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I tried resetting Orion, and noticed that the process did not fully restore factory settings. See the screenshots of the reset options used and two things that I noticed were not reset: page tweaks and site settings.

  1. Configure a page tweak by clicking the paintbrush icon, then changing the color scheme or erasing an element.
  2. Change a site to automatically use Reader mode: Under Orion -> Websites, ensure the Default setting for all websites is Off. Then open an article, and right-click the Reader Mode icon, and tick "Automatically use Reader Mode..."
  3. Open Orion -> Settings -> Privacy and choose "Reset Orion...". Choose "All Time" and tick all boxes like in the screenshot, then hit "Reset".
  4. Reopen Orion from the dock, confirm that you are in the same profile you were in on step 3.
  5. Return to the site(s) where the page tweaks and reader mode were configured, see that they were preserved after the reset.
  6. Quit (cmd+q) and relaunch Orion, check the sites again and confirm the settings are preserved.

While testing the reproduction steps I sent several crash logs, so I can't rule out that a crash made this work differently than it should, but it seemed to happen even in resets when I didn't get a crash.



I expected the site settings and tweaks to be covered by the "Reset all settings" item and be reset after a relaunch. Besides manually clearing each setting, the only way I could find to clear these for all websites is creating a new profile.

Maybe this was not the intent, in that case I would suggest adding items for site settings and page tweaks to the reset options, so that it can be used for a fully fresh start.

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    According to the release notes, this should be fixed in Orion 0.99.132, but I just tried it with that version and the per-site reader mode settings were still preserved after using Reset Orion with "Reset all website settings" ticked.

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