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Change Log

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. This project adheres to Semantic Versioning, though minor breaking changes (such as renamed commands) can happen in minor releases.

v1.3.0 (unreleased)

Added

• New :scroll-to-anchor command to scroll to an anchor in the document.

• New url.open_base_url option to open the base URL of a searchengine when no search term is given.

• New tabs.min_width setting to configure the minimal width for tabs.

• New getbib userscript to download bibtex information for DOIs on a page.

Changed

• QtWebEngine: Support for JavaScript Shared Web Workers have been disabled on Qt versions older than 5.11 because of security issues in in Chromium. You can get the same effect in earlier versions via :set qt.args ['disable-shared-workers']. An equivalent workaround is also contained in Qt 5.9.5 and 5.10.1.

• The file dialog for downloads now has basic tab completion based on the entered text.

• :version now shows OS information for POSIX OS other than Linux/macOS.

• When there’s an error inserting the text from an external editor, a backup file is now saved.

• The window.hide_wayland_decoration setting got renamed to window.hide_decoration and now also works outside of wayland.

• The tabs.favicons.show setting now can take three values: 'always' (was True), 'never' (was False) and 'pinned' (to only show favicons for pinned tabs).

• Hover tooltips on tabs now always show the webpage’s title.

• The default value for content.host_blocking.lists was changed to only include Steven Black’s hosts-list which combines various sources.

• Error messages when trying to wrap when tabs.wrap is False are now logged to debug instead of messages.

Fixed

• Using hints before a page is fully loaded is now possible again.

• Selecting hints with the number keypad now works again.

• Tab titles for tabs loaded from sessions should now really be correct instead of showing the URL.

• Loading URLs with customized settings from a session now avoids an additional reload.

• The window icon and title now get set correctly again.

• The tabs.switching_delay setting now has a correct maximum value limit set.

• The taskadd script now works properly when there’s multi-line output.

• QtWebEngine: Worked around issues with GreaseMonkey/stylesheets not being loaded correctly in some situations.

• The statusbar now more closely reflects the caret mode state.

• The icon on Windows should now be displayed in a higher resolution.

• The QtWebEngine development tools (inspector) now also work when JavaScript is disabled globally.

• Building .exe files now works when upx is installed on the system.

• The keyhint widget now shows the correct text for chained modifiers.

• Loading GreaseMonkey scripts now also works with Jinja2 2.8 (e.g. on Debian Stable).

• Adding styles with GreaseMonkey on fast sites now works properly.

• Window ID 0 is now excluded properly from :tab-take completion.

• A rare crash when cancelling a download has been fixed.

• The Makefile (intended for packagers) now supports PREFIX properly.

• The workaround for a black window with Nvidia graphics is now enabled on non-Linux systems (like FreeBSD) as well.

• Initial support for Qt 5.11

v1.2.1

Fixed

• qutebrowser now starts properly when the PyQt5 QOpenGLFunctions package wasn’t found.

• The keybinding cheatsheet on the quickstart page is now loaded from a local qute:// URL again.

• With "tox -e mkvenv-pypi", PyQt 5.10.0 is used again instead of Qt 5.10.1, because of an issue with Qt 5.10.1 which causes qutebrowser to fail to start ("Could not find QtWebEngineProcess").

• Unbinding keys which were bound in older qutebrowser versions now doesn’t crash anymore.

• Fixed a crash when reloading a page which wasn’t fully loaded with v1.2.0

• Keys on the numeric keypad now fall back to the same bindings without Num+ if no Num+ binding was found.

• Fixed hinting on some pages with Qt < 5.10.

• Titles are now displayed correctly again for tabs which are cloned or loaded from sessions.

• Shortcuts now correctly use Ctrl instead of Command on macOS again.

v1.2.0

Added

• Initial implementation of per-domain settings:

  • :set and :config-cycle now have a -u/--pattern argument taking a URL match pattern for supported settings.

  • config.set in config.py now takes a third argument which is the pattern.

  • New with config.pattern('...') as p: context manager for config.py to use the shorthand syntax with a pattern.

  • New tsh keybinding to toggle scripts for the current host. With a capital S, the toggle is saved. With a capital H, subdomains are included. With u instead of h, the exact current URL is used.

  • New tph keybinding to toggle plugins, with the same additional binding described above.

• New QtWebEngine features:

  • Caret/visual mode

  • Authentication via ~/.netrc

  • Retrying downloads with Qt 5.10 or newer

  • Hinting and other features inside same-origin frames

• New flags for existing commands:

  • :session-load has a new --delete flag which deletes the session after loading it.

  • New --no-last flag for :tab-focus to not focus the last tab when focusing the currently focused one.

  • New --edit flag for :view-source to open the source in an external editor.

  • New --select flag for :follow-hint which acts like the given string was entered but doesn’t necessary follow the hint.

• New special pages:

  • qute://bindings (opened via :bind) which shows all keybindings.

  • qute://tabs (opened via :buffer) which lists all tabs.

• New settings:

  • statusbar.widgets to configure which widgets should be shown in which order in the statusbar.

  • tabs.mode_on_change which replaces tabs.persist_mode_on_change. It can now be set to restore which remembers input modes (input/passthrough) per tab.

  • input.insert_mode.auto_enter which makes it possible to disable entering insert mode automatically when an editable element was clicked. Together with input.forward_unbound_keys, this should allow for emacs-like "modeless" keybindings.

• New :prompt-yank command (bound to Alt-y by default) to yank URLs referenced in prompts.

• The hostblock_blame script which was removed in v1.0 was updated for the new config and re-added.

• New cycle-inputs.js script in scripts/ which can be used with :jseval -f to cycle through inputs.

Changed

• Complete refactoring of key input handling, with various effects:

  • emacs-like keychains such as <Ctrl-X><Ctrl-C> can now be bound.

  • Key chains can now be bound in any mode (this allows binding unused keys in hint mode).

  • Yes/no prompts don’t use keybindings from the prompt section anymore, they have their own yesno section instead.

  • Trying to bind invalid keys now shows an error.

  • The bindings.default setting can now only be set in a config.py, and existing values in autoconfig.yml are ignored.

• Improvements for GreaseMonkey support:

  • @include and @exclude now support regex matches. With QtWebEngine and Qt 5.8 and newer, Qt handles the matching, but similar functionality will be added in Qt 5.11.

  • Support for @requires

  • Support for the GreaseMonkey 4.0 API

• The sqlite history now uses write-ahead logging which should be a performance and stability improvement.

• When an editor is spawned with :open-editor and :config-edit, the changes are now applied as soon as the file is saved in the editor.

• The hist_importer.py script now only imports URL schemes qutebrowser can handle.

• Deleting a prefix (:, / or ?) via backspace now leaves command mode.

• Angular 1 elements and <summary>/<details> now get hints assigned.

• :tab-only with pinned tabs now still closes unpinned tabs.

• The url.incdec_segments option now also can take port as possible segment.

• QtWebEngine: :view-source now uses Chromium’s view-source: scheme.

• Tabs now show their full title as tooltip.

• When there are multiple unknown keys in a autoconfig.yml, they now all get reported in one error.

• More performance improvements when opening/closing many tabs.

• The :version page now has a button to pastebin the information.

• Replacements like {url} can now be escaped as {{url}}.

Fixed

• QtWebEngine bugfixes:

  • Improved fullscreen handling with Qt 5.10.

  • Hinting and scrolling now works properly on special view-source: pages.

  • Scroll positions are now restored correctly from sessions.

  • :follow-selected should now work in more cases with Qt > 5.10.

  • Incremental search now flickers less and doesn’t move to the second result when pressing Enter.

  • Keys like Ctrl-V or Shift-Insert are now correctly handled/filtered with Qt 5.10.

  • Fixed hangs/segfaults on exit with Qt 5.10.1.

  • Fixed favicons sometimes getting cleared with Qt 5.10.

  • Qt download objects are now cleaned up properly when a download is removed.

  • JavaScript messages are now not double-HTML escaped anymore on Qt < 5.11

• QtWebKit bugfixes:

  • Fixed GreaseMonkey-related crashes.

  • :view-source now displays a valid URL.

• URLs containing ampersands and other special chars are now shown correctly when filtering them in the completion.

• :bookmark-add "" foo can now be used to save the current URL with a custom title.

• :spawn -o now waits until the process has finished before trying to show the output. Previously, it incorrectly showed the previous output immediately.

• Suspended pages now should always load the correct page when being un-suspended.

• Exception types are now shown properly with :config-source and :config-edit.

• When using :bookmark-add --toggle, bookmarks are now saved properly.

• Crash when opening an invalid URL from an application on macOS.

• Crash with an empty completion.timestamp_format.

• Crash when completion.min_chars is set in some cases.

• HTML/JS resource files are now read into RAM on start to avoid crashes when changing qutebrowser versions while it’s open.

• Setting bindings.key_mappings to an empty value is now allowed.

• Bindings to an empty commands are now ignored rather than crashing.

Removed

• QUTE_SELECTED_HTML is now not set for userscripts anymore except when called via hints.

• The qutebrowser_viewsource userscript has been removed as :view-source --edit can now be used.

• The tabs.persist_mode_on_change setting has been removed and replaced by tabs.mode_on_change.

v1.1.2

Changed

• Windows/macOS releases now bundle Qt 5.10.1 which includes security fixes from Chromium up to version 64.0.3282.140.

