The Early Beta Build of Orion for Linux is Now Available!
We know many of you have been eagerly waiting for a chance to try Orion Browser on Linux, and we’ve been hard at work to make progress behind the scenes. After months of building the foundations, we’re excited to share this early beta with you. It’s our first opportunity to let you get hands-on with the new features we’ve been developing.
What’s included in this early beta
Browsing made smoother
The core of Orion is fully connected to the Linux UI, and basic browsing is ready: you can navigate pages, use back, forward, and refresh actions, and start exploring multiple tabs. This milestone lays the groundwork for a more flexible and powerful tab system.
Staying organized and secure
We’ve added password management, history tracking, and Dark Mode and Focus Mode, giving you more control over your browsing experience. Custom search engines can be defined in Settings > Search, making it easy to search directly from the address bar.
Stability and polish
This early beta also brings several fixes that improve reliability - from preventing crashes when closing pinned tabs to resolving freezes in Website Settings, and ensuring new installations allow creating new tabs without issues.
Note:
Kagi Sync and webKit Extensions are still in development and not supported in Beta
✴ Try the Early Beta ✴
You can download the Flatpak build of Orion Browser for Linux here: Download Orion Early Beta (Flatpak)
What’s next
This early beta is just the beginning. Over the coming weeks, we’ll continue refining tab management, expanding WebExtension support and improving stability and usability.
We’d love to hear from you
As always, your thoughts, questions, and suggestions are welcome. They guide us in shaping the future of Orion on Linux, and we’re excited to have you on this journey with us. Go to our dedicated Orion Feedback Website: https://orionfeedback.org/
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What’s the benefit of this over chrome or Firefox or any of the forks?
You would have another browser engine at your fingertips; with all its upsides and downsides. Outside of the Apple world there are no really usable webkit based browsers (even though it originated from Linux).
It’s closed source so you get to cross your fingers that they don’t do anything shitty under the hood!!
Oh, benefits! Sorry I must have read that wrong…
The biggest feature on Mac is the battery efficiency of Safari with the features of something like Zen Browser. On Linux I would just stick with Zen for similar features.
https://orionbrowser.com/platforms/macos#%3A~%3Atext=Download-%2CMain+Features%2C-Focus+Mode