Orion interface becomes unresponsive

ricky

I replied to an old thread, Tabs become unresponsive on Orion 127.2, but am also starting a new one here as Vlad requested of the last poster in that thread. Here’s Jdb’s 9 April post, #7:

I also experience this behavior routinely on iOS (presently 1.3.7 (15) running on iOS 17.3.1, but this has happened for months across several system and app updates).

Usually the interface also stops responding to taps. Force-quitting and restarting the app is the only solution that I’ve found.

…I replied with post #96 there:

I have this issue on the latest iOS versions and it has gotten worse over the last couple weeks. While browsing, interacting with the tab button (which has become my nemesis), or switching back to the app, the interface will lock up, freezing and becoming unresponsive. I searched past threads here and your comment describes my issue exactly, 8 months later. Like you, bringing up the app switcher and flicking up to force quit Orion is the only solution I have found. However I am having to do it often enough I thought I would post here, thank you all for taking the time to document this. Cc @Vlad + happy new year everyone! Long live Kagi and Orion!

The interface should remain responsive to touch input at all times.

1.3.14 (9) (WebKit 8620.1.16.10.11)

Vlad

ricky Do you have any steps to reproduce? (I do not encounter in my day to day)

otherwise-eggnog

EDIT: Oops, I see I mistakenly posted about the desktop version in an iOS thread. Apologies; I'll find a better place to move this.

I don't know whether this is the same as OP's issue, but I can reproduce some unresponsiveness pretty much 100% of the time with the following steps:

Open a private window
Switch to another application, and copy a URL from there via right-click
Return to Orion.

The private window does not respond to the keyboard. I cannot paste, nor close the window from the keyboard, nor switch with Command-` Clicking in the address bar has no visible effect, although I can type into it - just not paste, and there is no cursor bar shown. Usually the unresponsiveness continues even if I close that window (using the menu bar) and open a new one. (Sometimes it affects other windows that were already open - including the missing cursor bar if there's a text field in that window.)
EDIT: Oops, I see that I mistakenly posted about the desktop version in an iOS thread. Apologies; I'll find a better place to move this.

This is most reliably reproducible when copying a link from another Orion instance that is generated from "Install this site as an App", but it seems like it can happen with any source. I can't reproduce it in a new clean profile, but I can if I copy my default profile. However I have no plugins installed. Perhaps this has something to do with history? (Wild speculation.)

I know this is incomplete information; let me know what else I can provide that would be helpful.

usuari_orion

I do face similar issues with the Desktop version (currently 0.99.130.5-rc, but this has happened before). I cannot seem to reliably reproduce the behaviour however the workaround for me is to switch the focus, i.e. if a window becomes unresponsive I do a simple click my desktop and then switch back to Orion. This works for a while until an unknown event causes the same behaviour to appear again.

matt-s

I’ve recently begun using Orion on iOS and experience this problem of an unresponsive bottom bar regularly. Tapping on any of the controls goes unnoticed. I have to force quit the app to restore functionality.

App version: 1.3.17 (3) (WebKit 8620.2.4.10.7)
System version: 18.3.1
Device type: ?unrecognized?
Native bounds: (1206.0, 2622.0)
Scale: 3.0
Regular tabs: 10/10/10/orion://newtab/
Private tabs: 0/0/0/(

howdytom

I do experience this issue multiple times a day. When I hide and bring Orion window back to front the UI is responsive again. Pretty annyoing bug.

Version 0.99.132-beta