Longely That said i dont have any problems with having it off by default, if its undesired for the majority. only problem with that is discoverability, but maybe thats ok
I think that's where good communication comes in. But I think that applies the opposite way too. If that is the decided default behavior, I would want a very clear communication as to what's going on so I can make an informed decision. Maybe even make it a first time opening prompt... "How do you want to use this?"
The feature was communicated in the release notes, which should be appropriate level of communication.
We plan to leave this feature on by default. I was skeptic at first too, but now this feature is an important part of my daily flow with the browser. (when we fix all the bugs it should be pretty smooth.
One thing we can probably do better is having additional communication first time you use this. Any idea what would that look like?
Vlad I would think on first launch after the feature becomes default, there would be a modal explaining the new behavior and where to find the setting. If you want people to have a choice on first launch, I would explain the feature then ask if they want to try it out or keep the behavior they are accustomed to, but that's if you don't want to force it on people.
mazil i dont see this in my settings. any advice on how to disable the external url previews?
They seem to have moved the setting to the "Tabs" panel in settings calling it "Link Preview". I actually stopped using Orion as my default browser after this change.
onionbrowser Sorry forgot to "@" mention you in the reply.
I'm also likely to stop using Orion over this even though I love everything else about it. It's extremely annoying. When I click a link I want it to open in the same browser window next to my other tabs where I can use all the elements of the browser, including bookmarklets, to do stuff with the page. I want the tab to open and stay there so I can switch back and forth to it. I don't want the mini preview window at all. At the very least please give us an easy way to disable this - I can't find a way to do it in the settings.
Last time I looked there I did not see it, maybe it was my fault! Thank you for that and for all the work that goes into this browser!
@Vlad would it be possible to add a setting that lets me invert the current behavior so that shift+click in another app opens the link in the preview window, but normal click defaults to opening in a regular tab?
There's a problem with the default behavior - websites which send a "forgot password" email, or a "magic link" email for login. The preview window "uses up" the unique token sent by those websites, so if you preview the link from Apple Mail for instance, then decide you want to open in Orion, the link is no longer valid, and you have to generate a new link, a new email etc. Not great!
elishasessions Moving preview to Orion tab does not reload the preview?
That's true. I never used the "move to tab" feature.
I agree with segphault. While the setting lets you change the default behavior, it also removes the ability to show the preview in times when you may want it. What I would like is for the default behavior to be that the link opens in a new tab, but that if you hold shift (or some other key) when clicking a link, you can force it to load in preview mode.
That would give you the best of both worlds, in my opinion, cause you could do nothing and get the default behavior of every other browser, but you could also one-off force a page to load in preview mode if you want to take a quick look at it.
In addition first time link preview is showed, there is text on top that also references this setting.