Fixed

• QtWebEngine: Crash with Qt 5.10.1 when using :undo on some tabs.

• Compatibility with Python 3.7

v1.1.1

Fixed

• The Makefile now actually works.

• Fixed crashes with Qt 5.10 when closing a tab before it finished loading.

v1.1.0

Added

• Initial support for Greasemonkey scripts. There are still some rough edges, but many scripts should already work.

• There’s now a misc/Makefile file in releases, which should help distributions which package qutebrowser, as they can run something like make -f misc/Makefile DESTDIR="$pkgdir" install now.

• New fields for window.title_format and tabs.title.format:

  • {current_url}

  • {protocol}

• New settings:

  • colors.statusbar.passthrough.fg/.bg

  • completion.delay and completion.min_chars to update the completion less often.

  • completion.use_best_match to automatically use the best-matching command in the completion.

  • keyhint.radius to configure the edge rounding for the key hint widget.

  • qt.highdpi to turn on Qt’s High-DPI scaling.

  • tabs.pinned.shrink (true by default) to make it possible for pinned tabs and normal tabs to have the same size.

  • content.windowed_fullscreen to show e.g. a fullscreened video in the window without fullscreening that window.

  • tabs.persist_mode_on_change to keep the current mode when switching tabs.

  • session.lazy_restore which allows to not load pages immediately when restoring a session.

• New commands:

  • :tab-give and :tab-take, to give tabs to another window, or take them from another window.

  • :completion-item-yank (bound to <Ctrl-C>) to yank the current completion item text.

  • :edit-command to edit the commandline in an editor.

  • search.incremental for incremental text search.

• New flags for existing commands:

  • -o flag for :spawn to show stdout/stderr in a new tab.

  • --rapid flag for :command-accept (bound to Ctrl-Enter by default), which allows executing a command in the completion without closing it.

  • --private and --related flags for :edit-url, which have the same effect they have with :open.

  • --history for :completion-item-focus which causes it to go through the command history when no text was entered. The default bindings for cursor keys in the completion changed to use that, so that they can be used again to navigate through completion items when a text was entered.

  • --file for :debug-pyeval which makes it take a filename instead of a line of code.

• New config.source(...) method for config.py to source another file.

• New {line} and {column} replacements for editor.command to position the cursor correctly.

• New qute-pass userscript as alternative to password_fill which allows selecting accounts via rofi or any other dmenu-compatile application.

• New hist_importer.py script to import history from Firefox/Chromium.

Changed

• Some settings got renamed:

  • tabs.width.bar → tabs.width

  • tabs.width.indicator → tabs.indicator.width

  • tabs.indicator_padding → tabs.indicator.padding

  • session_default_name → session.default_name

  • ignore_case → search.ignore_case

• Much improved user stylesheet handling for QtWebEngine which reduces flickering and updates immediately after setting a stylesheet.

• High-DPI favicons are now used when available.

• The asciidoc2html.py script now uses Pygments (which is already a dependency of qutebrowser) instead of source-highlight for syntax highlighting.

• The :buffer command now doesn’t require quoting anymore, similar to :open.

• The importer.py script was largely rewritten and now also supports importing from Firefox' places.sqlite file and Chrome/Chromium profiles.

• Various internal refactorings to use Python 3.5 and ECMAscript 6 features.

• If the window.hide_wayland_decoration setting is False, but QT_WAYLAND_DISABLE_WINDOWDECORATION is set in the environment, the decorations are still hidden.

• The install_dict.py script for QtWebEngine was renamed to dictcli.py and can now also upgrade dictionaries correctly.

• :undo now can re-open multiple tabs after :tab-only was used.

• :config-write-py with a relative path now puts the file into the config directory.

• The qute://version page now also shows the uptime of qutebrowser.

• qutebrowser now prompts to create a non-existing directory when starting a download.

• :jseval --file now searches relative paths in a js/ subdir in qutebrowser’s data dir, e.g. ~/.local/share/qutebrowser/js.

• The current/default bindings are now shown in the ``:bind` completion.

• Empty categories are now hidden in the :open completion.

• Search terms for URLs and titles can now be mixed when filtering the completion.

• The default font size for the UI got bumped up from 8pt to 10pt.

• Improved matching in the completion: The words entered are now matched in any order, and mixed matches on URL/tite are possible.

• The system’s default encoding (rather than UTF-8) is now used to decode subprocess output.

• qutebrowser now ensures it’s focused again after an external editor is closed.

• The colors.completion.fg setting can now be a list, allowing to specify different colors for the three completion columns.

Fixed

• More consistent sizing for favicons with vertical tabs.

• Using :home on pinned tabs is now prevented.

• Fix crash with unknown file types loaded via qute://help.

• Scrolling performance improvements.

• Sites like qute://help now redirect to qute://help/ to make sure links work properly.

• Fixes for the size calculation of pinned tabs in the tab bar.

• Worked around a crash with PyQt 5.9.1 compiled against Qt < 5.9.1 when using :yank or qute:// URLs.

• Fixed crash when opening qute://help/img.

• Fixed gU (:navigate up) on qute://help and webservers not handling .. in a URL.

• Using e.g. -s backend webkit to set the backend now works correctly.

• Fixed crash when closing the tab an external editor was opened in.

• When using :search-next before a search is finished, no warning about no results being found is shown anymore.

• Fix :click-element with an ID containing non-alphanumeric characters.

• Fix crash when a subprocess outputs data which is not decodable as UTF-8.

• Fix crash when closing a tab immediately after hinting.

• Worked around issues in Qt 5.10 with loading progress never being finished.

• Fixed a crash when writing a flag before a command (e.g. `:-w open `).

• Fixed a crash when clicking certain form elements with QtWebEngine.

Deprecated

• :tab-detach has been deprecated, as :tab-give without argument can be used instead.

Removed

• The long-deprecated :prompt-yes, :prompt-no, :paste-primary and :paste commands have been removed.

• The invocation :download <url> <dest> which was deprecated in v0.5.0 was removed, use :download --dest <dest> <url> instead.

• The messages.unfocused option which wasn’t used anymore was removed.

• The x[xtb] default bindings got removed again as many users accidentally triggered them.

v1.0.4

Fixed

• The qute://gpl page now works correctly again.

• Trying to bind an empty command now doesn’t crash anymore.

• Fixed crash when :config-write-py fails to write to the given path.

• Fixed crash for some users when selecting a file with Qt 5.9.3

• Improved handling for various SQL errors

• Fix crash when setting content.cache.size to a big value (> 2 GB)

v1.0.3

Changed

• macOS and Windows builds are now built with PyQt 5.9.1 and Qt 5.9.2, including various bugfixes, as well as security fixes from Chromium up to version 61.0.3163.79.

• Performance improvements for tab rendering.

• The :open-editor command is now not hidden anymore as it’s also usable in normal mode.

Fixed

• Handle accessing a locked sqlite database gracefully

• Abort pinned tab dialogs properly when a tab is closed e.g. by closing a window

• Unbinding a default keybinding twice now doesn’t bind it again

• Completions are now sorted correctly again when filtered

v1.0.2

Fixed

• Fix workaround for black screens or crashes with Nvidia cards

• Handle a filesystem going read-only gracefully

• Fix crash when setting fonts.monospace

• Fix list options not being modifyable via .append() in config.py

• Mark the content.notifications setting as QtWebKit only correctly

• Fix wrong rendering of keys like <back> in the completion

Changed

• Nicer error messages and other minor improvements

v1.0.1

Fixed

• Fixed starting after customizing fonts.tabs or fonts.debug_console.

• Fixed starting with old PyQt versions compiled against newer Qt versions.

• Fixed check for PyQt version to correctly enforce 5.7 (not 5.2).

v1.0.0

Major changes

• Dependency changes:

  • Support for legacy QtWebKit (before 5.212 which is distributed independently from Qt) is dropped.

  • Support for Python 3.4 is dropped.

  • Support for Qt before 5.7.1 and PyQt before 5.7 is dropped.

  • New dependency on the QtSql module and Qt sqlite support.

  • New dependency on the attrs project (packaged as python-attr in some distributions).

  • The depedency on PyOpenGL (when using QtWebEngine) got removed. Note that PyQt5.QtOpenGL is still a dependency.

  • PyQt5.QtOpenGL is now always required, even with QtWebKit.

• The QtWebEngine backend is now used by default. Note this means that QtWebEngine now should be a required dependency, and QtWebKit (if new enough) should be changed to an optional dependency.

• Completely rewritten configuration system which ignores the old config file. See qute://help/configuring.html for details.

• Various documentation files got moved to the doc/ subfolder; qutebrowser.desktop got moved to misc/.

• :set now doesn’t support toggling/cycling values anymore, that functionality got moved to :config-cycle.

• New completion engine based on sqlite, which allows to complete the entire browsing history. The default for completion.web_history_max_items got changed to -1 (unlimited). If the completion is too slow on your machine, try setting it to a few 1000 items.

• Up/Down now navigates through the command history instead of selecting completion items. Either use Tab to cycle through the completion, or restore the old behavior.

Added

• QtWebEngine: Spell checking support, see the spellcheck.languages setting.

• New qt.args setting to pass additional arguments to Qt/Chromium.

• New backend setting to select the backend to use. Together with the previous setting, this should make most wrapper scripts unnecessary.

• qutebrowser can now be set as the default browser on macOS.

• New config commands:

  • :config-cycle to cycle an option between multiple values.

