and now use Zen browser, the UI is very much a matter of taste though), but left as the browser itself kept getting worse

[chachra]

same

[ar_lan]

They have "Dia" - which is Chrome + AI chat?

https://www.diabrowser.com/

[dbbk]

Chrome + AI chat is... Chrome + Gemini though

[jrflowers]

When I saw that domain my first thought was it looks like they came up with the name by combining “diabetes” with “browser”

[mikodin]

My hunch is a loyal user base.

Anecdotally, everyone I put onto Arc and the person who put me on still uses it.

I’ve been using Arc for the last two years and was genuinely sad on its discontinuation. I now don’t really know what I’ll do when it goes away.

[odo1242]

Zen browser now has all the features of Arc (including folders, which they just added) if you’re willing to use a Firefox fork

[emoII]

Where can I read about this? It still gets regular updates and is front and center on the browser company website

[sphars]

This was their blog post back in May

https://browsercompany.substack.com/p/letter-to-arc-members-...

[hashbig]

It was put on maintenance mode with minimal security updates to favour the development of their newer product Dia (AI browser).