This issue is ruining the whole brosing experience and making it frustrating, as a user. I have to close and restart Orion multiple times a day since this bug happens very frequently (I would say an average of every 2 hours of use).
Specifically, it won't let you load new tabs or reload currently opened tabs, which means you basically can not navigate.
Fortunately, it looks like this is a known issue. I am still leaving a screen recording here to showcase the issue. The screen recording shows how Orion becomes unresponsive and won't let you navigate, and I am opening Safari and browsing on it to prove that this is not a connectivity issue.
Whenever this happens, you have to close and restart Orion and most of the times you have to close-reopen repeatily, because it will still be unresponsive even after restarting.
It took me multiple attempts at restarting Orion before being able to navigate to this site and being able to report the issue.
As always, we trust the team and have no doubt this will be addressed swiftly. 🫡
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Details:
Orion Version 0.99.127.2-beta (WebKit 619.1.1)
MacBook Air (macOS Sonoma Version 14.0 build 23A344)
edit2:
will try to apply the workarounds suggested by Vlad and dino ; will keep this comment updated if I still encounter issues.