qutebrowser
A keyboard-driven browser with vim-style bindings and almost no interface to click on.
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Package managers
- Chocolatey
choco install qutebrowser - Homebrew
brew install --cask qutebrowser - PyPI
pip install qutebrowser
About qutebrowser
qutebrowser has no tab bar chrome, no menus and no buttons worth speaking of. You navigate with the keyboard: `o` to open a URL, `f` to label every link on the page with a letter you then type, `:` for a command line. It is the same idea as Vimperator and dwb, rebuilt as a standalone browser rather than an extension.
It runs on QtWebEngine, which is Chromium's rendering engine, so pages render as they would in Chrome. It has no extension support in the Chrome or Firefox sense; blocking and scripting are done through its own config file, written in Python. That config file is where most of the power is, and also most of the learning curve.
Strengths
- Every action has a keyboard binding, and link hints mean you never need the mouse
- Configured in Python, so the config file can do real logic rather than toggles
- Minimal interface leaves almost the whole window for the page
- Packaged by Debian, Fedora, Arch and Homebrew as well as released directly
Limitations
- No Chrome or Firefox extension support; blocking is handled by its own config
- The bindings and config file are a genuine learning curve if you do not already use vim
- QtWebEngine trails upstream Chromium, so engine security fixes can arrive late
- No mobile version
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree software under the GPL. The maintainer works part-time on it funded by donations.
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Developer
- qutebrowser
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Account
- Not required
- Works offline
- No
- Best suited for
- Vim users who want to browse without reaching for the mouse
- Categories
- Web browsers
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Selected from the TechWalrus downloads catalog (Browsers); facts checked against the developer's own pages, 2 sources on file.