Switching from Safari to Arc as my default browser several months ago was a big deal for me. I've always been a Safari user. Arc, though, does innovative things that I find useful (such as Little Arc and Spaces).

Lately, however, I've noticed that I spend a lot of time "managing" things in Arc. I organize the sidebar. I pin and unpin tabs. I make spaces for no good reason. I "traffic control" sites so they open in specific ways. There are many things one can tweak Arc, and I've been tweaking all of them.

Yesterday I did this:

After using Safari all day, I remembered why I like it. It's tight, somehow, you know? It fits on macOS like nothing else does. It integrates with everything (see my post about moving to Apple's Keychain).

Arc's sidebar approach to tabs/bookmarks is awesome. What I found is that I don't like having the sidebar hidden, but when it's showing I tend to scan the list of tabs and click things at random, looking for things to do/read. This isn't Arc's fault, but still. Safari uses its UI to focus on the current page. This is better for my brain.

I'm going to keep using Safari for a spell and see how it goes. I've missed it, but it remains to be seen if I'm drawn back into Arc's orbit by all the neat stuff Arc does.