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Customize Lilo

Change Lilo's appearance and sidebar, pick a keyboard shortcut preset or record your own shortcuts, and make the browser fit the way you work.

This guide shows you how to change how Lilo looks, where its tabs and address sit, how pages are sized, and which keys do what. Open Settings with ⌘, and type in Search settings to jump to any setting. Every setting with its description is in the settings reference, and every default shortcut in the keyboard shortcuts reference.

Change the appearance

Open the Appearance settings

Choose Lilo > Settings…, then Appearance.

Pick a theme

Under Theme, choose System, Light or Dark. System follows your Mac.

Pick an app icon

Under App icon, choose one of the icons for the Dock. Only Classic follows the macOS dark, tinted and clear icon styles. Seasonal icon, on by default, switches to a festive icon around holidays like Halloween.

To change the language of Lilo’s interface, use Language in Settings > General. Menus and dialogs switch when Lilo restarts.

Arrange tabs and the address bar

In Settings > Appearance, under Layout:

  • Tabs places your tabs, Spaces and favorites on the Left, Right, Top or Bottom of the window. You can also drag the sidebar to another edge.
  • Address shows the address With the tabs, Above the page, or keeps it Hidden. With the address hidden, use the command bar to enter an address.
  • Hide Space names shows each Space as its icon alone in the bottom bar, even when there is room for its name.

To get more room for the page, choose View > Hide Sidebar (⇧⌘S) or View > Hide Toolbar (⌥⌘T).

Size pages and text

In Settings > Appearance, under Pages:

  • Default zoom sets the size of pages you haven’t zoomed yourself, from 75% to 150%. Zoom a single site with ⌘= and ⌘-, and press ⌘0 for its actual size. Lilo remembers the zoom of each site.
  • Minimum font size keeps page text from rendering smaller than the size you pick, from 9 to 24 points, or None.
  • Full refresh rate, on by default, lets pages animate and scroll at your display’s full rate, which uses more battery. New tabs follow the setting; open tabs change when Lilo restarts.

A site’s zoom level is listed, and can be reset, in Settings > Privacy > Settings by site.

Pick a shortcut preset

Lilo comes with two sets of shortcuts: its own, and one based on Arc’s.

Open the shortcuts

Choose Help > Keyboard Shortcuts (⌘/), or go to Settings > General and click Keyboard shortcuts.

Choose a preset

Next to Preset, click Lilo or Arc.

A preset replaces every shortcut you changed. The Arc preset uses Arc’s keys where Lilo has the same action: for example, Command-S toggles the sidebar, Command-D pins a tab, and Shift-Command-J opens Downloads.

On the same page, Control-Tab switches tabs in chooses what ⌃⇥ does: Recent Order shows your last tabs, from every Space, until you release Control; Sidebar Order follows the sidebar.

Rebind a shortcut

Find the action

In Help > Keyboard Shortcuts, type in Search shortcuts. You can search by name or by keys. Actions are grouped by the menu they sit in.

Record new keys

Click the action’s shortcut, then press the new keys. Press Esc to cancel, or Delete to leave the action without a shortcut.

Resolve a conflict

If another action already uses those keys, Lilo names it (“… is already used by …”). Click Replace to move the keys to this action, or Cancel.

Click Reset next to a changed shortcut to restore its default, or Reset All to restore every default. Several actions, such as Show Reader, Translate Page and Picture in Picture, have no default shortcut: give them one here.

Shortcuts you set for Lilo in System Settings > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > App Shortcuts take precedence. Lilo reads them when it builds its menus, at launch: after you change one there, quit and reopen Lilo to see it on the shortcuts page.