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Orion 1.0

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Re: Orion 1.0

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Post by rwbt »

I switched to Orion from Safari a few months ago and so far loving it. I tried Orion a couple of years ago but it wasn't as reliable. Now it seems very stable and the kagi search integration is really nice.

On a side note - I don't know why Apple still doesn't let you set a custom search engine in Safari even today, so random.

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Post by throwawa14223 »

I love everything about Orion except it steals focus when I click a link in e-mail or another application. Does anyone know if there's a way to change the behavior to be like Safari's background link behavior?

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#33

Post by kotaKat »

The iOS/iPad builds have been getting a bit… rough on their adblocking lately.

For some reason, Orion is now getting slammed by Ad-Shield on my iPad on so many blogs and sites it’s not even funny. Endless “an error occured loading this page” blaming my ad blocker.

Anyone else?

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#34

Post by zipping1549 »

have_faith wrote: post #16

> Most people switch browsers for one reason: speed. Is that true? Maybe it is and I'm out of the loop but I can't remember the last time someone complained about browser speed. The bottleneck seems to be website bloat more than anything else. Would love to see this argument quantified.

Unless it's ungodly slow, to the point where it's beyond being noticeable, speed is the last thing I care about when it comes to browser. Most of the options available are reasonably fast and differences are not huge enough.

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Post by esafak »

have_faith wrote: post #16

> Most people switch browsers for one reason: speed. Is that true? Maybe it is and I'm out of the loop but I can't remember the last time someone complained about browser speed. The bottleneck seems to be website bloat more than anything else. Would love to see this argument quantified.

It is. That's why I dropped Firefox.

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#36

Post by The_Rob »

the_gipsy wrote: post #29

Isn't every browser on iOS restricted to being a safari/webview shell?

Yes, at least outside of the EU. However, companies don't seem to be developing for it yet, probably due to the investment not being worth it until similar laws are more widespread. However, Orion in also on macOS, which does allow other engines. And Kagi is developing Orion for Linux and Windows.

Re: Orion 1.0

#37

Post by esafak »

What's the bug situation? It sucked last I checked, over a year ago.

Is there a way to get a useful visualization like a burndown chart out of their bug tracker? The people who have created it seem unaware that one important task of such a tracker is to reveal the big picture and help answer questions like "Is the project getting better or worse?" They should study the Github Insights tab. https://orionfeedback.org/

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Post by cpmsmith »

the_gipsy wrote: post #29

Isn't every browser on iOS restricted to being a safari/webview shell?

Yes, but Orion uses WebKit intentionally on desktop as well, unlike Chrome or Firefox which use their own engines on desktop but WebKit on iOS, so it's a bit different in this case.
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