Because web content is increasingly mobile and vertical-oriented. So the horizontal space is usually empty anyway.

Sometimes new things take time to get used to but if you try it for more than a single day you may find that you like it.

The Browser Company, the developer behind the Arc Browser, has announced that Arc is going away

Where? Where did they do this? Why is there no link? They said several times, very recently, that it was not going away. They were just basically going into maintenance mode.

please know this: we’re not trying to shut Arc down.

- 2 weeks ago

No Linux build, not git link, why would anyone care?

Makes sense. The sites I am using most probably have not adopted the new style yet. And like I said, the hardest part is the muscle memory of looking at the top for my tabs and moving my mouse to the top to select a tab.

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Because 96% of people aren't using Linux to browse the web.

with the TF2 engineer's voice

THE ARC IS DEAD?

I really liked the layout of Arc, but ended up going back to Firefox because uBlock still works on it.

it couldn't be too popular as a windows only project. I assume it was too lite known, like I never even heard about it here or other places

tab groups in firefox are surprisingly good! even alongside a tab group management addon. they complement each other, like when you don't want to create a bunch of subgroups for an exclusive view but just collapse them

because when you have more than 8 tabs open on a horizontal tab row, the tab handles start to become narrower and tab titles become unreadable and almost useless. with vertical tabs tab titles can be as long as you see fit, and the tab title does not take away space from other tab handles so more can fit. essentially its more space efficient I think.

but I don't use it because my firefox theme breaks down when I set up vertical tabs, and everything will be white, even though I don't even use userchrome customizations

well, i don’t know the last state you know, but they added a floating search bar, which is pretty, but not beneficial beyond that i think. they added a default shortcut for copying the current webaddress which i sorely miss on mullvad.
besides i dont think they added any major features i would’ve noticed, but it feels like a very stable experience atm, both on linux and macos.

thanks a lot, i’ll check them out!

It probably has something to do with being only available on Macs for so long.

I prefer the overview I get with them. I’m on an ultrawide monitor so it’s not like I’m sacrificing horizontal space either.

Try Zen, it used Arc as its main inspiration for the UI and features

Firefox vertical tabs are lackluster though, you don't have pinned and essential tabs on FF, and you also miss out on Glance (the pop out link feature), basically the main features it copied from Arc. Honestly it's been very stable for me, and it's matured enough that I'd recommend giving it another shot.

Same. I've been using it daily for the best part of a year and it's been pretty pleasant to use throughout.

According to them.

That figure is entirely irrelevant when you need to target users who are willing to try a new unknown third party browser in the first place.
And you'll find orders of magnitude more of those among Linux users than you do on Mac, which is where Arc launched on.