Arc Browser now natively supported on ARM Windows

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The Windows edition of the Arc browser has been bumped with support for Windows on ARM, and so you can now run the app natively on the latest Microsoft Surface Pro tablets and the like.

As noted in the release notes for Arc’s version 1.22.2, it now supports ARM processors for Arc on Windows. This version also addresses a problem that has seen the app crashing any time one tried to drag a tab to create a new window or drag a tab from one window to another.

Developed using Swift, Arc uses the same Chromium browser engine as Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and a few others. You could already run Arc Browser in Windows on ARM from before, but only through emulation. That was a miserable experience since not all apps and related services, developed for x86 processors, are compatible with Arm64, and those that are run at a significant performance hit in emulation mode, particularly browsers that compile code for web apps in the background.

Windows on ARM is the edition that changes for laptops with Arm64 processors like Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Plus and Snapdragon X Elite processors. Others of the best ARM laptops are the Surface Pro 11, Galaxy Book 4 Edge Samsung, HP EliteBook Ultra G1q, and ProArt PZ13 ASUS.

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Arc was developed by The Browser Company and launched in July 2023 for macOS and Windows, following shortly after beta access for about six months. An early version of Arc for Windows 10 launched in August. Arc is described as an operating system of the web. The cliched announcement states that it updates and brings sidebar web apps you ‘love,’ but that’s not all Arc has up its sleeve.

For instance, using the app, you can decide on how some websites should appear without having to code using HTML or Apache Stylesheets. Arc can dramatically change the way you use browsers and others with other features such as split-view on webpages and a command bar of action items, address bar, and search.

The Arc application can be obtained from the official ArcBrowser download page. A version designed using AI with search as the core feature is called Arc Search, which is currently available as an open beta on Android phones in the Google Play Store. The iPhone version first came out early this year. If you already have Arc installed on Windows, you simply need to update to get the native ARM experience.

Source: Arc Browser