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Re: Orion 1.0

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Post by barnabee » Fri, Nov 28, 2025, 5:05 PM UTC

z64 wrote: post #277

barnabee wrote: post #213

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Sure :) tl;dr: I'm a tinkerer, an idealist, and someone who wants to retain control over my digital life and deny influence over it to the likes of Google, Apple, Meta, et al. at pretty much all costs, and there are absolutely good enough open source options that I couldn't bring myself to use a proprietary browser unless I absolutely have to. To elaborate… First off, there are a few reasons I always prefer to use op…

Thank you!

You’re welcome. Keep up the great work!

Re: Orion 1.0

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Post by yencabulator » Fri, Nov 28, 2025, 11:45 PM UTC

eddythompson80 wrote: post #85

sedatk wrote: post #75

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It was true, and it was what made Google Chrome popular in the first place. Internet Explorer and Firefox were dead slow to start at the time while Chrome started instantly. We just don’t know how bad slow browsers can be because all others have caught up.

That was a funny period of time because you could very transparently see the clear application of a corporate team that was tasked with improving the “startup speed KPI”. During that time IE startup time went from a dozen or so seconds to also instantaneous. It was even faster than chrome sometimes. But that was just the startup. The application wasn’t ready to accept any user input or load anything for another 10 or…

> During that time IE startup time went from a dozen or so seconds to also instantaneous.

As I recall they cheated by actually starting IE at login time. Window creation is easy to make quick...

Re: Orion 1.0

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Post by saint_yossarian » Sat, Nov 29, 2025, 2:15 AM UTC

bobbylarrybobby wrote: post #261

saint_yossarian wrote: post #81

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Bitwarden just had a similar bug with keyboard lag in their browser extension: https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/issues/17090 I wish browsers offered some kind of autofill extension API so password managers don't have to inject their own bullshit into every page.

On macOS, they do! It's not clear why 1Password and Bitwarden don't utilize it. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/authenticationserv...

This seems to be a system API, I meant the WebExtensions API that browsers implement: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...