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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It’s worth noting that Kagi, the company behind this browser, is sponsoring the Russian war against Ukraine through its business with Yandex.
So anyone who does business with a Russian company is “sponsoring the Russian war”? Seems a bit discriminatory.
Discriminatory? Are you for real?
So anyone who does business with a Russian company is “sponsoring the Russian war”?
Yes. Russian companies pay taxes to the Russian regime, and the Russian regime uses that tax money to fund their war. Therefore, if you do business with Russian companies, you sponsor the Russian war.
Am I saying that means you shouldn’t pay for the service? No. We can’t boycott everything, but people should at least know where some of their money goes. Where you draw the moral line is entirely up to you.
Discriminatory? Are you for real?
Are you? You’re discriminating against an entire country, 146 million people, based on the actions of their government?
Correct. That’s how boycotts work. The people of Russia should increase pressure on their government if they don’t like current outcomes. Nobody is blaming them personally but putting any money into that economy ends up killing innocent people in Ukraine.
Nobody is blaming them personally
That’s exactly what you’re doing. Most govts are guilty of wars for stupid reasons. Better boycott everything, I guess?
That’s obviously not true in the modern era. The vast majority of governments do not initiate wars of conquest and have not in decades.
I didn’t say anything about wars of conquest
We have wildly different definitions of the word discrimination. The fact of the matter is that doing business with Russian companies funds the Russian war. There’s no away around that, and the fact that innocent Russian civilians have to suffer the repercussions of that is tragic, but it’s through no fault of the people choosing to boycott. Throwing accusations of discrimination in this situation is asinine.
Stop with this childish nonsense.
I think it is worth noting that while what Russia is doing is evil, they are not the only evil players in the game. So many countries are complicit and actively support Israel (monetarily), and most countries do business with USA (mega)companies (like Google, Microsoft, Meta) even with the current regime.
Definitely!
Boycott everyone! Don’t buy anything! Just squat on some land in the woods and live off the land until you die from dysentery!
It’s not FOSS, so I couldn’t possibly care less. That said, best of luck to you!
download the Flatpak build
How about no?
Okay?
The amount of bull is too damn high.
Are you in Texas?
Orion is the browser from Kagi. Notably it is based on Apple’s webkit (I think GNOME web is the only other one available for Linux) and supports extensions from both Firefox and Chrome.
Using it very briefly I’d say it’s more like Alpha currently…
Apple’s webkit (I think GNOME web is the only other one available for Linux)
iirc one of the options available for web engine in konqueror is webkit - the others being qtwebengine (chromium) and khtml, which is where Apple got webkit from.
Konqueror
Konqueror
Using it very briefly I’d say it’s more like Alpha currently…
Is it usable as a daily browser, or should I wait a few more months before trying it out?
I’m pretty sure their comment is extremely clear it is not ready for daily driving.
I was curious about what parts of it felt alpha, whether it’s the power user features vs basic browsing.
I’ll just try it later and report back 😄
No like I can’t even load a YouTube video. And it crashed several times.
Bullshit if not open source. Like a worse GNOME Web lol
Also, does their Flatpak have a user namespace sandbox? It cant. Do they just disable it, or use Zypak, or something else?
It’s planned to be open source in the future. Who knows really. Just thought it was an interesting development for Linux.
Not open source and VC funded, not falling for that for the hundredth time.
