Orion 0.99.112-beta
Feb 2, 2022

New WebKit, tab performance improvements, better extension support (RES, SponsorBlock, Redirector to name just a few...) and ton of bug fixes including 12 crash conditions is the tally for this release. Enjoy!

✨ New

• WebKit 614.1.1 (one month ahead of Safari Technology Preview and four months ahead of latest Safari). This includes technology and performance improvemnts.
• Command+shift+enter in address bar should open new tab and make it active (like Safari) #1598 @donut

🚀 Improved

• Significantly improved the performance of tab operations when lots of tabs are open
• Command l should only focus, not toggle focus of address bar #1432 @saul
• Made Bookmarks bar option more visible
• Way to hide vertical tabs in full screen mode #378 @TheOtherKai
• Block media autoplay until in foreground #203 @adorabilis
• Redirector Extension does not work #703 @joystmp
• Re-launching with Low Power Mode enabled still loads all active tabs #1001 @transeunt
• Right click, open in new tab should show same temp title as cmd click while loading #1465 @saul
• Inconsistent right click menus for the toolbar #1523 @eirk
• Close other tabs by Option-clicking a tab's close button (like Safari) #1521 @gauzy
• Support all valid TLDs #1563 @ehler
• Add trailing slash when pressing "home" to autocomplete URL #1468 @s2e3440z
• Minimised windows are not remembered no re-launch #1000 @transeunt
• Favorites, Bookmarks Bar and Bookmarks should not have a rename option #1585 @rikavoort
• Caret at center of passwords screen #1628 @rikavoort
• A way to permanently add website to allow list of X permission #1595 @snuser

✅ Fixed

• Importing passwords from Safari CSV file does not work #1508 @McLion
• Sometimes saving bookmarks from tabs would cause a loss of bookmarks
• Cannot open Reddit Enhancement Suite settings #1545 @Cheese
• Cannot open SponsorBlock extension options page #1512 @Cheese
• Opening link from pinned tab not working sometime
• Pinned tabs lost favicon in vertical tabs sometimes
• Titlebar shows for short period when in focus mode #1527 @rikavoort
• Multiple toolbar popups can be made #1425 @rikavoort
• Can click toolbar favorites button forever #1452 @rikavoort
• Horizontal tabs inconsistent focus click registration #1426 @rikavoort
• Using keyboard to navigate from history in URL bar doesn't behave correctly #734 @gp
• Bookmarking does not work. #1593 @Riax0n
• Control-click bugs #1464 @rikavoort
• Using keyboard to navigate from history in URL bar doesn't behave correctly
• Middle-click on link in pinned tab should open at first slot (like right-click open) #1553 @TheOtherKai
• Can't scroll up or down uBlock Origin settings in 10.14.6 #1541 @les
• Downloads icon is too wide #1569 @eirk
• Use a lighter shadow for Orion recommends #1467 @eirk
• New private tab does not have shield around the lightning icon #1227 @Shadowknight
• Crash on clear bookmarks using "Clear Browsing Data"
• Crash on opening NSOpenPanel using javascript
• Crash while saving open tab/window state (due to accessing tabs array on different threads same time)
• Crash on closing tab (on selecting next successor and updating text-finder)
• Crash on selecting tab in vertical tab
• Crash when clicking on the Enpass extension
• Crash on posting tab(create/update/close) event due to force unwrapping
• Crash on moving bookmark to other parent
• Crash on removing password from Passwords library (10.14 & 10.15)
• Crash on reorder bookmarks in bookmarks bar
• Crash on clear browsing data (due to macOS memory leak issue on setting NSCursor)
• Crash on updating start page sections

You can submit bug reports and new feature requests to OrionFeedback.org.

View changelog for 0.99.111.