Time for another experiment: getting back to Google Chrome roots. I loved Chrome (17-year-old blogpost!) for its speed and nimbleness but I ditched it a good number of years ago for Firefox due to memory bloat and privacy concerns. Well, turns out Firefox is headed on the same privacy-defying road like all other browsers. At this point, it doesn’t matter what browser you use as far as privacy is concerned (okay, maybe Brave and Tor are still sane?). Privacy, then, is an opt-in layer facilitated by search engines like DuckDuckGo and secure VPN’s/tunneled connections.
After using Safari as the default browser on my personal computer for a few months, I am switching to Arc. I thought Safari was a tiny bit faster than Firefox. Boy, Arc is orders of magnitude quick (at least it feels that way). I had been using vertical tabs in Firefox for a while, so it doesn’t feel disorienting anymore. I am appreciating the polish and customizability, and loving that the Ctrl+Tab behavior mimics Firefox.