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Notes on using Arc browser for the first time

Arindam Basu
4 min readAug 6, 2022

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Arc Browser is a new browser that you can download after you sign up for their release candidate. Assuming that you have downloaded and installed Arc Browser on your computer, you will find it offers a new and somewhat different experience compared with most browsers we are familiar with such as Chrome/Brave/Vivaldi/Firefox.

Some features are not obvious for the first time and if you jump right in without reading their helpful notes they offer as a Notion site, you may feel lost. Even so, some features are not obvious. I found the following useful for first time use.

Arc Browser Screenshot

Basically, this is Arc Browser.

You can see it looks minimalistic large space where you can write or explore the web as you like. It does not have a URL bar or bookmark bar on the top.

These features are presented on the sidebar.

Arc Browser with the sidebar

The sidebar is where you can keep the tabs.

There are ‘Spaces’ where you can keep tabs you frequently use

For seamless browsing, you can split the screen into several panes. In the bottom screenshot, I have shown that there are two side by side panels. At the…

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Arindam Basu
Arindam Basu

Written by Arindam Basu

Medical Doctor and an Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Environmental Health at the University of Canterbury. Founder of TwinMe,

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