I love Orion on iOS for its ability to use WebExtensions, but I’m not sure what benefit yet another mediocre WebKit browser would bring to the Linux space…
Extensions. Epiphany can’t run Firefox and Chromium extensions, but Orion mostly can. I can’t live without uBlock Origin or autofill from my password manager, and Orion is the only niche browser I know of that can.
We have to wait and see if it’s really mediocre. Gnome Web certainly has performance issues, but those may be due to WebkitGTK.
Orion is not using WebkitGTK, despite using GTK and Libadwaita. Their port may not have the same performance issues.
And when I say performance issues, I don’t mean benchmarks. Gnome Web actually does pretty decent on benchmarks, but things like scrolling with a mouse just don’t feel smooth (but do with a trackpad).
Speaking from macOS and iOS use, Orion’s great in terms of performance and efficiency in my testing, and I’m excited to see what all can be done on Linux.
Paid search engine makes sense to me but paid browser does not. The browser’s target audience will have a better experience using a free of charge and Open Source browser than a paid one because the paid browser won’t integrate very well with package managers.
This is off topic but their search engine pricing is quite scummy. Either you pay $5 for 300 searches per month, which is too little, or you pay $10 for unlimited searches, which is too many for a mere mortal. They are trying to up-sell the $10 subscription.
I was excited before I saw it was a libadwaita app.
Can libadwaita just go die. So sick and tired of it.
