qutebrowser
A keyboard-driven browser.
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Setting reference
All settings
| Setting | Description |
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Aliases for commands. |
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Time interval (in milliseconds) between auto-saves of config/cookies/etc. |
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Always restore open sites when qutebrowser is reopened. |
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Backend to use to display websites. |
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Keybindings mapping keys to commands in different modes. |
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Default keybindings. If you want to add bindings, modify |
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Map keys to other keys, so that they are equivalent in all modes. |
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When to show a changelog after qutebrowser was upgraded. |
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Background color of the completion widget category headers. |
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Bottom border color of the completion widget category headers. |
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Top border color of the completion widget category headers. |
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Foreground color of completion widget category headers. |
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Background color of the completion widget for even rows. |
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Text color of the completion widget. |
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Background color of the selected completion item. |
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Bottom border color of the selected completion item. |
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Top border color of the selected completion item. |
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Foreground color of the selected completion item. |
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Foreground color of the matched text in the selected completion item. |
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Foreground color of the matched text in the completion. |
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Background color of the completion widget for odd rows. |
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Color of the scrollbar in the completion view. |
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Color of the scrollbar handle in the completion view. |
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Background color of disabled items in the context menu. |
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Foreground color of disabled items in the context menu. |
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Background color of the context menu. |
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Foreground color of the context menu. |
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Background color of the context menu’s selected item. |
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Foreground color of the context menu’s selected item. |
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Background color for the download bar. |
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Background color for downloads with errors. |
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Foreground color for downloads with errors. |
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Color gradient start for download backgrounds. |
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Color gradient start for download text. |
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Color gradient stop for download backgrounds. |
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Color gradient end for download text. |
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Color gradient interpolation system for download backgrounds. |
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Color gradient interpolation system for download text. |
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Background color for hints. |
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Font color for hints. |
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Font color for the matched part of hints. |
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Background color of the keyhint widget. |
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Text color for the keyhint widget. |
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Highlight color for keys to complete the current keychain. |
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Background color of an error message. |
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Border color of an error message. |
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Foreground color of an error message. |
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Background color of an info message. |
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Border color of an info message. |
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Foreground color of an info message. |
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Background color of a warning message. |
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Border color of a warning message. |
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Foreground color of a warning message. |
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Background color for prompts. |
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Border used around UI elements in prompts. |
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Foreground color for prompts. |
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Background color for the selected item in filename prompts. |
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Foreground color for the selected item in filename prompts. |
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Background color of the statusbar in caret mode. |
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Foreground color of the statusbar in caret mode. |
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Background color of the statusbar in caret mode with a selection. |
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Foreground color of the statusbar in caret mode with a selection. |
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Background color of the statusbar in command mode. |
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Foreground color of the statusbar in command mode. |
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Background color of the statusbar in private browsing + command mode. |
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Foreground color of the statusbar in private browsing + command mode. |
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Background color of the statusbar in insert mode. |
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Foreground color of the statusbar in insert mode. |
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Background color of the statusbar. |
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Foreground color of the statusbar. |
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Background color of the statusbar in passthrough mode. |
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Foreground color of the statusbar in passthrough mode. |
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Background color of the statusbar in private browsing mode. |
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Foreground color of the statusbar in private browsing mode. |
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Background color of the progress bar. |
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Foreground color of the URL in the statusbar on error. |
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Default foreground color of the URL in the statusbar. |
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Foreground color of the URL in the statusbar for hovered links. |
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Foreground color of the URL in the statusbar on successful load (http). |
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Foreground color of the URL in the statusbar on successful load (https). |
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Foreground color of the URL in the statusbar when there’s a warning. |
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Background color of the tab bar. |
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Background color of unselected even tabs. |
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Foreground color of unselected even tabs. |
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Color for the tab indicator on errors. |
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Color gradient start for the tab indicator. |
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Color gradient end for the tab indicator. |
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Color gradient interpolation system for the tab indicator. |
