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/

Browse Beyond ✴︎ The Orion for Linux Team

  • artyom@piefed.socialOPEnglish
    711·
    2 months ago

    Discriminatory? Are you for real?

    Are you? You’re discriminating against an entire country, 146 million people, based on the actions of their government?

    • BigJohnnyHines@lemmy.ca
      165·
      2 months ago

      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.

      • artyom@piefed.socialOPEnglish
        23·
        2 months ago

        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?

        • BigJohnnyHines@lemmy.ca
          11·
          2 months ago

          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.

      • N.E.P.T.R@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        5·
        2 months ago

        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.

          • artyom@piefed.socialOPEnglish
            13·
            2 months ago

            Boycott everyone! Don’t buy anything! Just squat on some land in the woods and live off the land until you die from dysentery!

              • artyom@piefed.socialOPEnglish
                13·
                2 months ago

                I didn’t say that you or anyone else should boycott Kagi

                I don’t know what else you could have possibly been trying to say…

      • artyom@piefed.socialOPEnglish
        210·
        2 months ago

        We have wildly different definitions of the word discrimination.

        LOL I don’t know what else you could possibly call it.