Orion 1.0 – Browse Beyond

Re:Orion 1.0 – Browse Beyond by butz on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @01:57PM (#46049337)

Nowadays users switch browsers to escape from AI nonsense. But in all seriousness, just enabling an ad-blocker significantly increases the speed of the browser, because, as you correctly noticed, website bloat is the largest bottleneck. And usually "raw" website content is only small fraction of all other stuff that gets loaded from various remote sources to show you ads and track you better. And to take speed point even further - disabling JavaScript does wonders to website speeds, you won't believe how quickly some websites are loading. Logging in to banking website might not work at all, though.

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Re:Orion 1.0 – Browse Beyond by hbn on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @03:29PM (#46050367)

I've been playing Dragon Age Origins recently, and I've been popping into the Steam overlay browser to look up some stuff, which frequently leads me to the wiki. And oh my god, I can't believe how bad the internet is without adblock these days. Every page visit, it pops up ginormous video ads that cover 90% of the web page, and it needs to chug along to get the initial render done before I can collapse it.

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Re:Orion 1.0 – Browse Beyond by tusim on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @09:38AM (#46057777)

Fandom.com is terrible for this.As are their business practices.

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Re:Orion 1.0 – Browse Beyond by Idesmi on Thursday November 27, 2025 @12:12AM (#46065903)

Check out Indie Wiki Buddy: https://getindie.wiki

It uses a Free frontend to display Fandom pages, and suggests an alternative non-Fandom wiki when available.

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Re:Orion 1.0 – Browse Beyond by yannickburky on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @02:04PM (#46049413)

Orion already weighs 100 MB less than Chrome. You will probably already feel this difference every time you launch it.

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Re:Orion 1.0 – Browse Beyond by traceroute66 on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @03:18PM (#46050240)

> You will probably already feel this difference every time you launch it.

How many times a day / week / month do you launch your browser from scratch ?

It is also a moot point with modern processors and modern OSs.

Even more so in Orion's target macOS market where you can leave an app open without any windows open (not minimized, I mean not open at all) , so its ready to go at a click.

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Re:Orion 1.0 – Browse Beyond by cricalix on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @03:28PM (#46050349)

> How many times a day / week / month do you launch your browser from scratch ?

Every morning / day across multiple machines. I don't leave them sleeping or hibernated.

Don't think I'd notice a slightly faster browser start; a 50% faster start would be nice though.

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Re:Orion 1.0 – Browse Beyond by hombre_fatal on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @10:49PM (#46054007)

When all my windows are in one big stack (Windows, macOS), then multiple windows just get in the way and I’d agree.

But over the last couple months using better window managers like sway or niri, I tend to open new app/browser windows next to the windows they are related to.

It’s pretty nice for mental organization.

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Re:Orion 1.0 – Browse Beyond by cawksuwcka on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @12:14AM (#46054409)

stfu

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Re:Orion 1.0 – Browse Beyond by bean469 on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @04:42AM (#46055813)

> How many times a day / week / month do you launch your browser from scratch ?

Personally, around 5 times per day, every day. When I don't browse, I close the browser

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Re:Orion 1.0 – Browse Beyond by ac29 on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @10:08PM (#46065134)

Unless you are regularly using all your RAM, there is a very good chance the browser's files are going to stay in disk cache and be effectively instant to load. 100MB is an imperceptible load time difference on a modern system where memory speed is 50-100GB/s or more.

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