How to save a tab group?

phillip It has sync now in the latest beta.

Support for cross-browser bookmark sync is vital for a beta product.

This is a very biased personal opinion. Orion is a beta product, meaning that it is in development. It does not at all mean that it would have all the features of a much older browser, such as the 14-year-old Google Chrome, or the 19-year-old Safari. Orion been in development for only months, and cannot compete with such a mature browser.

Clearly as a beta Orion is not ready for prime time so we have to revert to another browser on occasions.

This is indeed what many of the users do. Some may use Orion as their main browser, reverting to a different one when Orion is unable to handle it. Some may use Orion as a browser only for testing it, and use a different browser as their main one.

To me it appears that the Orion developers are doing everything possible not to support bookmarking extensions such as xbrowsersync or floccus.

There are 1,548 posts (excluding nofix) on this forum as of right now, 415 (next release + done) of which are done, as well as another 563 (planned + coming soon) which will be done soon. Orion has averaged ₄₆ tasks done per release. At this current rate, it will take ₃₄ releases to resolve all of them. They are focused on the more important issues. Also, they cannot spend time to individually support one of the thousands (maybe even millions) of Chrome and Firefox extensiosn that there exist. Instead, they work by slowly implementing the functions for the entire extensions API, allowing for complete support for all extensions

Upvoting is not where I intend to go. ... This is not a popularity contest - sometimes common sense must prevail.

It is perfectly fine if you disagree with the current strategy of how Orion prioritizes its issues–by popularity. It is not possible for the developers to comb through every issue, and individually fix the ones that a minority of the users think are very important. Instead, they use the ratings that the the users provide, giving them an indicator of the demand for the feature request. If you can provide a much better alternative strategy that does not require a large amount of time spent on the part of the developers, feel free to share if.

I will walk instead.

If you dislike Orion, or dislike anything about it, feel free to stop using it. No one is forcing anybody to use Orion. Being a beta tester for Orion is completely voluntary.

eirk Thank you for your suggestion. I will remove Orion from my system and stick with Firefox. No point being a beta tester when suggestions and bugs are ignored.

eirk Oh great. I can now sync to another instance of the same beta browser. How does that help my workflow when the bookmarks are not kept in sync? Am I supposed to manually add bookmarks to my other browsers or vice versa? Tell me how YOU use Orion. You're browsing, you add bookmarks as you go, then need to use another browser for some reason - but all the bookmarks you added to Orion are not available to you in, say, Firefox. What is biased and personal about that? Please share your workflow.

phillip

No point being a beta tester when suggestions and bugs are ignored.

It is absolutely not that suggestions and bugs are ignored, but that the developers need to prioritize certain issues above others. They will not allow certain users who feel more privileged than others to demand features. They take a different approach, as I had already explained.

phillip

As I have stated, this is a beta browser. THis is not a browser that is does 100% of everything that every single person may want.

What is biased and personal about that?

Only you have complained this much about Orion not supporting a certain extension for syncing. Everyone else is willing to accept that Orion is a beta app, and doesn't support everything.

Please share your workflow.

I am perfectly fine with using Orion 99% of the time. I may sometimes switch back to using a different browser when Orion fails to function it. I merely copy the URL of the website I'm on in Orion, switch to a different browser, and paste the link in the address bar. I do not switch to a different browser completely.

If Orion has some major bug, and I need to switch to using a different browser, I can export and re-import my bookmarks to that browser, taking less than a minute to do.

@phillip No one is begging you to stay. Feel free to stop using Orion anytime, and remove it from your system.

Done. Thank you for your support @eirk.