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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.
v3.4.0 (unreleased)
Deprecated
-
In the next release (v3.5.0), support for macOS 12 Monterey will be dropped, and binaries will be built on macOS 13 Ventura.
Removed
-
Support for Python 3.8 is dropped, and Python 3.9 is now required.
-
When using the installer on Windows 10, build 1809 or newer is now required (previous versions required 1607 or newer, but that’s not officialy supported by Qt upstream).
Added
-
Planned: Full support for Qt 6.8, with Windows/macOS binaries being built on Qt 6.8.0.
-
Planned: Full support for Python 3.13, with Windows/macOS binaries using it if possible.
Changed
-
The
.desktop
file now also declares qutebrowser as a valid viewer forimage/webp
. -
Updated mimetype information for getting a suitable extension when downloading a
data:
URL.
Fixed
-
Crash with recent Jinja/Markupsafe versions when viewing a finished userscript (or potentially editor) process via
:process
.
v3.3.1 (2024-10-12)
Fixed
-
Updated the workaround for Google sign-in issues.
v3.3.0 (2024-10-12)
Added
-
Added the
qt.workarounds.disable_hangouts_extension
setting, for disabling the Google Hangouts extension built into Chromium/QtWebEngine. -
Failed end2end tests will now save screenshots of the browser window when run under xvfb (the default on linux). Screenshots will be under
$TEMP/pytest-current/pytest-screenshots/
or attached to the GitHub actions run as an artifact. (#7625)
Removed
-
Support for macOS 11 Big Sur is dropped. Binaries are now built on macOS 12 Monterey and are unlikely to still run on older macOS versions.
Changed
-
The qute-pass userscript now has better support for internationalized domain names when using the pass backend - both domain names and secret paths are normalized before comparing (#8133)
-
Ignored URL query parameters (via
url.yank_ignored_parameters
) are now respected when yanking any URL (for example, through hints withhint links yank
). The{url:yank}
substitution has also been added as a version of{url}
that respects ignored URL query parameters. (#7879) -
Windows and macOS releases now bundle Qt 6.7.3, which includes security fixes up to Chromium 129.0.6668.58.
Fixed
-
A minor memory leak of QItemSelectionModels triggered by closing the completion dialog has been resolved. (#7950)
-
The link to the chrome URL match pattern documentation in our settings docs now loads a live page again. (#8268)
-
A rare crash when on Qt 6, a renderer process terminates with an unknown termination reason.
-
Updated the workaround for Google sign-in issues.
v3.2.1 (2024-06-25)
Added
-
There is now a separate macOS release built for Apple Silicon. A Universal Binary might follow with a later release.
Changed
-
Windows and macOS releases now bundle Qt 6.7.2, which includes security fixes up to Chromium 125.0.6422.142.
Fixed
-
When the selected Qt wrapper is unavailable, qutebrowser now again shows a GUI error message instead of only an exception in the terminal.
v3.2.0 (2024-06-03)
Deprecated
-
This will be the last feature release supporting macOS 11 Big Sur. Starting with qutebrowser v3.3.0, macOS 12 Monterey will be the oldest supported version.
Added
-
When qutebrowser receives a SIGHUP it will now reload any config.py file in use (same as the
:config-source
command does). (#8108) -
The Chromium security patch version is now shown in the backend string in
--version
and:version
. This reflects the latest Chromium version that security fixes have been backported to the base QtWebEngine version from. (#7187)
Changed
-
Windows and macOS releases now ship with Qt 6.7.1, which is based on Chromium 118.0.5993.220 with security patches up to 124.0.6367.202.
-
With QtWebEngine 6.7+, the
colors.webpage.darkmode.enabled
setting can now be changed at runtime and supports URL patterns (#8182). -
A few more completions will now match search terms in any order:
:quickmark-*
,:bookmark-*
,:tab-take
and:tab-select
(for the quick and bookmark categories). (#7955) -
Elements with an ARIA
role="switch"
now get hints (toggle switches like e.g. on cookie banners). -
The
tor_identity
userscript now validates that the -c|--control-port argument value is an int. (#8162)
Fixed
-
input.insert_mode.auto_load
sometimes not triggering due to a race condition. (#8145) -
Worked around qutebrowser quitting when closing a KDE file dialog due to a Qt bug. (#8143)
-
Trying to use qutebrowser after it’s been deleted/moved on disk (e.g. after a Python upgrade) should now not crash anymore.
-
When the QtWebEngine resources dir couldn’t be found, qutebrowser now doesn’t crash anymore (but QtWebEngine still might).
-
Fixed a rare crash in the completion widget when there was no selection model when we went to clear that, probably when leaving a mode. (#7901)
-
Worked around a minor issue around QTimers on Windows where the IPC server could close the socket early. (#8191)
-
The latest PDF.js release (v4.2.67) is now supported when backed by QtWebEngine 6.6+ (#8170)
v3.1.0 (2023-12-08)
Removed
-
The darkmode settings
grayscale.all
,grayscale.images
andincrease_text_contrast
got removed, following removals in Chromium.
Added
-
New
smart-simple
value forcolors.webpage.darkmode.policy.images
, which on QtWebEngine 6.6+ uses a simpler classification algorithm to decide whether to invert images. -
New
content.javascript.legacy_touch_events
setting, with those now being disabled by default, following a Chromium change.
Changed
-
Upgraded the bundled Qt version to 6.6.1, based on Chromium 112. Note this is only relevant for the macOS/Windows releases, on Linux those will be upgraded via your distribution packages.
-
Upgraded the bundled Python version for macOS/Windows to 3.12
-
The
colors.webpage.darkmode.threshold.text
setting got renamed tocolors.webpage.darkmode.threshold.foreground
, following a rename in Chromium. -
With Qt 6.6, the
content.canvas_reading
setting now works without a restart and supports URL patterns.
Fixed
-
Some web pages jumping to the top when the statusbar is hidden or (with v3.0.x) when a prompt is hidden.
-
Compatibility with PDF.js v4
-
Added an elaborate workaround for a bug in QtWebEngine 6.6.0 causing crashes on Google Mail/Meet/Chat, and a bug in QtWebEngine 6.5.0/.1/.2 causing crashes there with dark mode.
-
Made a rare crash in QtWebEngine when starting/retrying a download less likely to happen.
-
Graphical glitches in Google sheets and PDF.js, again. Removed the version restriction for the default application of
qt.workarounds.disable_accelerated_2d_canvas
as the issue was still evident on Qt 6.6.0. (#7489) -
The
colors.webpage.darkmode.threshold.foreground
setting (.text
in older versions) now works correctly with Qt 6.4+.
v3.0.2 (2023-10-19)
Fixed
-
Upgraded the bundled Qt version to 6.5.3. Note this is only relevant for the macOS/Windows releases, on Linux those will be upgraded via your distribution packages. This Qt patch release comes with various important fixes, among them:
-
Fix for crashes on Google Meet / GMail with dark mode enabled
-
Fix for right-click in devtools not working properly
-
Fix for drag & drop not working on Wayland
-
Fix for some XKB key remappings not working
-
Security fixes up to Chromium 116.0.5845.187, including CVE-2023-4863, a critical heap buffer overflow in WebP, for which "Google is aware that an exploit […] exists in the wild."
-
v3.0.1 (2023-10-19)
Fixed
-
The "restore video" functionality of the
view_in_mpv
script works again on webengine. -
Setting
url.auto_search
todns
works correctly now with Qt 6. -
Counts passed via keypresses now have a digit limit (4300) to avoid exceptions due to cats sleeping on numpads. (#7834)
-
Navigating via hints to a remote URL from a file:// one works again. (#7847)
-
The timers related to the tab audible indicator and the auto follow timeout no longer accumulate connections over time. (#7888)
-
The workaround for crashes when using drag & drop on Wayland with Qt 6.5.2 now also works correctly when using
wayland-egl
rather thanwayland
as Qt platform. -
Worked around a weird
TypeError
withQProxyStyle
/TabBarStyle
on certain platforms with Python 3.12. -
Removed 1px border for the downloads view, mostly noticeable when it’s transparent.
-
Due to a Qt bug, cloning/undoing a tab which was not fully loaded caused qutebrowser to crash. This is now fixed via a workaround.
-
Graphical glitches in Google sheets and PDF.js via a new setting
qt.workarounds.disable_accelerated_2d_canvas
to disable the accelerated 2D canvas feature which defaults to enabled on affected Qt versions. (#7489) -
The download dialog should no longer freeze when browsing to directories with many files. (#7925)
-
The app.slack.com User-Agent quirk now targets chromium 112 on Qt versions lower than 6.6.0 (previously it always targets chromium 99) (#7951)
-
Workaround a Qt issue causing jpeg files to not show up in the upload file picker when it was filtering for image filetypes (#7866)
v3.0.0 (2023-08-18)
Major changes
-
qutebrowser now supports Qt 6 and uses it by default. Qt 5.15 is used as a fallback if Qt 6 is unavailable. This behavior can be customized in three ways (in order of precedence):
-
Via
--qt-wrapper PyQt5
or--qt-wrapper PyQt6
command-line arguments. -
Via the
QUTE_QT_WRAPPER
environment variable, set toPyQt6
orPyQt5
. -
For packagers wanting to provide packages specific to a Qt version, patch
qutebrowser/qt/machinery.py
and set_WRAPPER_OVERRIDE
.
-
-
Various commands were renamed to better group related commands:
-
set-cmd-text
→cmd-set-text
-
repeat
→cmd-repeat
-
repeat-command
→cmd-repeat-last
-
later
→cmd-later
-
edit-command
→cmd-edit
-
run-with-count
→cmd-run-with-count
The old names continue to work for the time being, but are deprecated and show a warning.
-
-
Releases are now automated on CI, and GPG signed by
qutebrowser bot <bot@qutebrowser.org>
, fingerprint27F3 BB4F C217 EECB 8585 78AE EF7E E4D0 3969 0B7B
. The key is available as follows:-
Via keys.openpgp.org
-
Via WKD for bot@qutebrowser.org
-
Support for old Qt versions (< 5.15), old Python versions (< 3.8) and old macOS (< 11)/Windows (< 10) versions were dropped. See the "Removed" section below for details.
Added
-
On invalid commands/settings with a similarly spelled match, qutebrowser now suggests the correct name in its error messages.
-
New
:prompt-fileselect-external
command which can be used to spawn an external file selector (fileselect.folder.command
) from download filename prompts (bound to<Alt+e>
by default). -
New
qute://start
built-in start page (not set as the default start page yet). -
New
content.javascript.log_message.levels
setting, allowing to surface JS log messages as qutebrowser messages (rather than only logging them). By default, errors in internalqute:
pages and userscripts are shown to the user. -
New
content.javascript.log_message.excludes
setting, which allows to exclude certain messages from thecontent.javascript.log_message.levels
setting described above. -
New
tabs.title.elide
setting to configure where text should be elided (replaced by…
) in tab titles when space runs out. -
New
--quiet
switch for:back
and:forward
, to suppress the error message about already being at beginning/end of history. -
New
qute-1pass
userscript using the 1password commandline to fill passwords. -
On macOS when running with Qt < 6.3,
pyobjc-core
andpyobjc-framework-Cocoa
are now required dependencies. They are not required on other systems or when running with Qt 6.3+, but still listed in therequirements.txt
because it’s impossible to tell the two cases apart there. -
New features in userscripts:
-
qutedmenu
gained newwindow
andprivate
options. -
qute-keepassxc
now supports unlock-on-demand, multiple account selection via rofi, and inserting TOTP-codes (experimental). -
qute-pass
will now try looking up candidate pass entries based on the calling tab’s verbatim netloc (hostname including port and username) if it can’t find a match with an earlier candidate (FQDN, IPv4 etc).
-
-
New
qt.chromium.experimental_web_platform_features
setting, which is enabled on Qt 5 by default, to maximize compatibility with websites despite an aging Chromium backend. -
New
colors.webpage.darkmode.increase_text_contrast
setting for Qt 6.3+ -
New
fonts.tooltip
,colors.tooltip.bg
andcolors.tooltip.fg
settings. -
New
log-qt-events
debug flag for-D
-
New
--all
flags for:bookmark-del
and:quickmark-del
to delete all quickmarks/bookmarks.
Removed
-
Python 3.8.0 or newer is now required.
-
Support for Python 3.6 and 3.7 is dropped, as they both reached their end of life in December 2021 and June 2023, respectively.
-
Support for Qt/PyQt before 5.15.0 and QtWebEngine before 5.15.2 are now dropped, as older Qt versions are end-of-life upstream since mid/late 2020 (5.13/5.14) and late 2021 (5.12 LTS).
-
The
--enable-webengine-inspector
flag is now dropped. It used to be ignored but still accepted, to allow doing a:restart
from versions older than v2.0.0. Thus, switching from v1.x.x directly to v3.0.0 via:restart
will not be possible. -
Support for macOS 10.14 and 10.15 is now dropped, raising the minimum required macOS version to macOS 11 Big Sur.
-
Qt 6.4 was the latest version to support macOS 10.14 and 10.15.
-
It should be possible to build a custom .dmg with Qt 6.4, but this is unsupported and not recommended.
-
-
Support for Windows 8 and for Windows 10 before 1607 is now dropped.
-
Support for older Windows 10 versions might still be present in Qt 6.0/6.1/6.2
-
Support for Windows 8.1 is still present in Qt 5.15
-
It should be possible to build a custom .exe with those versions, but this is unsupported and not recommended.
-
-
Support for 32-bit Windows is now dropped.
Changed
-
The qutebrowser icons got moved from
icons/
toqutebrowser/icons
in the repository, so that it’s possible for qutebrowser to load them using Python’s resource system (rather than compiling them into a Qt resource file). Packagers are advised to usemisc/Makefile
if possible, which has been updated with the new paths. -
The
content.javascript.can_access_clipboard
setting got renamed tocontent.javascript.clipboard
and now understands three different values rather than being a boolean:none
(formerlyfalse
),access
(formerlytrue
) andaccess-paste
(additionally allows pasting content, needed for websites like Photopea or GitHub Codespaces). -
The default
hints.selectors
now also match thetreeitem
ARIA roles. -
The
:click-element
command now can also click elements based on its ID (id
), a CSS selector (css
), a position (position
), or click the currently focused element (focused
). -
The
:click-element
command now can select the first found element via--select-first
. -
New
search.wrap_messages
setting, making it possible to disable search wrapping messages. -
The
:session-save
command now has a new--no-history
flag, to exclude tab history. -
New widgets for
statusbar.widgets
:-
clock
, showing the current time -
search_match
, showing the current match and total count when finding text on a page
-
-
Messages shown by qutebrowser now don’t automatically get interpreted as rich text anymore. Thus, e.g.
:message-info <h1>test
now shows the given text. To show rich text with:message-*
commands, use their new--rich
flag. Note this is NOT a security issue, as only a small subset of HTML is interpreted as rich text by Qt, independently from the website. -
Improved output when loading Greasemonkey scripts.
-
The macOS
.app
now is registered as a handler for.mhtml
files, such as the ones produced by:download --mhtml
. -
The "… called unimplemented GM_…" messages are now logged as info JS messages instead of errors.
-
For QtNetwork downloads (e.g.
:adblock-update
), various changes were done for how redirects work: -
Insecure redirects (HTTPS → HTTP) now fail the download.
-
20 redirects are now allowed before the download fails rather than only 10.
-
A redirect to the same URL will now fail the download with too many redirects instead of being ignored.
-
When a download fails in a way it’d leave an empty file around, the empty file is now deleted.
-
With Qt 6, setting
content.headers.referer
toalways
will act as if it was set tosame-domain
. The documentation is now updated to point that out. -
With QtWebEngine 5.15.5+, the load finished workaround was dropped, which should make certain operations happen when the page has started loading rather when it fully finished.
-
mkvenv.py
has a new--pyqt-snapshot
flag, allowing to install certain packages from the Riverbank development snapshots server. -
When
QUTE_QTWEBENGINE_VERSION_OVERRIDE
is set, it now always wins, no matter how the version would otherwise have been determined. Note setting this value can break things (if set to a wrong value), and usually isn’t needed. -
When qutebrowser is run with an older QtWebEngine version as on the previous launch, it now prints an error before starting (which causes the underlying Chromium to remove all browsing data such as cookies).
-
The keys "<To Do List>" and "<Contrast adjust>" are now named "<To-do list>" and "<Adjust contrast>", respectively.
-
The
tox.ini
now requires at least tox 3.20 (was tox 3.15 previously). -
:config-diff
now has an--include-hidden
flag, which also shows internally-set settings. -
Improved error messages when
:spawn
can’t find an executable. -
When a process fails, the error message now suggests using
:process PID
with the correct PID (rather than always showing the latest process, which might not be the failing one) -
When a process got killed with
SIGTERM
, no error message is now displayed anymore (unless started with:spawn --verbose
). -
When a process got killed by a signal, the signal name is now displayed in the message.