  • :config-unset to remove a configured option.

  • :config-clear to remove all configured options.

  • :config-source to (re-)read a config.py file.

  • :config-edit to open the config.py file in an editor.

  • :config-write-py to write a config.py template file.

• New :version command which opens qute://version.

• New back/forward indicator in the statusbar.

• New bindings.key_mappings setting to map keys to other keys.

• QtWebEngine: Support for proxy authentication.

Changed

• Using :download now uses the page’s title as filename.

• Using :back or :forward with a count now skips intermediate pages.

• When there are multiple messages shown, the timeout is increased.

• :search now only clears the search if one was displayed before, so pressing <Escape> doesn’t un-focus inputs anymore.

• Pinned tabs now adjust to their text’s width, so the tabs.width.pinned setting got removed.

• :set-cmd-text now has a --run-on-count argument to run the underlying command directly if a count was given.

• :scroll-perc got renamed to :scroll-to-perc.

Removed

• Migrating QtWebEngine data written by versions before 2016-11-15 (before v0.9.0) is now not supported anymore.

• Upgrading qutebrowser with a version older than v0.4.0 still running now won’t work properly anymore.

• The --harfbuzz and --relaxed-config commandline arguments got dropped.

Fixes

• Exiting fullscreen via :fullscreen or buttons on a page now restores the correct previous window state (maximized/fullscreen).

• When input.insert_mode.auto_load is set, background tabs now don’t enter insert mode anymore.

• The keybinding help widget now works correctly when using keybindings with a count.

• The window.hide_wayland_decoration setting now works correctly again.

v0.11.1

Fixes

• Fixed empty space being shown after tabs in the tabbar in some cases.

• Fixed :restart in private browsing mode.

• Fixed printing on macOS.

• Closing a pinned tab via mouse now also prompts for confirmation.

• The "try again" button on error pages works correctly again.

• :spawn -u -d is now disallowed.

• :spawn -d shows error messages correctly now.

v0.11.0

New dependencies

• New dependency on PyQt5.QtOpenGL if QtWebEngine is used. QtWebEngine depends on QtOpenGL already, but on distributions packaging split PyQt5 wrappers, the wrappers for QtOpenGL are now required.

• New dependency on PyOpenGL if QtWebEngine is used.

Added

• Private browsing is now implemented for QtWebEngine, and changed its behavior: The general -> private-browsing setting now only applies to newly opened windows, and you can use the -p flag to :open to open a private window.

• New "pinned tabs" feature, with a new :tab-pin command (bound to <Ctrl-p> by default).

• (QtWebEngine) Implemented :follow-selected.

• New :clear-messages command to clear shown messages.

• New ui -> keyhint-delay setting to configure the delay until the keyhint overlay pops up.

• New -s option for :open to force a HTTPS scheme.

• :debug-log-filter now accepts none as an argument to clear any log filters.

• New --debug-flag argument which replaces --debug-exit and --pdb-postmortem.

• New tabs -> favicon-scale option to scale up/down favicons.

• colors -> statusbar.bg/fg.private and .command.private to customize statusbar colors for private windows.

• New {private} field displaying [Private Mode] for ui -> window-title-format and tabs -> title-format.

• (QtWebEngine) Proxy support with Qt 5.7.1 (already was supported for 5.8 and newer)

Changed

• To prevent elaborate phishing attacks, the Punycode version (xn--*) is now shown in addition to the decoded version for international domain names (IDN).

• Starting with legacy QtWebKit now shows a warning message. With the next release, support for it will be removed.

• The Windows releases are redone from scratch, which means:

  • They now use the new QtWebEngine backend

  • The bundled Qt is updated from 5.5 to 5.9

  • The bundled Python is updated from 3.4 to 3.6

  • They are now generated with PyInstaller instead of cx_Freeze

  • The installer is now generated using NSIS instead of being a MSI

• Improved qute://history page (with lazy loading)

• Crash reports are not public anymore.

• Paths like C: are now treated as absolute paths on Windows for downloads, and invalid paths are handled properly.

• Comments in the config file are now placed before the individual options instead of being before sections.

• Messages are now hidden when clicked.

• stdin is now closed immediately for processes spawned from qutebrowser.

• When ui -> message-timeout is set to 0, messages are now never cleared.

• Middle/right-clicking the blank parts of the tab bar (when vertical) now closes the current tab.

• The adblocker now also blocks non-GET requests (e.g. POST).

• javascript: links can now be hinted.

• :view-source, :tab-clone and :navigate --tab now don’t open the tab as "explicit" anymore, i.e. (with the default settings) open it next to the active tab.

• qute:* pages now use qute://* instead (e.g. qute://version instead of qute:version), but the old versions are automatically redirected.

• Texts in prompts are now selectable.

• The default level for :messages is now info, not error

• Trying to focus the currently focused tab with :tab-focus now focuses the last viewed tab.

• (QtWebEngine) With Qt 5.9, content -> cookies-store can now be set without a restart.

• (QtWebEngine) With Qt 5.9, better error messages are now shown for failed downloads.

• (QtWebEngine) The underlying Chromium version is now shown in the version info.

• (QtWebKit) Renderer process crashes now show an error page on Qt 5.9 or newer.

• (QtWebKit) storage → offline-web-application-storage` got renamed to ...-cache

• (QtWebKit) PAC now supports SOCKS5 as type.

Fixed

• The macOS .dmg is now built against Qt 5.9 which fixes various important issues (such as not being able to type dead keys).

• Fixed crash with :download on PyQt 5.9.

• Cloning a page without history doesn’t crash anymore.

• When a download results in a HTTP error, it now shows the error correctly instead of crashing.

• Pressing ctrl-c while a config error is shown works as intended now.

• When the key config isn’t writable, we now show an error instead of crashing.

• Fixed crash when unbinding an unbound key in the key config.

• Fixed crash when using :debug-log-filter when --filter wasn’t given on startup.

• Fixed crash with some invalid setting values.

• Continuing a search after clearing it now works correctly.

• The tabbar and completion should now be more consistently and correctly styled with various system styles.

• Applying styiles in qt5ct now shouldn’t crash anymore.

• The validation for colors in stylesheets is now less strict, allowing for all valid Qt values.

• data: URLs now aren’t added to the history anymore.

• Accidentally starting with Python 2 now shows a proper error message again.

• For some people, running some userscripts crashed - this should now be fixed.

• Various other rare crashes should now be fixed.

• The settings documentation was truncated with v0.10.1 which should now be fixed.

• Scrolling to an anchor in a background tab now works correctly, and javascript gets the correct window size for background tabs.

• (QtWebEngine) Added a workaround for a black screen with some setups

• (QtWebEngine) Starting with Nouveau graphics now shows an error message instead of crashing in Qt.

• (QtWebEngine) Retrying downloads now shows an error instead of crashing.

• (QtWebEngine) Cloning a view-source tab now doesn’t crash anymore.

• (QtWebEngine) window.navigator.userAgent is now set correctly when customizing the user agent.

• (QtWebEngine) HTML fullscreen is now tracked for each tab separately, which means it’s not possible anymore to accidentally get stuck in fullscreen state by closing a tab with a fullscreen video.

• (QtWebEngine) :scroll-page with --bottom-navigate now works correctly.

• (QtWebKit) The HTTP cache is disabled on Qt 5.7.1 and 5.8 now as it leads to frequent crashes due to a Qt bug.

• (QtWebKit) Fixed Crash when a PAC file returns an invalid value.

v0.10.1

Changed

• --qt-arg and --qt-flag can now also be used to pass arguments to Chromium when using QtWebEngine.

Fixed

• URLs are now redacted properly (username/password, and path/query for HTTPS) when using Proxy Autoconfig with QtWebKit

• Crash when updating adblock lists with invalid UTF8-chars in them

• Fixed the web inspector with QtWebEngine

• Version checks when starting qutebrowser now also take the Qt version PyQt was compiled against into account

• Hinting a input now doesn’t select existing text anymore with QtWebKit

• The cursor now moves to the end when input elements are selected with QtWebEngine

• Download suffixes like (1) are now correctly stripped with QtWebEngine

• Crash when trying to print a tab which was closed in the meantime

• Crash when trying to open a file twice on Windows

v0.10.0

Added

• Userscripts now have a new $QUTE_COMMANDLINE_TEXT environment variable, containing the current commandline contents

• New ripbang userscript to create a searchengine from a duckduckgo bang

• QtWebKit Reloaded (also called QtWebKit-NG) is now fully supported

• Various new functionality with the QtWebEngine backend:

  • Printing support with Qt >= 5.8

  • Proxy support with Qt >= 5.8

  • The general -> print-element-backgrounds option with Qt >= 5.8

  • The content -> cookies-store option

  • The storage -> cache-size option

  • The colors -> webpage.bg option

  • The HTML5 fullscreen API (e.g. youtube videos) with QtWebEngine

  • :download --mhtml

• New qute:history URL and :history command to show the browsing history

• Open tabs are now auto-saved on each successful load and restored in case of a crash

• :jseval now has a --file flag so you can pass a javascript file

• :session-save now has a --only-active-window flag to only save the active window

• macOS builds are back, and built with QtWebEngine

Changed

• PyQt 5.7/Qt 5.7.1 is now required for the QtWebEngine backend

• Scrolling with the scrollwheel while holding shift now scrolls sideways

• New way of clicking hints which solves various small issues

• When yanking a mailto: link via hints, the mailto: prefix is now stripped

• Zoom level messages are now not stacked on top of each other anymore

• qutebrowser now automatically uses QtWebEngine if QtWebKit is unavailable

• :history-clear now asks for a confirmation, unless it’s run with --force.

