I think Kagi at this stage have a better reputation than Mozilla, and Chromium is not seen as sufficiently independent from Chrome, and hence from Google’s anti-user decisions.
That said, closed source is still a deal breaker for a browser for me, or I’d probably already be using Vivaldi.
The built in ad blocker is phenomenal. Only Brave is as good on this front. It supports extensions from both FF and Chromium. It has a really neat integration with Kagi private search in private tabs. Kagi as a company has generally pretty good ethics and respects their users. That’s enough to make it compelling for me.
> It has a really neat integration with Kagi private search in private tabs
What's the integration you're referring to here? This was something I was interested in, but as far as I can tell if I enable Kagi Privacy Pass it's enabled browser-wide, not just in private tabs.
Ah - I just did not realize that privacy pass was available as extension to other browsers but of course that makes sense. It’s built in to Orion. You still have to enable it when you switch to private tabs. It’d be nice if it was automatic!
Orion is using WebKit. Chromium itself was a fork of WebKit. I don't know how much Chromium code gets upstreamed to WebKit any more, but Google certainly doesn't control it the way they do Chromium.
WebKit development is mainly driven by Apple, which isn't great from the perspective of having a browser free of corporate influence, but I trust them more than Google.
Nothing, really, other than it being closed-source, based around Webkit and to be sold/distributed under the Kagi moniker. If that combination scratches your itch this is for you, otherwise there are many alternatives.
I think Kagi at this stage have a better reputation than Mozilla, and Chromium is not seen as sufficiently independent from Chrome, and hence from Google’s anti-user decisions.
That said, closed source is still a deal breaker for a browser for me, or I’d probably already be using Vivaldi.
The built in ad blocker is phenomenal. Only Brave is as good on this front. It supports extensions from both FF and Chromium. It has a really neat integration with Kagi private search in private tabs. Kagi as a company has generally pretty good ethics and respects their users. That’s enough to make it compelling for me.
> It has a really neat integration with Kagi private search in private tabs
What's the integration you're referring to here? This was something I was interested in, but as far as I can tell if I enable Kagi Privacy Pass it's enabled browser-wide, not just in private tabs.
Ah - I just did not realize that privacy pass was available as extension to other browsers but of course that makes sense. It’s built in to Orion. You still have to enable it when you switch to private tabs. It’d be nice if it was automatic!
FF and Chromium are controlled by the biggest advertising company on the internet, while Orion is developed by a privacy focused search engine.
But isn't it basically also just a rebranded Chromium clone, thus still heavily depended on G?
Orion is using WebKit. Chromium itself was a fork of WebKit. I don't know how much Chromium code gets upstreamed to WebKit any more, but Google certainly doesn't control it the way they do Chromium.
WebKit development is mainly driven by Apple, which isn't great from the perspective of having a browser free of corporate influence, but I trust them more than Google.
No, it is not.
It uses webkit, which is what Blink was forked from but likely has more in common with Safari at this point.
It's a webkit browser.
Don't worry about it, you're not even invited to use Orion.
lol
Nothing, really, other than it being closed-source, based around Webkit and to be sold/distributed under the Kagi moniker. If that combination scratches your itch this is for you, otherwise there are many alternatives.