After months of brainstorming and prototyping

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Ironically, Chrome was also designed for the future that The Browser Company envisions. “We realized that the Internet had evolved from simple text pages to large interactive applications, and that we needed to completely rethink the browser,” Sundar Pichai wrote in a 2008 blog post announcing Chrome. “We needed more than just a browser; we needed a modern platform for web pages and applications. That’s what we set out to create.”

But Google made one important decision during the development of Chrome. It built Chrome to get out of the way.

"For most people, the browser isn't what matters. It's just a tool for launching the important elements — the pages, sites, and applications that make up the internet," Pichai wrote in 2008.

Even when Google launched Chrome OS, it simply put that iran number data outdated browser on a lightweight desktop operating system. Google created a near-perfect version of the browser that Netscape envisioned 20 years ago, but it didn't invent anything.

"Tabs are tabs, bookmarks are bookmarks, history is history," says Agrawal. "The user interface hasn't really changed in 20 years, but we spend eight hours a day in front of it."

When he and Miller started brainstorming ideas for their new project in 2019, they weren’t sure exactly how they planned to change browsers. But they were convinced that the browser market was so vast and so ripe for innovation that they could go in any direction.

“Nobody thinks they need a new browser,” says John Lilly, former CEO of Mozilla and investor in The Browser Company. “So you have to do something different.”
they decided that the easiest way to beat Chrome was to create a more user-friendly browser. They called it Arc. Agrawal decided not to try to rebuild the entire browser stack and instead built Arc on top of Chromium. The team is trying to solve problems like tab overload. Many people know the feeling of being stuck in a pile of tiny icons at the top of the screen and not being able to find anything. It’s something that Nate Perot, a designer on the team, has been thinking about for a long time. “Before I met Josh,” he says, “I had a certain fixed idea of ​​a browser — it’s a window through which you experience a lot of the internet, and it doesn’t feel like you’re actually interacting with the browser itself.” At the time, he was working at Snap, and in parallel, he was building a web browser with some interactive features. “The big problem for me was that I wanted to get rid of the distinction between open and closed tabs,” he says. "I wanted to encourage tab stacking, so you could open as many as you wanted and organize them so you didn't have to see them all at once."