Refrax
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A browser made as a replacement for Arc, built around WebKit. Has most of the features from Arc, many are implemented in a way that's faster or less resource intensive.
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- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
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- Mac
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Paul added Refrax as alternative to Lightpanda- kageroumado updated Refrax
Calling this an 'Arc replacement' undersells it. Refrax shares Arc's best ideas — spaces, vertical tabs, a command palette — but the developer's own framing is the honest one: where everyone else removed features and called it design, Refrax adds them, natively, in Swift and WebKit. It's not minimalism; its maximalism done properly. Imported 1000+ bookmarks, tabs, and six months of history from Vivaldi without a hitch — something other WebKit browsers crash on. GPL v3, real WebKit, genuinely...
- kageroumado added Refrax
kageroumado added Refrax as alternative to Arc Browser, DuckDuckGo Browser, Microsoft Edge, Opera and 5 more
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Calling this an 'Arc replacement' undersells it. Refrax shares Arc's best ideas — spaces, vertical tabs, a command palette — but the developer's own framing is the honest one: where everyone else removed features and called it design, Refrax adds them, natively, in Swift and WebKit. It's not minimalism; its maximalism done properly. Imported 1000+ bookmarks, tabs, and six months of history from Vivaldi without a hitch — something other WebKit browsers crash on. GPL v3, real WebKit, genuinely impressive! Even as a Chromium guy, I love it, AND I don't love WebKit!