Orion Browser by Kagi
browser.kagi.com

I’ve been testing the Orion browser for macOS and iOS/iPasOS for a few days. It’s WebKit-based, and Apple OS exclusive. First impressions are positive, although I haven’t put it through its paces (check multi-device iCloud settings sync, push tabs to its limits, dig into exactly how it protects privacy by syncing through iCloud, etc). Would love to hear your thoughts on this, especially if anyone has tried it.

Out of the box, this browser purports to be more private than Safari, Firefox, Brave and Chrome (not exactly high bars to beat, except maybe Brave/Firefox?). The killer feature, however, is support for Chromium and Firefox extensions… on iOS/iPadOS. The two extensions I tried (AdNauseam and Youtube SponsorBlock) don’t appear to work; at least their extension web pages don’t appear to function. Not sure if that’s intentional, or if I messed something up.

In any case, would love to see some feedback from the community here.

  • mishimaenjoyer@kbin.social
    10·
    1 year ago

    call me paranoid, but i somehow don’t trust a webbrowser thats basically developed and maintained by a single person who needs you to join his discord to download it (at least that was the case in 2021).

      • mishimaenjoyer@kbin.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        Well, at least that changed. A friend is currently testing kagi‘s search engine, i still think $5/month for 300 searches is a grift, but yeah …

        • foo@withachanceof.com
          1·
          1 year ago

          I’m a Kagi subscriber. I agree it’s somewhat expensive, but they’re also a startup and doing the insanely difficult task of taking on Google. Kagi has completely replaced Google for me in the past few months and I’ve really been enjoying having a search engine that’s not full of ads and I can tailor to my interests.

    • krnl386OP
      1·
      1 year ago

      Devs aren’t the brightest when it comes to sharing their code. There was a open source router firmware dev that for some ungodly reason, distributed the binaries to his router firmware builds through OneDrive. Why, I still wonder to this day… especially since his source code was on Github. At least use releases, if you’re that lazy? Still far from ideal, but at least it’s marginally better and more convenient that %#€$& OneDrive. 🤦🏻‍♂️

      • gamer@lemm.ee
        2·
        1 year ago

        Reminds me of this company I have to deal with that sells specialty equipment, but the software for interacting with it is hosted on Google Drive. The other day I ran into an issue because they forgot to “share” one of the links, so you couldn’t actually download anything without requesting access. Had to scour the web for an old build hosted on what looked like the first website on the internet.

        So yeah, some devs are clueless about these kinds of things. I think hardware people in general either don’t know or don’t care to learn about the software side beyond the bare minimum.