• input -> mouse-zoom-divider can now be 0 to disable zooming by mouse wheel

• network -> proxy can also be set to pac+file://... now to use a local proxy autoconfig file (on QtWebKit)

Removed

• (QtWebKit) Various rarely customized settings were removed:

  • ui -> css-media-type (defaults to desktop)

  • general -> site-specific-quirks (now always turned on)

  • storage -> offline-storage-default-quota (defaults to 5MB)

  • storage -> offline-web-application-cache-quota (defaults to no quota)

  • storage -> object-cache-capacities (default depends on disk space)

  • content -> css-regions (now always turned off)

  • storage -> offline-storage-database (merged into storage -> local-storage)

Fixed

• Various bugs with Qt 5.8 and QtWebEngine:

  • Segfault when closing a window

  • Segfault when closing a tab with a search active

  • Fixed various mouse actions (like automatically entering insert mode) not working

  • Fixed hints sometimes not working

  • Segfault when opening a URL after a QtWebEngine renderer process crash

• Other QtWebEngine fixes:

  • Insert mode now gets entered correctly with a non-100% zoom

  • Crash reports are now re-enabled when using QtWebEngine

  • Fixed crashes when closing tabs while hinting

  • Using :undo or :tab-clone with a view-source:// or chrome:// tab is now prevented, as it segfaults

• :enter-mode now refuses to enter modes which can’t be entered manually (which caused crashes)

• :record-macro (q) now doesn’t try to record macros for special keys without a text

• Fixed PAC (proxy autoconfig) not working with QtWebKit

• :download --mhtml now uses the new file dialog

• Word hints are now upper-cased correctly when hints → uppercase is true

• Font validation is now more permissive in the config, allowing e.g. "Terminus (TTF)" as font name

• Fixed starting on newer PyQt/sip versions with LibreSSL

• When downloading files with QtWebKit, a User-Agent header is set when possible

• Fixed showing of keybindings in the :help completion

• :navigate prev/next now detects rel attributes on <a> elements, and handles multiple rel attributes correctly

• Fixed a crash when hinting with target userscript and spawning a non-existing script

• Lines in Jupyter notebook now trigger insert mode

v0.9.1

Fixed

• Prevent websites from downloading files to a location outside of the download folder with QtWebEngine.

v0.9.0

Added

• New dependency: qutebrowser now depends on the Qt QML module, which is packaged separately in some distributions (as Qt Declarative/QML/Quick).

• New :rl-backward-kill-word command which does what :rl-unix-word-rubout did before v0.8.0.

• New :rl-unix-filename-rubout command which is similar to readline’s unix-filename-rubout.

• New fonts -> completion.category setting to customize the font used for completion category headers.

• New :debug-log-capacity command to adjust how many lines are logged into RAM (to report bugs which are difficult to reproduce).

• New hide-unmatched-rapid-hints option to not hide hint unmatched hint labels in rapid mode.

• New {clipboard} and {primary} replacements for the commandline which replace the :paste command.

• New :insert-text command to insert a given text into a field on the page, which replaces :paste-primary together with the {primary} replacement.

• New :window-only command to close all other windows.

• New prev-category and next-category arguments to :completion-item-focus to focus the previous/next category in the completion (bound to <Ctrl-Tab> and <Ctrl-Shift-Tab> by default).

• New :click-element command to fake a click on a element.

• New :debug-log-filter command to change console log filtering on-the-fly.

• New :debug-log-level command to change the console loglevel on-the-fly.

• New general -> yank-ignored-url-parameters option to configure which URL parameters (like utm_source etc.) to strip off when yanking an URL.

• Support for the HTML5 page visibility API

• New readability userscript which shows a readable version of a page (using the readability-lxml python package)

• New cast userscript to show a video on a Google Chromecast

• New :run-with-count command which replaces the (undocumented) :count:command syntax.

• New :record-macro (q) and :run-macro (@) commands for keyboard macros.

• New ui -> hide-scrollbar setting to hide the scrollbar independently of the user-stylesheet setting.

• New general -> default-open-dispatcher setting to configure what to open downloads with (instead of e.g. xdg-open on Linux).

• Support for PAC (proxy autoconfig) with QtWebKit

Changed

• Hints are now drawn natively in Qt instead of using web elements. This has a few implications for users:

  • The hints -> opacity setting does not exist anymore, but you can use rgba(r, g, b, alpha) colors instead for colors -> hints.bg.

  • The hints -> font setting is not affected by fonts -> web-family-fixed anymore. Thus, a transformer got added to change Monospace to ${_monospace}.

  • Gradients in hint colors can now be configured by using qlineargradient and friends instead of -webkit-gradient. The most common cases get migrated automatically, but if you drastically changed the defaults, you’ll need to manually adjust your config.

  • Styling hints by styling qutehint elements in user-stylesheet was never officially supported and does not work anymore.

  • Hints are now not affected by the page’s stylesheet or zoom anymore.

• :bookmark-add now has a --toggle flag which deletes the bookmark if it already exists.

• :bookmark-load now has a --delete flag which deletes the bookmark after loading it.

• :open now also accepts quickmark names instead of URLs

• :tab-move now optionally takes an index for absolute moving.

• Commands taking either an argument or a count (like :zoom or :tab-focus) now prefer the count instead of showing an error message.

• :open now has an --implicit argument to treat the opened tab as implicit (i.e. to open it at the position it would be opened if it was a clicked link)

• :download-open and :prompt-open-download now have an optional cmdline argument to pass a commandline to open the download with.

• :yank now has a position argument to select what to yank instead of using flags.

• Replacements like {url} can now also be used in the middle of an argument. Consequently, commands taking another command (:later, :repeat and :bind) now don’t immediately evaluate variables.

• Tab titles in the :buffer completion now update correctly when a page’s title is changed via javascript.

• :hint now has a --mode <mode> flag to override the hint mode configured using the hints -> mode setting.

• With new-instance-open-target set to a tab option, the tab is now opened in the most recently focused (instead of the last opened) window. This can be configured with the new new-instance-open-target.window setting. It can also be set to last-visible to show the pages in the most recently visible window, or first-opened to use the first (oldest) available window.

• Word hints now are more clever about getting the element text from some elements.

• Completions for :help and :bind now also show hidden commands

• The :buffer completion now also filters using the first column (id).

• :undo has been improved to reopen tabs at the position they were closed.

• :navigate now takes a count for up/increment/decrement.

• The hints -> auto-follow setting now can be set to always/full-match/unique-match/never to more precisely control when hints should be followed automatically.

• Counts can now be used with special keybindings (e.g. with modifiers). This was already implemented for v0.7.0 originally, but got reverted because it caused some issues and then never re-applied.

• Sending a command to an existing instance (via "qutebrowser :reload") now doesn’t mark it as urgent anymore.

• tabs -> title-format now treats an empty string as valid.

• Bindings for :, / and ? are now configured explicitly and not hardcoded anymore.

• The completion -> show setting can now be set to always, auto or never.

• :open-editor can now be used in any mode.

• Lots of improvements to and bugfixes for the QtWebEngine backend, such as working hints. However, using qutebrowser directly from git is still advised when using --backend webengine.

• content -> javascript-can-open-windows got renamed to javascript-can-open-windows-automatically.

• :prompt-accept now optionally accepts a value which overrides the one entered in the input box. yes and no can be used as values for yes/no questions.

• The new --qt-arg and --qt-flag arguments can be used to pass arguments/flags to Qt’s commandline.

• Error/warning/info messages are now shown stacked above the statusbar. This also added various new settings:

  • colors -> messages.fg.error (renamed from statusbar.fg.error)

  • colors -> messages.bg.error (renamed from statusbar.bg.error)

  • colors -> messages.border.error

  • colors -> messages.fg.warning (renamed from statusbar.fg.warning)

  • colors -> messages.bg.warning (renamed from statusbar.bg.warning)

  • colors -> messages.border.warning

  • colors -> messages.fg.info

  • colors -> messages.bg.info

  • colors -> messages.border.info

  • fonts -> messages.error

  • fonts -> messages.warning

  • fonts -> messages.info

• The qute:settings page now also shows option descriptions.

• qute:version and qutebrowser --version now show various important paths

• :spawn/userscripts now show a nicer error when a script wasn’t found

• Various functionality now works when javascript is disabled with QtWebKit

• Various commands/settings taking left/right/previous arguments now take prev/next/last-used to remove ambiguity.

• The ui -> user-stylesheet setting now only takes filenames, not CSS snippets

• ui -> window-title-format now has a new `html5 ` replacement

• :hint has a new --add-history argument to add the URL to the history for yank/spawn targets.

• :set now cycles through values if more than one argument is given.

• :open now opens default-page without an URL even without -t/-b/-w given.

Deprecated

• The :paste command got deprecated as :open with {clipboard} and {primary} can be used instead.

• The :paste-primary command got deprecated as :insert-text {primary} can be used instead.

• The :prompt-yes and :prompt-no commands got deprecated as :prompt-accept yes and :prompt-accept no can be used instead.

Removed

• The :yank-selected command got merged into :yank as :yank selection and thus removed.