-
The
js-string-replaceall
quirk is now removed from the defaultcontent.site_specific_quirks.skip
, so thatString.replaceAll
is now polyfilled on QtWebEngine < 5.15.3, hopefully improving website compaitibility. -
Hints are now displayed for elements setting an
aria-haspopup
attribute. -
qutebrowser now uses SPDX license identifiers in its files. Full support for the REUSE specification (license provided in a machine-readable way for every single file) is not done yet, but planned for a future release.
Fixed
-
When the devtools are clicked but
input.insert_mode.auto_enter
is set tofalse
, insert mode now isn’t entered anymore. -
The search wrapping messages are now correctly displayed in (hopefully) all cases with QtWebEngine.
-
When a message with the same text as a currently already displayed one gets shown, qutebrowser used to only show one message. This is now only done when the two messages are completely equivalent (text, level, etc.) instead of doing so when only the text matches.
-
The
progress
andbackforward
statusbar widgets now stay removed if you choose to remove them. Previously they would appear again on navigation. -
Rare crash when running userscripts with crashed renderer processes.
-
Multiple rare crashes when quitting qutebrowser.
-
The
asciidoc2html.py
script now correctly uses the virtualenv-installed asciidoc rather than requiring a system-wide installation. -
"Package would be ignored" deprecation warnings when running
setup.py
. -
ResourceWarning when using
:restart
. -
Crash when shutting down before fully initialized.
-
Crash with some notification servers when the server is quitting.
-
Crash when using QtWebKit with PAC and the file has an invalid encoding.
-
Crash with the "tiramisu" notification server.
-
Crash when the "herbe" notification presenter doesn’t start correctly.
-
Crash when no notification server is installed/available.
-
Warning with recent versions of the "deadd" (aka "linux notification center") notification server.
-
Crash when using
:print --pdf
with a directory where its parent directory did not exist. -
The
PyQt{5,6}.sip
version is now shown correctly in the:version
/--version
output. Previously that showed the version from the standalonesip
module which was only set for PyQt5. (#7805) -
When a
config.py
calls.redirect()
via a request interceptor (which is unsupported) and supplies an invalid redirect target URL, an exception is now raised for the.redirect()
call instead of later inside qutebrowser. -
Crash when loading invalid history items from a session file.
v2.5.4 (2023-03-13)
Fixed
-
Support SQLite with DQS (double quoted string) compile time option turned off.
v2.5.3 (2023-02-17)
Added
-
New
array_at
quirk, polyfilling theArray.at
method, which is needed by various websites, but only natively available with Qt 6.2.
Fixed
-
Crash when the adblock filter file can’t be read.
-
Inconsistent behavior when using
:config-{dict,list}-*
commands with an invalid value. Before the fix, using the same command again would complain that the value was already present, despite the error and the value not being actually changed. -
Incomplete error handling when mutating a dict/list in
config.py
and setting an invalid value. Before the fix, this would result in either a message in the terminal rather than GUI (startup), or in a crash (:config-source
). -
Wrong type handling when using
:config-{dict,list}-*
commands with a config option with non-string values. The only affected option isbindings.commands
, which is probably rarely used with those commands. -
The
readability
userscript now correctly passes the source URL to Breadability, to make relative links work. -
Update
dictcli.py
to use themain
branch, fixing a 404 error. -
Crash with some notification servers when the server did quit.
-
Minor documentation fixes
v2.5.2 (2022-06-22)
Fixed
-
Packaging-related fixes:
-
The
install
andstacktrace
help pages are now included in the docs shipped with qutebrowser when using the recommended packaging workflow. -
The Windows installer now more consistently uses the configured Windows colors.
-
The Windows installer now bases the desktop/start menu icon choices on the existing install, if upgrading.
-
The macOS release hopefully doesn’t cause macOS to (falsely) claim that it "is damaged and can’t be opened" anymore.
-
-
The notification fixes in v2.5.1 caused new notification crashes (probably more common than the ones being fixed…). Those are now fixed, along with a (rather involved) test case to prevent similar issues in the future.
-
When a text was not found on a page, the associated message would be shown as rich text (e.g. after
/<h1>
). With this release, this is fixed for search messages, while the 3.0.0 release will change the default for all messages to be plain-text. Note this is NOT a security issue, as only a small subset of HTML is interpreted as rich text by Qt, independently from the website. -
When a Greasemonkey script couldn’t be loaded (e.g. due to an unreadable file), qutebrowser would crash. It now shows an error instead.
-
Ever since the v1.2.0 release in 2018, the
content.default_encoding
setting was not applied on start properly (only when it was changed afterwards). This is now fixed.
v2.5.1 (2022-05-26)
Fixed
-
The
qute-pass
userscript is marked as executable again. -
PDF.js now works properly again with the macOS and Windows releases.
-
The MathML workaround for darkmode (e.g. black on black Wikipedia formula) now also works for display (rather than inline) math.
-
The
content.proxy
setting can now correctly be set to arbitrary values via thequte://settings
page again. -
Fixed issues with Chromium version detection on Archlinux with qt5-webengine 5.15.9-3.
-
Fixed a rare possible crash with invalid
Content-Disposition
headers. -
Fixes for various notification-related crashes:
-
With the
tiramisu
notification server (due to invalid behavior of the server, now a non-fatal error) -
With the
budgie
notification server when closing a notification (due to invalid behavior of the server, now worked around) -
When a server exits with an unsuccessful exit status (now a non-fatal error)
-
When a server couldn’t be started successfully (now a non-fatal error)
-
With the
herbe
notification presenter, when the website tries to close the notification after the user accepting (right-clicking) it.
-
-
Fixes in userscripts:
-
The
qute-bitwarden
userscript now correctly searches for entries for sites on a subdomain of an unrecognized TLD. subdomain names. Previouslymy.site.local
would have searched in bitwarden formy.sitelocal
, losing the rightmost dot.
-
v2.5.0 (2022-04-01)
Deprecated
-
v2.5.x will be the last release of qutebrowser 2. For the upcoming 3.0.0 release, it’s planned to drop support for various legacy platforms and libraries which are unsupported upstream, such as:
-
Qt before 5.15 LTS (plus adding support for Qt 6.2+)
-
Python 3.6
-
The QtWebKit backend
-
macOS 10.14 (via Homebrew)
-
32-bit Windows (via Qt)
-
Windows 8 (via Qt)
-
Windows 10 before 1809 (via Qt)
-
Possibly other more minor dependency changes
-
-
The
:rl-unix-word-rubout
command (<Ctrl-W>
in command/prompt modes) has been deprecated. Use:rl-rubout " "
instead. -
The
:rl-unix-filename-rubout
command has been deprecated. Use either:rl-rubout "/ "
(classic readline behavior) or:rl-filename-rubout
(using OS path separator and ignoring spaces) instead.
Changed
-
Improved message if a spawned process wasn’t found and a Flatpak container is in use.
-
The
:tab-move
command now takesstart
andend
asindex
to move a tab to the first/last position. -
Tests now automatically pick the backend (QtWebKit/QtWebEngine) based on what’s available. The
QUTE_BDD_WEBENGINE
environment variable and--qute-bdd-webengine
argument got replaced byQUTE_TESTS_BACKEND
and--qute-backend
respectively, which can be set to eitherwebengine
orwebkit
. -
Using
:tab-give
or:tab-take
on the last tab in a window now always closes that window, no matter whattabs.last_close
is set to. -
Redesigned
qute://settings
(:set
) page with buttons for options with fixed values. -
The default
hint.selectors
now match more ARIA roles (tab
,checkbox
,menuitem
,menuitemcheckbox
andmenuitemradio
). -
Using e.g.
:bind --mode=passthrough
now scrolls to the passthrough section on thequte://bindings
page. -
Clicking on a notification now tries to focus the tab where the notification is coming from. Note this might not work properly if there is more than one tab from the same host open.
-
Improvements to userscripts:
-
qute-bitwarden
understands a new--password-prompt-invocation
, which can be used to specify a tool other thanrofi
to ask for a password. -
cast
now usesyt-dlp
if available (falling back toyoutube-dl
if not). It also lets users override the tool to use via aQUTE_CAST_YTDL_PROGRAM
environment variable. -
qute-pass
now understands a new--prefix
argument if used in gopass mode, which gets passed as subfolder prefix togopass
. -
open_download
now supports Flatpak by using its XDG Desktop Portal. -
open_download
now waits for the exit status ofxdg-open
, causing qutebrowser to report any issues with it.
-
-
The
content.headers.custom
setting now accepts empty strings as values, resulting in an empty header being sent. -
Renamed settings:
-
qt.low_end_device_mode
→qt.chromium.low_end_device_mode
-
qt.process_model
→qt.chromium.process_model
-
-
System-wide userscripts are now discovered from the correct location when running via Flatpak (
/app/share
rather than/usr/share
). -
Filename prompts now don’t display a
..
entry in the list of files anymore. To get back to the parent directory, either type../
manually, or use the new:rl-filename-rubout
command, bound to<Ctrl-Shift-W>
by default.
Added
-
New
input.match_counts
option which allows to turn off count matching for more emacs-like bindings. -
New
{relative_index}
field fortabs.title.format
(and.pinned_format
) which shows relative tab numbers. -
New
input.mode_override
option which allows overriding the current mode based on the new URL when navigating or switching tabs. -
New
qt.chromium.sandboxing
setting which allows to disable Chromium’s sandboxing (mainly intended for development and testing). -
New
QUTE_TAB_INDEX
variable for userscripts, containing the index of the current tab. -
New
editor.remove_file
setting which can be set toFalse
to keep all temporary editor files after closing the external editor. -
New
:rl-rubout
command replacing:rl-unix-word-rubout
(and optionally:rl-unix-filename-rubout
), taking a delimiter as argument. -
New
:rl-filename-rubout
command, using the OS path separator and ignoring spaces. The command also gets shown in the suggested commands for a download filename prompt now.
Fixed
-
When
search.incremental
is disabled, searching using/text
followed by a backwards search via?text
(or vice-versa) now correctly changes the search direction. -
Elements getting a hint due to a
tabindex
now are skipped if it’s set to-1
, reducing some false-positives. -
The audible indicator (
[A]
) now uses a 2s cooldown when the audio goes silent, equivalent with the behavior of older QtWebEngine versions. -
With
confirm_quit
set todownloads
, the confirmation dialog is now only shown when closing the last window (rather than closing any window, which would continue running that window’s downloads). Unfortunately, more issues withconfirm_quit
and multiple windows remain. -
Crash when a previous crash-log file contains non-ASCII characters (which should never happen unless it was edited manually)
-
Due to changes in Debian, an old workaround (for broken QtWebEngine patching on Debian) caused the inferior qutebrowser error page to be displayed, when Chromium’s would have worked fine. The workaround was now dropped.
-
Crash when using
<Ctrl-D>
(:completion-item-del
) in the:tab-focus
list, rather than:tab-select
. -
Work around a Qt issue causing
:spawn
to run executables from the current directory if no system-wide executable was found. The underlying Qt bug is tracked as CVE-2022-25255, though the impact with typical qutebrowser usage is low: Normally, qutebrowser is run from a fixed location (usually the users home directory), and:spawn
is not typically used with executables that don’t exist. The main security impact of this bug is in tools like text editors, which are often executed in untrusted directories and might attempt to run auxiliary tools automatically. -
When
:rl-rubout
or:rl-filename-rubout
(formerly:rl-unix-word-rubout
and:rl-unix-filename-rubout
) were used on a string not starting with the given delimiter, they failed to delete the first character, which is now fixed. -
Fixes in userscripts:
-
ripbang
now works again (it got blocked due to a missing user agent and used outdated qutebrowser commands before) -
keepassxc
now has a properly working--insecure
flag
-
-
Speculative fix for an immediate crash at start with the macOS/Windows binaries (in certain rare environments).
-
Speculative fix for a qutebrowser crash when the notification daemon crashes while showing the notification.
-
Fix crash when using
:screenshot
with an invalid--rect
argument. -
Added a site-specific quirk to make cookie dialogs on StackExchange pages (such as Stack Overflow) work on Qt 5.12.
v2.4.0 (2021-10-21)
Security
-
CVE-2021-41146: Fix arbitrary command execution on Windows via URL handler argument injection. See the security advisory for details.
Added
-
New
content.blocking.hosts.block_subdomains
setting which can be used to disable the subdomain blocking for the hosts-based adblocker introduced in v2.3.0. -
New
downloads.prevent_mixed_content
setting to prevent insecure mixed-content downloads (true by default). -
New
--private
flag for:tab-clone
, which clones a tab into a new private window, mirroring the same flags for:open
and:tab-give
.
Fixed
-
Switching tabs via mouse wheel scrolling now works properly on macOS. Set
tabs.mousewheel_switching
to false if you prefer the previous behavior. -
Speculative fix for a crash when closing qutebrowser while a systray notification is shown.
Changed
-
Typing in the filename prompt now filters matching directories.
-
When opening a file qutebrowser can’t handle from a
file:///
directory listing, qutebrowser now opens it with the default application rather than displaying a download prompt. -
In Greasemonkey scripts, using "overrideMimeType" with GM_xmlhttpRequest is now supported.
-
:hint --rapid
is now supported for thetab
hinting target no matter whattabs.background
is set to, as there are various scenarios where tabs can open in the background. -
New flags for the
qute-pass
userscript:-
--unfiltered
to show all secrets, not just the one matching the current URL. -
--always-show-selection
to confirm the password to be entered even if there’s only a single match.
-
-
In insert mode,
<Shift-Escape>
is now bound tofake-key <Escape>
by default, i.e., sends an Escape keypress to the website. -
Using
GM_setClipboard
in Greasemonkey scripts is now supported.
v2.3.1 (2021-07-28)
Fixed
-
Updated the workaround for Google Account log in claiming that this browser isn’t secure. For an equivalent workaround on older versions, run:
:set -u https://accounts.google.com/* content.headers.user_agent "Mozilla/5.0 ({os_info}; rv:90.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/90.0"
-
Corrupt cache file exceptions with
adblock
0.5.0+ are now handled properly. -
Crash when entering unicode surrogates into the filename prompt.
-
UnboundLocalError
inqute-keepass
when the database couldn’t be opened.
v2.3.0 (2021-06-28)
Added
-
New
content.prefers_reduced_motion
setting to request websites to reduce non-essential motion/animations. -
New
colors.prompts.selected.fg
setting to customize the text color for selected items in filename prompts.
Changed
-
The hosts-based adblocker (using
content.blocking.hosts.lists
) now also blocks all requests to any subdomains of blocked hosts. -
The
fonts.web.*
settings now support URL patterns. -
The
:greasemonkey-reload
command now shows a list of loaded scripts and has a new--quiet
switch to suppress that message. -
When launching a userscript via hints, a new
QUTE_CURRENT_URL
environment variable now points to the current page (rather than the URL of the selected element, whereQUTE_URL
points to).
Fixed
-
Crash on macOS 10.14+ when logging into Google accounts — the previous fix was incomplete due wrong information in Apple’s documentation.
-
Crash when two Greasemonkey scripts have the same name (usually happening because the same file is in both the data and the config directory).
-
Deprecation warnings when using the
link_pyqt.py
script on Python 3.10 (e.g. viatox
ormkvenv.py
).
v2.2.3 (2021-06-01)
Fixed
-
Logging into Google accounts or sharing the camera on macOS 10.14+ crashed, which is now fixed.
-
The Windows installer now correctly aborts the installation on Windows 7 (rather than attempting an install which won’t work, since Windows 7 is unsupported since the v2.0.0 release).
-
Using
--json-logging
without--debug
caused qutebrowser to crash since the v1.13.0 release. It now works correctly again. -
Mixing Qt 5.14+ with QtWebEngine 5.12 caused a crash related to qutebrowser’s notification support, which is now fixed.
-
The documentation now points to the new IRC channels on irc.libera.chat instead of the defunct Freenode channels (due to a hostile takeover by Freenode staff).
-
Setting
content.headers.user_agent
or.accept_language
to a value containing non-ascii characters was permitted by qutebrowser, but resulted in a crash when loading a page. Such values are now rejected properly. -
When quitting qutebrowser on the
qute://settings
page, a crash could happen, which is now fixed. -
When
:edit-text
is used, but the existing text in the input isn’t representable in the configured encoding (editor.encoding
), qutebrowser would crash. It now shows a proper error instead. -
The testsuite should now work properly on aarch64.
-
When QtWebEngine is in a "stuck" state while
:selection-follow
was used, this could cause a crash in qutebrowser. This is now fixed (speculatively, due to lack of a reproducer). -
When the brave adblock data (
adblock-cache.dat
) got corrupted, qutebrowser would crash when trying to load it. It now displays an error instead. -
Combining
/S
(silent) and/allusers
when uninstalling via the Windows installer now works properly.
v2.2.2 (2021-05-20)
Fixed
-
When awesomewm’s "naughty" notification daemon was used with a development version of AwesomeWM and an unknown version number, qutebrowser would crash when trying to parse the version string. This is now fixed.
