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Re: Orion Browser by Kagi

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post #89

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Then userland programs triggering kernel panics are good, since they make your kernels more bugfree and secure, aren't they?

They are good when you are stress testing your setup. They are bad if you are just trying to browse the damned website

How often you find kernel bugs that make your setup actually safer while browsing, and while stress testing?

Re: Orion Browser by Kagi

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post #90

As a paying Kagi user, please don't waste my money on this when Firefox already exists.

This is how I feel about Vlad's statement on their Discord that he wants to provide email services. That strikes me as a big project in terms of both development and operations, somewhat contrary to their privacy focus, and not something that their users are asking for (on Discord, I'd say that most commenters said they were unlikely to use it any time soon, switching would be too much of a hassle). And while I subsc…

I had similar reservations when I read the email discussion. I hope they aren't spreading themselves too thin.

I use Orion as my daily driver (because of the nested tree view), but Kagi Search is more important to me, and I don't want to see that go down under the weight of a bunch of distractions.

Re: Orion Browser by Kagi

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I would love to see the Value Prop of this vs. Brave. (NOTE: I pay for a Kagi Unlimited Subscription).

Better customer alignment.

To be fair, Brave seems to have genuinely tried, but, seems to be failing to reach sustainablility judging by their various pivots. They've tried to walk the line of leaning toward the user while middlemanning revenue ideas to said user. BAT and crypto, VPN, messaging sales, now search+ads. The market seems to be saying no thanks from what I can see from the outside.

Orion, in straight up exchange for cash via donation and Kagi subsidization, offers to be entirely the user's agent.

Re: Orion Browser by Kagi

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> that it does not really work with Google Meet It does sound like a feature, not a bug though...

This. Meet works better with Chrome, so I used to have chrome for Meet only, and Firefox for everything else.

I’ve so consistently had issues with Google products on Firefox, that I can’t help but feel it’s intentional.

At this point I keep a chromium based browser around as my google apps portal, and nothing else.

Re: Orion Browser by Kagi

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post #84

I am hopeful for its development but it’s not a daily driver for me. Too many bugs, not a large enough team to support it. When I have looked at the support forum the developer is sometimes a little hostile about bugs/issues, enough so that I don’t care to report my own issues. This is a subjective statement your experience may differ.

Yeah. What a waste of time for Kagi. Isn’t search hard enough? Wouldn’t that dev time be better spent on their main product?

Re: Orion Browser by Kagi

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For me the highest stopper is that it does not really work with Google Meet and it is not clear if it is a Webkit bug or not. Apart from that, I could probably use it as a daily driver.

> that it does not really work with Google Meet It does sound like a feature, not a bug though...

My "favourite" feature about Meet is that it takes me through all these self-satisfied feature announcement popups to explain to me how all these different things work. every. single. call.

I use meet as seldom as possible (basically just when a client, partner org etc sets up a call) but it still adds up to at least 2 or 3 a week at minimum. I wasn't interested in those feature popups the first time I'm definitely not interested now after you've been showing them to me 2 or 3 times a week for the last year or so. There doesn't seem any way to make it stop though.

Re: Orion Browser by Kagi

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> that it does not really work with Google Meet It does sound like a feature, not a bug though...

My "favourite" feature about Meet is that it takes me through all these self-satisfied feature announcement popups to explain to me how all these different things work. every. single. call. I use meet as seldom as possible (basically just when a client, partner org etc sets up a call) but it still adds up to at least 2 or 3 a week at minimum. I wasn't interested in those feature popups the first time I'm definitely n…

Careful, someone at Google reading this will green light a new version. Google has gone from talk to hangouts to meet and gotten even more proprietary with each iteration. I’m sure there is someone itching to create yet a new name/version that would have new draconian DRM. Heck, they might even try and bring something like ActiveX back if they knew it would make a users experience worse.

Re: Orion Browser by Kagi

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As far as I know, Orion is the only iOS compatible browser that lets you load extensions from the Chrome store and possibly Firefox as well although I'm not sure about that.

Seems like plugin support is not fully implemented, I added the 1Password extension, but can’t get the button to work in login forms.
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