On Tuesday, the browser company is considering selling or Open Sourming its ARC browser, which aims to redirect resources to develop a new browser powered by AI called Dia.
When the company announced Dia in December 2024, it admitted that ARC is a complex browser for many users and wanted to build a product that the masses liked. Since then, the browser company has been publishing error corrections and security updates to the ARC, but it stopped developing the application and add functions to it.
IN New blog postThe company's general director, Josh Miller, said that the ARC browser encountered the problem of “tax news”.
“For most people, ARC was simply too different, with too many new things to learn, in addition to too little reward (…), Arc lacked consistency both in its basic characteristics and basic values. It was experimental, which was part of his charm, but also complexity,” wrote Miller.
The browser company is not planning to completely close the ARC, but she said that she was considering selling it or an open position. However, Miller said that the challenge in the Open Sourmer browser is that it is built on the Arc Development Kit set, the internal SDK, which is also the main component of the new browser, and would not like to give this IP address.
“Although we would like to be open source one day, we can't do it significantly without Open-Sourcing ADK. And ADK is still the basis of the value of our company. This does not mean that it will never happen,” said Miller.
Especially, many Arched browser users They asked the company to transform it into an open source project.
The Browser Company browser is still in Alfa tests. The company did not give the date of the wider version, but stated that it would provide a browser for testing ARC members.
