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
  • @[email protected]English
    1•22 days ago

    “The saying goes “if you’re not paying for the product, you are the product” —unless open-source, I tend to add if I hear someone say it! Alas, Mozilla’s recent faux-pas suggests that even noble projects aren’t immune to the shiny glint of ick.”

    …I don’t know if we should embrace proprietary like that just because “firefox did it”.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•22 days ago

      GNOME Web (aka Epiphany) is also based on WebKit. You might want to check that out as well.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•22 days ago

      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…

      • @[email protected]English
        2•22 days ago

        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