Vlad My comment came from a good place of trying to help Kagi because it's the one blocker for me to switch to Orion, and I know readwise has a big community so imagined there's others like me who aren't switching because of it. Your tone so often with people in your community though is of annoyance, when we're all cheering for you and your company and trying to help. That's fine - I will cancel my Kagi ultimate account and use another product. Thanks.
Had same issue with Firefox and Chrome versions. Just tried the Safari one as well and same behavior as Chrome (nothing happens after clicking the button. I never get a "Connect Readwise account" page and the page doesn't save. It's basically a no-op.
Also heads up to everyone, for whatever reason, the plugin extension didn't work with any tabs that were opened prior to the install of the extension. I would get the reload tab message, and reloading would just have it ask again.
The solution that worked is to just close the tab, open the same website up in a new tab and now it would work. I replicated this a few times and it seems that no matter how times you reload or navigate around, any tabs that were open before I installed the extension didn't work until I closed them, then it worked ever since.
So my advice is to just restart the browser after installing the extension. With a fresh browser, then all the tabs will recognize the extension and have worked for me ever since. I have tested it on about 25 or so different websites and so far it has worked on everything after the browser restart. And it has worked across multiple restarts too.
Just wanted to chime in and let anyone who finds this know that the extension is now working on Orion 0.99
I installed the Firefox version of the Readwise Highlighter app directly from the store page and it works for me, including the in-page highlighting context menus saved back to Readwise.
Here is the firefox extension link:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/readwise-highlighter/
Not sure if it was work that Readwise did or that the Orion team did, but either way it got fixed by someone. Both apps (Readwise Read and Orion Browser) are beta products. So it isn't terribly surprising that there were hiccups. But either way, it works now!
(At least the Firefox one does, i never tried Chrome and try to avoid that store if possible)
Happy highlighting!
@Vlad thanks for clarifying your perspective. Makes things clear. And I, of course, appreciate your work. And no offense taken by your reply after reading this.
What I didn't know is the two devs situation and that you don't fix extensions on an extension by extension way. Logical, of course, but I didn't realize that. That clarifies why some extensions take longer to get working.
Because two (for me) essential extensions don't work, I see myself using Arc more and more. That's not something I really fancy because Orion still is my favorite browser. I love its philosophy, privacy and clean design. But my productivity also needs to stay up. My inquiry was part of my wish to be able to use Orion for those activities like saving content to Readwise and Obsidian as well.
I'll keep my eye on the statuses and will not bother you with inquiries. You're right, that just creates an extra workload for you, and energy drain. And that is not my intention.
I could imagine the endeavor to get Chrome and Firefox extensions working in a WebKit browser can sometimes feel like an endless stream of issues.
Thanks again, best, Jan
@Vlad I get the impression that I stepped on your toes with my question and that these kinds of questions annoy you. Could it be that since the process after a report is like a black box, which I can understand if there are only two devs, that people just ask a question because they are curious about the state of affairs?
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