-
Due to a bug with QtWebEngine 5.15.4, old Service Worker data could cause renderer process crashes. This is now worked around by qutebrowser.
-
When an (broken) binding to
set-cmd-text
without any argument existed, using:
would crash, which is now fixed. -
New site-specific quirk (again) working around not being able to type accented/composed characters on Google Docs.
-
When running with
python -OO
(which is not recommended), a notification being shown would result in a crash, which is now fixed.
v2.2.1 (2021-04-29)
Changed
-
When an error occurs in a notification presenter, qutebrowser now shows that error in the statusbar instead of just logging it.
-
New site-specific-quirk for Discord logging users out when using vertical tabs (yes, really)
Fixed
-
Certain errors from notification daemons are now displayed as non-fatal errors instead of qutebrowser crashing:
-
With the legacy GNOME Flashback notification daemon (not GNOME Shell), when more than 20 notifications are currently shown.
-
With the KDE Plasma notification daemon, when the same notification is shown twice (with <1s delay).
-
-
The
mkvenv.py
script now works whenldconfig -p
is failing. -
Running
:spawn -u -o
broke in v2.2.0 and now works properly again. -
Fixes in userscripts:
-
The
qute-bitwarden
userscript now still consumes returned data if the Bitwarden CLI showed a warning but exited with a 0 (successful) exit code. -
The
qute-pass
userscript now doesn’t try to match a username with--password-only
, and error messages with invalid patterns are improved. -
The
qute-pass
userscript now avoids runningpass
twice when--otp-only
is used.
-
v2.2.0 (2021-04-13)
Deprecated
-
Running qutebrowser with Qt 5.12.0 is now unsupported and logs a warning. It should still work - however, a workaround for issues with the Nvidia graphic driver was dropped. Newer Qt 5.12.x versions are still fully supported.
-
The
--force
argument for:tab-only
is deprecated, use--pinned close
instead. -
Using
:tab-focus
without an argument or count is now deprecated, use:tab-next
instead.
Added
-
New dependency on the
QtDBus
module. If this requirement is an issue for you or your distribution, please open an issue! Note that a DBus connection at runtime is still optional. -
New
input.media_keys
setting which can be used to disable Chromium’s handling of media keys. -
New
:process
command (and associatedqute://process
pages) which can be used to view and terminate/kill external processes spawned by qutebrowser. -
New
content.site_specific_quirks.skip
setting which can be used to disable individual site-specific quirks. -
New
--pinned
argument for:tab-only
, which replaces--force
(with--pinned close
), but also can take--pinned keep
to keep pinned tabs without prompting. -
New
fileselect.folder.command
which can be used withfileselect.handler = external
to customize the command to use to upload directories (<input type="file" webkitdirectory />
elements, which are non-standard but in wide use). -
New
content.notifications.presenter
setting with various new ways to show web notifications:-
auto
(default): Automatically detect the best available option -
qt
: Use Qt’s built-in mechanism (like before this release) -
libnotify
: Use a libnotify-compatible notification server (i.e. native notifications on Linux) -
systray
: Use a systray icon (very similar toqt
but without some of its drawbacks) -
messages
: Use qutebrowser messages -
herbe
: Use herbe
-
-
New
content.notifications.show_origin
setting, which can be used to decide for which notifications to show the origin (the URL the notification was sent from).
Changed
-
The
content.ssl_strict
setting got renamed tocontent.tls.certificate_errors
, with new values:-
ask
: Prompt on overridable certificate errors (ssl_strict = 'ask'
) -
ask-block-thirdparty
: See below -
block
: Block the page load (ssl_strict = True
) -
load-insecurely
: Load the page despite the error (ssl_strict = False
)
-
-
The new
content.tls.certificate_errors
setting now also understands the valueask-block-thirdparty
, which asks for page loads but automatically blocks resource loads on TLS errors. This behavior is consistent with what other browsers do. -
The prompt text shown on certificate errors has been improved to make it clearer what kind of error occurred exactly.
-
The
content.site_specific_quirks
setting got renamed tocontent.site_specific_quirks.enabled
. -
The
content.notifications
option got renamed tocontent.notifications.enabled
. -
The completion now also shows bindings starting with
set-cmd-text
in its third column, such aso
for:open
. -
When
:spawn
is used with the-m
/--output-messages
flag, the output now appears live, while the process is running. -
When a shown message replaces an existing related one (e.g. for zoom levels), the replacing now also works even if a different message was shown in between.
-
The
.redirect(...)
method on interceptors now supports anignore_unsupported=True
argument which suppresses exceptions if a request could not be redirected. Note, however, that it is still not public API. -
When the
--config-py
argument is used, no warning about a missingconfig.load_autoconfig
is shown anymore, as the argument is typically used for temporarily testing a config. -
The internal
_autosave
session used for crash recovery is now only saved once per minute, since saving it for every page load is a noticeable performance issue. -
The
readability-js
userscript now displays a small header with page information. -
When an external file selector is used, some additional validation is done on the picked files now, so that errors are shown if e.g. a directory is selected when a file was expected.
-
The default binding for
T
(:tab-focus
) got changed so that it fills the command line with:tab-focus
if used without a count (instead of being equivalent to:tab-next
in that case). -
The
:config-unset
command now understands the--pattern
(-u
) flag to unset options customized for a given URL pattern (such as after answering a prompt with "always"/"never"). -
The
:config-unset
command now shows an error when used on an option which is valid, but was never customized. -
The
statusbar.widgets
setting now understandstext:...
entries which allows adding a hard-coded text to the statusbar. -
The polyfill for
String.replaceAll
(required for Nextcloud Calendar < 2.2.0 with QtWebEngine < 5.15.3) is now disabled by default, as it’s not fully compliant to the ECMAScript spec and might cause issues on other websites. If you still need it (e.g. if you’re still on an old Nextcloud Calendar version), removejs-string-replaceall
fromcontent.site_specific_quirks.skip
.
Fixed
-
When an editor exits with a != 0 exit status, the temporary editor file is now persisted. This already was the case when the editor crashed.
-
When a nonexistent file gets passed to
--config-py
, qutebrowser now complains instead of silently not loading it. -
With some (rare) setups, opening the report dialog or using a PAC proxy with QtWebKit could result in qutebrowser hanging due to a PyQt bug. There’s now a workaround which prevents the hang.
-
QtWebEngine version detection (influencing things like dark mode settings or certain workarounds) now works correctly on OpenBSD.
-
Certain version number formats in
/etc/os-release
caused qutebrowser to crash. Those are now handled correctly. -
The macOS releases now properly support Dark Mode for UI elements by setting
NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance
to false.
Removed
-
The
qute://spawn-output
page used by:spawn -o
is now removed, as it’s replaced by the newqute://process
pages.
v2.1.1 (2021-04-01)
Added
-
Site-specific quirk for krunker.io, which shows a "Socket Error" with qutebrowser’s default Accept-Language header. The workaround is equivalent to doing
:set -u matchmaker.krunker.io content.headers.accept_language ""
.
Changed
-
Clicking the x in the devtools window to hide it now also leaves insert mode.
Fixed
-
The workaround for black on (almost) black formula images in dark mode now also works with Qt 5.12 and 5.13.
-
When running in Flatpak or with the Windows/macOS releases, the QtWebEngine version is now detected properly. Before, a wrong version was assumed, breaking dark mode and certain workarounds (resulting in crashes on websites like LinkedIn or TradingView).
-
When the metainfo in the completion database doesn’t have the expected structure, qutebrowser now tries to gracefully recover from the situation instead of crashing.
-
When qutebrowser displays an error during initialization, opening a second instance would lead to a crash. Instead, qutebrowser now ignores the attempt to open a new page as long as it’s not fully initialized yet.
-
When the Brave adblock cache folder was unreadable, qutebrowser crashed. It now displays an error instead.
-
Fixes in the
qute-pass
userscript forgopass
:-
Generating OTP tokens now works correctly.
-
Storing the username as part of the secret broke in v2.0.0 and now works again.
-
-
When using
bindings.key_mappings
to map a key to multiple other keys, qutebrowser would crash. This is now handled correctly - however, note that it’s usually better to map keys to commands instead. -
When a minimized window is selected via
:tab-select
, it’s now un-minimized properly. -
When a format string in the config (e.g.
tabs.title_format
) used a value like{current_url.host}
(instead of{current_url:host}
), qutebrowser would crash. It now correctly reports an invalid config value instead. -
In rare circumstances, sending URLs/commands to existing instances would result in a crash, which is now fixed.
-
Running the testsuite should now fully work without internet access again.
-
The
--asciidoc
script formkvenv.py
broke with v1.14.0. It now works correctly again. -
Various other fixes for running in Flatpak (backported in the Flatpak release even before this qutebrowser release).
-
We are the Knights Who Say… :Ni!
v2.1.0 (2021-03-12)
Removed
-
The following command aliases were deprecated in v2.0.0 and are now removed:
-
run-macro
→macro-run
-
record-macro
→macro-record
-
buffer
→tab-select
-
open-editor
→edit-text
-
toggle-selection
→selection-toggle
-
drop-selection
→selection-drop
-
reverse-selection
→selection-reverse
-
follow-selected
→selection-follow
-
follow-hint
→hint-follow
-
enter-mode
→mode-enter
-
leave-mode
→mode-leave
-
Added
-
New
:screenshot
command which can be used to screenshot the visible part of the page. -
New optional dependency on the
importlib_metadata
project on Python 3.7 and below. This is only relevant when PyQtWebEngine is installed via pip - thus, this dependency usually isn’t relevant for packagers. -
New
qute-keepassxc
userscript integrating with the KeePassXC browser API.
Changed
-
Initial support for QtWebEngine 5.15.3 and PyQt 5.15.3/.4
-
The
colors.webpage.prefers_color_scheme_dark
setting got renamed tocolors.webpage.preferred_color_scheme
and now takes the valuesauto
,light
anddark
(instead of beingTrue
for dark andFalse
for auto). Note that thelight
value is only supported with Qt 5.15.2+, falling back to the same behavior asauto
on older versions. -
On Linux, qutebrowser now tries harder to find details about the installed QtWebEngine version by inspecting the QtWebEngine binary. This should reduce issues with dark mode (and some workarounds) not working when using differing versions of QtWebEngine/PyQtWebEngine/Qt. This change also prepares qutebrowser for QtWebEngine 5.15.3, which will get released without an updated Qt.
-
When PyQtWebEngine >= 5.15.3 is installed via
pip
(as is e.g. the case withmkvenv.py
), qutebrowser now queries the associated metadata to find out the QtWebEngine version. -
When doing
:hint links yank --rapid
, the messages shown now replace each other, thus being less noisy. -
Newlines in JavaScript messages (
confirm
,prompt
andalert
) are now preserved. -
Messages in prompts are now word-wrapped rather than displaying them in one long line.
-
If a command stats with space (e.g.
: open ...
, it’s now not saved to command history anymore (similar to how some shells work). -
When a tab is pinned, running
:open
will now open a new tab instead of displaying an error. -
The
fileselect.*.command
settings now support file selectors writing the selected paths to stdout, which is used if no{}
placeholder is contained in the configured command. -
The
--debug-flag
argument now understands a newlog-sensitive-keys
value which logs all keypresses (including those in insert/passthrough/prompt/… mode) for debugging. -
The
readability
andreadability-js
userscripts now add aqute-readability
CSS class to the page, so that it can be styled easily via a user stylesheet.
Fixed
-
With QtWebEngine 5.15.3 and some locales, Chromium can’t start its subprocesses. As a result, qutebrowser only shows a blank page and logs "Network service crashed, restarting service.". This release adds a
qt.workarounds.locale
setting working around the issue. It is disabled by default since distributions shipping 5.15.3 will probably have a proper patch for it backported very soon. -
The
colors.webpage.preferred_color_scheme
andcolors.webpage.darkmode.*
settings now work correctly with QtWebEngine 5.15.3 (and Gentoo, which at the time of writing packages 5.15.3 disguised as 5.15.2). -
When dark mode settings were set, existing
blink-features
arguments inqt.args
(or--qt-flag
) were overridden. They are now combined properly. -
On QtWebEngine 5.15.2, auto detection for the
prefers-color-scheme
media query is broken and always returnsno-preference
, which was removed from the CSS WG Specification. This release contains a workaround to always returnlight
instead (as per the spec). -
When an external file selector deletes the temporary file (like
nnn
does when quitting the terminal), qutebrowser would crash. It now displays an error instead. The same applies if the temporary file is unreadable for any other reason. -
On macOS, a change in v2.0.x caused certain shortcuts to not work with Cmd anymore, using Ctrl instead. They now work correctly using Cmd (like usual on macOS) again.
-
On macOS, using
F
(hint all tab
) sometimes would open a context menu instead of following a link. This is now fixed. -
The quirk added for a missing
String.replaceAll
did not handle special regexp characters correctly, thus breaking some sites. It now handles them properly. -
The "try again" button on error pages now works correctly with JavaScript disabled.
-
If a GreaseMonkey script doesn’t have a "@run-at" comment, qutebrowser accidentally treated that as "@run-at document-idle". However, other GreaseMonkey implementations default to "@run-at document-end" instead, which is what qutebrowser now does, too.
-
The
hist_importer.py
script didn’t work correctly after qutebrowser v2.0.0 and resulted in a history database qutebrowser couldn’t read properly. It now works properly again. -
With certain QtWebEngine versions (5.15.0 based on Chromium 80 and 5.15.3 based on Chromium 87), Chromium’s dark mode doesn’t invert certain SVG images, even with
colors.wegpage.darkmode.policy.images
set tosmart
. Most notably, this causes formulae on Wikipedia to display black on (almost) black. Ifcontent.site_specific_quirks
is enabled, qutebrowser now injects some CSS as a workaround, which inverts all math formula images on Wikipedia (and potentially other sites, if they use the same CSS class). -
When a hint label text started with an apostrophe, it would show an escaped text until the hints first character has been pressed. It now shows up correctly.
v2.0.2 (2021-02-04)
Fixed
-
When right-clicking an empty part of the downloads bar, qutebrowser v2.0.x would crash. This is now fixed.
-
Setting
content.cookies.store
tofalse
only worked properly when this was done after qutebrowser was already started due to a regression in v2.0.0. It now works as expected again. -
If qutebrowser was installed as a Python egg with Python 3.8 or 3.9, requesting unavailable resource files (such as PDF.js not being bundled, or a missing changelog file) caused in a crash due to an inconsistent behavior in those versions of Python. This is now handled properly by qutebrowser.
-
In v2.0.0, support for importing the
sip
dependency assip
rather thanPyQt5.sip
was dropped, since upstream claims it should be used asPyQt5.sip
ever since PyQt 5.11. However, some distributions still package sip as a globalsip
package. Thus, support for a globalsip
package is now reintroduced. -
The changelog for v2.0.0 claimed that
hints.leave_on_load
was set totrue
by default. However, theinput.insert_mode.leave_on_load
setting was instead set totrue
accidentally. This is now fixed by actually settinghints.leave_on_load
totrue
, and reversing the change toinput.insert_mode.leave_on_load
so it is set tofalse
by default again. -
When the
importlib_resources
package is required but was missing, users would get a Python stacktrace rather than a proper error message. This is now fixed. -
Site-specific quirk JavaScript files were loaded lazily rather than preloaded at the start of qutebrowser, causing a crash when e.g. switching between versions while qutebrowser is open. Now they are preloaded at the start of qutebrowser again.
-
The link to the keybinding cheatsheet on the internal
:help
page wasn’t displayed correctly. This is now fixed. -
When the completion rebuilding process was interrupted, qutebrowser did not detect this condition on the next start, thus resulting in a completion with inconsistent data. This is now fixed, with another rebuild being forced with this update, to ensure the data is consistent for all users.
-
In certain scenarios, qutebrowser v2.0.x warned about
config.load_autoconfig(...)
being missing when loading a secondary config (e.g. viaconfig.source(...)
). It now only shows those warnings for the mainconfig.py
file. -
The
--enable-webengine-inspector
flag is now accepted again, however it’s unused and undocumented. It purely exists to make it possible to use:restart
between pre-v2.0.x and v2.0.2+ versions. -
When
hints.dictionary
pointed to a file not encoded as UTF-8, this resulted in a crash (also in versions before v2.0.0). It now properly displays an error instead. -
When running qutebrowser with a single empty commandline argument, such as done by
open_url_in_instance.sh
, this would result in a partially initialized window. Interacting with that window results in a crash (also in versions before v2.0.0). Instead, the startpage is now shown properly.
v2.0.1 (2021-01-28)
Fixed
-
If qutebrowser was installed as a Python egg (similar to a .zip file, via
setup.py install
under certain conditions), a change in v2.0.0 caused it to not start properly. This is now fixed. -
If qutebrowser was set up (or packaged) in an unclean environment, this could result in a stale
qutebrowser/components/adblock.py
file being picked up. That file is not part of the release anymore, but if an old version is still around, causes qutebrowser to crash. It’s now explicitly blocked inside qutebrowser so it gets ignored even if it still exists. -
When the adblocking method was switched using
:set
, and theadblock
dependency was unavailable when qutebrowser started (but was installed while qutebrowser was open), this resulted in a crash. Now a warning prompting for a restart of qutebrowser is shown instead.
