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> their browser is irredeemably buggy

Seconded. I gave it a few months, but it just wouldn't improve by itself. To be fair: With a detailed bug report (via Discord, making it excruciatingly hard to find duplicates/follow up), the problem would often be fixed in the next release.

But it wasn't 1 or 2, it was more like 20 easily spotted issues. Come on, I can't do all of your testing.

I think I've never said it this clearly because I don't want to offend (I still very much like the browser's concept), but it was just too painful for regular use for me.

This about a year ago. Your comment seems to indicate that it hasn't changed.



Fair enough. We do have over 2,000 open issues [1] for the browser, so buggy is probably an understatement.

But we are getting there. More than 1,500 issues have been addressed.

And Orion is the fastest browser on Mac and completely zero telemetry at that. Give us a bit more time..

[1] https://oriongeedback.org


*https://orionfeedback.org/


I hope you are measuring and attributing churn to its causes.


We are zero telemetry. Luckily our users are very vocal :)


I applaud your privacy stance, but you might want to implement minimal feedback mechanisms, because you are not going to hear from people who leave.

Early adopters tend to be more vocal. If your product becomes successful, you will have to satisfy less vocal, regular users.


That is an interesting take, but we :

a) do not want to jeopardize zero telemetry nature of the browser

b) we hear a lot from users who miss "just one thing" for Orion to be perfect

c) no amount of telemetry would tell us why someone does not like the browser


For it’s worth, you’ve been very responsive to my feedback, so thank you! It’s not perfect, but I’m really liking it so far.




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