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Background color of unselected odd tabs. |
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Foreground color of unselected odd tabs. |
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Background color of pinned unselected even tabs. |
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Foreground color of pinned unselected even tabs. |
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Background color of pinned unselected odd tabs. |
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Foreground color of pinned unselected odd tabs. |
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Background color of pinned selected even tabs. |
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Foreground color of pinned selected even tabs. |
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Background color of pinned selected odd tabs. |
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Foreground color of pinned selected odd tabs. |
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Background color of selected even tabs. |
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Foreground color of selected even tabs. |
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Background color of selected odd tabs. |
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Foreground color of selected odd tabs. |
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Background color of tooltips. |
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Foreground color of tooltips. |
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Background color for webpages if unset (or empty to use the theme’s color). |
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Which algorithm to use for modifying how colors are rendered with dark mode. |
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Contrast for dark mode. |
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Render all web contents using a dark theme. |
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Which images to apply dark mode to. |
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Which pages to apply dark mode to. |
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Threshold for inverting background elements with dark mode. |
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Threshold for inverting text with dark mode. |
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Value to use for |
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Number of commands to save in the command history. |
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Delay (in milliseconds) before updating completions after typing a character. |
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Default filesystem autocomplete suggestions for :open. |
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Height (in pixels or as percentage of the window) of the completion. |
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Minimum amount of characters needed to update completions. |
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Which categories to show (in which order) in the :open completion. |
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Move on to the next part when there’s only one possible completion left. |
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Padding (in pixels) of the scrollbar handle in the completion window. |
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Width (in pixels) of the scrollbar in the completion window. |
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When to show the autocompletion window. |
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Shrink the completion to be smaller than the configured size if there are no scrollbars. |
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Format of timestamps (e.g. for the history completion). |
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Execute the best-matching command on a partial match. |
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A list of patterns which should not be shown in the history. |
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Number of URLs to show in the web history. |
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Require a confirmation before quitting the application. |
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Automatically start playing |
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List of URLs to ABP-style adblocking rulesets. |
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Enable the ad/host blocker |
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Block subdomains of blocked hosts. |
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List of URLs to host blocklists for the host blocker. |
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Which method of blocking ads should be used. |
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A list of patterns that should always be loaded, despite being blocked by the ad-/host-blocker. |
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Enable support for the HTML 5 web application cache feature. |
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Maximum number of pages to hold in the global memory page cache. |
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Size (in bytes) of the HTTP network cache. Null to use the default value. |
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Allow websites to read canvas elements. |
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Which cookies to accept. |
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Store cookies. |
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Default encoding to use for websites. |
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Allow websites to share screen content. |
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Try to pre-fetch DNS entries to speed up browsing. |
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Expand each subframe to its contents. |
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Set fullscreen notification overlay timeout in milliseconds. |
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Limit fullscreen to the browser window (does not expand to fill the screen). |
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Allow websites to request geolocations. |
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Value to send in the |
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Custom headers for qutebrowser HTTP requests. |
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Value to send in the |
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When to send the Referer header. |
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User agent to send. |
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Enable hyperlink auditing ( |
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Load images automatically in web pages. |
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Show javascript alerts. |
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Allow JavaScript to close tabs. |
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Allow JavaScript to open new tabs without user interaction. |
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Allow JavaScript to read from or write to the clipboard. |
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Enable JavaScript. |
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Enables the legacy touch event feature. |
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Log levels to use for JavaScript console logging messages. |
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Javascript messages to not show in the UI, despite a corresponding |
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Javascript message sources/levels to show in the qutebrowser UI. |
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Use the standard JavaScript modal dialog for |
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Show javascript prompts. |
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Allow locally loaded documents to access other local URLs. |
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Allow locally loaded documents to access remote URLs. |
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Enable support for HTML 5 local storage and Web SQL. |
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Allow websites to record audio. |
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Allow websites to record audio and video. |
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Allow websites to record video. |
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Allow websites to lock your mouse pointer. |
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Automatically mute tabs. |
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Netrc-file for HTTP authentication. |
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Allow websites to show notifications. |
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What notification presenter to use for web notifications. |
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Whether to show the origin URL for notifications. |
