Kagi is Porting its Orion Web Browser to Linux
Kagi is Porting its Orion Web Browser to Linux
Kagi, the company behind a paid, private search engine1 of the same name, has announced it's bringing its Webkit-based Orion web browser to Linux. In a
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/34484204
Good luck making a Linux user switch to a new proprietary browser.
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...
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
Built on webkit? I might have to check it out if they open source it.
GNOME Web (aka Epiphany) is also based on WebKit. You might want to check that out as well.
Who cares?
Cool, I didn't know they had a browser!