Kagi's Orion browser hits public beta on Linux

Kagi's Orion browser hits public beta on Linux(omgubuntu.co.uk)

21 points by bwoah 12 days ago | 7 comments

wpm 12 days ago |

What a shame they went with GTK. Not only does it look awful but it looks awful on KDE too despite me being able to make KDE not look awful.

bigyabai 12 days ago |

> Orion isn’t a recoloured Chromium or another Firefox fork, but a native Linux app built in GTK4/libadwaita

Oh cool!

> and WebKitGTK

Oh.

anon7000 12 days ago | |

I mean, they’ve been building Orion around WebKit very deliberately for a while: https://blog.kagi.com/orion

bigyabai 12 days ago | | |

The GTK/GNOME project already has a native WebKit browser, and it's FOSS. Orion will have a hard time fitting in.

kajman 12 days ago |

Such a bizarre boondoggle for a company that otherwise seems to have smart and focused offerings. They may as well announce a Slack or Jira replacement next.

eipi10_hn 12 days ago | |

Orion is their first product, before Kagi.

kajman 11 days ago | | |

I wasn't aware, and I even paid for their search for a time.

I still do not understand the market for a proprietary browser aimed at privacy-conscious power-users. There is a non-proprietary option that is many years ahead, along with another proprietary browser marketing to the same niche demographic. Good luck to them.