Any mac users out there who tried this browser? Linux alpha is coming this month so will try it myself then.
It sounds like they are building a new browser from the ground up.
I’ve used it on both macOS (Intel and Apple Silicon) and iOS.
On macOS it’s been fine, but nothing about it was unique or beneficial enough to make me switch to it as my default browser. I imagine the experience on Linux will be similar.
On iOS, I’ve been daily driving it for almost exactly a year. At first it was very buggy, and I once lost all of my opened tabs. But for the past 6-8 months it has been very solid, and is the only browser on iOS that allows me to use both ad and sponsor block plug-ins to my knowledge. Tab groups are also fantastic and easy to manage.
That sounds hopeful. :) Even if its just like any browser on Linux, fun to try it for a while.
I like that it can run both Firefox and Chrome extensions. I… don’t like much else about it.
It seems like it doesn’t use multiple cores efficiently. When I’m taxing my GPU for video transcoding all other web browsers hold up but this one always stalls.
It’s a shame. I use Kagi for search and id love to see them succeed together but the browser is not yet there. It went “out of beta” officially but not practically.
Would you be cool if I shared this feedback to the Kagi team? I love Kagi and want to help it improve and grow.
Not really from the grounds up as it uses WebKit.
Used it very shorty on a mac, but as it really is very similar to safari there is little to no reason to use it.
On a linux maybe, but i think i will stay on firefox until servo is usable. (Which is actually being made from the grounds up)
On Linux there is Falkon. Windows too. (QT WebKit) And the reason I won’t use this will likely be the same as Falkon. Missing plugins etc. Other than that they are fine. Bitwarden has a desktop app. (Electron? Dunno but it would be ironic) But no auto fill ability. Darkreader? Nope. There may be some limited adblocking, but no greasemonkey type functionality.
Orion supports chrome and Firefox plugins
Really, that’s actually interesting.
Falkon stopped useing QTWebKit a few years ago. Now it’s just an other Chromium-based browser.
Aaaah so even less reason to use it sadly.
Yeah, it’s buggy as hell every time I’ve tried it. Lots of random bugs that were open for a long time. Also not open source so I realize that doesn’t matter to everyone but for me it does especially for a browser.
I’ve tried the iOS version of it a few times but the browser extensions I wanted to use did not work with it (both Chrome and FF extension versions). Oh well.
Yeah I have uBO installed and it doesn’t seem to work. I just use it as a spare browser now outside of Safari and Firefox Focus.
