Settings and Data

Settings and Data

Open Settings from the ⋮ menu (or Ctrl+,).

Setting	What it does
Search engine	DuckDuckGo, Google, Bing, Brave, Startpage, Ecosia, or type your own URL with %s where the search words go, e.g. https://example.com/?q=%s
Home page	Where the Home button and new windows go. Default is the Orbit new-tab page.
Restore tabs from last session	Reopens your tabs when Orbit starts.
Show bookmarks bar	Hide or show the bar under the toolbar.
Force dark mode on web pages	Asks the browser engine to darken pages. Needs a restart.
Keep Orbit up to date automatically	Checks GitHub at start-up and installs verified updates. See Updating. The Check for updates button works on demand.
Download folder	Where files are saved; optionally ask each time.
Clear history / cookies / cache	One-click buttons.

Private windows

Ctrl+Shift+N opens a window whose cookies and cache live only in memory and whose pages are never added to history. Close the window and it's gone. Bookmarks you make in a private window are kept.

Where your data lives

%APPDATA%\Orbit, usually C:\Users\<you>\AppData\Roaming\Orbit:

Item	What it is
data.json	Bookmarks, folders, history (up to 5,000 entries), settings, last session
filters\	The downloaded ad-blocking filter lists
webview2\	The browser engine's cookies, cache and site data
extensions\	Chrome extensions you installed
newtab.html	The generated new-tab page

To reset Orbit completely, close it and delete that folder. To keep your data somewhere else (for example on a USB stick), set the ORBIT_DATA_DIR environment variable to that folder before starting Orbit.

If you used an early build called LiteBrowser, its data is moved here automatically on first start.