Changed
-
The
format_json
userscript now uses sh instead of bash again. -
The
add-nextcloud-bookmarks
,add-nextcloud-cookbook
,readability
andripbang
userscripts now use apython3
rather than plainpython
shebang. -
When
QTWEBENGINE_CHROMIUM_FLAGS
is set in the environment, this causes flag handling (including workarounds for QtWebEngine crashes) inside qutebrowser to break. This will be handled properly in a future version, but this release now shows a warning on standard output if this is the case. -
The config completion for
fileselect.*.command
now also includes the "nnn" terminal file manager.
v2.0.0 (2021-01-28)
Major changes
-
If the Python
adblock
library is available, it is now used to integrate Brave’s Rust adblocker library for improved adblocking based on ABP-like filter lists (such as EasyList). If it is unavailable, qutebrowser falls back to host-blocking, i.e. the same blocking technique it used before this release. As part of this, various settings got renamed, see "Changed" below. Note: If theadblock
dependency is available, qutebrowser will ignore custom host blocking via theblocked-hosts
config file orfile:///
URLs supplied as host blocking lists. You will need to either migrate those to ABP-like lists, or setcontent.blocking.method
toboth
. -
Various dependency upgrades - a quick checklist for packagers (see "Changed" below for details):
-
Ensure you’re providing at least Python 3.6.1.
-
Ensure you’re providing at least Qt 5.12 and PyQt 5.12.
-
Add a new optional dependency on the Python
adblock
library (if packaged - if not, consider packaging it, albeit optional it’s very useful for users). -
Remove the
cssutils
optional dependency (if present). -
Remove the
attrs
(attr
) dependency. -
Remove the
pypeg2
dependency (and perhaps consider dropping the package if not used elsewhere - it’s inactive upstream and the repository was removed by Bitbucket). -
Move the
pygments
dependency from required to optional. -
Move the
setuptools
dependency from runtime (forpkg_resources
) to build-time. -
For Python 3.6, 3.7 or 3.8, add a dependency on the
importlib_resources
backport. -
For Python 3.6 only, add a dependency on the
dataclasses
backport.
-
-
Dropped support for old OS versions in binary releases:
-
Support for Windows 7 is dropped in the Windows binaries, the minimum required Windows version is now Windows 8.1.
-
Support for macOS 10.13 High Sierra is dropped in the macOS binaries, the minimum required macOS version is now macOS 10.14 Mojave.
-
-
Various renamed settings and commands, see "Deprecated" and "Changed" below.
Removed
-
The
--enable-webengine-inspector
flag (which was only needed for Qt 5.10 and below) is now dropped. With Qt 5.11 and newer, the inspector/devtools are enabled unconditionally. -
Support for moving qutebrowser data from versions before v1.0.0 has been removed.
-
The
--old
flag for:config-diff
has been removed. It used to show customized options for the old pre-v1.0 config files (in order to aid migration to v1.0). -
The
:inspector
command which was deprecated in v1.13.0 (in favor of:devtools
) is now removed.
Deprecated
-
Several commands have been renamed for consistency and/or easier grouping of related commands. Their old names are still available, but deprecated and will be removed in qutebrowser v2.1.0.
-
run-macro
→macro-run
-
record-macro
→macro-record
-
buffer
→tab-select
-
open-editor
→edit-text
-
toggle-selection
→selection-toggle
-
drop-selection
→selection-drop
-
reverse-selection
→selection-reverse
-
follow-selected
→selection-follow
-
follow-hint
→hint-follow
-
enter-mode
→mode-enter
-
leave-mode
→mode-leave
-
Added
-
New settings for the ABP-based adblocker:
-
content.blocking.method
to decide which blocker(s) should be used. -
content.blocking.adblock.lists
to configure ABP-like lists to use.
-
-
New
qt.environ
setting which makes it easier to set/unset environment variables for qutebrowser. -
New settings to use an external file picker (such as ranger or vifm):
-
fileselect.handler
(default
orexternal
) -
fileselect.multiple_files.command
-
fileselect.single_file.command
-
-
When QtWebEngine has been updated but PyQtWebEngine hasn’t yet, the dark mode settings might stop working. As a (currently undocumented) escape hatch, this version adds a
QUTE_DARKMODE_VARIANT=qt_515_2
environment variable which can be set to get the correct behavior in (transitive) situations like this. -
New
--desktop-file-name
commandline argument, which can be used to customize the desktop filename passed to Qt (which is used to set theapp_id
on Wayland). -
The
:open
completion now also completes local file paths andfile://
URLs, via a newfilesystem
entry incompletion.open_categories
. Also, a newcompletion.favorite_paths
setting was added which can be used to add paths to show when:open
is used without any input. -
New
QUTE_VERSION
variable for userscripts, which can be used to read qutebrowser’s version. -
New "Copy URL" entry in the context menu for downloads.
-
New
:bookmark-list
command which lists all bookmarks/quickmarks. The correspondingqute://bookmarks
URL already existed since v0.8.0, but it was never exposed as a command. -
New
qt.workarounds.remove_service_workers
setting which can be used to remove the "Service Workers" directory on every start. Usage of this option is generally discouraged, except in situations where the underlying QtWebEngine bug is a known cause for crashes. -
Changelogs are now shown after qutebrowser was upgraded. By default, the changelog is only shown after minor upgrades (feature releases) but not patch releases. This can be adjusted (or disabled entirely) via a new
changelog_after_upgrade
setting. -
New userscripts:
-
kodi
to play videos in Kodi -
qr
to generate a QR code of the current URL -
add-nextcloud-bookmarks
to create bookmarks in Nextcloud’s Bookmarks app -
add-nextcloud-cookbook
to add recipes to Nextcloud’s Cookbook app
-
Changed
-
config.py
files now are required to have eitherconfig.load_autoconfig(False)
(don’t loadautoconfig.yml
) orconfig.load_autoconfig()
(do loadautoconfig.yml
) in them. -
Various host-blocking settings have been renamed to accommodate the new ABP-like adblocker:
-
content.host_blocking.enabled
→content.blocking.enabled
(controlling both blockers) -
content.host_blocking.whitelist
→content.blocking.whitelist
(controlling both blockers) -
content.host_blocking.lists
→content.blocking.hosts.lists
-
-
Changes to default settings:
-
tabs.background
is nowtrue
by default, so that new tabs get opened in the background. -
input.partial_timeout
is now set to 0 by default, so that partially typed key strings are never cleared. -
hints.leave_on_load
is nowfalse
by default, so that hint mode doesn’t get left when a page finishes loading. This can lead to stale hints persisting in rare circumstances, but is better than leaving hint mode when the user entered it before loading was completed. -
The default for
tabs.width
(tab bar width if vertical) is now 15% of the window width rather than 20%. -
The default bindings for moving tabs (
tab-move -
andtab-move +
) were changed fromgl
andgr
togK
andgJ
, to be consistent with the tab switching bindings. -
The text color for warning messages is now black instead of white, for increased contrast and thus readability.
-
The default timeout for messages is now raised from 2s to 3s.
-
-
On the first start, the history completion database is regenerated to remove a few problematic entries (such as long
qute://pdfjs
URLs). This might take a couple of minutes, but is a one-time operation. This should result in a performance improvement for the completion for affected users. -
qutebrowser now shows an error if its history database version is newer than expected. This currently should never happen, but allows for potentially backwards-incompatible changes in future versions.
-
At least Python 3.6.1 is now required to run qutebrowser, support for Python 3.5 (and 3.6.0) is dropped. Note that Python 3.5 is no longer supported upstream since September 2020.
-
At least Qt/PyQt 5.12 is now required to run qutebrowser, support for 5.7 to 5.11 (inclusive) is dropped. While Debian Buster ships Qt 5.11, it’s based on a Chromium version from 2018 with no Debian security support and unsupported upstream since May 2019. It also has compatibility issues with various websites (GitHub, Twitch, Android Developer documentation, YouTube, …). Since no newer Debian Stable is released at the time of writing, it’s recommended to install qutebrowser in a virtualenv with a newer version of Qt/PyQt.
-
New optional dependency on the Python
adblock
library (see above for details). -
The (formerly optional)
cssutils
dependency is now removed. It was only needed for improved behavior in corner cases when using:download --mhtml
with the (non-default) QtWebKit backend, and as such it’s unlikely anyone is still relying on it. Thecssutils
project is also dead upstream, with its repository being gone after Bitbucket removed Mercurial support. -
The (formerly required)
pygments
dependency is now optional. It is only used when using:view-source
with QtWebKit, or when forcing it via:view-source --pygments
on QtWebEngine. If it is unavailable, an unhighlighted fallback version of the page’s source is shown. -
The former runtime dependency on the
pkg_resources
module (part of thesetuptools
project) got dropped. Note thatsetuptools
is still required to runsetup.py
. -
A new dependency on the
importlib_resources
module got introduced for Python versions up to and including 3.8. Note that the stdlibimportlib.resources
module for Python 3.7 and 3.8 is missing the needed APIs, thus requiring the backports for those versions as well. -
The former dependency on the
attrs
/attr
package is now dropped in favour ofdataclasses
in the Python standard library. On Python 3.6, a new dependency on thedataclasses
backport is now required. -
The former dependency on the
pypeg2
package is now dropped. This might cause some changes for certain corner-cases for suggested filenames when downloading files with the QtWebKit backend. -
Windows and macOS releases now ship Python 3.9 rather than 3.7.
-
The
colors.webpage.darkmode.*
settings are now also supported with older Qt versions (Qt 5.12 and 5.13) rather than just with Qt 5.14 and above. -
For regexes in the config (
hints.{prev,next}_regexes
), certain patterns which will change meanings in future Python versions are now disallowed. This is the case for character sets starting with a literal[
or containing literal character sequences--
,&&
,~~
, or||
. To avoid a warning, remove the duplicate characters or escape them with a backslash. -
If
prompt(..., "default")
is used via JS, the default text is now pre-selected in the prompt shown by qutebrowser. -
URLs such as
::1/foo
are now handled as a search term or local file rather than IPv6. Use[::1]/foo
to force parsing as IPv6 instead. -
The
mkvenv.py
script now runs a "smoke test" after setting up the virtual environment to ensure it’s working as expected. If necessary, the test can be skipped via a new--skip-smoke-test
flag. -
Both qutebrowser userscripts and Greasemonkey scripts are now additionally picked up from qutebrowser’s config directory (the
userscripts
andgreasemonkey
subdirectories of e.g.~/.config/qutebrowser/
) rather than only the data directory (the same subdirectories of e.g.~/.local/share/qutebrowser/
). -
The
:later
command now understands a time specification like5m
or1h5m2s
, rather than just taking milliseconds. -
The
importer.py
script doesn’t use a browser argument anymore; instead its--input-format
switch can be used to configure the input format. The help also was expanded to explain how to use it properly. -
If
tabs.tabs_are_windows
is set, thetabs.last_close
setting is now ignored and the window is always closed when using:close
(d
). -
With the (default) QtWebEngine backend, if a custom
accept
header is set viacontent.headers.custom
, the custom value is now ignored for XHR (XMLHttpRequest
) requests. Instead, the sent value is now*/*
or the header set from JavaScript, as it would be ifcontent.headers.custom
wasn’t set. -
The
:tab-select
completion now shows the underlying renderer process PID if doing so is supported (on QtWebEngine 5.15). -
If
tabs.favicons.show
is set tonever
, favicons aren’t unnecessarily downloaded anymore. Thus, disabling favicons can help with a possible fingerprinting vector. -
"Super" is now understood as a modifier (i.e. as alias to "Meta").
-
Initial support for Python 3.10 (currently in Alpha stage).
-
Various performance improvements, including for the startup time.
Fixed
-
With interpolated color settings (
colors.tabs.indicator.*
andcolors.downloads.*
), the alpha channel is now handled correctly. -
Fixes to userscripts:
-
format_json
now usesenv
in its shebang, making it work correctly on systems wherebash
isn’t located in/bin
. -
qute-pass
now handles the MIME output format introduced in gopass 1.10.0. -
qute-lastpass
now types multiple<
or>
characters correctly.
-
-
The
:undo
completion now sorts its entries correctly (by the numerical index rather than lexicographically). -
The
completion.web_history.ignore
setting now works properly when set inconfig.py
(rather than via:set
). Additionally, a:config-source
will not result in a history rebuild if the value wasn’t actually changed. -
When downloading a
data:
URL, the suggested filename is now improved and contains a proper extension. Before this fix, qutebrowser would use the URL’s data contents as filename with QtWebEngine; or "binary blob" with the Qt network stack. -
When
:tab-only
is run before a tab is available, an error is now shown instead of crashing. -
A couple of long URLs (such as
qute://pdfjs
URLs) are now not added to the history database anymore. -
A bug in QtWebEngine 5.15.2 causes "renderer process killed" errors on websites like LinkedIn and TradingView. There is now a workaround in qutebrowser to prevent this from happening.
-
Nextcloud Calendars started using
String.replaceAll
which was only added to Chromium recently (Chrome 85), so won’t work with current QtWebEngine versions. This release includes a workaround (a polyfill as a site-specific-quirk).
v1.14.1 (2020-12-04)
Added
-
With v1.14.0, qutebrowser configures the main window to be transparent, so that it’s possible to configure a translucent tab- or statusbar. However, that change introduced various issues, such as performance degradation on some systems or breaking dmenu window embedding with its
-w
option. To avoid those issues for people who are not using transparency, the default behavior is reverted to versions before v1.14.0 in this release. A newwindow.transparent
setting can be set totrue
to restore the behavior of v1.14.0.
Changed
-
Windows and macOS releases now ship Qt 5.15.2, which is based on Chromium 83.0.4103.122 with security fixes up to 86.0.4240.183. This includes CVE-2020-15999 in the bundled freetype library, which is known to be exploited in the wild. It also includes various other bugfixes/features compared to Qt 5.15.0 included in qutebrowser v1.14.0, such as:
-
Correct handling of AltGr on Windows
-
Fix for
content.cookies.accept
not working properly -
Fixes for screen sharing (some websites are still broken until an upcoming Qt 5.15.3)
-
Support for FIDO U2F / WebAuth
-
Fix for the unwanted creation of directories such as
databases-incognito
in the home directory -
Proper autocompletion in the devtools console
-
Proper signalisation of a tab’s audible status (
[A]
) -
Fix for a hang when opening the context menu on macOS Big Sur (11.0)
-
Hardware accelerated graphics on macOS
-
Fixed
-
Setting the
content.headers.referer
setting tosame-domain
(the default) was supposed to truncate referrers to only the host with QtWebEngine. Unfortunately, this functionality broke in Qt 5.14. It works properly again with this release, including a test so this won’t happen again. -
With QtWebEngine 5.15, setting the
content.headers.referer
setting tonever
did still send referrers. This is now fixed as well. -
In v1.14.0, a regression was introduced, causing a crash when qutebrowser was closed after opening a download with PDF.js. This is now fixed.
-
With Qt 5.12, the
Object.fromEntries
JavaScript API is unavailable (it was introduced in Chromium 73, while Qt 5.12 is based on 69). This caused https://www.vr.fi/en and possibly other websites to break when accessed with Qt 5.12. A suitable polyfill is now included with qutebrowser ifcontent.site_specific_quirks
is enabled (which is the default). -
While XDG startup notifications (e.g. launch feedback via the bouncy cursor in KDE Plasma) were supported ever since Qt 5.1, qutebrowser’s desktop file accidentally declared that it wasn’t supported. This is now fixed.
-
The
dmenu_qutebrowser
andqutedmenu
userscripts now correctly read the qutebrowser sqlite history which has been in use since v1.0.0. -
With Python 3.8+ and vertical tabs, a deprecation warning for an implicit int conversion was shown. This is now fixed.
-
Ever since Qt 5.11, fetching more completion data when that data is loaded lazily (such as with history) and the last visible item is selected was broken. The exact reason is currently unknown, but this release adds a tentative fix.
-
When PgUp/PgDown were used to go beyond the last visible item, the above issue caused a crash, which is now also fixed.
-
As a workaround for an overzealous Microsoft Defender false-positive detecting a "trojan" in the (unprocessed) adblock list,
:adblock-update
now doesn’t cache the HTTP response anymore. -
With the QtWebKit backend and
content.headers
set tosame-domain
(the default), origins with the same domain but different schemes or ports were treated as the same domain. They now are correctly treated as different domains. -
When a URL path uses percent escapes (such as
https://example.com/embedded%2Fpath
), using:navigate up
would treat the%2F
as a path separator and replace any remaining percent escapes by their unescaped equivalents. Those are now handled correctly. -
On macOS 11.0 (Big Sur), the default monospace font name caused a parsing error, thus resulting in broken styling for the completion, hints, and other UI components. They now look properly again.