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Display PDF files via PDF.js in the browser without showing a download prompt. |
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Allow websites to request persistent storage quota via |
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Enable plugins in Web pages. |
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Request websites to minimize non-essentials animations and motion. |
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Draw the background color and images also when the page is printed. |
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Open new windows in private browsing mode which does not record visited pages. |
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Proxy to use. |
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Send DNS requests over the configured proxy. |
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Allow websites to register protocol handlers via |
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Enable quirks (such as faked user agent headers) needed to get specific sites to work properly. |
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Disable a list of named quirks. |
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How to proceed on TLS certificate errors. |
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How navigation requests to URLs with unknown schemes are handled. |
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List of user stylesheet filenames to use. |
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Enable WebGL. |
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Which interfaces to expose via WebRTC. |
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Monitor load requests for cross-site scripting attempts. |
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Directory to save downloads to. |
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Prompt the user for the download location. |
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Remember the last used download directory. |
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What to display in the download filename input. |
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Default program used to open downloads. |
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Where to show the downloaded files. |
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Automatically abort insecure (HTTP) downloads originating from secure (HTTPS) pages. |
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Duration (in milliseconds) to wait before removing finished downloads. |
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Editor (and arguments) to use for the |
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Encoding to use for the editor. |
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Delete the temporary file upon closing the editor. |
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Command (and arguments) to use for selecting a single folder in forms. The command should write the selected folder path to the specified file or stdout. |
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Handler for selecting file(s) in forms. If |
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Command (and arguments) to use for selecting multiple files in forms. The command should write the selected file paths to the specified file or to stdout, separated by newlines. |
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Command (and arguments) to use for selecting a single file in forms. The command should write the selected file path to the specified file or stdout. |
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Font used in the completion categories. |
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Font used in the completion widget. |
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Font used for the context menu. |
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Font used for the debugging console. |
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Default font families to use. |
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Default font size to use. |
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Font used for the downloadbar. |
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Font used for the hints. |
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Font used in the keyhint widget. |
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Font used for error messages. |
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Font used for info messages. |
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Font used for warning messages. |
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Font used for prompts. |
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Font used in the statusbar. |
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Font used for selected tabs. |
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Font used for unselected tabs. |
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Font used for tooltips. |
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Font family for cursive fonts. |
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Font family for fantasy fonts. |
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Font family for fixed fonts. |
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Font family for sans-serif fonts. |
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Font family for serif fonts. |
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Font family for standard fonts. |
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Default font size (in pixels) for regular text. |
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Default font size (in pixels) for fixed-pitch text. |
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Hard minimum font size (in pixels). |
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Minimum logical font size (in pixels) that is applied when zooming out. |
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When a hint can be automatically followed without pressing Enter. |
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Duration (in milliseconds) to ignore normal-mode key bindings after a successful auto-follow. |
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CSS border value for hints. |
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Characters used for hint strings. |
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Dictionary file to be used by the word hints. |
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Which implementation to use to find elements to hint. |
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Hide unmatched hints in rapid mode. |
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Leave hint mode when starting a new page load. |
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Minimum number of characters used for hint strings. |
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Mode to use for hints. |
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Comma-separated list of regular expressions to use for next links. |
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Padding (in pixels) for hints. |
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Comma-separated list of regular expressions to use for prev links. |
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Rounding radius (in pixels) for the edges of hints. |
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Scatter hint key chains (like Vimium) or not (like dwb). |
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CSS selectors used to determine which elements on a page should have hints. |
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Make characters in hint strings uppercase. |
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Maximum time (in minutes) between two history items for them to be considered being from the same browsing session. |
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Allow Escape to quit the crash reporter. |
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Which unbound keys to forward to the webview in normal mode. |
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Enter insert mode if an editable element is clicked. |
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Leave insert mode if a non-editable element is clicked. |
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Automatically enter insert mode if an editable element is focused after loading the page. |
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Leave insert mode when starting a new page load. |
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Switch to insert mode when clicking flash and other plugins. |
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Include hyperlinks in the keyboard focus chain when tabbing. |
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Interpret number prefixes as counts for bindings. |
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Whether the underlying Chromium should handle media keys. |
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Mode to change to when focusing on a tab/URL changes. |
