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Milestone 4 completed – Advanced features taking shape
Following the completion of Milestone 3, the team has continued to build out more advanced browser functionality while expanding the foundations laid in earlier milestones. Milestone 4 marks an important step toward a more capable and reliable Orion experience.
What’s included in Milestone 4
Advanced tab management
Advanced tab management is now complete, with the exception of the Tab Switcher UI, which is not supported yet. This milestone focused on improving how tabs are handled under the hood, in preparation for further usability improvements.
Advanced history management
The advanced history system is now code complete. It provides more robust handling of browsing history, with additional testing currently underway to ensure stability and reliability.
Password management framework
The password management framework has been completed. This establishes the core infrastructure needed for secure password handling and future improvements in this area.
WebExtension API – ongoing development
Work continues on implementing the WebExtension API to support WebKit extensions. At this stage, users can install certain popular extensions and see them appear in the browser, but full functionality is not yet available, as not all required APIs have been implemented. This milestone represents steady progress toward broader extension compatibility.
Sync infrastructure – development started
Development of the sync infrastructure has begun. The focus so far has been on setting up and familiarizing the team with the underlying framework, laying the foundation for future sync capabilities.
What’s next
Upcoming milestones will continue to build on these advanced features, with further refinement of tab management, expanded extension support, and continued work on sync and overall stability.
Join us in shaping Orion
As always, your feedback is invaluable. If you have thoughts or questions about the features introduced in Milestone 4, we’d love to hear from you and continue building Orion together.
You should really start with some context about what Orion is, and link to the project somewhere in the post.
https://orionbrowser.com/. Browser for macOS and iOS. It is a browser that is based on WebKit (like Safari) for macOS and iOS. Right now the only WebKit browser on Linux is Epiphany (GNOME Web), but it is lacking in features compared to Orion.
I personally use it on my Mac, and it would be nice to have other options for Linux given the shrinking market share of Firefox.
Neat, thanks!
Absolutely agreed on the need for something popular enough that isn’t Chromium or Gecko.
Its worth acknowledging that Orion is proprietary, its based on WebKit but the browser isnt open source if thats relevant to you
I have no idea what this is, and there’s no links. Second.
From the features talked about, I’m guessing a browser.
I’m excited that someone is breaking Google’s monopoly on Linux browsers.
You can have any flavour of browser you want, as long as it’s a chrome reskin or funded by Google.
At least WebKit isn’t wholly funded by ads, as Mozilla/Gecko and Chrome are.
I’ve used Orion on macOS iOS and it was nice to have
I’ve been trying to get into the beta for this since the very first announcement. Pretty frustrating at this point.