-
Due to a Qt bug, installing Qt/PyQt from prebuilt binaries on systems with a very old
libxcb-utils
version (notably, Debian Stable, but not Ubuntu since 16.04 LTS) results in a setup which fails to start. This also affects themkvenv.py
script, which now includes a workaround for this case. -
The
open_url_instance.sh
userscript now complains whensocat
is not installed, rather than silencing the error. -
The example AppArmor profile in
misc/
was outdated and written for the older QtWebKit backend. It is now updated to serve as an useful starting point with QtWebEngine. -
When running
:devtools
on Fedora without the needed (optional) dependency installed, it was suggested to installqt5-webengine-devtools
, which does not, in fact, exist. It’s now correctly suggested to installqt5-qtwebengine-devtools
instead. -
With Qt 5.15.2, lines/borders coming from the
readability-js
userscript were invisible. This is now fixed by changing the border color to grey (with all Qt versions). -
Due to changes in the underlying Chromium, the
colors.webpage.prefers_color_scheme_dark
setting broke with Qt 5.15.2. It now works properly again. -
A bug in the
pkg_resources
module used by qutebrowser caused deprecation warnings to appear on start with Python 3.9 on some setups. Those are now hidden. -
Minor performance improvements.
-
Fix for various functionality breaking in private windows with v1.14.0, after the last private window is closed. This includes:
-
Ad blocking
-
Downloads
-
Site-specific quirks (e.g. for Google login)
-
Certain settings such as
content.javascript.enabled
-
v1.14.0 (2020-10-15)
Note: The QtWebEngine version bundled with the Windows/macOS releases is still based on Qt 5.15.0 (like with qutebrowser v1.12.0 and v1.13.0) rather than Qt 5.15.1 because of a Qt bug causing frequent renderer process crashes. When Qt 5.15.2 is released (planned for November 3rd, 2020), a qutebrowser v1.14.x patch release with an updated QtWebEngine will be released.
Furthermore, this release still only contains partial session support for QtWebEngine 5.15. It’s still recommended to run against Qt 5.15 due to the security patches contained in it — for most users, the added workarounds seem to work out fine. A rewritten session support will be part of qutebrowser v2.0.0, tentatively planned for the end of the year or early 2021.
Changed
-
The
content.media_capture
setting got split up into three more fine-grained settings,content.media.audio_capture
,.video_capture
and.audio_video_capture
. Before this change, answering "always" to a prompt about e.g. audio capturing would set thecontent.media_capture
setting, which would also allow the same website to capture video on a future visit. Now every prompt will set the appropriate setting, though existingcontent.media_capture
settings inautoconfig.yml
will be migrated to set all three settings. To review/change previously granted permissions, use:config-diff
and e.g.:config-unset -u example.org content.media.video_capture
. -
The main window’s (invisible) background color is now set to transparent. This allows using the alpha channel in statusbar/tabbar colors to get a partially transparent qutebrowser window on a setup which supports doing so.
-
If QtWebEngine is compiled with PipeWire support and libpipewire is installed, qutebrowser will now support screen sharing on Wayland. Note that QtWebEngine 5.15.1 is needed.
-
When
:undo
is used with a count, it now reopens the count-th to last tab instead of the last one. The depth can instead be passed as an argument, which is also completed. -
The default
completion.timestamp_format
now also shows the time. -
:back
and:forward
now take an optional index which is completed using the current tab’s history. -
The time a website in a tab was visited is now saved/restored in sessions.
-
When attempting to download a file to a location for which there’s already a still-running download, a confirmation prompt is now displayed.
-
:completion-item-focus
now understandsnext-page
andprev-page
with corresponding<PgDown>
/<PgUp>
default bindings. -
When the last private window is closed, all private browsing data is now cleared.
-
When
config.source(...)
is used with a--config-py
argument given, qutebrowser used to search relative files in the config basedir, leading to them not being found when using a sharedconfig.py
for different basedirs. Instead, they are now searched relative to the givenconfig.py
file. -
navigate prev
([[
) andnavigate next
(]]
) now recognize links withnav-prev
andnav-next
classes, such as those used by the Hugo static site generator. -
When
tabs.favicons
is disabled buttabs.tabs_are_windows
is set, the window icon is still set to the page’s favicon now. -
The
--asciidoc
argument tosrc2asciidoc.py
andbuild_release.py
now only takes the path toasciidoc.py
, using the current Python interpreter by default. To configure the Python interpreter as well, use--asciidoc-python path/to/python --asciidoc path/to/asciidoc.py
instead of the former--asciidoc path/to/python path/to/asciidoc.py
. -
Dark mode (
colors.webpage.darkmode.*
) is now supported with Qt 5.15.2 (which is not released yet). -
The default for the darkmode
policy.images
setting is now set tosmart
which fixes issues with e.g. formulas on Wikipedia. -
The
readability-js
userscript now adds some CSS to improve the reader mode styling in various scenarios:-
Images are now shrunk to the page width, similarly to what Firefox' reader mode does.
-
Some images are now displayed as block (rather than inline) which is what Firefox' reader mode does as well.
-
Blockquotes are now styled more distinctively, again based on the Firefox reader mode.
-
Code blocks are now easier to distinguish from text and tables have visible cell margins.
-
-
The
readability-js
userscript now supports hint userscript mode.
Added
-
New argument
strip
for:navigate
which removes queries and fragments from the current URL. -
:undo
now has a new-w
/--window
argument, which can be used to restore closed windows (rather than tabs). This is bound toU
by default. -
:jseval
can now takejavascript:...
URLs via a new--url
flag. -
New replacement
{aligned_index}
fortabs.title.format
andformat_pinned
which behaves like{index}
, but space-pads the index based on the total numbers of tabs. This can be used to get aligned tab texts with vertical tabs. -
New command
:devtools-focus
(bound towIf
) to toggle keyboard focus between the devtools and web page. -
The
--target
argument to qutebrowser now understands a newprivate-window
value, which can be used to open a private window in an existing instance from the commandline. -
The
:download-open
command now has a new--dir
flag, which can be used to open the directory containing the downloaded file. An entry to do the same was also added to the context menu. -
Messages are now wrapped when they are too long to be displayed on a single line.
-
New possible
--debug-flag
values:-
wait-renderer-process
waits for aSIGUSR1
in the renderer process so a debugger can be attached. -
avoid-chromium-init
allows using--version
without needing a working QtWebEngine/Chromium.
-
Fixed
-
A URL pattern with a
*.
host was considered valid and matched all hosts. Due to keybindings liketsH
toggling scripts for*://*.{url:host}/*
, invoking them on pages without a host (e.g.about:blank
) could result in accidentally allowing/blocking JavaScript for all pages. Such patterns are now considered invalid, with existing patterns being automatically removed fromautoconfig.yml
. -
When
scrolling.bar
was set tooverlay
(the default), qutebrowser would internally override anyenable-features=...
flags passed viaqt.args
or--qt-flag
. It now correctly combines existingenable-feature
flags with internal ones. -
Elements with an inherited
contenteditable
attribute now trigger insert mode and get hints assigned correctly. -
When checkmarks, radio buttons and some other elements are styled via the Bootstrap CSS framework, they now get hints correctly.
-
When the session file isn’t writable when qutebrowser exits, an error is now logged instead of crashing.
-
When using
-m
with thequte-lastpass
userscript, it accidentally matched URLs containing the match as substring. This is now fixed. -
When a filename is derived from a page’s title, it’s now shortened to the maximum filename length permitted by the filesystem.
-
:enter-mode register
crashed since v1.13.0, it now displays an error instead. -
With the QtWebKit backend, webpage resources loading certain invalid URLs could cause a crash, which is now fixed.
-
When
:config-edit
is used but noconfig.py
exists yet, the file is now created (and watched for changes properly) before spawning the external editor. -
When hint mode was entered from outside normal mode, the status bar was empty instead of displaying the proper text. This is now fixed.
-
When entering different modes too quickly (e.g. pressing
fV
), the statusbar could end up in a confusing state. This is now fixed. -
When qutebrowser quits, running downloads are now cancelled properly.
-
The site-specific quirk for
web.whatsapp.com
has been updated to work after recent changes in WhatsApp. -
Highlighting in the completion now works properly when UTF-16 surrogate pairs (such as emoji) are involved.
-
When a windowed inspector is clicked, insert mode now isn’t entered anymore.
-
When
:undo
is used to re-open a tab, buttabs.tabs_are_windows
was set between closing and undoing the close, qutebrowser crashed. This is now fixed. -
With QtWebEngine 5.15.0, setting the darkmode image policy to
smart
leads to renderer process crashes. The offending setting value is now ignored with a warning. -
Fixes for the
qute-pass
userscript:-
With newer
gopass
versions, a deprecation notice was copied as password due toqute-pass
using it in a deprecated way. -
The
--password-store
argument didn’t actually setPASSWORD_STORE_DIR
forpass
, resulting inqute-pass
finding matches but the underlyingpass
not finding matching passwords.
-
v1.13.1 (2020-07-17)
Fixed
-
With Qt 5.14, shared workers are now disabled. This works around a crash in QtWebEngine on certain sites (like the Epic Games Store or the Unreal Engine page). On older versions, you can get the same effect by doing
:set qt.args "['disable-shared-workers']"
and:restart
(or set the setting in yourconfig.py
). -
When a window is closed, the tab it contains are now correctly shut down (closing e.g. any dialogs which are still open for those tabs).
-
The Qt 5.15 session workaround now loads the correct (rather than the last) page when
:back
was used before saving a session. -
In certain situations on Windows, qutebrowser fails to find the username of the user launching qutebrowser (most likely due to a bug in the application launching it). When this happens, an error is now displayed instead of crashing.
-
Certain
autoconfig.yml
with an invalid structure could lead to crashes, which are now fixed. -
Generating docs with
asciidoc2html.py
(e.g. viamkvenv.py
) now works correctly without Pygments being installed system-wide. -
Ever since Qt 5.9, when
input.mouse.rocker_gestures
was enabled, the context menu still was shown when clicking the right mouse button, thus preventing the rocker gestures. This is now fixed. -
Clicking the inspector switched from existing modes (such as passthrough) to normal mode since v1.13.0. Now insert mode is only entered when the inspector is clicked in normal mode.
-
Pulseaudio now shows qutebrowser’s audio streams as qutebrowser correctly, rather than showing them as Chromium with some Qt versions.
-
If
:help
was called with a deprecated command (e.g.:help :inspector
), the help page would show despite deprecated commands not being documented. This now shows an error instead. -
The
qute-lastpass
userscript now filters out duplicate entries with--merge-candidates
.
v1.13.0 (2020-06-26)
Deprecated
-
The
:inspector
command is deprecated and has been replaced by a new:devtools
command (see below).
Removed
-
The
:debug-log-level
command was removed as it’s replaced by the newlogging.level.console
setting. -
The
qute://plainlog
special page got replaced byqute://log?plain
- the names of those pages is considered an implementation detail, and:messages --plain
should be used instead.
Changed
-
Changes to commands:
-
:config-write-py
now adds a note aboutconfig.py
files being targeted at advanced users. -
:report
now takes two optional arguments for bug/contact information, so that it can be used without the report window popping up. -
:message
now takes a--logfilter
/-f
argument, which is a list of logging categories to show. -
:debug-log-filter
now understands the full logfilter syntax.
-
-
Changes to settings:
-
fonts.tabs
has been split intofonts.tabs.{selected,unselected}
(see below). -
statusbar.hide
has been renamed tostatusbar.show
with the possible values beingalways
(hide = False
),never
(hide = True
) orin-mode
(new, only show statusbar outside of normal mode. -
The
QtFont
config type formerly used forfonts.tabs
andfonts.debug_console
is now removed and entirely replaced byFont
. The former distinction was mainly an implementation detail, and the accepted values shouldn’t have changed. -
input.rocker_gestures
has been renamed toinput.mouse.rocker_gestures
. -
content.dns_prefetch
is now enabled by default again, since the crashes it caused are now fixed (Qt 5.15) or worked around. -
scrolling.bar
supports a newoverlay
value to show an overlay scrollbar, which is now the default. On unsupported configurations (on Qt < 5.11, with QtWebKit or on macOS), the value falls back towhen-searching
ornever
(QtWebKit). -
url.auto_search
supports a newschemeless
value which always opens a search unless the given URL includes an explicit scheme.
-
-
New handling of bindings in hint mode which fixes various bugs and allows for single-letter keybindings in hint mode.
-
The statusbar now shows partial keychains in all modes (e.g. while hinting).
-
New
t[Cc][Hh]
default bindings which work similarly to thet[Ss][Hh]
bindings for JavaScript but toggle cookie permissions. -
The
tor_identity
userscript now takes the password via a-p
flag and has a new-c
flag to customize the Tor control port. -
Small performance improvements.
Added
-
New settings:
-
logging.level.ram
andlogging.level.console
to configure the default logging levels via the config. -
fonts.tabs.selected
andfonts.tabs.unselected
to set the font of the selected tab independently from unselected tabs (e.g. to make it bold). -
input.mouse.back_forward_buttons
which can be set tofalse
to disable back/forward mouse buttons.
-
-
New
:devtools
command (replacing:inspector
) with various improved functionality:-
The devtools can now be docked to the main window, by running
:devtools left
(wIh
),bottom
(wIj
),top
(wIk
) orright
(wIl
). To show them in a new window, use:devtools window
(wIw
). Using:devtools
(wi
) will open them at the last used position. -
The devtool window now has a "qutebrowser developer tools" window title.
-
When a resource is opened from the devtools, it now opens in a proper qutebrowser tab.
-
On Fedora, when the
qt5-webengine-devtools
package is missing, an error is now shown instead of a blank inspector window. -
If opened as a window, the devtools are now closed properly when the associated tab is closed.
-
When the devtools are clicked, insert mode is entered automatically.
-
Fixed
-
Crash when
tabs.focus_stack_size
is set to -1. -
Crash when a
pdf.js
file for PDF.js exists, butviewer.html
does not. -
Crash when
:completion-item-yank --sel
is used on a platform without primary selection support (e.g. Windows/macOS). -
Crash when there’s a feature permission request from Qt with an invalid URL (which happens due to a Qt bug with Qt 5.15 in private browsing mode).
-
Crash in rare cases where QtWebKit/QtWebEngine imports fail in unexpected ways.
-
Crash when something removed qutebrowser’s IPC socket file and it’s been running for 6 hours.
-
:config-write-py
now works with paths starting with~/...
again. -
New site-specific quirk for a missing
globalThis
in Qt ⇐ 5.12 on Reddit and Spotify. -
When
;
is added tohints.chars
, using hint labels containing;;
now works properly. -
Hint letters outside of ASCII should now work.
-
When
bindings.key_mappings
is used with hints, it now works properly with letters outside of ASCII as well. -
With Qt 5.15, the audible/muted indicators are not updated properly due to a Qt bug. This release adds a workaround so that at least the muted indicator is shown properly.
-
As a workaround for crashes with QtWebEngine versions between 5.12 and 5.14 (inclusive), changing the user agent (
content.headers.user_agent
) exposed to JS now requires a restart. The corresponding HTTP header is not affected.
v1.12.0 (2020-06-01)
Removed
-
tox -e mkvenv
which was deprecated in qutebrowser v1.10.0 is now removed. Use themkvenv.py
script instead. -
Support for using
config.bind(key, None)
inconfig.py
to unbind a key was deprecated in v1.8.2 and is now removed. Useconfig.unbind(key)
instead. -
:yank markdown
was deprecated in v1.7.0 and is now removed. Use:yank inline [{title}]({url})
instead.
Added
-
New
:debug-keytester
command, which shows a "key tester" widget. Previously, that was only available as a separate application viapython3 -m scripts.keytester
. -
New
:config-diff
command which opens thequte://configdiff
page. -
New
--debug-flag log-cookies
to log cookies to the debug log. -
New
colors.contextmenu.disabled.{fg,bg}
settings to customize colors for disabled items in the context menu. -
New line selection mode (
:toggle-selection --line
), bound toShift-V
in caret mode. -
New
colors.webpage.darkmode.*
settings to control Chromium’s dark mode. Note that those settings only work with QtWebEngine on Qt >= 5.14 and require a restart of qutebrowser.
Changed
-
Windows and macOS releases now ship Qt 5.15, which is based on Chromium 80.0.3987.163 with security fixes up to 81.0.4044.138.
-
The
content.cookies.accept
setting now accepts URL patterns. -
Tests are now included in release tarballs. Note that only running them with the exact dependencies listed in
misc/requirements/requirements-tests.txt{,-raw}
is supported. -
The
:tab-focus
command now has completion for tabs in the current window. -
The
bindings.key_mappings
setting now maps<Ctrl+I>
to the tab key by default. -
:tab-give --private
now detaches a tab into a new private window.
