I love Kagi and I’ve been using the Orion browser on iOS for months because it support uBlock Origin but its bugginess is emblematic of Kagi stretching its resources way too thin (and the tshirt thing…)
The iOS browser is buggy as all hell: the jump to top click around the notch stops working regularly, reflow/layout breaks throwing all the buttons and url input off screen, the entire page just go blank if it’s too long (like an HN post with 1k+ comments) necessitating a switch to Safari, and on and on. I have to restart Orion multiple times a day and switch to Safari on a regular basis. I just had to do it right now because the “Add Comment” button didn’t work!
That said, I will continue to be an ultimate subscriber because their search engine feels feature complete. Although I appreciate the small features they’re adding like the @ symbol to go along with bangs, as long as that core product doesn’t get enshittified I’m happy. The Kagi team is doing great work!
I’m surprised to hear about the bugs. I’ve been using Orion on iOS very happily for a week or so now, and haven’t encountered any issues. I’m actually close to writing a praising blog post for it!
I have many of these same issues. I actually think ublock is causing some of them; removing and reinstalling fixed some of the hangs for a while, but they eventually came back. I think I also switched from Firefox to chrome version or vice versa.
The general “chrome” of the app is unfortunately a buggy mess regardless of extension config.
I still think it’s easily worth it because for some critical sites it adds so much value. I just accept I’ll have to force quit a few times a day.
Also, PSA, extensions don’t automatically update on desktop.
Same here. I noticed the macOS build has its quirks and crashes frequently (but it's beta/RC so...). But on iOS I never faced any issues that I can remember now.
The iOS browser is buggy as all hell: the jump to top click around the notch stops working regularly, reflow/layout breaks throwing all the buttons and url input off screen, the entire page just go blank if it’s too long (like an HN post with 1k+ comments) necessitating a switch to Safari, and on and on. I have to restart Orion multiple times a day and switch to Safari on a regular basis. I just had to do it right now because the “Add Comment” button didn’t work!
That said, I will continue to be an ultimate subscriber because their search engine feels feature complete. Although I appreciate the small features they’re adding like the @ symbol to go along with bangs, as long as that core product doesn’t get enshittified I’m happy. The Kagi team is doing great work!