mattrobenolt

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    • On mobile, I'd like to be able to add a button for Data Saver and Low Power Modes in my toolbar to make them quickly accessible.

      To be explicit:

      Settings > Browsing > Data Saver Mode
      Settings > Browsing > Low Power Mode

      I would like these to be options within:

      Settings > Appearance > Customize Toolbar > Available Items

      I'd like to use these modes more often and quickly toggle these from my toolbar.

      • I found a way to reproduce this on a public URL using a public demo Grafana dashboard, but this doesn't happen in a new Clean Profile:

        If we start with: https://play.grafana.org/goto/ODGGaYhHR?orgId=1

        Multiple actions trigger this, but everything in the Grafana UI should be updating in realtime without page refreshes. But different actions trigger a full page refresh.

        One notable on this example page is by clicking and changing the time range:

        If we click this and change the value, we can see it does a full page refresh which is pretty jarring. Attached is a screen recording:

        This does not happen in Safari or Firefox, the exact same process does not trigger a full page refresh, or a clean profile. So I'm not sure how to track down what is wrong with my configuration.

        Version 0.99.132-rc (WebKit 621.1.2.111.4)
        macOS Sequoia 15.3.2

        Version 0.99.132-rc (WebKit 621.1.2.111.4)

        Sequoia (15)

        • It is quite often with auth flows involving CLI tooling, notable awscli, the final redirect hop is POSTing back to an http://localhost:{port} address, which is the local CLI tool listening.

          This is a bit annoying in Orion since it prompts every time. At least being able to "allow always" or some action would be nice.

          I come from Firefox, and I don't even recall it ever prompting about this. Maybe it's aware of http://localhost being "secure" since it's not going over the network, I'm not sure.

          • It seems (to me!) a very helpful preference for Low Power Mode would be auto-enabling on battery — much like the system level Battery-specific features.

            Given Orion's claim to fame as the most efficient browser, I'd love a bit more granularity on optimising for performance/battery.

            I could see an "Auto Low Power Mode" feature being exposed in a new "Performance" (or more generic "Optimise") preference pane along with a few of the Per-Site Features, like Blocking Web Fonts, Content Blockers and Javscript.

            I guess the main complication here is one could see these as "just" performance settings that apply all the time, or the more advanced approach would be to mirror System Settings and offer "Battery" and "Power Adapter" toggles for these settings.

            Finally, having a "Battery" specific preference pane would allow users to set the battery level Low Power Mode automatically kicks in (above the current fixed 10% threshold.)

            An added benefit of promoting these features to Preferences would be increasing visibility of these features, thereby better promoting these "unique value props" of Orion.

            WHY?

            This may be less of an issue for  Silicon Macs, but my 6-Core Intel Core i7 has pathetic battery performance, and I'm tethered to a desk — so it'd be awesome to use Low Power Mode (and maybe Tab Groups) to dramatically lessen browser load I need open for work (Jira, Confluence + other docos, Miro, research, myriad other web apps.)

            The ability to control these settings on Power Adapter could really help users of lower spec Macs or esp on slower networks.

            Thanks for any consideration. 🙏 👍

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