Kagi Ships Orion Browser 1.1 for Mac With Native Tab Containers and Paid Window Borders

Kagi released Orion Browser version 1.1 for macOS on Wednesday, shipping more than 170 fixes alongside two headline features: native tab containers and customizable window borders.

Native Tab Containers

Containers — a privacy tool that isolates cookies and active login sessions on a per-tab basis — form the release’s most significant addition.

The feature Lets Users open multiple tabs, load the same website in each, and log into a separate account in every one simultaneously, without running parallel browser profiles or an incognito window.

Orion+ subscribers will gain an option soon to force every new tab into its own isolated container by default, according to Kagi’s release notes.

Custom Window Borders

Colored window borders also arrived in version 1.1, though they remain exclusive to paying Orion+ subscribers.

Users who select a border style without a subscription receive a prompt to upgrade. The feature lets subscribers apply a color or gradient frame around the browser window; combined with Focus Mode — which hides the toolbar and tab bar — only the webpage and its colored border remain visible.

Orion+ starts at $5 plus applicable sales tax per month, or $150 for a lifetime subscription.

Interface Rollback

The rest of the interface changes move in the opposite direction.

Kagi’s development team scrapped an in-progress custom “Liquid Glass” UI after release notes cited excessive user-experience problems. Version 1.1 instead cleans up Compact Mode and consolidates multiple location-bar icons into a single indicator.

Offline Translation

Orion 1.1 also adds in-place page translation, dropping the previous behavior of opening a new tab for translated content.

On macOS 26 or later, the browser routes translation requests through Apple’s on-device translation framework, keeping text entirely local and off external servers.

Windows and Linux

Kagi confirmed both Windows and Linux builds remain in development.

The release notes say the browser is “coming soon to Windows, and very soon to Linux,” without specifying a target date.

Orion is Kagi’s independent WebKit-based browser — WebKit is the same rendering engine that powers Apple’s Safari — and supports both Chrome and Firefox extensions natively on Mac.