Also been using Brave for a while. All the crypto stuff needs to be turned off but besides that for me, it's just better Chrome. Firefox always felt slower to me, Safari is just a weird kid from the neighborhood I could never get to like. I LOVED Arc. I think its a near perfect browser, but lack of proper mobile browser and Browser Company dropping Arc in favor of the new rebranded Arc with AI just left me with distrust. Brave just works, I can use it on all my devices, OSes, I can have uBlock Origin on it and vertical tabs. I don't really need anything else at this point.
I assume you've heard of it, but just in case you haven't: you should try Zen! It's basically Arc, but based on Firefox, open source and, more importantly, actively maintained.
I tried Zen in the past, I actually didn't like it. Had quite a bit of bugs, some settings even had typos, some missing things, literally crashed every now and then on MacOs. Might give it a go someday again, I'm trying out Helium for now out of curiosity and I'm liking it so far
I don't use it myself (wasn't an Arc user either), but apparently it's moving really fast, so definitely worth trying again.
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I assume you've heard of it, but just in case you haven't: you should try Zen! It's basically Arc, but based on Firefox, open source and, more importantly, actively maintained.
<a href="https://zen-browser.app" rel="nofollow">https://zen-browser.app
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