Please see the full Discord thread.

When I found that there was a blessed integration with 1Password, which is essential to me, I started using Orion as my primary browser about two weeks ago, and it seems slower / more sluggish vs. the other browsers I use. I started It feels like it lags even when just typing into entry fields. This became even more noticeable after I installed a second extension, Google Voice.

I did some testing using https://browserbench.org/Speedometer3.1/ on my MacBook Pro M1 with 16 GB of RAM.

I created a new profile with no extensinos in 0.99.136-beta, turned on compatibility mode, and ran the https://browserbench.org/Speedometer3.1/ test. This time I got a very healthy 31.6.

I then went back to my normal profile and turned off my two extensions: 1Password and Google Voice. I then reran https://browserbench.org/Speedometer3.1/ again got 31.6. So new profile and compatibility mode were not impactful.

I then re-enabled 1Password, restarted the browser, and ran the test again. Performance plummeted 60% to 12.7.

I then added the Google Voice extension in addition to 1Password, and performance fell further, to 10.0.

Interestingly, ran the test in a fresh Orion browser with JUST the Google Voice extension, I again got our benchmark 31.6.

I then switched to 0.99.136-rc, in my normal profile, with both extensions turned off. I got the same 31.6 that -beta got in a new profile and my usual profile, with no extensions. The test result: 12.1.

Adding Google Voice back in addition to 1Password, I got 9.49.

Summary: 1Password causes a major performance degradation, which increases with additional extensions that do not in themselves alter performance. And, the -rc seems to perform a bit worse than -beta.

Since using extensions like 1Password are an integral part of the daily browser usage for many users, I highly recommend at least one person from Kagi sign up for 1password (they have a 14 day free trial period) and test it out for yourselves with multiple extensions active (and hopefully fix it).

For me personally, not having 1Password available as an extension is a non-starter for my daily browser. (Yes, I know about % + backslash, but that is not the ergonomics I want.)

Extensions should not cause major performance degradation.

Orion 0.99.136-beta, MacOS 15.6.1

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