Orion Browser for Linux Officially Enters Beta

a day ago by new_otters_raft to c/linux

Orion Browser has officially moved its Linux version into beta, with Flatpak builds now available for both x86_64 and ARM64 systems.

stoy 12 points a day ago

Ok.... another WebKit/Blink skin, yawn, these are a dime a dozen.

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Dave 9 points a day ago

I've been playing with it since I guess towards the start of this year. The latest update still doesn't make a browser I think is ready to call beta 🤷

I'm keeping an eye on it, but only loosely.

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j3tt 3 points 21 hours ago

Thanks for telling us; I've tried to live with Epiphany for a while but had to move to Firefox for compatibility to certain websites.

If Orion is using GTK4, this looks like a new/second/third/fourth attempt to moving to WebKit. (:

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Dave 1 point 21 hours ago

The rendering of pages seems fine, it's the browser functions that seem missing. As an example, there is no "find in page". If you press Ctrl+F, nothing happens. Many things work, including their strange tab grouping system that I guess will be their selling point. But I kept coming across the missing little things.

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solrize 6 points a day ago

Is this interesting? You can't really decrappify browsers without first decrappifying the web.

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provectus 8 points a day ago

It is interesting because we are getting a popular web browser on Mac to gnulinux. I am not a big fan of it though because it is nonfree.

You can't really decrappify browsers without first decrappifying the web.

I agree with this point a 100%. Wish something like Gemini would succeed (Gemini the protocol, not the google bot). The web is so bloated and "unprivate" if that is a word.

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