[gcanyon]

I've used Arc probably 90% of the time for the past two months. One thing that I haven't seen mentioned anywhere (even in their literature): it's very lightweight on memory usage.

I've noticed recently that Safari uses 1/3 to 2/3 of a gigabyte for each youtube tab, or gmail, or <many other sites>.

Arc uses roughly 25% of that.

Also, Arc's efficiency as tabs build up seems to grow faster than Safari's although that's harder to quantify. But in concrete terms, Safari puts my M1 Air's memory into the yellow in activity monitor almost immediately. Arc regularly stays green with 20-30 tabs open.

There are other nice things to consider, but that's huge for me.

[lrae]

Interesting, I made the opposite observations on two different Macs. Safari, Edge, Chrome & Brave are all less resource hungry for me than Arc, including way worse energy impact / battery drain, unfortunately.

And I'm not alone either, looking at Reddit & Discord in the past.

Made me also switch away again recently. Would love to see them focus more on that instead of all those gimmicks. (Actually expected that before seeing them ship 1.0.)

Also, the way they handle extensions and especially the recent changes getting rid of the extension bar top right are/were also not great.

[gcanyon]

Okay, that’s weird. M1 macs?

It’s not like I was very methodical about it, but the results were as plain as day. I mean, yellow vs. green isn’t hard to see. I’ll try the exact same sites/tabs from a fresh boot for safari, chrome and arc and report back.

I haven’t been in reddit since June — Apollo user, and old.reddit.com just sucks so hard.

What about extensions? I only installed a couple, but I had no problem. That