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Orion Browser

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Re: Orion Browser

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Post by cube2222 »

The browser is fine in general, esp. the vertical tabs and being very Safari-like as far as the footprint goes, and I've been using Kagi for the last few weeks, which is also working great.

The problem though, is that the browser is my window into so much high-trust data and credentials, there's no way I will entrust it to a browser that's either a) not open source, or b) not built by a well-established company with a track record.

I still wish the authors the best of luck in becoming the (b) from above.

Re: Orion Browser

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Post by louthy »

It’s still quite buggy, things like occasionally not drawing the page when you switch to a new site; and sometimes being stuck rendering on half the screen only (seems related to the tabs pop out).

I’m still sticking with it for now, because I use Kagi search and I like their ethos. But I am getting slightly frustrated with it. So I may switch soon (I’ll continue using Kagi though, that I really rate)

Re: Orion Browser

#46

Post by pvinis »

on macos many extensions don't work, so I uninstalled.

on ios the UI is so good! but it keeps freaking out and being slow. it's still my main but let's see for how long. I used insight before orion.

Re: Orion Browser

#48

Post by artdigital »

I tried using Orion but 1Password integration is still buggy and doesn’t properly work. Apparently 1Password has to do some whitelisting on their side that the browser is okay to be used, but they don’t do that so it has been stalling for a very long time (https://1password.community/discussion/124112/support-for-or...).

It’s sad because 1Password is such an important thing that I need to properly work that it’s making me use Orion less than I want

Besides that I think Orion (and Kagi, like people mentioned here) is great. That and Arc is a lot of fresh air in the browser space

Re: Orion Browser

#49

Post by karmakaze »

COGlory wrote: post #35

I pay for Kagi. I'd also pay for Orion if it were on Linux. It doesn't even need to be good, I'd still pay for it.

For something as important as a web browser or operating system, I'd want it to be open source. In the FAQ it does say that they're opensourcing components and plan to opensource the browser eventually. This is all good.

Long term though, I'd want it also to run on opensource operating systems. It doesn't exactly make sense to have an opensource browser on a closed source operating system. I use Firefox on macOS (+ Linux) and wouldn't be so inclined if it only ran on Mac and/or Windows.

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