• The :completion-item-prev and :completion-item-next commands got merged into a new :completion-focus {prev,next} command and thus removed.

• The ui -> hide-mouse-cursor setting since it was completely broken and nobody seemed to care.

• The hints -> opacity setting - see the "Changed" section for details.

• The completion -> auto-open setting got merged into completion -> show and thus removed.

• All --qt-* arguments got replaced by --qt-arg and --qt-flag and thus removed.

• The -c/--confdir, --datadir and --cachedir arguments got removed, as --basedir should be sufficient.

Fixed

• :undo now doesn’t undo tabs "closed" by :tab-detach anymore.

• Fixed an issue with hint chars not being cleared correctly when leaving hint mode.

• :tab-detach now fails correctly when there’s only one tab open.

• Various small issues with the command completion

• Fixed hang when using multiple spaces in a row with the URL completion

• qutebrowser now still starts with an incorrectly configured $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR.

• Fixed crash when a userscript writes invalid unicode data to the FIFO

• Fixed crash when a included HTML was not found

v0.8.3

Fixed

• Fixed crash when doing :<space><enter>, another corner-case introduced in v0.8.0

• Fixed :open-editor (<Ctrl-e>) on Windows

• Fixed crash when setting general -> auto-save-interval to a too big value.

• Fixed crash when using hints on Void Linux.

• Fixed compatibility with Python 3.5.2+ on Debian unstable

• Compatibility with pdfjs v1.6.210

• :bind can now be used to bind to an alias (binding by editing keys.conf already worked before)

• The command completion now updates correctly when changing aliases

• The tabbar now displays correctly with the Adwaita Qt theme

• The default sk keybinding now sets the commandline to :bind correctly

• Fixed crash when closing a window without focusing it

• Userscripts now can access QUTE_FIFO correctly on Windows

v0.8.2

Fixed

• Fixed general -> private-browsing not being set correctly until a restart (which caused e.g. local storage to be enabled).

• When hinting input fields (:t), also consider input elements without a type.

• Fixed crash when opening an invalid URL with a percent-encoded and a real @ in it

• Fixed default ;o and ;O bindings

• Fixed local storage not working (and possible other bugs) when using a relative path with --basedir.

• Fixed crash when deleting a quickmark with Ctrl-D

• Fixed HTML5 video playback on Windows

• Fixed crash when using :prompt-open-download with a file with chars not encodable with the OS' filesystem encoding (e.g. with LC_ALL=C)

• Fixed :prompt-open-download with a too long filename (> 255 bytes)

• Fixed crash when cancelling a download after doing :prompt-open-download

• Fixed crash when writing a download to disk fails with :prompt-open-download.

• Fixed :restart deleting the basedir when it was given with --basedir.

v0.8.1

Fixed

• Fix crash when pressing enter without a command

• Adjust error message to point out QtWebEngine is unsupported with the OS X .app currently.

• Hide Harfbuzz warning with the macOS .app

v0.8.0

Added

• New :repeat-command command (mapped to .) to repeat the last command. Note that two former default bundings conflict with that binding, unbinding them via :unbind .i and :unbind .o is recommended.

• New qute:bookmarks page which displays all bookmarks and quickmarks.

• New :prompt-open-download (bound to Ctrl-X) which can be used to open a download directly when getting the filename prompt.

• New {host} replacement for tab- and window titles which evaluates to the current host.

• New default binding ;t for :hint input.

• New variables $QUTE_CONFIG_DIR, $QUTE_DATA_DIR and $QUTE_DOWNLOAD_DIR available for userscripts.

• New option ui → status-position to configure the position of the status bar (top/bottom).

• New --pdf <filename> argument for :print WHICH can be used to generate a PDF without a dialog.

Changed

• :scroll-perc now prefers a count over the argument given to it, which means gg can be used with a count.

• Aliases can now use ;; to have an alias which executed multiple commands.

• :edit-url now does nothing if the URL isn’t changed in the spawned editor.

• :bookmark-add can now be passed a URL and title to add that as a bookmark rather than the current page.

• New taskadd userscript to add a taskwarrior task annotated with the current URL.

• :bookmark-del and :quickmark-del now delete the current page’s URL if none is given.

Fixed

• Compatibility with PyQt 5.7

• Fixed some configuration values being lost when a config option gets removed from qutebrowser’s code.

• Fix crash when downloading with a full disk

• Using :jump-mark (e.g. '') when the current URL is invalid doesn’t crash anymore.

Removed

• The ability to display status messages from webpages, as well as the related ui -> display-statusbar-messages setting.

• The general -> wrap-search setting as searches now always wrap. According to a quick straw poll and prior crash logs, almost nobody is using wrap-search = false, and turning off wrapping is not possible with QtWebEngine.

• :edit-url now doesn’t accept a count anymore as its behavior was confusing and it doesn’t make much sense to add a count.

v0.7.0

Added

• New :edit-url command to edit the URL in an external editor.

• New network -> custom-headers setting to send custom headers with every request.

• New {url:pretty} commandline replacement which gets replaced by the decoded URL.

• New marks to remember a scroll position:

• New :jump-mark command to jump to a mark, bound to '

• New :set-mark command to set a mark, bound to ```(backtick)

• The ' mark gets set when moving away (hinting link with anchor, searching, etc.) so you can move back with ''

• New --force-color argument to force colored logging even if stdout is not a terminal

• New :messages command to show error messages

• New pop-up showing possible keybinding when the first key of a keychain is pressed. This can be turned off using :set ui keyhint-blacklist *.

• New hints -> auto-follow-timeout setting to ignore keypresses after following a hint when filtering in number mode.

• New :history-clear command to clear the entire history

• New hints -> find-implementation to select which implementation (JS/Python) should be used to find hints on a page. The javascript implementation is better, but slower.

• New inputs group for :hint to hint text input fields.

Changed

• qutebrowser got a new (slightly updated) logo

• :tab-focus can now take a negative index to focus the nth tab counted from the right.

• :yank can now yank the pretty/decoded URL by adding --pretty

• :navigate now clears the URL fragment

• :completion-item-del (Ctrl-D) can now be used in :buffer completion to close a tab

• Various SSL ciphers are now disabled by default. With recent Qt/OpenSSL versions those already all are disabled, but with older versions they might not be.

• Show favicons as window icon with tabs-are-windows set.

• :bind <key> without a command now shows the existing binding

• The optional colorlog dependency got removed, as qutebrowser now displays colored logs without it.

• URLs are now shown decoded when hovering.

• Keybindings are now shown in the command completion

• Improved behavior when pasting multiple lines

• Rapid hints can now also be used for the normal hint target, which can be useful with javascript click handlers or checkboxes which don’t actually open a new page.

• :zoom-in or :zoom-out (+/-) with a too large count now zooms to the smallest/largest zoom instead of doing nothing.

• The commandline now accepts partially typed commands if they’re unique.

• Number hints are now kept filtered after following a hint in rapid mode.

• Number hints are now renumbered after filtering

• Number hints can now be filtered with multiple space-separated search terms

• hints -> scatter is now ignored for number hints

• Better history implementation which also stores titles. As a consequence, URLs which redirect to another URL are now added to the history too, marked with a -r suffix to the timestamp field.

Fixed

• Fixed using :hint links spawn with flags - you can now use things like the -v argument for :spawn or pass flags to the spawned commands.

• Various fixes for hinting corner-cases where following a link didn’t work or the hint was drawn at the wrong position.

• Fixed crash when downloading from a URL with SSL errors

• Close file handles correctly when a download failed

• Fixed crash when using ;Y (:hint links yank-primary) on a system without primary selection

• Don’t display quit confirmation with finished downloads

• Fixed updating the tab index in the statusbar when opening a background tab

• Fixed a crash when entering `:-- ` in the commandline

• Fixed :debug-console with PyQt 5.6

• Fixed qutebrowser not starting when sys.stderr is None

• Fixed crash when cancelling a download which belongs to an MHTML download

• Fixed rebinding of keybindings being case-sensitive

• Fix for tab indicators getting lost when moving tabs

• Fixed handling of backspace in number hinting mode

• Fixed FileNotFoundError when starting in some cases on old Qt versions

• Fixed sharing of cookies between tabs when private-browsing is enabled

• Toggling values with :set now uses lower-case values

• Hints now work with (non-standard) links with spaces around the URL

• Strip off trailing spaces for history entries with no title

v0.6.2

Fixed

• Fixed crash when using :tab-{prev,next,focus} right after closing the last tab with last-close set to close.

• Fixed crash when doing :undo in a new instance with tabs -> last-close set to default-page.

• Fixed crash when starting with --cachedir=""

• Fixed crash in some circumstances when using dictionary hints

• Fixed various crashes related to PyQt 5.6

v0.6.1

Fixed

• Fixed broken cheatsheet image which was missing from package

• Fixed occasional crash when switching/disconnecting monitors

• Fixed crash when downloading non-ascii files with a broken locale (LC_ALL=C)

• Added workaround for a Qt/PyQt bug which is too weird to describe here

v0.6.0

Added

• New :buffer command to easily switch tabs by name. This is not bound to a key by default for existing users due to a conflict with the gt/gT bindings (which are now removed from the default bindings). You can bind it by hand by running :bind -f gt set-cmd-text -s :buffer.

• New --quiet argument for the :debug-pyeval command to not open a tab with the results. Note :debug-pyeval is still only intended for debugging.

• The completion now matches each entered word separately.

