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Testing Orion browser again
- Thread starter VitoBotta
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Main? No.
But I play with it on an iPhone 13. It's fine? Seems to work as advertised. I'm content with it?
I know, this isn't a ringing endorsement, but it works. Doesn't block ads or whatever as well as desktop browsers, and I only have uBlock as an extension. Sometimes video autoplays but always muted. If it were the only browser I had, I'd be OK with that. The UI is clean, and unobtrusive. It works. I haven't tried banking or anything with very complex rendering, and a person smarter than me might have decided to switch to their phone and try typing this in Orion instead of their Windows work laptop, but it's fine. It's displayed every site I've tried without problems. What more do I want?
But I play with it on an iPhone 13. It's fine? Seems to work as advertised. I'm content with it?
I know, this isn't a ringing endorsement, but it works. Doesn't block ads or whatever as well as desktop browsers, and I only have uBlock as an extension. Sometimes video autoplays but always muted. If it were the only browser I had, I'd be OK with that. The UI is clean, and unobtrusive. It works. I haven't tried banking or anything with very complex rendering, and a person smarter than me might have decided to switch to their phone and try typing this in Orion instead of their Windows work laptop, but it's fine. It's displayed every site I've tried without problems. What more do I want?
I've been having video playback issues on Orion so I don't use it as much as I'd like to. At this point I'm just waiting for that 1.0 release to start using it more
Once again I gave up after a few hours. It doesn't detect my RODE microphone so I can't even use it for calls. I am trying Vivaldi now.
Despite the microphone issues I decided to support the project with a paid subscription as well as paid Kagi search, from the same team. There are still problems but there is potential for it to become the best browser on macOS.
I am using the Orion browser for macOS Mojave on my early 2015 Apple MacBook Air. I like it a lot and i was told that it has a WebKit more current than Sonoma.