Fresh off raising $50 million at a $550 million valuation in March, The Browser Company continues to bring more features to its Arc browser, created to provide a genuine alternative to Chrome and other dominant players in the browser market Internet. Today it’s introducing a new feature called Live Folders, which will automatically create and update tabs in a folder based on events like someone adding a file to a shared folder.
Live Folders comes as the company is also rolling out more AI-powered features to create more dynamic and automated user experiences. One plan has been to create an AI agent that browses the web for you, although this has yet to be launched.
The company is launching Live Folders initially with GitHub pull request support. When a user creates a GitHub pull request, Arc automatically creates a Live folder in the sidebar.
Folder will automatically update tabs based on pull requests you’ve created, assigned, requested review, or reported. The folder will automatically delete tabs with completed requests and tasks.
If there is a new pull request while collapsing your Live folder, the browser will look at it to flag the new request to you.
Image Credits: Arc Browser (screenshot)
Arc aims to create a new kind of monitoring system with this feature to help users in their daily work. The company introduced this feature in February. When asking users about system type support for the Live Folders feature, GitHub was the most requested service.
The company said it is focusing on integrating services into Live Folders that are managed for collaboration, such as Google Calendar, Google Drive and Figma. He added that the technology behind Live Folders is flexible, so it could also adopt things like updates from RSS feeds.
Earlier this month, the startup’s CEO Josh Miller announced that the company had hired ex-Safari designer Charlie Deets and ex-WhatsApp designer Christine Rode to build different interface designs.
