The browser company has repeatedly said that it is not getting rid of the arc browser as it moves to its new AI-CRICTIC DIA browser. But what the company is not going to do is to develop new features for it. CEO Josh Miller’s new blog post tells why, and what happens after that.
The arc browser should be like browsers, it was a great consideration, and it has included consumers, including you. But many reasons for stopping the development of the arc that Miller have given in the blog – it is very complicated to go into the mainstream, that it was slow and unstable at times (True!
Why not just roll in the arc? Miller mentions a great deal of security. The ARC has at least one major security issue: a security researcher found a threat last year that the browser company quickly chased, but allows the attackers to enter the discretionary code in the consumer’s browser session only by knowing the invaders. According to Miller, the browser company has now increased its security engineering team to one person. He writes, as an AI agent – AI system that operates independently – become more common.
As far as the arc and its users all this means, Miller still insists that the browser will not be far away. The Arc will still get security and bug fixes, and the chromium code based on it will be updated. But they also say that the browser company is not selling open source or arc, because besides chromium, it is also built on a custom infrastructure that reduces Dia. They say the company will want to open the browser someday, but not until “it will endanger our team or shareholders.”
The browser company did not respond immediately Stuffy Asked if the same big security team is also working to advance the arc’s self -protection. When we learn more, we will refresh.
