Instant Links and Arc’s drag and drop

Type a search in ⌘T and press Shift-Return instead of Return: Cra plans the search on the Mac’s Apple Intelligence, reads the results in a hidden page and opens the top ones as tabs at the top of Today, as a split, or as a folder in Pinned, as Arc Max does. Off by default in Settings ▸ Max, offered only while Apple Intelligence is on; only the searches leave the Mac, to the search engine.

Drag a link from a page or another app onto a space’s tabs and it opens there as a tab, behind the page you’re on: between tabs, in Pinned, at the top of an open folder, or into a closed folder’s middle, with Arc’s ring and line showing where it lands. On a tab’s middle nothing happens, as in Arc.

Drag a sidebar tab over the page and Arc’s drop region opens where it will land, beside or below the page, while the page makes room. In a split, a pane’s sides add a pane and its middle replaces that pane. A page’s link dragged near a pane’s edge splits too.

Right-click ← or →, or hold the press, and Arc’s menu lists the tab’s pages that way, nearest first; pick one to go straight to it. On the toolbar and in the sidebar, split panes included.

With Hide the toolbar until you need it on, the find bar and Ask on Page’s card hang under the toolbar while it’s out and slide with it, and the pointer on the find bar keeps the toolbar out.

A follow-up gets its own answer, not the last one again, and quotes the page; a quote the page doesn’t hold says so. Long answers stream smoothly, and the question reads on the dark card in a light space too.

• New tabs, links opened in a tab and restored tabs open ~34 ms sooner: Cra makes a page ahead of time.
• A sidebar tab switches on the press, as Arc’s does, not on the release: about 90 ms sooner.
• Each page process is ~14 MB smaller: 20 tabs went from about 1.1 GB to about 830 MB.
• Hidden tabs’ frames go 2 seconds after a switch, not once a minute, and fifty tabs opened at once no longer hold the window for two seconds.
• Space switches are smoother, and Google services Cra never offers (optimization hints, AI history search, Gemini, Lens) are off, 11 MB less.