Fixed
-
Using
:open -s
now only rewriteshttp://
in URLs tohttps://
, not other schemes likequte://
. -
When an unhandled exception happens in certain parts of the code (outside of the main thread), qutebrowser did crash or freeze when trying to show its exception handler. This is now fixed.
-
:inspector
now works correctly when cookies are disabled globally. -
Added workaround for a (Gentoo?) PyQt/packaging issue related to the
QWebEngineFindTextResult
handling added in v1.11.0. -
When entering caret selection mode (
v, v
) very early before a page is loaded, an error is now shown instead of a crash happening. -
The workaround for session loading with Qt 5.15 now handles
sessions.lazy_restore
so that the saved page is loaded instead of the "stub" page with no possibility to get to the web page. -
A site specific quirk to allow typing accented characters on Google Docs was active for docs.google.com, but not drive.google.com. It is now applied for both subdomains.
-
With older graphics hardware (OpenGL < 4.3) with Qt 5.14 on Wayland, WebGL causes segfaults. Now qutebrowser detects that combination and suggests to disable WebGL or use XWayland.
v1.11.1 (2020-05-07)
Security
-
CVE-2020-11054: After a certificate error was overridden by the user, qutebrowser displays the URL as yellow (
colors.statusbar.url.warn.fg
). However, when the affected website was subsequently loaded again, the URL was mistakenly displayed as green (colors.statusbar.url.success_https
). While the user already has seen a certificate error prompt at this point (or setcontent.ssl_strict
tofalse
which is not recommended), this could still provide a false sense of security. This is now fixed.
v1.11.0 (2020-04-27)
Added
-
New settings:
-
search.wrap
which can be set to false to prevent wrapping around the page when searching. With QtWebEngine, Qt 5.14 or newer is required. -
content.unknown_url_scheme_policy
which allows controlling when an external application is opened for external links (never, from user interaction, always). -
content.fullscreen.overlay_timeout
to configure how long the fullscreen overlay should be displayed. If set to0
, no overlay is displayed. -
hints.padding
to add additional padding for hints. -
hints.radius
to set a border radius for hints (set to3
by default).
-
-
New placeholders for
url.searchengines
values:-
{unquoted}
inserts the search term without any quoting. -
{semiquoted}
(same as{}
) quotes most special characters, but slashes remain unquoted. -
{quoted}
(same as{}
in earlier releases) also quotes slashes.
-
Changed
-
First adaptions to Qt 5.15, including a stop-gap measure for session loading not working properly with it.
-
Searching now wraps around the page by default with QtWebKit (where it didn’t before). Set
search.wrap
tofalse
to restore the old behavior. -
The
{}
placeholder for search engines (theurl.searchengines
setting) now does not quote slashes anymore, but other characters typically encoded in URLs still get encoded. This matches the behavior of search engines in Chromium. To revert to the old behavior, use{quoted}
instead. -
The
content.windowed_fullscreen
setting got renamed tocontent.fullscreen.window
. -
Mouse-wheel scrolling is now prevented while hints are active.
-
Changes to userscripts:
-
qute-bitwarden
now has an optional--totp
flag which can be used to copy TOTP codes to clipboard (requires thepyperclip
module). -
readability-js
now opens readability tabs next to the original tab (using the:open --related
flag). -
readability-js
now displays a favicon for readability tabs. -
password_fill
now triggers achange
JavaScript event after filling the data.
-
-
The
dictcli.py
script now shows better error messages. -
Various improvements to the
mkvenv.py
script (mainly useful for development). -
Minor performance improvements.
Deprecated
-
A warning about old Qt versions is now also shown with Qt 5.9 and 5.10, as support for Qt < 5.11 will be dropped in qutebrowser v2.0.
Fixed
-
unsafeWindow
is now defined for Greasemonkey scripts with QtWebKit. -
The proxied
window
global is now shared between different Greasemonkey scripts (but still separate from the page’swindow
), to match the original Greasemonkey implementation. -
The
--output-messages
(-m
) flag added in v1.9.0 now also works correctly when using:spawn --userscript
. -
:version
and--version
now don’t crash if there’s an (invalid)/etc/os-release
file which has non-comment lines without a=
character. -
Scripts in
scripts/
now report errors tostderr
correctly, instead of usingstdout
.
v1.10.2 (2020-04-17)
Changed
-
Windows and macOS releases now bundle Qt 5.14.2, including security fixes up to Chromium 80.0.3987.132.
Fixed
-
The WhatsApp workaround now also works when using WhatsApp in languages other than English.
-
The
mkvenv.py
script now also works properly on Windows.
v1.10.1 (2020-02-15)
Fixed
-
Crash when saving data fails during shutdown (which was a regression introduced in v1.9.0).
-
Error while reading config.py when
fonts.tabs
orfonts.debug_console
is set to a value includingdefault_size
. -
When a
state
file contains invalid UTF-8 data, a proper error is now displayed.
Changed
-
When the Qt version changes (and also on the first start of v1.10.1 on Qt 5.14), service workers registered by websites are now deleted. This is done as a workaround for QtWebEngine issues causing crashes when visiting pages using service workers (such as Google Mail/Drive). No persistent data should be affected as websites can re-register their service workers, but a (single) backup is kept at
webengine/Service Worker-bak
in qutebrowser’s data directory. -
Better output on stdout when config errors occur.
-
The
mkvenv.py
now ensures the latest versions ofsetuptools
andwheel
are installed in the virtual environment, which should speed up installation and fix install issues. -
The default for
colors.statusbar.command.private.bg
has been changed to a slightly different gray, as a workaround for a Qt issue where the cursor was invisible in that case.
v1.10.0 (2020-02-02)
Added
-
New
colors.webpage.prefers_color_scheme_dark
setting which allows forcingprefers-color-scheme: dark
colors for websites (QtWebEngine with Qt 5.14 or newer). -
New
fonts.default_size
setting which can be used to set a bigger font size for all UI fonts.
Changed
-
The
fonts.monospace
setting has been removed and replaced byfonts.default_family
. The newdefault_family
setting is improved in various ways:-
It accepts a list of font families (or a single font family) rather than a comma-separated string. As an example, instead of
fonts.monospace = "Courier, Monaco"
, usefonts.default_family = ["Courier", "Monaco"]
. -
Since a list is now accepted as value, no quoting of font names with spaces is required anymore. As an example, instead of
fonts.monospace = '"xos4 Terminus"'
, usefonts.default_family = 'xos4 Terminus'
. -
It is now empty by default rather than having a long list of font names in the default config. When the value is empty, the system’s default monospaced font is used.
-
-
If
monospace
is now used in a font value, it’s used literally and not replaced anymore. Instead,default_family
is replaced as explained above. -
The default
content.headers.accept_language
value now adds a;q=0.9
classifier which should make the value sent more in-line with what other browsers do. -
The
qute-pass
userscript now has a new--mode gopass
switch which uses gopass rather than pass. -
The
tox -e mkvenv
(ormkvenv-pypi
) way of installing qutebrowser is now replaced by amkvenv.py
script. See the updated install instructions for details. -
macOS and Windows releases now ship with Qt/QtWebEngine 5.14.1
-
Based on Chromium 77.0.3865.129 with security fixes up to Chromium 79.0.3945.117.
-
Sandboxing is now enabled on Windows.
-
Monospace fonts are now used when a website requests them on macOS 10.15.
-
Web notifications are now supported.
-
Fixed
-
When quitting qutebrowser, components are now cleaned up differently. This should fix certain (rare) segmentation faults and exceptions when quitting, especially with the new exit scheme introduced in in PyQt5 5.13.1.
-
Added a workaround for per-domain settings (e.g. a JavaScript whitelist) not being applied in some scenarios with Qt 5.13 and above.
-
Added additional site-specific quirk for WhatsApp Web.
-
The
qute-pass
userscript now works correctly when aPASSWORD_STORE_DIR
ending with a trailing slash is given.
v1.9.0 (2020-01-08)
Added
-
Initial support for Qt 5.14.
-
New
content.site_specific_quirks
setting which enables workarounds for websites with broken user agent parsing (enabled by default, see the "Fixed" section for fixed websites). -
New
qt.force_platformtheme
setting to force Qt to use a given platform theme. -
New
tabs.tooltips
setting which can be used to disable hover tooltips for tabs. -
New settings to configure the appearance of context menus:
-
fonts.contextmenu
-
colors.contextmenu.menu.bg
-
colors.contextmenu.menu.fg
-
colors.contextmenu.selected.bg
-
colors.contextmenu.selected.fg
-
Changed
-
The macOS binaries now require macOS 10.13 High Sierra or newer. Support for macOS 10.12 Sierra has been dropped.
-
The
content.headers.user_agent
setting now is a format string with the default value resembling the behavior of it being set to null before. This slightly changes the sent user agent for QtWebKit: Instead of mentioning qutebrowser and its version it now mentions the Qt version. -
The
qute-pass
userscript now has a new--extra-url-suffixes
(-s
) argument which passes extra URL suffixes to the tldextract library. -
A stack is now used for
:tab-focus last
rather than just saving one tab. Additionally,:tab-focus
now understandsstack-prev
andstack-next
arguments to traverse that stack. -
:hint
now has a newright-click
target which allows right-clicking elements via hints. -
The Terminus font has been removed from the default monospace fonts since it caused trouble with HighDPI setups. To get it back, add either
"xos4 Terminus"
orTerminus
(depending on fontconfig version) to the beginning of thefonts.monospace
setting. -
As a workaround for a Qt bug causing a segfault, desktop sharing is now automatically rejected on Qt versions before 5.13.2. Note that screen sharing still won’t work on Linux before Qt 5.14.
-
Comment lines in quickmarks/bookmarks files are now ignored. However, note that qutebrowser will overwrite those files if bookmark/quickmark commands are used.
-
Reopening PDF.js pages from e.g. a session file will now re-download and display those PDFs.
-
Improved behavior when using
:open-download
in a sandboxed environment (KDE Flatpak). -
qutebrowser now enables the new PyQt exit scheme, which should result in things being cleaned up more properly (e.g. cookies being saved even without a timeout) on PyQt 5.13.1 and newer.
-
The
:spawn
command has a new-m
/--output-messages
argument which shows qutebrowser messages based on a command’s standard output/error. -
Improved insert mode detection for some CodeMirror usages (e.g. in JupyterLab and Jupyter Notebook).
-
If JavaScript is disabled globally,
file://*
now doesn’t automatically have it enabled anymore. Run:set -u file://* content.javascript.enabled true
to restore the previous behavior. -
Settings with URL patterns can now be used to affect the behavior of the QtWebEngine inspector. Note that the underlying URL is
chrome-devtools://*
from Qt 5.11 to Qt 5.13, butdevtools://*
with Qt 5.14. -
Improvements when
tabs.tabs_are_windows
is set:-
Using
:tab-take
and:tab-give
now shows an error, as the effect of doing so would be equal to:tab-clone
. -
The
:buffer
completion doesn’t show any window sections anymore, only a flat list of tabs.
-
-
Improved parsing in some corner cases for the
QtFont
type (used forfonts.tabs
andfonts.debug_console
). -
Performance improvements for the following areas:
-
Adding settings with URL patterns
-
Matching of settings using URL patterns
-
Fixed
-
Downloads (e.g. via
:download
) now see the same user agent header as webpages, which fixes cases where overly restrictive servers/WAFs closed the connection before. -
dictcli.py
now works correctly on Windows again. -
The logic for
:restart
has been revisited, which should fix issues with relative basedirs. -
Remaining issues related to Python 3.8 are now fixed (mostly warnings, especially on QtWebKit).
-
Workaround for a Qt bug where a page never finishes loading with a non-overridable TLS error (e.g. due to HSTS).
-
The
qute://configdiff
page now doesn’t show built-in settings (e.g. javascript being enabled forqute://
andchrome://
pages) anymore. -
The
qute-lastpass
userscript now stops prompting for passwords when cancelling the password input. -
The tab hover text now shows ampersands (&) correctly.
-
With QtWebEngine and Qt >= 5.11, the inspector now shows its icons correctly even if loading of images is disabled via the
content.images
setting. -
Entering a very long string (over 50k characters) in the completion used to crash, now it shows an error message instead.
-
Various improvements for URL/searchengine detection:
-
Strings with a dot but with characters not allowed in a URL (e.g. an underscore) are now not treated as URL anymore.
-
Strings like "5/8" are now not treated as IP anymore.
-
URLs with an explicit scheme and a space (%20) are correctly treated as URLs.
-
Mail addresses are now treated as search terms.
-
With
url.open_base_url
set, searching for a search engine name now works. -
url.open_base_url = True
together withurl.auto_search = 'never'
is now handled correctly. -
Fixed crash when a search engine URL turns out to be invalid.
-
-
New "site specific quirks", which work around some broken websites:
-
WhatsApp Web
-
Google Accounts
-
Slack (with older QtWebEngine versions)
-
Dell.com support pages (with Qt 5.7)
-
Google Docs (fixes broken IME/compose key)
-
v1.8.3 (2019-12-05)
Fixed
-
Segmentation fault introduced in v1.8.2 when a tab gets closed immediately after it has finished loading (e.g. with certain login flows).
v1.8.2 (2019-11-22)
Changed
-
Windows/macOS releases now ship with Qt 5.12.6. This includes security fixes up to Chromium 77.0.3865.120 plus a security fix for CVE-2019-13720 from Chromium 78.
Fixed
-
Unbinding keys via
config.bind(key, None)
accidentally worked in v1.7.0 but raises an exception in v1.8.0. It now works again, but is deprecated and shows an error. Note that:config-py-write
did write such invalid lines before v1.8.0, so existing config files might need adjustments. -
The
readability-js
userscript now handles encodings correctly (which it didn’t before for some websites). -
<Shift-Insert> can now be used to paste text starting with a hyphen.
-
Following hints via the number keypad now works properly again.
-
Errors while reading the state file are now displayed instead of causing a crash.
-
Crash when using
:debug-log-level
without a console attached. -
Downloads are now hidden properly when the browser is in fullscreen mode.
-
Crash when setting
colors.webpage.bg
to an empty value with QtWebKit. -
Crash when the history database file is not a proper sqlite database.
-
Workaround for missing/broken error pages on Debian.
-
A deprecation warning (caused by pywin32) about the imp module on Windows is now hidden.
v1.8.1 (2019-09-27)
Changed
-
No code changes - this release only repackages the Windows/macOS releases due to issues with the v1.8.0 release.
-
Updated dependencies for Windows/macOS releases:
-
macOS and Windows releases now ship with Qt/QtWebEngine 5.12.5. Those are based on Chromium 69.0.3497.128 with security fixes up to Chromium 76.0.3809.87.
-
Qt 5.13 couldn’t be used yet due to various bugs in Qt 5.13.0 and .1.
-
v1.8.0 (2019-09-25)
Added
-
New userscripts:
-
readability-js
which uses Mozilla’s node.js readability library. -
qute-bitwarden
which integrates the Bitwarden CLI.
-
Changed
-
The statusbar text for passthrough mode now shows all configured bindings to leave the mode, not only one.
-
When
:config-source
is used with a relative filename, the file is now searched in the config directory instead of the current working directory. -
HTML5 inputs with date/time types now enter insert mode when selected.
-
dictcli.py
now shows where dictionaries are installed to and complains when running it as root if doing so would result in a wrong installation path. -
The Makefile now can also run
setup.py build
when invoked without a target. -
Changes to userscripts:
-
qute-pass: Don’t run
pass
if only a username is requested. -
qute-pass: Support private domains like
myrouter.local
. -
readability: Improved CSS styling.
-
-
Performance improvements in various areas:
-
Loading config files
-
Typing without any completion matches
-
General keyboard handling
-
Scrolling
-
-
:version
now shows details about the loaded autoconfig.yml/config.py. -
Hosts are now additionally looked up including their ports in netrc files.
-
With Qt 5.10 or newer, qutebrowser now doesn’t force software rendering with Nouveau drivers anymore. However, QtWebEngine/Chromium still do so.
-
The XSS Auditor is now disabled by default (
content.xss_auditing
=false
). This reflects a similar change in Chromium, see their XSS Auditor Design Document for details.
Fixed
-
:config-write-py
now correctly writesconfig.unbind(...)
lines (instead ofconfig.bind(..., None)
) when unbinding a default keybinding. -
Prevent repeat keyup events for JavaScript when a key is held down.
-
The Makefile now rebuilds the manpage correctly.
-
~/.config/qutebrowser/blocked-hosts
can now also contain /etc/hosts-like lines, not just simple hostnames. -
Restored compatibility with Jinja2 2.8 (e.g. used on Debian Stretch or Ubuntu 16.04 LTS).
-
Fixed implicit type conversion warning with Python 3.8.
-
The desktop file now sets
StartupWMClass
correctly, so the qutebrowser icon is no longer shown twice in the Gnome dock when pinned. -
Bindings involving keys which need the AltGr key now work properly.
-
Fixed crash (caused by a Qt bug) when typing characters above the Unicode BMP (such as certain emoji or CJK characters).
