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Whats special about Orion? Why would I use it instead of FF or even Chromium?
by Phelinofist 9mo ago
Whats special about Orion? Why would I use it instead of FF or even Chromium?
- hagbard_c 9mo agoNothing, really, other than it being closed-source, based around Webkit and to be sold/distributed under the Kagi moniker. If that combination scratches your itch this is for you, otherwise there are many alternatives.
- Macha 9mo agoI think Kagi at this stage have a better reputation than Mozilla, and Chromium is not seen as sufficiently independent from Chrome, and hence from Google’s anti-user decisions. That said, closed source is still a deal breaker for a browser for me, or I’d probably already be using Vivaldi.
- carlosjobim 9mo agoDon't worry about it, you're not even invited to use Orion.
- freediver 9mo agolol
- bikelang 9mo agoThe built in ad blocker is phenomenal. Only Brave is as good on this front. It supports extensions from both FF and Chromium. It has a really neat integration with Kagi private search in private tabs. Kagi as a company has generally pretty good ethics and respects their users. That’s enough to make it compelling for me.
- edsq 9mo ago> It has a really neat integration with Kagi private search in private tabs What's the integration you're referring to here? This was something I was interested in, but as far as I can tell if I enable Kagi Privacy Pass it's enabled browser-wide, not just in private tabs.
- bikelang 9mo agoAh - I just did not realize that privacy pass was available as extension to other browsers but of course that makes sense. It’s built in to Orion. You still have to enable it when you switch to private tabs. It’d be nice if it was automatic!
- jlarocco 9mo agoFF and Chromium are controlled by the biggest advertising company on the internet, while Orion is developed by a privacy focused search engine.
- Phelinofist 9mo agoBut isn't it basically also just a rebranded Chromium clone, thus still heavily depended on G?
- mitchell209 9mo agoIt's a webkit browser.
- jlarocco 9mo agoOrion is using WebKit. Chromium itself was a fork of WebKit. I don't know how much Chromium code gets upstreamed to WebKit any more, but Google certainly doesn't control it the way they do Chromium. WebKit development is mainly driven by Apple, which isn't great from the perspective of having a browser free of corporate influence, but I trust them more than Google.
- tempest_ 9mo agoNo, it is not. It uses webkit, which is what Blink was forked from but likely has more in common with Safari at this point.