• A new command :paste-primary got added to paste the primary selection, and <Shift-Insert> got added as a binding so it pastes primary rather than clipboard.

• New mode word for hints -> mode which uses a dictionary and link-texts for hints instead of single characters.

• New --all argument for :download-cancel to cancel all running downloads.

• New password_fill userscript to fill passwords using the pass executable.

• New current hinting mode which forces opening hints in the current tab (even with target="_blank")

Changed

• Pasting multiple lines via :paste now opens each line in a new tab.

• :navigate increment/decrement now preserves leading zeroes in URLs.

• general -> editor can now also handle {} inside another argument (e.g. to open vim via termite)

• Improved performance when scrolling with many tabs open.

• Shift-Insert now also pastes primary selection for prompts.

• :download-remove --all got un-deprecated to provide symmetry with :download-cancel --all. It does the same as :download-clear.

• Improved detection of URLs/search terms when pasting multiple lines.

• Don’t remove qutebrowser-editor-* temporary file if editor subprocess crashed

• Userscripts are also searched in /usr/share/qutebrowser/userscripts.

• Blocked hosts are now also read from a blocked-hosts file in the config dir (e.g. ~/.config/qutebrowser/blocked-hosts).

Fixed

• Fixed starting with -c "".

• Fixed crash when a tab is closed twice via javascript (e.g. Dropbox authentication dialogs)

• Fixed crash when a notification/geolocation prompt is answered after closing the tab it belongs to.

• Fixed crash when downloading a file without any path information (e.g a magnet link).

• Fixed crashes when opening an empty URL (e.g. via pasting).

• Fixed validation of duplicate values in hints -> chars.

• Fixed crash when PDF.js was partially installed.

• Fixed crash when XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR was not an absolute path.

• Fixed very long filenames when downloading data://-URLs.

• Fixed ugly UI fonts on Windows when Liberation Mono is installed

• Fixed crash when unbinding key from a section which doesn’t exist in the config

• Fixed report window after a segfault

• Fixed some directory browser issues on Windows

• Fixed crash when closing a window with a finished download and delayed remove-finished-downloads setting.

• Fixed crash when hitting <Tab> then <Ctrl-C> on pages without keyboard focus.

• Fixed "Frame load interrupted by policy change" error showing up when downloading files with Qt 5.6.

Removed

• The gt/gT bindings (luakit-like alternatives to J/K) were removed (except for existing configs) to make room for the gt binding to show buffers.

v0.5.1

Fixed

• Fixed completion for various config values when using :set.

• Fixed config validation for various config values.

• Prevented an error being logged when a website with HTTP authentication was opened on Windows.

v0.5.0

Added

• Ability to preview PDFs using pdf.js in the browser if it’s installed. This is disabled by default and can be enabled using the content -> pdfjs-enabled setting.

• New setting ui -> hide-wayland-decoration to hide the window decoration when using wayland.

• New userscripts in misc/userscripts:

• open_download to easily open a file in your downloads folder.

• view_in_mpv to open a video in mpv and remove it from the page.

• qutedmenu and dmenu_qutebrowser to select URLs via dmenu

• New setting content -> host-blocking-whitelist to whitelist certain domains from the adblocker.

• {scroll_pos} can now be used in ui -> window-title-format and tabs -> title-format.

• New setting general -> url-incdec-segments to configure which segments of the URL should be affected by :navigate increment/decrement.

• New --target argument to specify how URLs should be opened in an existing instance.

• New setting statusbar.url.fg.success.https to set the foreground color for the URL when a page was loaded via HTTPS.

• The scrollbar in the completion is now styled, and the following new options got added:

  • completion -> scrollbar-width

  • completion -> scrollbar-padding

  • colors -> completion.scrollbar.fg

  • colors -> completion.scrollbar.bg

• New value none for options taking a color system so they don’t display a gradient:

  • colors -> tabs.indicator.system

  • colors -> downloads.fg.system

  • colors -> downloads.bg.system

• New command :download-retry to retry a failed download.

• New command :download-clear which replaces :download-remove --all.

• :set-cmd-text has a new --append argument to append to the current statusbar text.

• qutebrowser now uses ~/.netrc if available to authenticate via HTTP.

• New :fake-key command to send a fake keypress to a website or to qutebrowser.

• New --mhtml argument for :download to download a page including all resources as MHTML file.

• New option tabs -> title-alignment to change the alignment of tab titles.

Changed

• The colors -> tabs.bg/fg.selected option got split into tabs.bg/fg.selected.odd/even.

• :spawn --userscript and :hint with the userscript target now look up relative paths in ~/.local/share/qutebrowser/userscripts or $XDG_DATA_DIR. Using a binary in $PATH won’t work anymore with --userscript.

• New design for error pages

• Link filtering for hints now checks if the text is contained anywhere in the link, and matches case-insensitively.

• The ui -> remove-finished-downloads option got changed to an integer and now takes a time (in milliseconds) to keep the download around after it’s finished. When set to -1, downloads are never removed.

• The :follow-hint command now optionally takes the keystring of a hint to follow.

• :scroll-px now doesn’t take floats anymore, which made little sense.

• Updated the user agent list for the :set network user-agent completion.

• Starting with --debug doesn’t log VDEBUG messages anymore (add --loglevel VDEBUG to get them).

• :debug-console now hides the console if it’s already shown.

• :yank-selected now doesn’t log the selected text anymore.

• general -> log-javascript-console got changed from a boolean to an option taking a loglevel (none, info, debug).

• :tab-move +/- now wraps around if tabs -> wrap is true.

• When a subprocess (like launched by :spawn) fails, its stdout/stderr is now logged to the console.

• A search engine name can now contain any non-space character, like dashes.

Deprecated

• :download-remove --all is now deprecated and :download-clear should be used instead.

• :download <url> <destination> is now deprecated and :download --dest <destination> <url> should be used instead.

Removed

• :scroll with two pixel-arguments (deprecated in v0.3.0)

• The :run-userscript command (deprecated in v0.2.0)

• The rapid and rapid-win targets for :hint (deprecated in v0.2.0)

• The :cancel-download command (deprecated in v0.2.0)

• The :download-page command (deprecated in v0.2.0)

Fixed

• Fixed retrying of downloads which were started in a now closed tab.

• Fixed displaying of web history if web-history-max-items is set to -1.

• Cloned tabs now don’t display favicons anymore if show-favicons is False.

• Fixed a crash when clicking a bookmark name and pressing Ctrl-D.

• Fixed a crash when a website presents a very small favicon.

• Fixed prompting for download directory when storage -> prompt-download-directory was unset.

• Fixed crash when using :follow-hint outside of hint mode.

• Fixed crash when using :set foo bar? with invalid section/option.

• Fixed scrolling to the very left/right with :scroll-perc.

• Using an external editor should now work correctly with some funny chars (U+2028/U+2029/BOM).

• Movements in caret mode now should work correctly on macOS and Windows.

• Fixed upgrade from earlier config versions.

• Fixed crash when killing a running userscript.

• Fixed characters being passed through when shifted with forward-unbound-keys set to auto.

• Fixed restarting after a crash is reported.

• Removed .pyc files accidentally contained in source releases.

v0.4.1

Fixed

• Adjusted AppArmor config for the IPC changes in v0.4.0.

• Fixed atime update frequency for IPC file.

• Worked around a Qt issue where middle-clicking caused scrolling with a touchpad to restart at the beginning of the page.

• The completion -> web-history-max-items setting is now also respected for items added after starting qutebrowser.

• Search terms are now shared between different tabs again

• Tests (a reduced subset of them) now run correctly again when DISPLAY is not set.

• Fixed an issue causing qutebrowser to crash with Python 3.5 as soon as an ad was blocked.

• Fixed an issue causing qutebrowser to not start with more recent Python 3.4 versions (e.g. on Debian experimental).

• Fixed various PendingDeprecationWarnings shown with Python 3.5.

v0.4.0

Added

• New bookmark functionality (similar to quickmarks without a name).

  • New command :bookmark-add to bookmark the current page (bound to M).

  • New command :bookmark-load to load a bookmark (bound to gb/gB/wB).

• New (hidden) command :completion-item-del (bound to <Ctrl-D>) to delete the current item in the completion (for quickmarks/bookmarks).

• New settings tabs -> padding and tabs -> indicator-tabbing to control the size/padding of the tabbar.

• New setting ui -> statusbar-padding to control the size/padding of the status bar.

• New setting network -> referer-header to configure when the referer should be sent (by default it’s only sent while on the same domain).

• New setting tabs -> show which supersedes the old tabs -> hide-* options and has an additional switching option which shows tab while switching them. There’s also a new show-switching option to configure the timeout.

• New setting storage -> remember-download-directory to remember the last used download directory.

• New setting storage -> prompt-download-directory to download all downloads without asking.

• Rapid hinting is now also possible for downloads.

• Directory browsing via file:// is now supported.

Changed

• Some developer scripts got moved to scripts/dev/

• When downloading to a FIFO or special file, a confirmation is displayed as this might cause qutebrowser to hang.

• The :yank-selected command now works in all modes instead of just caret mode and is not hidden anymore.

• minimal_webkit_testbrowser.py now has a --webengine switch to test QtWebEngine if it’s installed.

• The column width percentages for the completion view now depend on the completion model.

• The values for tabs -> position and ui -> downloads-position got changed from north/south/west/`east to top/bottom/left/right. Existing configs should be adjusted automatically.

