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I pay for Orion through Kagi. I would gladly contribute to the salaries of developers to maintain the Firefox project.

I also pay for Orion, but can’t use it much until the multi-container support is working well. Right now Firefox is the only browser that does this right.

Upvoting you in the hopes that more people in this thread will put their money where their stated principles are and help support a privacy focused browser with clear funding sources so that Orion doesn’t go the way of Opera.

I also used Firefox’s containers a lot. In my case, I often need to log into multiple AWS simultaneously, or at least bounce between them quickly enough to be a major hassle if I had to log out of one to log into the other. Now I use Safari’s profiles to do that.

What’s your Firefox use case that Orion doesn’t handle? (Sincere question; that wasn’t meant as “it works for me so stop complaining!” snark.)

I'll be honest, I was waiting for Orion RC 128 to get released, since that's when the multi-container feature was supposed to land (according to [1]). I just updated Orion RC, and the profile management is pretty nice, but seems to be missing some things: (1) assigning full or partial URLs to always open in a specific profile, and (2) profile assignment on a per-tab basis, rather than per-window.

Other than that, the browser is pretty amazing. Blazingly fast, support for both Firefox and Chrome extensions, and lots of customization. There's a lot to love about it, and as soon as the two features above land I'll likely be switching to it as my primary driver (on MacOS)

[1] https://orionfeedback.org/d/43-something-like-firefox-multi-...

Orion isn't available for Linux.

True, not yet. It is still proof that people are willing to pay for a browser that aligns with their priorities.

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