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Enable back and forward buttons on the mouse. |
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Enable Opera-like mouse rocker gestures. |
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Timeout (in milliseconds) for partially typed key bindings. |
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Enable spatial navigation. |
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Keychains that shouldn’t be shown in the keyhint dialog. |
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Time (in milliseconds) from pressing a key to seeing the keyhint dialog. |
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Rounding radius (in pixels) for the edges of the keyhint dialog. |
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Level for console (stdout/stderr) logs. Ignored if the |
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Level for in-memory logs. |
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Duration (in milliseconds) to show messages in the statusbar for. |
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How to open links in an existing instance if a new one is launched. |
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Which window to choose when opening links as new tabs. |
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Show a filebrowser in download prompts. |
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Rounding radius (in pixels) for the edges of prompts. |
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Additional arguments to pass to Qt, without leading |
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Enables Web Platform features that are in development. |
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When to use Chromium’s low-end device mode. |
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Which Chromium process model to use. |
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What sandboxing mechanisms in Chromium to use. |
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Additional environment variables to set. |
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Force a Qt platform to use. |
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Force a Qt platformtheme to use. |
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Force software rendering for QtWebEngine. |
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Turn on Qt HighDPI scaling. |
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Disable accelerated 2d canvas to avoid graphical glitches. |
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Disable the Hangouts extension. |
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Work around locale parsing issues in QtWebEngine 5.15.3. |
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Delete the QtWebEngine Service Worker directory on every start. |
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When/how to show the scrollbar. |
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Enable smooth scrolling for web pages. |
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When to find text on a page case-insensitively. |
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Find text on a page incrementally, renewing the search for each typed character. |
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Wrap around at the top and bottom of the page when advancing through text matches using |
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Display messages when advancing through text matches at the top and bottom of the page, e.g. |
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Name of the session to save by default. |
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Load a restored tab as soon as it takes focus. |
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Languages to use for spell checking. |
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Padding (in pixels) for the statusbar. |
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Position of the status bar. |
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When to show the statusbar. |
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List of widgets displayed in the statusbar. |
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Open new tabs (middleclick/ctrl+click) in the background. |
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Mouse button with which to close tabs. |
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How to behave when the close mouse button is pressed on the tab bar. |
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Scaling factor for favicons in the tab bar. |
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When to show favicons in the tab bar. |
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Maximum stack size to remember for tab switches (-1 for no maximum). |
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Padding (in pixels) for tab indicators. |
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Width (in pixels) of the progress indicator (0 to disable). |
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How to behave when the last tab is closed. |
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Maximum width (in pixels) of tabs (-1 for no maximum). |
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Minimum width (in pixels) of tabs (-1 for the default minimum size behavior). |
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When switching tabs, what input mode is applied. |
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Switch between tabs using the mouse wheel. |
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Position of new tabs opened from another tab. |
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Stack related tabs on top of each other when opened consecutively. |
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Position of new tabs which are not opened from another tab. |
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Padding (in pixels) around text for tabs. |
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Force pinned tabs to stay at fixed URL. |
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Shrink pinned tabs down to their contents. |
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Position of the tab bar. |
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Which tab to select when the focused tab is removed. |
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When to show the tab bar. |
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Duration (in milliseconds) to show the tab bar before hiding it when tabs.show is set to switching. |
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Open a new window for every tab. |
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Alignment of the text inside of tabs. |
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Position of ellipsis in truncated title of tabs. |
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Format to use for the tab title. |
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Format to use for the tab title for pinned tabs. The same placeholders like for |
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Show tooltips on tabs. |
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Number of closed tabs (per window) and closed windows to remember for :undo (-1 for no maximum). |
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Width (in pixels or as percentage of the window) of the tab bar if it’s vertical. |
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Wrap when changing tabs. |
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What search to start when something else than a URL is entered. |
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Page to open if :open -t/-b/-w is used without URL. |
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URL segments where |
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Open base URL of the searchengine if a searchengine shortcut is invoked without parameters. |
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Search engines which can be used via the address bar. |
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Page(s) to open at the start. |
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URL parameters to strip when yanking a URL. |
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Hide the window decoration. |
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Format to use for the window title. The same placeholders like for |
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Set the main window background to transparent. |
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Default zoom level. |
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Available zoom levels. |
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Number of zoom increments to divide the mouse wheel movements to. |
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Apply the zoom factor on a frame only to the text or to all content. |
aliases
Aliases for commands. The keys of the given dictionary are the aliases, while the values are the commands they map to.
