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Arc is yet another version of Chrome(ium) With some parts added and some parts removed.

I've only used Arc a bit, and generally had a good experience, but I do wish that they had chosen not to rely Chromium. I understand that would have massively increased the amount of work required initially, but I really worry about our collective reliance on Chromium. I don't know... maybe I'm a pessimist.

Whenever you go from having healthy competition to a monoculture it is grounds to worry.

We have Firefox and Safari still though so it is not quite that dark yet but we are getting there.

Making a browser these days from scratch, or even keeping up with the rest is incredibly time consuming and expensive.

They are going to have to pry Firefox out of my cold, dead hands!

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