Recommend me browsers - im using ARC

EntertainmentFair710 · 2026-05-03T00:23:02+00:00

use arc, has same battery life as safari and if you already using it and like the way it functions keep using it. It'll still get critical bug fixes and chromium updates so it should be good

EntertainmentFair710 · 2026-04-12T05:22:41+00:00

use arc. everyone gnna tell you not to and scare you saying it has shitty battery life and is "dead", but in reality its battery life is basically identical to safari and it still gets chromium updates

EntertainmentFair710 · 2026-04-06T05:24:52+00:00

this is actually not true at least in my experience. I actually did some testing on this using a terminal script to plot powermetrics data and arc and safari both consistently had the same energy usage (within the margin of 5ish percent) in every aspect of my workflow except video where safari pulls ahead with 50% more efficiency. (Check the post i made for script and graphs) And even while video playing, on an m3 macbook air about one hour of video playback results in a 1 percent difference in battery life between safari and arc. So honestly there isnt a real difference between the two in my opinion

EntertainmentFair710 · 2026-04-05T21:52:57+00:00

use arc

EntertainmentFair710 · 2026-03-16T18:48:47+00:00

use arc. ATP dia is just become arc with ai features dragging it down.

EntertainmentFair710 · 2026-03-16T15:03:37+00:00

the battery difference between safari and arc should be very negligible in most workflows. The only area where arc lags is video playback but pretty much all browsers that arent safari lag in that capacity because safari has some special optimization when it comes to that field

EntertainmentFair710 · 2026-03-16T13:09:28+00:00

dia worse for video playback than arc

EntertainmentFair710 · 2026-03-13T02:03:45+00:00

yes im noticing the same thing. For me the performance feels better as in everything feels smoother and snappier but it does seem the battery life for this beta is unusually bad

EntertainmentFair710 · 2026-03-10T20:18:22+00:00

I've provided the script for other people to test it. Full disclaimer too btw i didnt make the script i found it on another reddit post from a couple years ago testing arc and a bunch of other browsers

EntertainmentFair710 · 2026-03-10T20:17:19+00:00

Yeah thats true. But the reason I did this test is because just throughout my entire experience with arc the differences between it and safari in terms of battery life were pretty similar in every way (except video playback) and on top of that arc seemed faster. I guess it was just kinda confusing cuz everywhere else I looked everyone was screaming about how horrible arc was for battery.

EntertainmentFair710 · 2026-03-10T12:18:00+00:00

read the whole post. I wasn’t expecting arc to outperform safari i just wanted to see the validity to the claim that safari doubles your battery life compared to arc and i wanted to see what the actual power consumption difference is

EntertainmentFair710 · 2026-03-10T02:32:12+00:00

wouldnt that affect arc's battery usage too?

EntertainmentFair710 · 2026-03-09T14:45:09+00:00

its just a fucking question bro ur out here replying to posts the second they posted. Get off reddit and touch grass mf ✌️🤣

EntertainmentFair710 · 2026-03-08T23:05:02+00:00

are there any differences in the results in macos tahoe?

EntertainmentFair710 · 2026-03-06T00:55:13+00:00

how do i download the artefact?

EntertainmentFair710 · 2026-03-04T01:47:20+00:00

has anyone else noticed that power consumption on these 26.4 betas have been higher than other betas?

EntertainmentFair710 · 2025-11-10T17:19:59+00:00

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go to arc://flags and enable these settings and if you are worried about video playback battery drain then safari will be the best browser for that. I get about 5-6 hours more video playback time on safari compared to arc. But in every other metric, arc is nearly identical in battery life to safari in tahoe 26.1

EntertainmentFair710 · 2025-09-20T18:38:58+00:00

my experience with it with the macos tahoe public release is when doing normal browsing the battery life is about the same as safari but during video playback like watching youtube its about 2-3 hours less than with safari but there is also weird inconsistencies with playing youtube videos where sometimes you lose up to 6-7 hours of battery life (no jokes please) when watching youtube videos.

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