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Comment by bestest 10 months ago

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the developers working with firebase should enforce common-sense document crud restrictions in the rules. that's just how firebase is. everyone knows it.

now, when talking about ARC BROWSER, i am seriously starting to doubt the competence of the team. I mean, if the rules are broken (no tests? no rules whatsoever?), what else is broken with ARC? are we to await a data leak from ARC?

any browser recommendations with proper vertical tabs and basically everything working like it does in ARC?

fold3 10 months ago

Did you took a look at the zen browser? It's an arc clone based on Firefox https://zen-browser.app/

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  • tomaskafka 10 months ago

    I did. It’s like 20 % an Arc clone, and 80 % of UX papercuts. Like, you can’t have ‘add tab’ button on top when the new tab gets added to the bottom. Or that one sidebar button opens a side window to the right of the sidebar, while another below it opens the favorites to the left and moves the whole sidebar from underneath your mouse.

    Looks like a minimal effort css restyle of Firefox.

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  • bestest 10 months ago

    nice. will probably try it in the future.

    but the for-some-reason-not-obvious revelation that it's just a product that some team somewhere is working on and the fact that a browser is an important piece of software brought me back to safari (not sure if joke's on me, but in this case I trust apple engineers to do a more thorough job in ensuring my data is secure).

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  • currymj 10 months ago

    i'm rooting for them to succeed, but if the concern is security, switching your daily driver browser to a brand-new browser that's still in alpha is unfortunately not a good idea.

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    • radicaldreamer 10 months ago

      It's not in Alpha though, they've been around for years and have launched formally.

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Wingy 10 months ago

Zen and MS Edge have proper vertical tabs.

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soundnote 10 months ago

Brave. Vertical tabs, privacy, everything sync is e2ee (unlike eg. Edge).

Vivaldi may also be worth a look. Similar setup: User-oriented team, vertical tabs, e2ee sync. If you like a thorough browser history, I think Vivaldi keeps a more detailed browsing history than most other Chromium browsers.

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  • tomaskafka 10 months ago

    Brave is VC funded and needing to extract a billion of value. Just like Arc.

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