Features

Features

Browsing

• Microsoft Edge WebView2 engine with GPU-accelerated rendering.
• Address bar: type a web address or search words. Suggestions come from your bookmarks and history. Alt+Enter opens the result in a new tab; Ctrl+Enter turns example into www.example.com. A padlock marks https pages and a warning marks plain http.
• Search engines: DuckDuckGo (default), Google, Bing, Brave, Startpage, Ecosia, or any URL containing %s.
• Find in page with a match count and optional match case.
• Zoom (the percentage appears in the address bar; click it to reset).
• Print, Save as PDF, View source and Developer tools (DevTools).
• Full screen (F11), including full screen requested by a web page such as a video.
• Prompts for site permissions (camera, microphone, location and so on), a sign-in box for sites that use basic authentication, and a Yes/No prompt when a site's security certificate is invalid.
• JavaScript alerts, confirms and prompts are shown properly.

Window and tabs

• Custom title bar with tabs in the window frame. See Tabs and Split View.
• Drag a tab out to open it in a new window; drag it onto another Orbit window to move it there.
• Split view: two tabs side by side with a draggable divider.
• Pin, mute, duplicate and reopen closed tabs. Tabs are restored on the next start (can be turned off).

Bookmarks

• Bookmarks bar, nested folders, site icons, a bookmark manager with drag and drop, and import/export in the standard bookmarks HTML format. See Bookmarks.

Privacy

• Private windows keep no history, cookies or cache after you close them.
• Extensions: install Chrome extensions from the Chrome Web Store ("Add to Orbit"), a folder or a zip. They appear as icons next to the address bar. See Extensions.
• Clear history, cookies and cache from Settings.

Updates

• Optional automatic updates from GitHub with checksum verification. See Updating.

Downloads

• Downloads manager (Ctrl+J) with progress, pause/resume, cancel, open file and show in folder.
• Choose the download folder, or have Orbit ask where to save each file.

Not included

Account sync, a password manager, extension toolbar buttons and pop-ups, and the Chrome Web Store. See Extensions.