Downloads, history and bookmarks

Find and manage your downloads, search and clear your browsing history, and save and organize your bookmarks in Lilo on your Mac.

This guide shows you how to find and manage what you downloaded, search and delete your history, and keep the pages you come back to as bookmarks. Each profile keeps its own downloads list, history and bookmarks, on your Mac only.

Find and manage your downloads

Open Downloads

Press ⌥⌘L, or choose Window > Downloads. In the command bar, the action is Show Downloads. For a quick look at the last ones, choose Window > Recent Downloads.

Find a file

Downloads are grouped as Active, Today, Yesterday and older days. Type in Search downloads to narrow the list.

Act on a download

Double-click a finished download to open it, or drag its icon to the Finder or another app. Right-click it, or click its More actions button, for Open, Quick Look, Show in Finder, Open in Terminal (while terminal tabs are on), Copy URL, Delete File and Remove from List.

A download in progress can be paused and resumed from its row, or canceled from its menu. If a download fails, its row says why, and Retry starts it again when the server allows it. Lilo also retries by itself a few times when the network drops.

The More actions menu at the top of the Downloads page has Show Downloads Folder and Clear Finished Downloads. Clearing the list leaves the files where they are. In Window > Recent Downloads, hold Option to show a file in the Finder instead of opening it.

Choose where files go

In Settings > General, under Downloads:

Downloads folder is where files are saved. It is your Mac’s Downloads folder until you pick another.
Ask where to save each file lets you choose a folder and a name for every download. Off by default.

Lilo marks every downloaded file with the macOS quarantine flag, so macOS checks it the first time you open it. Before opening a downloaded app or script that is still quarantined, Lilo asks you to confirm. If you quit while files are downloading, Lilo asks first, and pauses them until it opens again.

Search and clear your history

Open History

Press ⌘Y, or choose History > Show All History…. The last pages you visited are also in History > Recently Visited.

Browse by period or site

Choose All History, Today, Yesterday, Last 7 Days or Older. Under Most Visited Sites, choose a site to see only its pages. From Terminals lists the pages opened from links in a terminal tab.

Type in Search History. It searches the titles and addresses of the pages you visited.

Open a page

Click a row to open it. Command-click opens it in a new tab.

To see the history of the site a tab shows, right-click the tab and choose Show History for example.com. The command bar also finds pages from your history as you type.

Delete history

One page: click the Delete button on its row, or move the focus to the row and press Delete.
Several pages: select them with their checkboxes, or Shift-click them, then click Delete in the bar that appears. Open in New Tabs opens them all instead.
Everything from one site: right-click one of its pages and choose Delete All from example.com…, then confirm. Every visit to the site goes, whatever period or search is shown.
A time range: click Clear Browsing Data… in the History sidebar, or press ⇧⌘⌫. See Clear your browsing data.

Lilo records no visits in a Private Space, nor in a locked folder. History keeps the 50,000 most recently visited pages and their last 250,000 visits; older entries are removed as new ones come in.

Keep bookmarks

In Lilo, a bookmark is a tab that stays in your sidebar. Each Space has its own bookmarked tabs, in their own section of the sidebar.

Bookmark a page

Choose Tab > Bookmark This Page, right-click the page or its tab and choose Bookmark This Page or Bookmark Tab, or drag the tab into the bookmarks section. In the command bar, the action is Bookmark Page.

Open it later

Click the bookmark in the sidebar. You can also type its name in the command bar.

Remove it

Right-click the bookmark and choose Remove Bookmark (or Unbookmark Tab). A bookmark whose page is open stays as an ordinary tab; one that isn’t open leaves the sidebar. History > Reopen Last Closed Tab brings it back.

Bookmarked tabs stay when you use Close Other Tabs or Clear Unpinned Tabs, and they can’t be moved into a Private Space. To bring in the bookmarks of another browser, see Import from another browser. For folders, pinned tabs and moving tabs between Spaces, see Tabs and folders.