Why one web pioneer thinks it’s time to reinvent the browser

A headshot of Darin Fisher on a gray background.
Darin Fisher has been building browsers for decades. | Image: Darin Fisher

Darin Fisher has built a lot of web browsers. A lot of web browsers. He was a software engineer at Netscape early in his career, working on Navigator and then helping turn that app into Firefox with Mozilla. Then, he went to Google and spent 16 years building Chrome and ChromeOS into massively successful products. Last year, he left Google for Neeva, where he worked on ways to build a browser around the startup’s search engine. And now, he’s leaving Neeva to join The Browser Company and work on Arc, one of the hottest new browsers on the market.

Arc, which has been in an invite-only beta for more than a year, is trying to rethink the whole browser UI. It has a sidebar instead of a row of tabs, offers a lot of personalization options, and...

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source https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/31/23428862/arc-browser-web-company-darin-fisher

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