• :tab-focus/gt now behaves like :tab-next if no count/index is given.

• The completion widget doesn’t show a border anymore.

• The tabbar doesn’t display ugly arrows anymore if there isn’t enough space for all tabs.

• Some insignificant Qt warnings which were printed on macOS are now hidden.

• Better support for Qt 5.5 and Python 3.5.

Fixed

• Fixed a bug where cookies were saved despite qutebrowser being started in private browsing mode.

• The local socket used for inter-process communication (opening new instances) is now ensured to only be accessible by the user on all operating systems.

• Various corner cases for inter-process communication issues got fixed.

• link_pyqt.py now should work better on untested distributions.

• Fixed various corner-cases with crashes when reading invalid config values and the history file.

• Fixed various corner-cases when setting text via an external editor.

• Fixed potential crash when hinting a text field.

• Fixed entering of insert mode when certain disabled text fields were clicked.

• Fixed a crash when using :set with -p and ! (invert value)

• Downloads with unknown size are now handled correctly.

• :navigate increment/decrement (<Ctrl-A>/<Ctrl-X>) now handles some corner-cases better.

• Fixed a bug where the completion got affected by another window’s completion if it was open in both windows.

• Fixed a performance issue with large histories when opening previously unvisited websites.

• The progress bar now doesn’t cause the statusbar to change it’s height anymore.

• ~ is now always expanded when spawning a script.

• Fixed various corner cases when opening links in an existing instance.

• Fixed a race-condition causing an exception when starting qutebrowser.

Removed

• The tabs -> indicator-space setting got removed as the new padding settings should be used instead.

• The tabs -> hide-always and tabs -> hide-auto settings got merged into the new tabs -> show setting.

v0.3.0

Added

• New commands :message-info, :message-error and :message-warning to show messages in the statusbar, e.g. from a userscript.

• New command :scroll-px which replaces :scroll for pixel-exact scrolling.

• New command :jseval to run a javascript snippet on the current page.

• New (hidden) command :follow-selected (bound to Enter/Ctrl-Enter by default) to follow the link which is currently selected (e.g. after searching via /).

• New (hidden) command :clear-keychain to clear a partially entered keychain (bound to <Escape> by default, in addition to clearing search).

• New setting ui -> smooth-scrolling.

• New setting content -> webgl to enable/disable WebGL.

• New setting content -> css-regions to enable/disable support for CSS Regions.

• New setting content -> hyperlink-auditing to enable/disable support for hyperlink auditing.

• New setting tabs -> mousewheel-tab-switching to control mousewheel behavior on the tab bar.

• New arguments --datadir and --cachedir to set the data/cache location.

• New arguments --basedir and --temp-basedir (intended for debugging) to set a different base directory for all data, which allows multiple invocations.

• New argument --no-err-windows to suppress all error windows.

• New arguments --top-navigate and --bottom-navigate (-t/-b) for :scroll-page to specify a navigation action (e.g. automatically go to the next page when arriving at the bottom).

• New flag -d/--detach for :spawn to detach the spawned process so it’s not closed when qutebrowser is.

• New flag -v/--verbose for :spawn to print information when the process started/exited successfully.

• Many new color settings (foreground setting for every background setting).

• New setting ui -> modal-js-dialog to use the standard modal dialogs for javascript questions instead of using the statusbar.

• New setting colors -> webpage.bg to set the background color to use for websites which don’t set one.

• New setting completion -> auto-open to only open the completion when tab is pressed (if set to false).

• New visual/caret mode (bound to v) to select text by keyboard.

• There are now some example userscripts in misc/userscripts.

• Support for Qt 5.5 and tox 2.0

Changed

• Breaking change for userscripts: QUTE_HTML and QUTE_TEXT for userscripts now don’t store the contents directly, and instead contain a filename.

• The content -> geolocation and notifications settings now support a true value to always allow those. However, this is not recommended.

• New bindings <Ctrl-R> (rapid), <Ctrl-F> (foreground) and <Ctrl-B> (background) to switch hint modes while hinting.

• <Ctrl-M> and numpad-enter are now bound by default for bindings where <Return> was bound.

• :hint tab and F now respect the background-tabs setting. To enforce a foreground tab (what F did before), use :hint tab-fg or ;f.

• :scroll now takes a direction argument (up/down/left/right/top/bottom/page-up/page-down) instead of two pixel arguments (dx/dy). The old form still works but is deprecated.

• The ui -> user-stylesheet setting now also takes file paths relative to the config directory.

• The content -> cookies-accept setting now has new no-3rdparty (default) and no-unknown-3rdparty values to block third-party cookies. The default value got renamed to all.

• Improved startup time by reading the webpage history while qutebrowser is open.

• The way :spawn splits its commandline has been changed slightly to allow commands with flags.

• The default for the new-instance-open-target setting has been changed to tab.

• Sessions now store zoom/scroll-position separately for each entry.

Deprecated

• :scroll with two pixel-arguments is now deprecated - :scroll-px should be used instead.

Removed

• The --no-crash-dialog argument which was intended for debugging only was removed as it’s replaced by --no-err-windows which suppresses all error windows.

• Support for Qt installations without SSL support was dropped.

Fixed

• Scrolling should now work more reliably on some pages where arrow keys worked but hjkl didn’t.

• Small improvements when checking if an input is a URL or not.

• Fixed wrong cursor position when completing the first item in the completion.

• Fixed exception when using search engines with {foo} in their name.

• Fixed a bug where the same title was shown for all tabs on some systems.

• Don’t install the scripts package when installing qutebrowser.

• Fixed searching for terms starting with a hyphen (e.g. /-foo)

• Proxy authentication credentials are now remembered between different tabs.

• Fixed updating of the tab title on pages without title.

• Fixed AssertionError when closing many windows quickly.

• Various fixes for deprecated key bindings and auto-migrations.

• Workaround for qutebrowser not starting when there are NUL-bytes in the history (because of a currently unknown bug).

• Fixed handling of keybindings containing Ctrl/Meta on macOS.

• Fixed crash when downloading a URL without filename (e.g. magnet links) via "Save as…​".

• Fixed exception when starting qutebrowser with :set as argument.

• Fixed horrible completion performance when the shrink option was set.

• Sessions now store zoom/scroll-position correctly.

v0.2.1

Fixed

• Added missing manpage (doc/qutebrowser.1.asciidoc) to archive.

v0.2.0

Added

• Session support

  • new command :session-load to load a session.

  • new command :session-save to save a session.

  • new command :session-delete to delete a session.

  • new setting general -> save-session to always save the session on quit.

  • new setting general -> session-default-name to configure the session name to use if none is given.

  • new argument -r/--restore to specify a session to load.

  • new argument -R/--override-restore to not load a session even if one was saved.

• New commands to manage downloads:

  • :download to download a URL or the current page.

  • :download-cancel to cancel a download.

  • :download-delete to delete a download from disk.

  • :download-open to open a finished download.

  • :download-remove to remove a download from the list. :download-remove --all or the new cd keybinding can be used to clear all finished downloads.

• History completion

  • New option completion -> timestamp-format to set the format used to display the history timestamps.

  • New option completion -> web-history-max-items to configure how many history items to show in the completion.

  • The option completion -> history-length for the command history got renamed to cmd-history-max-items.

• Better save logic for the config/state:

  • Only save files if modified (e.g. don’t overwrite the config if it was edited outside of qutebrowser and nothing was changed in qutebrowser).

  • Save things (cookies, config, quickmarks, …​) periodically all 15 seconds (time can be changed with the general -> auto-save-interval option).

• Opera-like mouse rocker gestures

  • New option input -> rocker-gestures. When turned on, the history can be navigated back/forward by holding a mouse button and pressing the other one.

• New -f option for :reload to reload and bypass the cache.

• Pass more information (QUTE_MODE, QUTE_SELECTED_TEXT, QUTE_SELECTED_HTML, QUTE_USER_AGENT, QUTE_HTML, QUTE_TEXT) to userscripts.

• New --userscript option to :spawn (which deprecates :run-userscript).

• Ability to toggle a value to :set by appending a ! to the value.

• New options to hide the tab-/statusbar:

  • tabs -> hide-always for the tabbar

  • ui -> hide-statusbar for the statusbar

• New options to configure how the tab/window titles should look:

  • tabs -> title-format for the tabbar

  • ui -> window-title-format for the window title

• HTML5 Geolocation/Notification support:

  • New option content -> geolocation to permanently turn the geolocation off.

  • New option content -> notifications to permanently turn notifications off.

• New options to disable javascript prompts/alerts:

  • content -> ignore-javascript-prompt to turn off prompts.

  • content -> ignore-javascript-alerts to turn off alerts.

• Two new options to customize the behavior of hints:

  • hints -> min-chars to set minimum number of chars in hints.

  • hints -> scatter which when turned off distributes the hints sequentially (like dwb) instead of scattering their positions (like Vimium).

• Make it possible to use :open -[twb] without url.

  • New option general -> default-page to set the page to be opened when doing that.

• New input -> partial-timeout option to clear partial keystrings.

• New option completion -> download-path-suggestion to configure what to show in the completion for downloads.

• Queue messages shown in unfocused windows and show them when the window is focused.

  • New option ui -> message-unfocused to disable this behavior.

• New --relaxed-config argument which ignores unknown options.

• New :tab-detach command to open the current tab in a new window.

• Zooming via Ctrl-Mousewheel.