Type: Dict
Default:
-
q:close -
qa:quit -
w:session-save -
wq:quit --save -
wqa:quit --save
auto_save.interval
Time interval (in milliseconds) between auto-saves of config/cookies/etc.
Type: Int
Default: 15000
auto_save.session
Always restore open sites when qutebrowser is reopened.
Without this option set, :wq (:quit --save) needs to be used to save open tabs (and restore them), while quitting qutebrowser in any other way will not save/restore the session.
By default, this will save to the session which was last loaded. This behavior can be customized via the session.default_name setting.
Type: Bool
Default: false
backend
Backend to use to display websites. qutebrowser supports two different web rendering engines / backends, QtWebEngine and QtWebKit (not recommended). QtWebEngine is Qt’s official successor to QtWebKit, and both the default/recommended backend. It’s based on a stripped-down Chromium and regularly updated with security fixes and new features by the Qt project: https://wiki.qt.io/QtWebEngine QtWebKit was qutebrowser’s original backend when the project was started. However, support for QtWebKit was discontinued by the Qt project with Qt 5.6 in 2016. The development of QtWebKit was picked up in an official fork: https://github.com/qtwebkit/qtwebkit - however, the project seems to have stalled again. The latest release (5.212.0 Alpha 4) from March 2020 is based on a WebKit version from 2016, with many known security vulnerabilities. Additionally, there is no process isolation and sandboxing. Due to all those issues, while support for QtWebKit is still available in qutebrowser for now, using it is strongly discouraged.
This setting requires a restart.
Type: String
Valid values:
-
webengine: Use QtWebEngine (based on Chromium - recommended). -
webkit: Use QtWebKit (based on WebKit, similar to Safari - many known security issues!).
Default: webengine
bindings.commands
Keybindings mapping keys to commands in different modes.
While it’s possible to add bindings with this setting, it’s recommended to use config.bind() in config.py or the :bind command, and leave this setting alone.
This setting is a dictionary containing mode names and dictionaries mapping keys to commands:
{mode: {key: command}}
If you want to map a key to another key, check the bindings.key_mappings setting instead.
For modifiers, you can use either - or + as delimiters, and these names:
-
Control:
Control,Ctrl -
Meta:
Meta,Windows,Mod4 -
Alt:
Alt,Mod1 -
Shift:
Shift
For simple keys (no <>-signs), a capital letter means the key is pressed with Shift. For special keys (with <>-signs), you need to explicitly add Shift- to match a key pressed with shift.
If you want a binding to do nothing, bind it to the nop command. If you want a default binding to be passed through to the website, bind it to null.
Note that some commands which are only useful for bindings (but not used interactively) are hidden from the command completion. See :help for a full list of available commands.
The following modes are available:
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normal: Default mode, where most commands are invoked.
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insert: Entered when an input field is focused on a website, or by pressing
iin normal mode. Passes through almost all keypresses to the website, but has some bindings like<Ctrl-e>to open an external editor. Note that single keys can’t be bound in this mode. -
hint: Entered when
fis pressed to select links with the keyboard. Note that single keys can’t be bound in this mode. -
passthrough: Similar to insert mode, but passes through all keypresses except
<Shift+Escape>to leave the mode. Note that single keys can’t be bound in this mode. -
command: Entered when pressing the
:key in order to enter a command. Note that single keys can’t be bound in this mode. -
prompt: Entered when there’s a prompt to display, like for download locations or when invoked from JavaScript.
-
yesno: Entered when there’s a yes/no prompt displayed.
-
caret: Entered when pressing the
vmode, used to select text using the keyboard. -
register: Entered when qutebrowser is waiting for a register name/key for commands like
:set-mark.
Type: Dict
Default: empty
bindings.default
Default keybindings. If you want to add bindings, modify bindings.commands instead.
The main purpose of this setting is that you can set it to an empty dictionary if you want to load no default keybindings at all.
If you want to preserve default bindings (and get new bindings when there is an update), use config.bind() in config.py or the :bind command, and leave this setting alone.
