Changelog

Zoom in split view Latest

• Zooming in a split view changes only the side you’re using, even when both sides show the same site.
• Choosing Stay on Page when you close a window keeps the window and its tabs working as before.
• Choosing a saved login always signs you in with the account you picked.
• Joining Sync from a new Mac asks you to confirm the matching words on that Mac too.
• Updates download faster: Orb fetches only what changed instead of the whole app.
• Security and reliability improvements.

Picture in Picture controls

• The buttons on the Picture in Picture window answer clicks: close, pause, mute, back to the tab and the seek bar.
• Dragging the window anywhere away from its buttons still moves it.

Delete folders and pinned tabs

• Press ⌫ on a folder in the sidebar, or choose Delete Folder from its menu, to delete it and everything in it, including folders brought over from another browser.
• Pinned tabs can be deleted too: choose Delete Tab from a pinned tab’s menu, or select several and choose Delete Tabs.
• Deleted folders and tabs go to the Archive, and Undo brings them back.

Security fixes

• Important security fixes. We recommend updating right away.
• The window buttons stay in their place beside the sidebar.
• Drag Glimpse by its header to move it anywhere in the window, and double-click the header to centre it again.
• An empty Orbit window shows Orb’s dark card instead of a blank white page.
• The Sync recovery words stay out of screenshots and screen sharing, and private windows leave less behind when you save.

Orb’s own PDF reader

• PDFs open in Orb’s own reader, built on the Mac’s PDF engine, so scrolling and pinch zoom stay smooth even on heavy, image-rich files. Pages fit the window without being blown up.
• Select and copy text, fill in forms, open password-protected files, jump around from the page thumbnails and search with ⌘F. A small bar at the bottom zooms, saves and prints.
• Links in a PDF open the way links on a page do; ⌘-click opens one in a new tab.
• PDFs served from your own Mac open again.

Pages appear without a white flash

• A page that hasn’t drawn yet waits on the window’s own background instead of flashing white: the tab Orb restores at launch, a tab you haven’t opened since, and a search that opens in a new tab.
• Closing a folder keeps the tab you’re on in view beneath it, and picking another tab tucks that tab back into the folder.
• When the sidebar slides back in, its sidebar button lands right beside the window buttons.

Steady window buttons

• The window buttons stay in place while the sidebar slides in and out.

Screen sharing and sign-in in Orb’s own windows

New

• When a site asks to share your screen, Orb’s own chooser opens over the page, with tabs, windows and the entire screen, live previews and a switch to share audio. The shared tab is outlined in the sidebar, and you can move the share to another tab without stopping it.
• Signing in to a site with an account from another service, such as a Google account, works in Orb’s own account sheet, with Use a different account where the provider offers it.
• Help › Send Feedback sends a bug report, an idea or a note straight to the developer.

Improved

• Security improvements.

Rearrangeable splits, site search and Secure DNS

New

• Drag a pane in a split by its handle to move it, or drop it on another pane to swap the two.
• Fold Pinned and Today right from the sidebar. Folders show an open or closed icon.
• Type a site such as youtube or github in the command bar and press Tab to search it.
• Bang shortcuts: type !w orb to go straight to Wikipedia’s results. You can turn them off in Settings › Privacy.
• Settings › Privacy has a Secure DNS menu.
• Settings › Links chooses where links from other apps open when no route matches.
• Settings › General chooses the download folder and whether to ask where to save.
• ⌥⌘N opens a new Orbit window from any app while Orb is running, and Orb’s Dock menu offers New Window, New Private Window and New Orbit Window.
• Settings › Sync shows how much of your Sync storage is used and warns before it fills up.
• A Tweak you published can be updated from the Tweaks Gallery.
• Importing from another browser brings addresses, and a signed-in Chrome profile’s account bookmarks and passwords.
• Sites can use the system color picker through the EyeDropper API.

Improved

• Quitting Orb or closing a private window while downloads are running asks first.
• Reload, Back, Forward, Find, Zoom and Print work in Orbit, popup and Glimpse windows.
• Full screen, pointer lock and keyboard lock show how to leave them, and an extension that attaches a debugger shows a banner you can cancel it from.
• Sites no longer show prompts to install themselves as apps.
• The Library button in the sidebar opens the Library.
• Deleting a Space also removes the link routes that pointed to it, and Undo brings them back.
• New profiles follow your Archive schedule.
• Stability improvements.

Links open where you clicked them

• A link you ⌘-click opens right below the tab it came from, and several open in the order you clicked them.

Folder and split commands, and smarter addresses

New

• Tidy Tab Titles, in Settings › Tabs, gives a pinned tab a short name using Apple Intelligence on your Mac. It’s off by default and appears on Macs that can run the on-device model.
• Importing from Arc brings passwords, history and more along with your Spaces, and each Arc profile keeps its own data.
• Folders can be deleted, moved to another Space and copied as links. Tabs can be duplicated in place, and a pinned tab can take the current page as its address.
• ⌘⌥-click opens a sidebar tab in Orbit.
• Each pane in a split has its own close button, and new split commands such as Add Left Split.
• The command bar completes addresses from your history and open tabs as you type.

Improved

• Stability improvements in the site panel and Settings.

Chromium security update and easier tab closing

• Chromium 156.0.8078.80, with Google’s latest security fixes.
• The current tab always shows its close button, and the tab menu adds Close Other Tabs and Close Tabs Below, with one undo.
• Installing an extension in any Space offers to pin it.
• A cleaner installer window.
• Diagnostics, which you can turn off in Settings › Privacy, also count how often Orb’s features are used and include a rough install age and the build number. They never include what you type; the Privacy Policy lists everything they contain.
• The window buttons appear in place as soon as a window opens.

Orb 0.1.0

• The first public release. See everything Orb does.