Orion is now my Daily Driver browser
Our browsing experience is a crucial yet ignored keystone in our travels online. I always have a wide variety of browsers under review. Because The Mighty G needs a wooden stake through its assault on privacy and Safari limits default search engines to exclude Startpage and Kagi, I am thrilled that Orion has no such restrictions and that it's the *only* browser that supports independently-developed Chrome and Firefox plug-ins.
Because I now have a choice, I will not browse without the uBlock Origin plug-in shielding me from eavesdropping by Big Tech, and other malware. Disconnect and Cookie AutoDelete are other highly-regarded plug-ins that are unavailable if you’re using your Dad’s browser on iPhone or iPad.
I refuse to use surveillance-funded apps or services. As their site says, “Orion is 100% funded by its users; no ads and no third party deals ever.”
At the moment the most recent update of Orion on my iPad is hanging on launch (which it didn’t do before the November 26 update), perhaps aggravated by my bazillion-tabs-open browsing habits. It’s 100% fine on iPhone, and the Orion team and participating users are super-dedicated in keeping it one of the most reliable and stable browsers I’ve ever used, so I’m sure that this glitch will be solved in a few days.
If you want a better life online, I can highly recommend crawling out from under the rock that keeps people using default and “popular” browsers. Remember: ants outnumber humans by a big margin on this planet, but you don’t need to be one.
Because I now have a choice, I will not browse without the uBlock Origin plug-in shielding me from eavesdropping by Big Tech, and other malware. Disconnect and Cookie AutoDelete are other highly-regarded plug-ins that are unavailable if you’re using your Dad’s browser on iPhone or iPad.
I refuse to use surveillance-funded apps or services. As their site says, “Orion is 100% funded by its users; no ads and no third party deals ever.”
At the moment the most recent update of Orion on my iPad is hanging on launch (which it didn’t do before the November 26 update), perhaps aggravated by my bazillion-tabs-open browsing habits. It’s 100% fine on iPhone, and the Orion team and participating users are super-dedicated in keeping it one of the most reliable and stable browsers I’ve ever used, so I’m sure that this glitch will be solved in a few days.
If you want a better life online, I can highly recommend crawling out from under the rock that keeps people using default and “popular” browsers. Remember: ants outnumber humans by a big margin on this planet, but you don’t need to be one.
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It actually does what it promises!!!!
OMG I hope this never changes, I just found the only browser for iPad that works with chrome extensions to block trash, even on videos, and works incredibly fast!!!! I love you guys so much, and i love having the freedom to avoid phishing ads on every website ❤️ - please, never change this, and I wish you all the success with this wonderful app! (You definitely need to advertise it more, I just found about it because of 1 comment on Reddit)
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top notch
Hands down the best browser for iOS. Which suprised me as well. It's build by the Kagi search engine team, which is uses subsciption model instead of ads and is comparable to Google in terms of quality of the search results. This browser is totally free, though. You can use brave search and it's build in privacy respecting AI. You can set your own useragent, but you should use just use a recent iOS one, since the device type is still visible (iPhone) and even custom blocklists can be imported. Haven't noticed it phoning home to Kagi. So no telemetry I'd guess and still pretty active develpment going on (mind the great detail in changelogs).
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Not ready; Needs major stability updates
This browser application is significantly different from any on the Apple Store, especially with the ability to have desktop extensions. The main concerns I’ve noticed using this application is the lack of speed when browsing the internet, lack of customization in regards to the browser tabs aesthetics (Safari’s compact tabs; appearance of the tab close icon); insanely laggy performance on the Blackboard website, (clicking the x tab within a website does not close the open prompt it requires a refresh to regain function. Any use of the extensions renders the browser useless. It presents as a full system OS browser on a iOS limited system that is hindering its performance. The experience mentioned above is on an iPad Pro iOS 18.1.
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Great browser!
I installed U block origin into it, and it imported my back up of my settings. It just doesn’t look like the icon shows it’s blocking anything, but browser works. Hopefully it actually is working but the built-in ad blocker isn’t bad either.
Daily Driver
This app has been solid and has allowed me to do most of what I need to do in a much more secure way than provided by other browsers. There are a few issues with some of the plug-ins for other browsers, but given that this is not one of the other browsers, this is fairly expected. This browser also innovates quickly and is part of a very good and responsive company behind it.
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YouTube ads not blocked after UD
The app operated flawlessly but now on YouTube I have to kinda wait till the “skipping sequence is done” which was never a thing before the update.
This was before the update.
The “play in the background” feature for the YouTube is great but if I pause the video and exit the app, please don’t start play because I have manually stopped the video to do something.
Overall the app was great before the update but it’s now got a bit of a downgrade.
Resin for one star is I’m sick and tired of so called “updates” just to make the app worse.
It might add security features etc which is great but please consider upgrade or keep the UI at the same time
This was before the update.
The “play in the background” feature for the YouTube is great but if I pause the video and exit the app, please don’t start play because I have manually stopped the video to do something.
Overall the app was great before the update but it’s now got a bit of a downgrade.
Resin for one star is I’m sick and tired of so called “updates” just to make the app worse.
It might add security features etc which is great but please consider upgrade or keep the UI at the same time
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Wont let you download ANY extensions
I’ve tried everything and it wont let u download any extensions
Too many crashes.
Love the idea anders ability to install extensions from chrome and Firefox but the app is too unstable and constantly crashes.
Decent browser
I mainly use this browser for YouTube premium with sponsor block. However on my iPad Air M2 i have the occasional issue where videos will play but only with sound and the video is just the thumbnail. If that happens i have to refresh the page 6 or more times for the video to finally play properly. Another issue I get is occasionally the extensions do not load with the page and I again need to refresh the page a few times for the extensions to load regardless of if it’s a Firefox addon or Chrome extension. Despite the reoccurring issues, I’d still rather use this browser than the YouTube app.
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