Hopkey + Brave as an Arc alternative

Brave has had vertical tabs since version 1.52, with pinned tabs at the top and tab groups below, close to Arc's sidebar. Hopkey adds Arc's ⌘T command bar on top.

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• macOS 14 or later, Apple silicon and Intel

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How they work together

Brave's sidebar lists pinned tabs, tab groups, and tabs of the current window. Hopkey opens over Brave when you press ⌘T and searches the open tabs of every Brave window and your Brave history. Type a site name and press Tab to search that site.

Turn on vertical tabs in Brave

1. Open brave://settings/appearance and turn on Use vertical tabs. You can also right-click a tab and choose Use vertical tabs.
2. Click the panel icon at the top of the sidebar to shrink it to icons, and again to expand it.
3. To make a tab group, right-click a tab and choose Add tab to new group.

Turn on Hopkey for Brave

1. Open Hopkey's Settings from the menu bar icon and choose General.
2. Turn on Also use in Chrome, Brave, Edge and Vivaldi.
3. Switch to Brave and press ⌘T. The first time, macOS asks to let Hopkey control Brave. Click Allow.

Brave does not need to be your default browser. Hopkey works in whichever supported browser is in front.

What works in Brave

• Free: the ⌘T bar with the tabs of every Brave window, including tab groups, your Brave history, web search with suggestions, inline completion, pin and unpin, and ⇧⌘C copy link.
• Pro: site search with Tab and %, Brave's menu commands, developer tools with $ from the View > Developer menu, and ⌃Tab to the last tab.
• Safari only: tabs of closed Tab Groups, and auto-archive.

The full list is on what works in each browser.

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