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Toontje My wishes have nothing to do with this. We have 2,000 open issues here, many of them 'unique' and a team of two developers. Rather, consider supporting the project financially as the lack of resources is the real issue here.

    7 days later

    It would be nice to have separate profiles like the desktop version in the iOS/iPadOS version of Orion.

    I don’t believe any (mainstream) browser on iOS already does this, but one way I have been getting around this so far is by using regular browsing to go on personal accounts and private browsing to go on other accounts, and this works simultaneously as private browsing is containered off, though it is not perfect.

    It would be nice to be able to extend this workflow through the use of profiles, and even better if mobile profiles could sync with my existing desktop profiles.

    I’m curious as to how the Home Screen implementation might work. I wouldn’t mind if the profiles are only accessible from within one app (so that there is only one app on the Home Screen), but maybe others prefer having shortcuts on the Home Screen for each profile.

    Thanks for viewing my suggestion!

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        9 days later

        As promised, I made a mockup. It may take a while to load because it’s interactive! You may notice some options are unavailable, I assumed mobile profiles are limited to a subset of features. This can obviously be expanded upon later.

        The idea is to access profiles from the same menu where tab groups are currently located.

        Interactive Mockup

        2 months later

        Add PROFILES

        Description
        Profiles, as are present in almost all browsers, are a way of separating between workspaces for different uses such as personal and work/school. They are almost like a fresh new installation of the browser for each profile, having separate bookmarks, history, cookies, cache, extensions, passwords, etc.

        Details:
        Nearly every browser has this feature. Chrome, Brave (my personal alternative), Opera and more have this feature. Even Safari, developed on WebKit, will have profiles from the next macOS update. Profiles would allow for Orion to be used for more than just one workspace easily. Currently, I use Brave and my browser for school and Orion for my personal, but I would love to move entirely to Orion on my mac.

        Image/Video:

        An image of profile switching on Brave.


        An image of Apple's Announcement of Safari Profiles [https://www.apple.com/macos/sonoma-preview/]

        Thanks
        Anyways, thank you guys so much for creating such an amazing browser. I really hope development continues strong and I also wish for a Windows version of Orion to launch soon as I want it on my Windows 11 Laptop.

          Thank you so much Jimothy ! I had been looking to see if there was a profile section but I couldn't find it.

              ItsPixL27 Now that's a good question. I don't know. Your screen grabs seemed to suggest you were interested in desktop only. I can't immediately see a profiles feature in iOS. Perhaps someone else can answer this?

                Merged 7 posts from Profiles.
                  18 days later

                  +1 on profiles for iOS/iPadOS. This is a big privacy differentiator. Apart from Safari's support of it in 17, iCab Mobile is the only other implementation I am aware of (called Accounts). Happy to post walk-through of iCab's profile management if needed.

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                    Vlad





                    Here are the steps to set up in iCab: settings, Accounts, Create New, name, set settings.

                    For each account there are separate settings for appearance, cookies/ad block, sync, user agent, bookmarks, history, etc.

                    You switch between accounts with a menu bar button (customizable to show/hide).

                        a month later

                        brian6

                        I wasn't aware of a multi-profile ios browser until this, so thank you. Since I've just started looking into both icab ios and macos, I can't find where the profiles/accounts are on icab macos. Are they even a feature on mac? If so, where are they? Btw, I am aware of the firefox sync, which seems great but i havent tested yet.

                        Also @Vlad , in my opinion, ios 17's multi-profile safari might be a better point of reference for an orion implementation. Because unlike icab, orion macos resembles safari macos more. Anything is better than nothing, but I also don't see icab mobile having tab groups WITHIN profiles. ios 17 safari seems to have that, but it's more of a luxury feature (an example of a feature where I would feel obligated to continue being a orion+ subscriber for a longer term). I'm not well-versed with development or orion dev, so tab groups within profiles might take quite awhile anyways (if even done at all with how advanced it could be).

                            14 days later

                            jsp Ironically, I don't think iCab desktop supports profiles.
                            I agree that the iOS 17 is a good workflow to model. Orion's MacOS workflow might be the best of the three (quick switch next to the URL field).

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