Orion is a new WebKit-based browser for Mac

Post by steve_adams_86 » Sat, Oct 09, 2021, 4:42 AM UTC

freediver wrote: post #64

Hey everyone, I am the founder behind Orion, bootstrapping the project. Started working on it three years ago with a small team just to see if it would be possible to build something like this from scratch and we just kept going. Orion is today a daily browser for a few dozen beta-testers and it warms my heart to see that we got that far considering the competition. Few questions about Orion answered that I see pop p…

Post by copperx » Sat, Oct 09, 2021, 5:13 AM UTC

spurgu wrote: post #143

sneak wrote: post #142

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It's a good idea to move to a cross-platform password manager, so that your passwords don't result in OS vendor lock-in. I still run macOS on desktop but use a patched bitwarden_rs to store my passwords. I can also use it from Android and Linux.

Yeah horses for courses I guess. I always try to use the cross-platform solution whenever I can but not everyone seems to care about that and are seemingly fine about being locked in.

Post by 1--6zVa-E » Sat, Oct 09, 2021, 5:37 AM UTC

steve_adams_86 wrote: post #151

freediver wrote: post #64

Hey everyone, I am the founder behind Orion, bootstrapping the project. Started working on it three years ago with a small team just to see if it would be possible to build something like this from scratch and we just kept going. Orion is today a daily browser for a few dozen beta-testers and it warms my heart to see that we got that far considering the competition. Few questions about Orion answered that I see pop p…

This is an exciting project - I’ll definitely follow it closely. Do you have any plans in particular to make it especially useful to developers? It would be amazing to have a lightweight browser that’s easy on the battery like safari but with excellent dev tools. Noticing your name - are you a free diver? If so what are your favourite dive locations?

Post by mgrandl » Sat, Oct 09, 2021, 5:53 AM UTC

freediver wrote: post #74

sylvinus wrote: post #71

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Congrats for the project! Love the simple UI and extensions support. Don't you fear being held back by WebKit, which is notoriously slow to implement new web platform features? Can you give some insights on how you chose the engine? Thanks!

Thank you! To answer the question, we need to go a step back and answer how did we chose the platform first. The decision to go with macOS first was made in 2018 for the simple reason that we thought macOS has a bright future as a consumer OS. This was pre-M1 so we are glad to see macOS adoption grow! Once we settled on macOS, WebKit was a natural choice as it is the web rendering engine supported by the OS manufactu…

Post by freediver » Sat, Oct 09, 2021, 5:59 AM UTC

steve_adams_86 wrote: post #151

freediver wrote: post #64

Hey everyone, I am the founder behind Orion, bootstrapping the project. Started working on it three years ago with a small team just to see if it would be possible to build something like this from scratch and we just kept going. Orion is today a daily browser for a few dozen beta-testers and it warms my heart to see that we got that far considering the competition. Few questions about Orion answered that I see pop p…

This is an exciting project - I’ll definitely follow it closely. Do you have any plans in particular to make it especially useful to developers? It would be amazing to have a lightweight browser that’s easy on the battery like safari but with excellent dev tools. Noticing your name - are you a free diver? If so what are your favourite dive locations?