The Browser Company is getting ready to bring Peek and Little Arc over to the Dia browser in the next few weeks.

After the team rolled out nested tab groups and link routing to Dia earlier today, CEO Josh Miller hopped on X to answer questions from users who are still holding onto the old Arc browser.

When someone asked him when Dia would get Little Arc, Miller confirmed that “we have a version of this coming soon, in the context of a larger upgrade.”

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For anyone who never got into the Arc hype, Little Arc and Peek are basically quick preview windows that stop your browser from turning into a messy graveyard of open tabs. Clicking a link in an app like Slack or Telegram opens a tiny floating window instead of loading up your main workspace, so you can read what you need and close it right out.

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Other browsers are trying to copy this exact workflow too, like how Brave recently added long-press link previews on iOS, though nothing on desktop feels quite as smooth as Arc’s original setup.

Plenty of people were begging for Peek in the replies to Miller’s post, with one user joking that “none of it makes sense” without the feature. Miller teased that a working version was already demoed at the company’s all-hands meeting today, and told another fan that they will “be happy around the holidays.”

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Missing out on those quick disposable pop-ups has been a massive dealbreaker for long-time fans. Our own writer Sudhanshu recently wrote a piece about why he still refuses to switch away from Arc despite it being in maintenance mode, and the lack of Little Arc and Peek windows in Dia or alternatives like Zen was his main reason for staying put.

With Arc facing a December shutdown deadline as Atlassian pushes users toward Dia, bringing over these last few quality-of-life tools is pretty much mandatory if the company wants stubborn holdouts to migrate without a fight.

 
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PiunikaWeb’s Take
It is honestly a bit funny watching The Browser Company put Arc on ice only to spend months rebuilding all of its best parts inside Dia. Still, if you have been putting off the switch because you hate how external links clutter up your main tab bar, waiting until the holiday update drops is your best bet. Just keep in mind that Dia is heavily focused on corporate workflows and moving its AI tools to a paid subscription soon, so you might want to test out how the app runs on your machine before moving your entire daily setup over. And in case Dia doesn’t cut it for you, we’ve rounded up some of the best alternatives to Arc that you can try out instead.
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