Settings
The rows of Lilo's Settings, section by section, with what each one does and the default of each switch, generated from the app's own settings model.
The rows of Settings, in the order Settings shows them, with the text the row itself shows. The lists and cards Settings shows between rows, such as your Spaces and profiles, your installed extensions or the app tiles under Apps that can use Lilo, are not repeated here. Open Settings with Lilo > Settings… (⌘,), or type in Search settings to find a row by name.
How to read the tables:
- Sections and groups follow the Settings sidebar and the headings inside each section.
- Default is the position of an on/off switch on a new installation. Rows that open a list, a menu or a page leave it empty: what they start with depends on your Mac or is shown in the row. Install updates automatically also shows no default: it is on in a release you install, and a build from source does not update itself.
- Your answer to the setup’s How will you use Lilo? changes two defaults: With my agents and For developing turn Let agents use Lilo on, and only For developing leaves Terminal tabs on.
- Some rows appear only while the switch above them is on: the rows after Block ads and trackers need it on, for example, and so do the rows after Let agents use Lilo.
- The Terminal section is described in Terminal.
General
Browser
| Setting | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Default browser | Open links from other apps in Lilo. | |
| Import from another browser | Bookmarks, history, cookies and extensions | |
| Language | Language used across the browser interface. Menus and dialogs switch when Lilo restarts. |
Links from other apps
| Setting | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Open links in | Where a link opened from another app goes when no rule matches. | |
| Rules | The first rule that matches a link decides where it opens. A host also matches its subdomains. |
Search
| Setting | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Search engine | Used from the address bar and the command bar. | |
| Search suggestions | Show suggestions as you type. What you type is sent to the search engine. | On |
| Preload top hit | Load a site you visit often while you type its address. Uses more memory and data. | On |
| Search engines | Add, reorder, or remove engines and their keywords. |
Downloads
| Setting | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Downloads folder | Where downloaded files are saved. | |
| Ask where to save each file | Choose a folder and a name for every download. | Off |
Lilo
| Setting | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Lilo 0.21.0 | Lilo checks for new versions on its own. | |
| Install updates automatically | Downloaded in the background, installed when Lilo restarts. | |
| Keyboard shortcuts | Change any shortcut, or start from Arc’s. |
Appearance
Theme
| Setting | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Theme | Light, dark, or follow the system. | |
| App icon | Only Classic follows the macOS dark, tinted and clear icon styles. | |
| Seasonal icon | A festive app icon around holidays like Halloween. | On |
Layout
| Setting | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Tabs | Where your tabs, Spaces and favorites live. You can also drag the sidebar to another edge. | |
| Address | With the tabs, above the page, or hidden. Use the command bar to enter an address. | |
| Hide Space names | The bottom bar shows each Space as its icon alone, even with room for its name. | Off |
Pages
| Setting | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Default zoom | Size of pages that have no zoom of their own. | |
| Minimum font size | Text on pages never renders smaller than this. | |
| Full refresh rate | Pages animate and scroll at your display’s full rate, which uses more battery. New tabs follow this setting; open tabs change when Lilo restarts. | On |
Tabs and Spaces
Spaces
| Setting | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| New Space | Spaces keep tabs, colors, and data apart. |
Profiles
| Setting | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| New profile | Profiles keep cookies, sign-ins and extensions apart. |
Tabs and windows
| Setting | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Idle tabs | How quickly inactive tabs are frozen and unloaded. | |
| Keep everything in one window | New windows and page popups open as tabs here. | Off |
| Open to an empty window | Lilo opens with no tab selected and pinned tabs back on their home page. Otherwise that happens only after you’ve been away longer than the Space keeps idle tabs. | Off |
| Little window shortcut | The shortcut opens a Little window from any app. | On |
| Peek at links from pinned tabs | A link to another site opens over a pinned or bookmarked tab instead of replacing it. Shift-click peeks at any link. | On |