-
dictcli.py
now works properly again. -
Shift can now be used while typing hint keystrings, which e.g. allows typing number hints on French keyboards.
-
With rapid hinting in number mode, backspace now edits the filter text after following a hint.
-
A certain type of error ("locking protocol") while initializing sqlite now isn’t handled as crash anymore.
-
Crash when showing a permission request in certain scenarios.
Removed
-
At least Python 3.5.2 is now required to run qutebrowser, support for 3.5.0 and 3.5.1 was dropped.
v1.7.0 (2019-07-18)
Added
-
New settings:
-
colors.tabs.pinned.*
to control colors of pinned tabs. -
hints.leave_on_load
which allows disabling leaving of hint mode when a new page is loaded. -
colors.completion.item.selected.match.fg
which allows configuring the text color for the matching text in the currently selected completion item. -
tabs.undo_stack_size
to limit how many undo entries are kept for closed tabs.
-
-
New commands:
-
:reverse-selection
(o
in caret mode) to swap the stationary/moving ends of a selection.
-
-
New commandline replacements:
-
{url:domain}
,{url:auth}
,{url:scheme}
,{url:username}
,{url:password}
,{url:host}
,{url:port}
,{url:path}
,{url:query}
for the respective parts of the current URL. -
{title}
for the current page title.
-
-
The
{title}
field intabs.title.format
,tabs.title.format_pinned
andwindow.title_format
got renamed to{current_title}
(mirroring{current_url}
) in order to not conflict with the new{title}
commandline replacement. -
New
delete
target for:hint
which removes the hinted element from the DOM. -
New
--config-py
commandline argument to use a customconfig.py
file. -
Qt 5.13: Support for notifications (shown via system tray).
Changed
-
Updated dependencies for Windows/macOS releases:
-
PyQt5 5.12.3 / PyQtWebEngine 5.12.1
-
Qt 5.12.4, which includes security fixes up to Chromium 74.0.3729.157
-
Python 3.7.4
-
OpenSSL 1.1.1
-
Note: This release includes Qt 5.12.4 instead of Qt 5.13.0 due to QTBUG-76913 causing frequent segfaults with Qt 5.13. After Qt 5.13.1 is released, qutebrowser v1.8.0 will be released with an updated Qt.
-
Completely revamped Windows installer which allows installing without admin permissions and allows setting qutebrowser as default browser.
-
The desktop file
qutebrowser.desktop
is now renamed toorg.qutebrowser.qutebrowser.desktop
. -
Pinned tabs now always show a favicon (even if the site doesn’t provide one) when shrinking.
-
Setting
downloads.location.directory
now changes the directory displayed in the download prompt even ifdownloads.location.remember
is set. -
The
yank
command gained a newinline
argument, which allows to e.g. use:yank inline [{title}]({url})
. -
Duplicate consecutive history entries with the same URL are now ignored.
-
More detailed error messages when spawning a process failed.
-
The
content.pdfjs
setting now supports domain patterns. -
Improved process status output with
:spawn -o
. -
The
colors.tabs.bar.bg
setting is now of typeQssColor
and thus supports gradients. -
The
:fullscreen
command now understands a new--enter
flag which causes it to always enter fullscreen instead of toggling the current state. -
--debug-flag stack
is now needed to show stack traces on renderer process crashes. -
--debug-flag chromium
can be used to easily turn on verbose Chromium logging. -
For runtime data (such as the IPC socket), a proper runtime path is now used on BSD; only macOS/Windows continue to use the temporary directory.
-
PDF.js is now also searched in
/app/share/pdf.js/
(for Flatpak) -
Permission prompts can now be answered with
Y
(:prompt-accept --save yes
) andN
(:prompt-accept --save no
) to save the answer as a per-domain setting. -
content.dns_prefetch
is now turned off by default, as it causes crashes inside QtWebEngine. -
The (still unofficial) interceptor plugin API now contains
resource_type
for a request and allows redirecting requests. -
:bookmark-remove
now shows a message for consistency with:bookmark-add
. -
Very early segfaults are now also caught by the crash handler.
-
The appdata XML now contains proper release information and an (empty) OARS content rating.
-
Improved Linux distribution detection.
-
Qt 5.13: Request filtering now happens in the UI rather than IO thread.
-
Qt 5.13: Support for PDFium (Chromium’s PDF viewer) is disabled for now so that PDFs can still be downloaded (or shown with PDF.js) properly.
-
Various performance improvements (e.g. for showing hints or the :open completion).
Deprecated
-
:yank markdown
got deprecated, as:yank inline [{title}]({url})
can now be used instead.
Fixed
-
Various QtWebEngine load signals are now handled differently, which should fix issues with insert mode being left while typing on sites like Google Translate.
-
Race condition causing a colored statusbar in normal mode when entering/exiting caret mode quickly.
-
Using
100%
for a hue in ahsv(...)
config value now corresponds to 359 (rather than 255), matching the fixed behavior in Qt 5.13. -
Chaining commands with
;;
used to abort with some failing commands. It now runs the second command no matter whether the first one succeeded or not. -
Handling of profiles and private windows (and resulting crashes with Qt 5.12.2).
-
Fixes for corner-cases when using
:navigate increment/decrement
. -
The type for the
colors.hints.match.fg
setting was changed toQtColor
. Gradients were never supported for this setting, and with this change, values likergb(0, 0, 0)
now work as well. -
Permission prompts now show a properly normalized URL with QtWebKit.
-
Crash on start when PyQt was built without SSL support with Qt >= 5.12.
-
Minor memory leaks.
v1.6.3 (2019-06-18)
Fixed
-
Crash when hinting and changing/closing the tab before hints are displayed.
-
Crash on redirects with Qt 5.13.
-
Hide bogus
AA_ShareOpenGLContexts
warning with Qt 5.12.4. -
Workaround for renderer process crashes with Qt 5.12.4. If you’re unable to update, you can remove
~/.cache/qutebrowser
for the same result.
v1.6.2 (2019-05-06)
Changed
-
Windows/macOS releases now ship with Qt 5.12.3, which includes security fixes up to Chromium 73.0.3683.75.
Fixed
-
Crash when SQL errors occur while using the completion.
-
Crash when cancelling a download prompt started in an already closed window.
-
Crash when many prompts are opened at the same time.
-
Running without Qt installed now displays a proper error again.
-
High CPU usage when using the keyhint widget with a low delay.
-
Crash with Qt >= 5.14 on redirects.
v1.6.1 (2019-03-20)
Changed
-
Windows/macOS releases now ship with Qt 5.12.2, which includes security fixes up to Chromium 72.0.3626.121 (including CVE-2019-5786 which is known to be exploited in the wild).
Fixed
-
Crash when using
:config-{dict,list}-{add,remove}
with an invalid setting. -
Functionality like hinting on pages with an element with ID
_qutebrowser
(such as qutebrowser.org) on Qt 5.12. -
The .desktop file in v1.6.0 was missing the "Actions" key, which is now fixed.
-
The SVG icon now has a size of 256x256px set to comply with freedesktop standards.
-
Setting
colors.statusbar.*.bg
to a gradient now has the expected effect of the gradient spanning the entire statusbar.
v1.6.0 (2019-02-25)
Added
-
New settings:
-
tabs.new_position.stacking
which controls whether new tabs opened from a page should stack on each other or not. -
completion.open_categories
which allows to configure which categories are shown in the:open
completion, and how they are ordered. -
tabs.pinned.frozen
to allow/deny navigating in pinned tabs. -
hints.selectors
which allows to configure what CSS selectors are used for hints, and also allows adding custom hint groups. -
input.insert_mode.leave_on_load
to turn off leaving insert mode when a new page is loaded.
-
-
New config manipulation commands:
-
:config-dict-add
and:config-list-add
to a new element to a dict/list setting. -
:config-dict-remove
and:config-list-remove
to remove an element from a dict/list setting.
-
-
New
:yank markdown
feature which yanks the current URL and title in markdown format. -
Support for new QtWebEngine features in Qt 5.12:
-
Basic support for client certificates. Selecting the certificate to use when there are multiple matching certificates isn’t implemented yet.
-
Support for DNS prefetching (plus new
content.dns_prefetch
setting).
-
Changed
-
Various changes to the Windows and macOS builds:
-
Bundling Qt 5.12.1, based on Chromium 69.0.3497.128 with security fixes up to 71.0.3578.94.
-
Windows: A 32-bit build is available again.
-
Windows: The builds now bundle the Universal CRT DLLs, causing them to work on earlier versions of Windows 10.
-
macOS: Support for OS X 10.11 El Capitan was dropped, requiring macOS 10.12 Sierra or newer.
-
macOS: The IPC socket path used to communicate with existing instances changed due to changes in Qt 5.12. Please make sure to quit qutebrowser before upgrading.
-
-
:q
now closes the current window instead of quitting qutebrowser completely (:close
), while:qa
quits (:quit
). The behavior of:wq
remains unchanged (:quit --save
), as closing a window while saving the session doesn’t make sense. -
Completion highlighting is now done differently (using
QSyntaxHighlighter
), which should fix some highlighting corner-cases. -
The
QtColor
config type now also understands colors likergb(...)
. -
:yank
now has a--quiet
option which causes it to not display a message. -
The
:open
completion now also shows search engines by default. -
The
content.host_blocking.enabled
setting now supports URL patterns, so the adblocker can be disabled on a given page. -
Elements with a
tabindex
attribute now also get hints by default. -
Various small performance improvements for hints and the completion.
-
The Wayland check for QtWebEngine is now disabled on Qt >= 5.11.2, as those versions should work without any issues.
-
The JavaScript
console
object is now available in PAC files. -
PAC proxies currently don’t work properly on QtWebEngine (and never did), so an error is now shown when trying to configure a PAC proxy.
-
The metainfo file
qutebrowser.appdata.xml
is now renamed toorg.qutebrowser.qutebrowser.appdata.xml
. -
The
qute-pass
userscript now understands domains in gpg filenames in addition to directory names. -
The autocompletion for
content.headers.user_agent
got updated to only include the default and Chrome, as setting the UA to Firefox has various bad side-effects. -
Combining Qt 5.12 with an older PyQt can lead to issues, so a warning is now shown when starting qutebrowser with that combination.
Fixed
-
Invalid world IDs now get rejected for
:jseval
and GreaseMonkey scripts. -
When websites suggest download filenames with invalid characters, those are now correctly replaced.
-
Invalid hint length calculation in certain rare cases.
-
Dragging tabs in the tab bar (which was broken in v1.5.0)
-
Using Shift-Home in command mode now works properly.
-
Workaround for a Qt bug which prevented
content.cookies.accept = no-3rdparty
from working properly on some pages like GMail. However, the default forcontent.cookies.accept
is stillall
to be in line with what other browsers do. -
:navigate
not incrementing in anchors or queries. -
Crash when trying to use a proxy requiring authentication with QtWebKit.
-
Slashes in search terms are now percent-escaped.
-
When
scrolling.bar = True
was set in versions before v1.5.0, this now correctly gets migrated toalways
instead ofwhen-searching
. -
Completion highlighting now works again on Qt 5.11.3 and 5.12.1.
-
The non-standard header
X-Do-Not-Track
is no longer sent. -
PAC proxies were never correctly supported with QtWebEngine, but are now explicitly disallowed.
-
macOS: Context menus for download items now show in the correct macOS style.
-
Issues with fullscreen handling when exiting a video player.
-
Various fixes for Qt 5.12 issues:
-
A javascript error on page load was fixed.
-
window.print()
works with Qt 5.12 now. -
Fixed handling of duplicate download filenames.
-
Fixed broken
qute://history
page. -
Fixed PDF.js not working properly.
-
The download button in PDF.js now works (it’s not possible to make it work with earlier Qt versions).
-
Since Greasemonkey scripts modifying the DOM fail when being run at document-start, some known-broken scripts (Iridium, userstyles.org) are now forced to run at document-end.
-
v1.5.2 (2018-10-26)
Changed
-
The
content.cookies.accept
setting is now set toall
instead ofno-3rdparty
by default, asno-3rdparty
breaks various pages such as GMail.
v1.5.1 (2018-10-10)
Fixed
-
Flickering when opening/closing tabs (as soon as more than 10 are open) on some pages.
-
PDF.js is now bundled again with the macOS/Windows release.
-
PDF.js is now searched in the correct path (if not installed system-wide) instead of hardcoding
~/.local/share/qutebrowser
. -
Improved logging for PDF.js resources which fail to load.
-
Crash when closing a tab after doing a search.
-
Tabs appearing when hidden after e.g. closing tabs.
v1.5.0 (2018-10-03)
Added
-
Rewritten PDF.js support:
-
PDF.js support and the
content.pdfjs
setting are now also available with QtWebEngine. -
Opening a PDF file now doesn’t start a second request anymore.
-
Opening PDFs on https:// sites now works properly.
-
New
--pdfjs
flag forprompt-open-download
, so PDFs can be opened in PDF.js with<Ctrl-P>
in the download prompt.
-
-
New settings:
-
content.mouse_lock
to handle HTML5 pointer locking. -
completion.web_history.exclude
which hides a list of URL patterns from the completion. -
qt.process_model
which can be used to change Chromium’s process model. -
qt.low_end_device_mode
which turns on Chromium’s low-end device mode. This mode uses less RAM, but the expense of performance. -
content.webrtc_ip_handling_policy
, which allows more fine-grained/restrictive control about which IPs are exposed via WebRTC. -
tabs.max_width
which allows to have a more "normal" look for tabs. -
content.mute
which allows to mute pages (or all tabs) by default.
-
-
Running qutebrowser with QtWebKit or Qt < 5.9 now shows a warning (only once), as support for those is going to be removed in a future release.
-
New t[iI][hHu] default bindings (similar to
tsh
etc.) to toggle images. -
The qute-pass userscript now has optional OTP support.
-
When
:spawn --userscript
is called with a count, that count is now passed to userscripts as$QUTE_COUNT
.
Changed
-
Windows and macOS releases now bundle Python 3.7, PyQt 5.11.3 and Qt 5.11.2. QtWebEngine includes security fixes up to Chromium 68.0.3440.75 and various other fixes.
-
Various performance improvements when many tabs are opened.
-
The
content.headers.referer
setting now works on QtWebEngine. -
The
:repeat
command now takes a count which is multiplied with the given "times" argument. -
The default keybinding to leave passthrough mode was changed from
<Ctrl-V>
to<Shift-Escape>
, which makes pasting from the clipboard easier in passthrough mode and is also unlikely to conflict with webpage bindings. -
The
app_id
is now set toqutebrowser
for Wayland. -
Command
orCmd
can now be used (instead ofMeta
) to map the Command key on macOS. -
Using
:set option
now shows the value of the setting (like:set option?
already did). -
The
completion.web_history_max_items
setting got renamed tocompletion.web_history.max_items
. -
The Makefile shipped with qutebrowser now supports overriding variables
DATADIR
andMANDIR
. -
Regenerating completion history now shows a progress dialog.
-
The
content.autoplay
setting now supports URL patterns on Qt >= 5.11. -
The
content.host_blocking.whitelist
setting now takes a list of URL patterns instead of globs. -
In passthrough mode, Ctrl + Mousewheel now also gets passed through to the page instead of zooming.
-
Editing text in an external editor now simulates a JS "input" event, which improves compatibility with websites reacting via JS to input.
-
The
qute://settings
page is now properly sorted on Python 3.5. -
:zoom
,:zoom-in
and:zoom-out
now have a--quiet
switch which causes them to not display a message. -
The
scrolling.bar
setting now takes three values instead of being a boolean:always
,never
, andwhen-searching
(which only displays it while a search is active). -
@@ now repeats the last run macro.
-
The
content.host_blocking.lists
setting now accepts afile://
URL to a directory, and reads all files in that directory. -
The
:tab-give
and:tab-take
command now have a new flag--keep
which causes them to keep the old tab around. -
:navigate
now clears the URL query.
Fixed
-
qute://
pages now work properly on Qt 5.11.2 -
Error when passing a substring with spaces to
:tab-take
. -
Greasemonkey scripts which start with a UTF-8 BOM are now handled correctly.
-
When no documentation has been generated, the plaintext documentation now can be shown for more files such as
qute://help/userscripts.html
. -
Crash when doing initial run on Wayland without XWayland.
-
Crash when trying to load an empty session file.
-
:hint
with an invalid--mode=
value now shows a proper error. -
Rare crash on Qt 5.11.2 when clicking on
<select>
elements. -
Rare crash related to the completion.
Removed
-
Support for importing pre-v1.0.0 history files has been removed.
-
The
content.webrtc_public_interfaces_only
setting has been removed and replaced bycontent.webrtc_ip_handling_policy
.
v1.4.2 (2018-09-02)
Changed
-
The
content.xss_auditing
setting is now enabled by default, to mirror Chromium’s rather than Qt’s default behavior. -
Long URLs in the statusbar are now elided at the end rather than in the middle, to make sure the hostname is completely visible whenever possible.
