As this is not an official way of installing Arc, if you encounter any issues do NOT report them to the developers, they did not intend for people to be running Arc on Windows 10.
This guide is a bit more manual since I wanted to respect the developers' wishes and not directly link any downloads to the beta of Arc.
I don't know how this will work with updates, you may just need to redo the process to update it, but I'm not sure
- Install this font: https://aka.ms/SegoeFluentIcons (this fixes the icons since Windows 10 doesn't have this font installed by default)
- Download the Arc appinstaller and open it in notepad/some other text editor
- Copy everything inside and paste it into this website: https://codebeautify.org/xmlviewer (this is optional, but it makes reading and copying from the file easier)
- Find the
mainpackage
@Uri
, it should end inArc.x64.msix
, and open that in a new tab. It should download that msix file. - Scrolling down a bit more, there should be two dependencies with their own
@Uri
s, download them both and install them as normal (double click, press install) - Open the Arc msix with 7-Zip or WinRAR (others will probably work, but those are the two I've tested)
- Extract everything inside the folder to where you want the app to be installed
Technically, these next instructions aren't required, however it makes Windows actually recognize it as an app and probably prevents some weird bugs
- Open Settings, go into Update & Security, then For Developers, and toggle Developer Mode, you'll get a confirmation window, press Yes
- In the newly extracted files, find
AppxManifest.xml
and open it in notepad/some other text editor - Open the Find and Replace menu (Ctrl + H or Edit->Replace for notepad), for
Find what:
put10.0.22000.0
, and forReplace with:
put10.0.10000.1000
, then pressReplace
and save the file. - Open Powershell (from the start menu usually), then type the following commands.
cd "[PATH TO YOUR ARC FILES HERE]"
Add-AppxPackage -Register ".\AppxManifest.xml"
- Optionally, disable Developer Mode using the same steps as step 8.
Now you should be able to see Arc in your start menu and have it function as normal
i used this method which was mentioned if u scroll a bit up but in the cmd paste this in
rmdir /s /q C:\Users\boom\AppData\Local\Packages\TheBrowserCompany.Arc_ttt1ap7aakyb4\LocalCache\Local\firestore\Arc
change the "boom" with ur users name and press enter. For further details heres the reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/ArcBrowser/comments/1ak6e59/comment/kqkmv78/
and if u want to automate this, use this link https://github.com/eligamii/ArcFix, but i just used it and idk if it worked from the app or that i already did it with the cmd one which u have to do it over and over when u want to use arc so maybe try the program first and see if it works but if it doesnt use the one from the reddit its the same thing in a nutshell lol :)
however the problem which i have is that it doesnt load the sites its just blank some1 also has the problem too :(