| Live page when resting on a pinned tab | Resting the pointer on a pinned tab or a favorite shows its page in a card, to read and use without leaving the current tab. Off, the card shows a picture of the page. | On |
| Show meetings about to start | A card shows 10 minutes before an event from your Mac’s calendars starts, with Join when the event carries a link. Lilo asks for calendar access when you turn this on, and reads it only on this Mac. | Off |
Audio and video
Playback
| Setting | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Auto picture-in-picture | Pop a call or playing video into a floating window when you switch away from its tab or from Lilo. | On |
| Autoplay | Applies to pages opened from now on. |
Calls
| Setting | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Keep calls in the sidebar | A tab using your camera, mic, or screen docks in the sidebar when you switch away, instead of a floating window. | On |
| Match devices to displays | Lilo puts back the camera, microphone, and audio output you picked for each combination of displays. | Off |
| Current setup | Devices remembered for the displays connected now. |
Privacy
Content blocking
| Setting | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Block ads and trackers | Applies from the next page load. | On |
| Trackers | Tracking scripts and pixels. | On |
| Cookie notices | Refused where possible, then hidden. | On |
| Dangerous sites | Known scam and malware sites. | On |
| Pop-ups and social widgets | May break some sites. | Off |
| Regional ad lists | For your system languages. | On |
Lists and exceptions
| Setting | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Filter lists | Updated several times a day. | |
| Sites without blocking | Turn blocking off for a site from the address bar. | |
| Requests never blocked | On every site, subdomains included, separated by commas. |
Site permissions
| Setting | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Notifications | When a site asks to send you notifications. | |
| Camera and microphone | When a site asks for the camera or the microphone. | |
| Location | When a site asks where you are. | |
| Settings by site | Permissions, zoom and stored data of each site. |
Protection
| Setting | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Always use secure connections | Warn before opening a page over HTTP. | Off |
| Ask sites not to sell my data | Sends the Global Privacy Control signal. | On |
| Prevent cross-site tracking | WebKit’s tracking prevention: sites embedded in others can’t read their own cookies, so they can’t follow you from site to site. Turn it off only if an embedded site you use stops working. | On |
| Lock folders after | Unlocked folders lock again after this much inactivity, and whenever the screen locks. |
Browsing data
| Setting | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Clear site data on quit | Remove cookies, storage, and cache of every profile when Lilo quits. History is kept. | Off |
| Clear browsing data | History, cookies, cache, and site data over a time range. |
Extensions
Updates
| Setting | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Update extensions automatically | Install new versions of Chrome Web Store extensions as they come out. | On |
| Check for updates | Look for newer versions of Chrome Web Store extensions now. |
Passwords
| Setting | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Add a password manager | Lilo keeps no passwords itself. |
Agents
Conversations
| Setting | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Conversations with your agents | Talk to Claude Code, Codex, Gemini and other agents in a tab, with your own subscriptions. | Off |
| Notify when an agent finishes | A notification when a conversation you are not looking at is done. | On |
| System prompt | What agents are told at the start of each conversation. | |
| Lilo’s prompt | Edit what agents are told in place of their own prompt. |
Agents using Lilo
| Setting | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Let agents use Lilo | Claude Code, Codex or Cursor work in their own Agents Space. | Off |
| Ask before sending, paying, deleting or publishing | The agent waits for your answer. | On |
| Always allowed | Agents act on these sites without asking. |
Apps that can use Lilo
| Setting | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Other agents | Any other MCP client, with Lilo’s configuration. |
Advanced
Developer tools
| Setting | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Show the Develop menu | Web Inspector, page source and the other web developer tools, in the menu bar. Their shortcuts work either way. | On |
| Process manager | Memory and CPU used by each tab and process. | |
| Diagnostics | Startup metrics, tab lifecycle, and extension logs. | |
| Design system | Components and tokens of the Lilo interface. | |
| Load an unpacked extension | Install an extension from a folder on disk, for development. | |
| Replay the welcome tour | The tour from Lilo’s first launch. |