Fixed
-
Crash in Qt 5.7.1 when a website uses
window.print()
. -
The workaround for Nouveau graphic drivers now works properly again.
-
Crash when using
:follow-selected
with a link which is outside of the view. -
Workaround for windows not showing as urgent with some window managers (like i3).
-
Crash when opening URLs with some unicode characters (IDNA 2008). Those URLs still won’t open though, due to missing support in Qt.
-
Crash when a download directory which can’t be created is configured.
-
Crash in the
importer.py
script when importing Chrome bookmarks from newer Chrome versions. -
The
content.webrtc_public_interfaces_only
option didn’t work on Qt 5.11 previously (it now does). Note it still does not work on Qt 5.10 (due to a Qt bug) and Qt < 5.9.2. -
Repeated escaping of entries in
qute://log
when refreshing page. -
The host blocker doesn’t block 0.0.0.0 anymore.
-
Crash when using :// as URL pattern.
-
The
:buffer
completion now sorts tabs with indices >= 10 correctly again.
v1.4.1 (2018-07-11)
Security
-
CVE-2018-10895: Fix CSRF issue on the qute://settings page, leading to possible arbitrary code execution. See the related GitHub issue for details: https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/4060
Fixed
-
Rare crash when an error occurs in downloads.
-
Newlines are now stripped from the :version pastebin URL.
-
There’s a new
mkvenv-pypi-old
environment intox.ini
which installs an older Qt, which is needed on Ubuntu 16.04. -
Worked around a Qt issue which redirects to a
chrome-error://
page when trying to use U2F. -
The
link_pyqt.py
script now works correctly with PyQt 5.11. -
The Windows installer now uninstalls the old version before installing the new one, fixing issues with qutebrowser not starting after installing v1.4.0 over v1.3.3.
v1.4.0 (2018-07-03)
Added
-
Support for the bundled
sip
module in PyQt 5.11 and other changes in Qt/PyQt 5.11.x. -
New
--debug-flag log-requests
to log requests to the debug log for debugging. -
New
--first
flag for:hint
(bound togi
for inputs) which automatically selects the first hint. -
New
input.escape_quits_reporter
setting which can be used to avoid accidentally quitting the crash reporter when pressing escape. -
New
qute-lastpass
userscript which uses the LastPass CLI to fill passwords. -
The Makefile now installs a
/usr/share/metainfo/qutebrowser.appdata.xml
file. -
QtWebEngine: Support for printing from webpages via
window.print
. -
QtWebEngine: Support for muting tabs:
-
New
{audio}
field forwindow.title_format
andtabs.title.format
which displays[M]
/[A]
for muted/recently audible tabs. -
New
:tab-mute
command (bound to<Alt-m>
) to mute/unmute a tab.
-
-
QtWebEngine: Support for
content.cookies.accept
with third-party cookies blocked by default (requires Qt 5.11). -
QtWebEngine: New settings:
-
Support for requesting persistent storage via
navigator.webkitPersistentStorage.requestQuota
with a newcontent.persistent_storage
setting (requires Qt 5.11). This setting also supports URL patterns. -
Support for registering custom protocol handlers via
navigator.registerProtocolHandler
with a newcontent.register_protocol_handler
setting (requires Qt 5.11). This setting also supports URL patterns. -
Support for WebRTC screen sharing with a new
content.desktop_capture
setting (requires Qt 5.10). This setting also supports URL patterns. -
New
content.autoplay
setting to enable/disable automatic video playback (requires Qt 5.10). -
New
content.webrtc_public_interfaces_only
setting to only expose public interfaces over WebRTC (requires Qt 5.9.2 or 5.11). -
New
content.canvas_reading
setting to disable reading from canvas elements.
-
Changed
-
The following settings now support URL patterns:
-
content.headers.do_not_track
-
content.headers.custom
-
content.headers.accept_language
-
content.headers.user_agent
-
content.ssl_strict
-
content.geolocation
-
content.notifications
-
content.media_capture
-
-
The Windows/macOS releases now bundle Qt 5.11.1 which is based on Chromium 65.0.3325.151 with security fixes up to Chromium 67.0.3396.87.
-
New short flags for commandline arguments:
-B
and-T
for--basedir
and--temp-basedir
;-d
and-D
for--debug
and--debug-flag
. -
Deleting history items via
:history-clear
or:completion-item-del
now also removes that URL from QtWebEngine’s visited links. -
There’s now completion for commands taking a variable count of arguments (like
:config-cycle
). -
QtWebEngine: On Qt 5.11.1, no reloads are needed anymore when switching between pages with changed settings (e.g.
content.javascript.enabled
). -
The
qt.force_software_rendering
setting changed from a boolean to taking different values (software-opengl
,qt-quick
andchromium
) for different kinds of software rendering workarounds. -
On Qt 5.11, using wayland with QtWebEngine is now possible when using software rendering.
-
GreaseMonkey scripts now get their own global scope (based on the page’s one), which allows scripts like OneeChan to work.
-
Rapid hinting is now supported with the
yank
andyank-primary
targets, copying newline-separated links. -
QtWebEngine: On Qt 5.11, the developer tools (inspector) can now be used securely and without requiring the
--enable-webengine-inspector
option. -
The
<Enter>
key (:follow-selected
) now follows the currently focused element if there’s no selection. -
The
--logfilter
argument now can be prepended with an exclamation mark (e.g.--logfilter '!init,destroy'
) to invert the filter. -
:view-source
now has a--pygments
flag which uses the "old" way of rendering sources even with QtWebEngine. -
Improved error messages when a setting needs a newer Qt version.
-
QtWebEngine: Various improvements to make the cursor more visible in caret browsing.
-
When a prompt is opened in insert/passthrough mode, the mode is restored after closing the prompt.
-
On Qt 5.10 or newer, dictionaries are now read from the qutebrowser data directory (e.g.
~/.local/share/qutebrowser
) instead of/usr/share/qt
. Existing dictionaries are copied over. -
If an error while parsing
~/.netrc
occurs, the cause of the error is now logged. -
On Qt 5.9 or newer, certificate errors now show Chromium’s detailed error page.
-
Greasemonkey scripts now support a "@qute-js-world" tag to run them in a different JavaScript context.
Fixed
-
Various subtle keyboard focus issues.
-
The security fix in v1.3.3 caused URLs with ampersands (
www.example.com?one=1&two=2
) to send the wrong arguments when clicked on thequte://history
page. -
Crash when opening a PDF page with PDF.js enabled (on QtWebKit), but no PDF.js installed.
-
Crash when closing a tab shortly after opening it.
Removed
-
No prebuilt binaries for 32-bit Windows are supplied anymore. This is due to Qt removing QtWebEngine support for those upstream. It might be possible to distribute 32-bit binaries again with Qt 5.12 in December, but that will only happen if it turns out enough people actually need 32-bit support.
-
:tab-detach
which has been deprecated in v1.1.0 has been removed. -
The
content.developer_extras
setting got removed. On QtWebKit, developer extras are now automatically enabled when opening the inspector.
v1.3.3 (2018-06-21)
Security
-
CVE-2018-1000559: An XSS vulnerability on the
qute://history
page allowed websites to inject HTML into the page via a crafted title tag. This could allow them to steal your browsing history. If you’re currently unable to upgrade, avoid using:history
. See the related GitHub issue for details: https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/4011.
Fixed
-
Crash in a workaround for a Qt 5.11 bug in rare circumstances.
-
Workaround for a Qt bug which preserves searches between page loads.
-
In v1.3.2 a dependency on the
PyQt5.QtQuickWidgets
module was accidentally introduced. Since that module isn’t packaged everywhere, it’s been removed again.
v1.3.2 (2018-06-10)
Fixed
-
QtWebEngine: Improved workaround for a bug in Qt 5.11 where only the top/bottom half of the window is used.
-
QtWebEngine: Work around a bug in Qt 5.11 where an endless loading-loop is triggered when clicking a link with an unknown scheme.
-
QtWebEngine: When switching between pages with changed settings, less unnecessary reloads are done now.
-
QtWebEngine: It’s now possible to open external links such as
magnet://
ormailto:
via hints.
v1.3.1 (2018-05-29)
Fixed
-
Work around a bug in Qt 5.11 where only the top/bottom half of the window is used. This workaround is incomplete, but fixes the majority of the cases where this happens.
-
Work around keyboard focus issues with Qt 5.11.
-
Work around an issue in Qt 5.11 where e.g. activating JavaScript per-domain needed a manual reload in some cases.
-
Don’t crash when a ² key is pressed (e.g. on AZERTY keyboards).
-
Don’t crash when a tab is opened and quickly closed again.
v1.3.0 (2018-05-03)
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 userscripts:
-
getbib
to download bibtex information for DOIs on a page. -
qute-keepass
to get passwords from KeePassX.
-
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 towindow.hide_decoration
and now also works outside of wayland. -
The
tabs.favicons.show
setting now can take three values:'always'
(wasTrue
),'never'
(wasFalse
) 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
isFalse
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 whenupx
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.
-
Checking for a new version after sending a crash report now works properly again.
-
@match
in Greasemonkey scripts now more closely matches the proper pattern syntax. -
Searching via
/
or?
now doesn’t handle any characters in a special way. -
Fixed crash when trying to retry some failed downloads on QtWebEngine.
-
An invalid spellcheck dictionary filename now doesn’t crash anymore.
-
When no spellcheck dictionaries are configured, it’s now disabled internally. This works around an issue with entering special characters on Facebook messenger.
-
The macOS release now should work again on macOS 10.11 and newer.
v1.2.1 (2018-03-14)
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 noNum+
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 ofCommand
on macOS again.
v1.2.0 (2018-03-09)
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
inconfig.py
now takes a third argument which is the pattern. -
New
with config.pattern('...') as p:
context manager forconfig.py
to use the shorthand syntax with a pattern. -
New
tsh
keybinding to toggle scripts for the current host. With a capitalS
, the toggle is saved. With a capitalH
, subdomains are included. Withu
instead ofh
, 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 replacestabs.persist_mode_on_change
. It can now be set torestore
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 withinput.forward_unbound_keys
, this should allow for emacs-like "modeless" keybindings.
-
-
New
:prompt-yank
command (bound toAlt-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 inscripts/
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 ownyesno
section instead. -
Trying to bind invalid keys now shows an error.
-
The
bindings.default
setting can now only be set in aconfig.py
, and existing values inautoconfig.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 takeport
as possible segment. -
QtWebEngine:
:view-source
now uses Chromium’sview-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
orShift-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 bytabs.mode_on_change
.
v1.1.2 (2018-03-01)
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 (2018-01-20)
Fixed
-
The Makefile now actually works.
-
Fixed crashes with Qt 5.10 when closing a tab before it finished loading.
v1.1.0 (2018-01-15)
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 likemake -f misc/Makefile DESTDIR="$pkgdir" install
now. -
New fields for
window.title_format
andtabs.title.format
:-
{current_url}
-
{protocol}
-
-
New settings:
-
colors.statusbar.passthrough.fg
/.bg
-
completion.delay
andcompletion.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 toCtrl-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 forconfig.py
to source another file. -
New
{line}
and{column}
replacements foreditor.command
to position the cursor correctly. -
New
qute-pass
userscript as alternative topassword_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 ofsource-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, butQT_WAYLAND_DISABLE_WINDOWDECORATION
is set in the environment, the decorations are still hidden. -
The
install_dict.py
script for QtWebEngine was renamed todictcli.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 ajs/
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 toqute://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
orqute://
URLs. -
Fixed crash when opening
qute://help/img
. -
Fixed
gU
(:navigate up
) onqute://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 (2017-11-28)
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 (2017-11-04)
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 (2017-10-17)
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 modifiable via
.append()
inconfig.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 (2017-10-13)
Fixed
-
Fixed starting after customizing
fonts.tabs
orfonts.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 (2017-10-12)
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 dependency 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 aconfig.py
file. -
:config-edit
to open theconfig.py
file in an editor. -
:config-write-py
to write aconfig.py
template file.
-
-
New
:version
command which opensqute://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 (2017-10-09)
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 (2017-07-04)
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 acceptsnone
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]
forui -> window-title-format
andtabs -> 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 usequte://*
instead (e.g.qute://version
instead ofqute:version
), but the old versions are automatically redirected. -
Texts in prompts are now selectable.
-
The default level for
:messages
is nowinfo
, noterror
-
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 styles 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 (2017-03-08)
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 (2017-02-25)
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 topac+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 intostorage -> 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 detectsrel
attributes on<a>
elements, and handles multiplerel
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 (2017-01-13)
Fixed
-
Prevent websites from downloading files to a location outside of the download folder with QtWebEngine.
v0.9.0 (2016-12-28)
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’sunix-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
andnext-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 (likeutm_source
etc.) to strip off when yanking a URL. -
Support for the HTML5 page visibility API
-
New
readability
userscript which shows a readable version of a page (using thereadability-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 theuser-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 usergba(r, g, b, alpha)
colors instead forcolors -> hints.bg
. -
The
hints -> font
setting is not affected byfonts -> web-family-fixed
anymore. Thus, a transformer got added to changeMonospace
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 inuser-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 optionalcmdline
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 thehints -> 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 newnew-instance-open-target.window
setting. It can also be set tolast-visible
to show the pages in the most recently visible window, orfirst-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 forup
/increment
/decrement
. -
The
hints -> auto-follow
setting now can be set toalways
/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 toalways
,auto
ornever
. -
: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 tojavascript-can-open-windows-automatically
. -
:prompt-accept
now optionally accepts a value which overrides the one entered in the input box.yes
andno
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 fromstatusbar.fg.error
) -
colors -> messages.bg.error
(renamed fromstatusbar.bg.error
) -
colors -> messages.border.error
-
colors -> messages.fg.warning
(renamed fromstatusbar.fg.warning
) -
colors -> messages.bg.warning
(renamed fromstatusbar.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
andqutebrowser --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 takeprev
/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 `xhtml11 ` 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 opensdefault-page
without a 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 intocompletion -> 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 (2016-11-05)
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 editingkeys.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 (2016-08-02)
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 (2016-07-27)
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 (2016-07-26)
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 toCtrl-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 meansgg
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 usingwrap-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 (2016-06-10)
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. Thejavascript
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
isNone
-
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 (2016-04-30)
Fixed
-
Fixed crash when using
:tab-{prev,next,focus}
right after closing the last tab withlast-close
set toclose
. -
Fixed crash when doing
:undo
in a new instance withtabs -> last-close
set todefault-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 (2016-04-10)
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 (2016-04-04)
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 thegt
/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
forhints -> 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 thepass
executable. -
New
current
hinting mode which forces opening hints in the current tab (even withtarget="_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 openvim
viatermite
) -
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 toJ
/K
) were removed (except for existing configs) to make room for thegt
binding to show buffers.
v0.5.1 (2016-01-18)
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 (2016-01-05)
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
anddmenu_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 inui -> window-title-format
andtabs -> 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 intotabs.bg/fg.selected.odd/even
. -
:spawn --userscript
and:hint
with theuserscript
target now look up relative paths in~/.local/share/qutebrowser/userscripts
or$XDG_DATA_HOME
. 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 logVDEBUG
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 iftabs -> wrap
istrue
. -
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
andrapid-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 toauto
. -
Fixed restarting after a crash is reported.
-
Removed
.pyc
files accidentally contained in source releases.
v0.4.1 (2015-09-30)
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 (2015-09-11)
Added
-
New bookmark functionality (similar to quickmarks without a name).
-
New command
:bookmark-add
to bookmark the current page (bound toM
). -
New command
:bookmark-load
to load a bookmark (bound togb
/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
andtabs -> 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 oldtabs -> hide-*
options and has an additionalswitching
option which shows tab while switching them. There’s also a newshow-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
andui -> downloads-position
got changed fromnorth
/south
/west/`east
totop
/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
andtabs -> hide-auto
settings got merged into the newtabs -> show
setting.
v0.3.0 (2015-06-28)
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 toEnter
/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
andQUTE_TEXT
for userscripts now don’t store the contents directly, and instead contain a filename. -
The
content -> geolocation
andnotifications
settings now support atrue
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
andF
now respect thebackground-tabs
setting. To enforce a foreground tab (whatF
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 newno-3rdparty
(default) andno-unknown-3rdparty
values to block third-party cookies. Thedefault
value got renamed toall
. -
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 totab
. -
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 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 (2015-04-19)
Fixed
-
Added missing manpage (doc/qutebrowser.1.asciidoc) to archive.
v0.2.0 (2015-04-19)
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 tocmd-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
fornew-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
. Therapid
/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 setWM_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 re-added 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 totabs -> 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
andrun_checks.py
have been replaced by tox. Install tox and runtox -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
andrapid-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
andrun_checks.py
have been replaced by tox. Install tox and runtox -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 (2015-03-19)
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*
inutils.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 (2015-02-12)
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 (2015-01-09)
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 (2014-12-28)
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 inNeighborList
. -
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 (2014-12-14)
Initial release.