Orion app constantly looses and 'rejects' focus

jborion

I've been trying to use Orion (0.99.130.2-beta) for the past couple of days as my primary browser but I have one particularly prohibitive bug with it that makes this quite painful / unusable. I have a brand-new / freshly bought & set up M4 MacBook Pro with macOS being up to date, I have two external monitors I am using the MacBook with most of the time and for some reason Orion (& only Orion .. no other app) keeps "losing" the ability to be focused on.

By that I mean, after opening Orion and using it for a bit and switching back and forth with the few other apps I use (Finder, VS Code, Ivory/Mastodon client and one or two more), the Orion app does no longer visually indicate for the mouse cursor that text fields are.. you know.. text fields / editable, no text cursors appears when clicking into text fields (both the address bar but also browser form/text fields).. nor does the URl address field get the visual clue/thicker border when clicked into it. Same thing with shortcuts.. neither copy/paste short cuts work anymore even though the Orion app IS the foremost/focused one as per MacOS menu bar.

Again, this only happens with Orion, no other browser (Safari, Vivaldi, Firefox or Brave) or any other app. There's no Orion-specific background app/focus-changing app or something else going on.

The UI elements in Orion itself remain somewhat usable, as in I can continue hovering over the tabs/favorites and they do visually indicate that to some degree (change bg color etc) but this behavior is (not a technical term) .. odd.

I then (most of the time) can Orion to get back into properly functioning/focusing etc state by hard-switching focus onto a different app and then back to Orion, sometimes even that doesn't work though.

Anyway, given that this is hard to explain just by text, I took a video or two with my phone to somewhat indicate how that looks like when it's happening, see:

https://share.icloud.com/photos/07b84whhbe8x0nj4UbfA-N88A

and

https://share.icloud.com/photos/004mu-ICVQE-aTdVeluuRSn9A

For Orion to.. you know.. get/take/keep focus and function normally for text entry etc.

Version 0.99.130.2-beta (WebKit 621.1.2.111.4) Build date Dec 28 2024 Mac 15.2 (Build 24C101)

Sequoia (15)

Yannick

I believe there is a problem with your videos (?)

RyanMcHale

I have this problem too.

jborion

Sorry for the slightly delayed response @Yannick / @RyanMcHale , I think the video(s) should work just fine "now".. iCloud seemingly hadn't finished uploading the videos just yet (despite allowing me to create a share-able link, go figure) but it seems to work now just fine. I opened both links above in a private window and both worked there.

Also, I updated Orion to "Version 0.99.131-beta (WebKit 621.1.2.111.4) Build date Feb 13 2025 Mac 15.3.1 (Build 24D70)" and I can confirm the issue still exists.