Rach Smith's Notes & Nuggets

A stack of browsers

note : development / browsers Added June 1, 2025

I was a very happy Arc user for a couple of years, but after The Browser Company announced they would no longer be working on it, I started to assess alternatives.

Now I've ended up with a stack of browsers, instead of reaching for a single browser to do all the things.

Polypane

For dev work involving designing, layout and styling.

Chrome

For all other dev work.

Horse

For general internet usage. Horse is a niche one that I imagine is only appealing to a small subset of people, of which I just happen to be a part of. If you are [[Less typical|less typical]], always open links in a new tab, and have about 200 tabs open at a time "just in case" you want to go back to one... Horse might appeal to you.

Polypane and Horse both require subscriptions, but [[Paying for software subscriptions is my passion|I'm cool with that]]. Especially for indie apps.

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  • Pascal Pixel

    thanks for using horse! <3

  • Anony Mouse

    W.r.t Horse, I would like to offer Firefox with Sidebery extension as an alternative. I've found it quite performant personally although I've never tried it on a Mac but have used it in the past to manage 1000+ tabs.

  • Brenick

    Ooh hadn't heard of Horse before. What an interesting idea. Thanks for sharing!

  • Ice

    Wow, never heard of that browser. I should recommend it to my colleague; he's got over 50 tabs open and is afraid to close them.