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Kagi is Porting its Orion Web Browser to Linux (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/34484204

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Good luck making a Linux user switch to a new proprietary browser.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Is Orion open-source?

We’re working on it! We’ve begun with some of our components and intend to open more in the future.

Forking WebKit, porting hundreds of APIs and writing a browser app from scratch has been challenging for our small team. Properly maintaining an open-source project takes time and resources we’re short on at the moment, so if you want to contribute at this time, please consider becoming active on orionfeedback.org.

Let's see...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago

pretty sure it's like all those projects that say that and never do it, iirc they've had that thing in their faq for years

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Built on webkit? I might have to check it out if they open source it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

GNOME Web (aka Epiphany) is also based on WebKit. You might want to check that out as well.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

"The saying goes “if you’re not paying for the product, you are the product” —unless open-source, I tend to add if I hear someone say it! Alas, Mozilla’s recent faux-pas suggests that even noble projects aren’t immune to the shiny glint of ick."

...I don't know if we should embrace proprietary like that just because "firefox did it".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Who cares?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago (2 children)

People who want more non-Chromium browser choices after the recent Firefox controversy?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Proprietary from a garbage company, I'll pass

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Kagi is a fine company and they’re planning to open source it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html

and then the Kagi CEO proceeded to personally harass this blogger.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Wow, kagi is really a trainwreck. Also only 16 employees? My advisor's business is quadruple that..

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

But Kagi is going to run on the webkit engine, right?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Yes, which is not Chromium.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Cool, I didn't know they had a browser!