Interacting with WhatsApp Web notifications when WhatsApp is pinned crashes Orion

nick03

I have WhatsApp as a pinned tab in my default profile. When it is not focused, notifications for new chats send as macOS native notifications. Upon opening the notification center and clicking on the notification, Orion immediately crashed and displayed an "Orion is not open anymore" error from Finder:

I reported the crash logs to Apple from the system crash reporter, and to Orion upon relaunching the app. I included the same email address as my orion feedback account in the report.

I am unsure if this is specific to WhatsApp being a pinned tab, but it felt like helpful context to include. This has been a consistent issue — it happens with every WhatsApp notification.

Clicking the notification should open the chat in WhatsApp as intended.

Version 1.0.7 (146), WebKit 625.1.8; MacBook Pro (macOS Tahoe 26.5 build 25F71)

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dino

nick03 Thanks for reporting this, can you please try latest Orion release and let us know if this still happens?

nick03

dino In 1.0.8 (147.1), this is no longer a crash, but Orion still doesn't switch to the WhatsApp tab. Still a big improvement over crashing the entire app
Edit: tried with another notification and it worked as expected, so it's more likely it's a WhatsApp issue than an Orion issue. This seems mostly resolved now.

dino

nick03 Closing this for now. Thanks for confirming 🙂