The desktop version of Orion currently allows for bookmarks and passwords to be exported. It would be awesome if this functionality also existed on iPadOS and iOS for folks who use those devices as their primary computer, rather than a traditional dektop/laptop.
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Enable Bookmark and Password Import/Export on iPadOS/iOS
Vlad added the Clarification tag .
Brave does this for bookmarks, which is what I'm personally most interested in. (I use a separate password manager, and thus personally don't have an interest in password export. I included it here because the desktop version of Orion offers both password and bookmark import/export, so the symmetry made sense to me and might be useful for other folks.)
4 months later
I use Linux and iOS for the most part. Currently, my preferred browsers are Brave and Firefox because they sync on all the devices I use. Vivaldi doesn't have an iOS client and Opera is useless. Safari is a non-starter because it requires me to first use a Mac client to load my bookmarks (which I don't use). It would be a mistake for Orion to follow Apple's strategy. There are LOTS of us Linux users who care about security and use it and iOS for that reason. Otherwise Orion is the most capable mobile device browser I've seen. It would be great if it could import bookmarks.html files or json or SOMETHING to allow me to use my roughly 560 bookmarks on my mobile devices.
None. Which is a great reason to implement it.
Vlad
In terms of the implementation, I suggest to do on IOS what most desktop browsers already do -- enable an import from bookmarks.html which were previously exported. In this way, I could export bookmarks.html from my desktop Linux browser and import them into Orion. My previous point is -- why should a mobile browser be an adjunct to a more powerful desktop browser? Many people don't even use a desktop anymore. It would be good for at least one mobile browser (say, yours) to be able to function entirely without a bigger brother on the desktop to provide missing features like import. And you're on the way there with providing extensions. 'Nuff said.
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why should a mobile browser be an adjunct to a more powerful desktop browser
Power is measured in different ways on mobile (unit of power tends to be simplicity of use). In this case, the argument for building other features over this one is that most people do not manage files on a phone and would not even know how to get exported bookmarks from desktop onto iOS filesystem. This just makes this a niche request, but certainly doable, nothing else.
10 months later
Import and export bookmarks in .html format (and just .txt format)
iOS
It will be easier and faster for people to switch to Orion browser
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a month later
Please consider carefully my request to add possibility of import/export bookmarks in Orion for iOS / android in html.
I use iOS and as I said Brave browser is the single browser for iOS which have this feature.
Orion would get profit from this.
Now I do not use Orion as default because I cannot import my bookmarks as I want (without iCloud).
If it is on the shoulder please add this feature.
a month later
It’s sad, I would really love to keep using Orion, but without a Mac I have no way of getting to my bookmarks from Firefox on PC or Safari on iOS, therefore it just doesn’t make sense to switch the browser for me. Would be amazing if that feature got added or if there was even some Firefox/chrome-Addon for a workaround.
21 days later
This has shipped in 1.3.7!