  • New option input -> mouse-zoom-divider to control how much the page is zoomed when rotating the wheel.

• New option (content -> host-blocking-enabled) to enable/disable host blocking.

• New values tab-bg/tab-bg-silent for new-instance-open-target to open a background tab.

• New ui -> downloads-position setting to move the downloads to the bottom.

• New ui -> hide-mouse-cursor option to hide the mouse cursor inside qutebrowser.

• New argument -s for qutebrowser to set a temporary config option.

• New argument -p for the :set command to print the new value.

• New --rapid option to :hint. The rapid/rapid-win targets are now deprecated, and --rapid can be used as well with the targets run/hover/userscript/spawn as well.

• New -f argument to :bind to overwrite the old binding.

• New --qt-name argument to qutebrowser which is passed to Qt to set WM_CLASS.

• Alternating row colors in completion. This adds a new colors -> completion.alternate-bg option.

Changed

• Ignore quotes with maxsplit-commands (:open, :quickmark-load, etc.) and don’t quote arguments for those commands in the completions. This also means some commands needed adjustments:

  • Clear search when :search without arguments is given. (:search "" will now search for the literal text "")

  • Add -s/--space argument to :set-cmd-text (as :set-cmd-text "foo " will now set the literal text "foo ")

• Ignore ;; for splitting with some commands like :bind.

• Add unbound (new) default keybindings to config. This also adds a new <unbound> special command.

  • To unbind a command keybinding without binding it to a new key, you now have to bind it to <unbound> or it’ll be readded automatically.

• If an SSL error is raised multiple times with the same error/certificate/host/scheme/port, the user is only asked once.

• Jump to last instead of first item when pressing Shift-Tab the first time in the completion.

• Add a fullscreen keybinding.

• Add a :search command in addition to /foo so it’s more visible and can be used from scripts.

• Various improvements to documentation, logging, and the crash reporter.

• Expand ~ to the users home directory with :run-userscript.

• Improve the userscript runner on Linux/macOS by using QSocketNotifier.

• Add luakit-like gt/gT keybindings to cycle through tabs.

• Show default value for config values in the completion.

• Clone tab icon, tab text and zoom level when cloning tabs.

• Don’t open relative file paths with :open, only with commandline arguments.

• Expand environment variables in config settings which take a file path.

• Add a list of common user agents to the user agent setting completion.

• Move cursor to end of textboxes when hinting.

• Don’t start searches on invalid URLs for quickmarks/startpage.

• Various performance improvements for the completion.

• Always open URLs given as argument in the foreground.

• Improve various error messages.

• Add startpage/default-page values to tabs -> last-close.

• Various improvements to :restart - it should be more robust now and uses sessions so all state (focused tab, scroll position, etc.) gets remembered.

• Add tab index display to the statusbar.

• Keep progress bar height fixed when the statusbar is multiline.

• Many improvements to tests and related infrastructure:

  • init_venv.py and run_checks.py have been replaced by tox. Install tox and run tox -e mkvenv instead.

  • The tests now use pytest

  • Many new tests added

  • Mac Mini buildbot to run the tests on macOS.

  • Coverage recording via coverage.py.

  • New --pdb-postmortem argument to drop into the pdb debugger on exceptions.

  • Use hunter for line tracing instead of a selfmade solution.

Deprecated

• The :run-userscript command - use :spawn --userscript instead.

• The rapid and rapid-win targets for :hint - use the --rapid argument to :hint instead.

• The :cancel-download command - use :download-cancel instead.

• The :download-page command - use :download instead.

Removed

• init_venv.py and run_checks.py have been replaced by tox. Install tox and run tox -e mkvenv instead..

Fixed

• Fix for cache never being used.

• Fixed handling of key release events (e.g. for javascript) when holding a key and pressing a second one.

• Fix handling of commands using ;; at various places (key config, command parser, :bind)

• Fix splitting of flags with arguments (:bind -m/--mode).

• Fix bindings of special keys with lower-case modifiers (e.g. <ctrl-x>)

• Fix for weird search highlights when changing tabs while search is active.

• Fix starting with -c "".

• Fix removing of partial downloads when a download is cancelled via context menu.

• Fix retrying of downloads which were started in a now closed tab.

• Highlight text case-insensitively in completion.

• Scroll completion to top when showing it.

• Handle unencodable file paths in config types correctly.

• Fix for crash when executing a delayed command (because of a shadowed keybinding) and then unfocusing the window.

• Fix for crash when hinting on a page which doesn’t have a URL yet.

• Fix exception when using :set-cmd-text with an empty argument.

• Add a timeout to pastebin HTTP replies.

• Various other fixes for small/rare bugs.

v0.1.4

Changed

• The Windows builds come with Qt 5.4.1 which has some related bugfixes.

• Improvements to CPU usage when idle.

• Ensure there’s no size for font-family settings.

• Handle URLs with double-colon as search strings.

• Adjust prompt size hint based on content.

• Refactor websettings and save/restore defaults.

• Various small improvements to logging.

• Various improvements for hinting.

• Improve parsing of faulthandler logs.

Removed

• Remove default search engines.

• Remove debug console completing completely.

Fixed

• Ignore RuntimeError in mouserelease_insertmode.

• Hide Qt warning when aborting download reply.

• Hide "Error while shutting down tabs" message.

• Clear open target in acceptNavigationRequest.

• Fix handling of signals with deleted tabs.

• Restore sys.std* in utils.fake_io on exceptions.

• Allow font names with integers in them.

• Fix QIODevice warnings when closing tabs.

• Set the QSettings path to a config-subdirectory.

• Add workaround for adblock-message without window.

• Fix searching for terms starting with a slash.

• Ignore tab key presses if they’d switch focus.

Security

• Stop the icon database from being created when private-browsing is set to true.

• Disable insecure SSL ciphers.

v0.1.3

Changed

• Various small logging improvements.

• Don’t open relative files in fuzzy_url with :open

• Various crashdialog improvements.

• Hide adblocked iframes.

Fixed

• Handle shutdown of page with prompt correctly.

• fuzzy_url: handle invalid URLs with autosearch off

• Handle explicit searches with auto-search=false.

• Abort download override question on error/cancel.

• Set a higher z-index for hint labels.

• Close contextmenu when closing tab to avoid crash.

• Fix statusbar quickly popping up as window.

• Clean up NetworkManager after downloads finished.

• Fix restoring of cmd widget after an error.

• Fix retrying of downloads after the tab is closed.

• Fix check_libraries() output for Arch Linux.

• Handle all IPCErrors properly.

• Handle another webelem.IsNullError with hints.

• Handle UnicodeDecodeError when reading configs.

Security

• Fix for HTTP passwords accidentally being written to debug log.

v0.1.2

Changed

• Uncheck sending of debug log by default when private browsing is on.

• Add SSL info to version info.

Removed

• Remove hosts-file.net from blocker default lists.

Fixed

• Fix rare exception when a key is pressed shortly after opening a window

• Fix exception with certain invalid URLs like http:foo:0

• Work around Qt bug which renders checkboxes on macOS unusable

• Fix exception when a local files can’t be read in :adblock-update

• Hide 2 more Qt warnings.

• Add !important to hint CSS so websites don’t override the hint look

• Make init_venv.py work with multiple sip .so files.

• Fix splitting with certain commands with an empty argument

• Fix uppercase hints.

• Fix segfaults if another page is loaded while a prompt is open

• Fix exception with invalid ShellCommand config values.

• Replace unencodable chars

• Fix user-stylesheet setting with an empty value.

v0.1.1

Added

• Set window icon and add a qutebrowser.ico file for Windows.

• Ask the user when downloading to an already existing file.

• Add a network -> proxy-dns-requests option.

• Add "Remove finished" to the download context menu

• Open and remove clicked downloads.

Changes

• Windows releases are now built with Qt 5.4 which brings many improvements and bugfixes.

• Add a troubleshooting section to the FAQ.

• Display IPC errors to the user.

• Rewrite keymode handling to use only one mode which also fixes various bugs.

• Save version to state config.

• Set zoom to default instead of 100% with :zoom/=.

• Adjust page zoom if default zoom changed.

• Force tabs to be focused on :undo.

• Replace manual installation instructions on macOS with homebrew/macports.

• Allow min-/maximizing of print preview on Windows.

• Various documentation improvements.

• Various other small improvements and cleanups.

Removed

• Clean up and temporarily disable alias completion.

Fixed

• Fix setting of QWebSettings (e.g. web fonts) with empty strings.

• Re-focus web view when leaving prompt/yesno mode.

• Handle :restart correctly with Python eggs.

• Handle an invalid cwd properly.

• Fix popping of a dead question in prompter.

• Fix AttributeError on config changes on Ubuntu.

• Don’t treat things like "31c3" as IP address.

• Handle category being None in Qt message handler.

• Force-include pygments in freeze.py.

• Fix scroll percentage not updating on some pages like twitter.

• Encode Content-Disposition header name properly.

• Fix item sorting in NeighborList.

• Handle data being None in download read timer.

• Stop download read timer when reply has finished.

• Fix handling of small/big fuzzyval's in NeighborList.

• Fix crashes when entering invalid values in qute:settings.

• Abort questions in NetworkManager when destroyed.

• Fix height calculation of download view.

• Always auto-remove adblock downloads when done.

• Ensure the docs get included in freeze.py.

• Fix crash with :zoom.

v0.1

Initial release.