This setting can only be set in config.py.
Type: Dict
Default:
-
caret:-
$:move-to-end-of-line -
0:move-to-start-of-line -
<Ctrl-Space>:selection-drop -
<Escape>:mode-leave -
<Return>:yank selection -
<Space>:selection-toggle -
G:move-to-end-of-document -
H:scroll left -
J:scroll down -
K:scroll up -
L:scroll right -
V:selection-toggle --line -
Y:yank selection -s -
[:move-to-start-of-prev-block -
]:move-to-start-of-next-block -
b:move-to-prev-word -
c:mode-enter normal -
e:move-to-end-of-word -
gg:move-to-start-of-document -
h:move-to-prev-char -
j:move-to-next-line -
k:move-to-prev-line -
l:move-to-next-char -
o:selection-reverse -
v:selection-toggle -
w:move-to-next-word -
y:yank selection -
{:move-to-end-of-prev-block -
}:move-to-end-of-next-block
-
-
command:-
<Alt-B>:rl-backward-word -
<Alt-Backspace>:rl-backward-kill-word -
<Alt-D>:rl-kill-word -
<Alt-F>:rl-forward-word -
<Ctrl-?>:rl-delete-char -
<Ctrl-A>:rl-beginning-of-line -
<Ctrl-B>:rl-backward-char -
<Ctrl-C>:completion-item-yank -
<Ctrl-D>:completion-item-del -
<Ctrl-E>:rl-end-of-line -
<Ctrl-F>:rl-forward-char -
<Ctrl-H>:rl-backward-delete-char -
<Ctrl-K>:rl-kill-line -
<Ctrl-N>:command-history-next -
<Ctrl-P>:command-history-prev -
<Ctrl-Return>:command-accept --rapid -
<Ctrl-Shift-C>:completion-item-yank --sel -
<Ctrl-Shift-Tab>:completion-item-focus prev-category -
<Ctrl-Shift-W>:rl-filename-rubout -
<Ctrl-Tab>:completion-item-focus next-category -
<Ctrl-U>:rl-unix-line-discard -
<Ctrl-W>:rl-rubout " " -
<Ctrl-Y>:rl-yank -
<Down>:completion-item-focus --history next -
<Escape>:mode-leave -
<PgDown>:completion-item-focus next-page -
<PgUp>:completion-item-focus prev-page -
<Return>:command-accept -
<Shift-Delete>:completion-item-del -
<Shift-Tab>:completion-item-focus prev -
<Tab>:completion-item-focus next -
<Up>:completion-item-focus --history prev
-
-
hint:-
<Ctrl-B>:hint all tab-bg -
<Ctrl-F>:hint links -
<Ctrl-R>:hint --rapid links tab-bg -
<Escape>:mode-leave -
<Return>:hint-follow
-
-
insert:-
<Ctrl-E>:edit-text -
<Escape>:mode-leave -
<Shift-Escape>:fake-key <Escape> -
<Shift-Ins>:insert-text -- {primary}
-
-
normal:-
':mode-enter jump_mark -
+:zoom-in -
-:zoom-out -
.:cmd-repeat-last -
/:cmd-set-text / -
::cmd-set-text : -
;I:hint images tab -
;O:hint links fill :open -t -r {hint-url} -
;R:hint --rapid links window -
;Y:hint links yank-primary -
;b:hint all tab-bg -
;d:hint links download -
;f:hint all tab-fg -
;h:hint all hover -
;i:hint images -
;o:hint links fill :open {hint-url} -
;r:hint --rapid links tab-bg -
;t:hint inputs -
;y:hint links yank -
<Alt-1>:tab-focus 1 -
<Alt-2>:tab-focus 2 -
<Alt-3>:tab-focus 3 -
<Alt-4>:tab-focus 4 -
<Alt-5>:tab-focus 5 -
<Alt-6>:tab-focus 6 -
<Alt-7>:tab-focus 7 -
<Alt-8>:tab-focus 8 -
<Alt-9>:tab-focus -1 -
<Alt-m>:tab-mute -
<Ctrl-A>:navigate increment -
<Ctrl-Alt-p>:print -
<Ctrl-B>:scroll-page 0 -1 -
<Ctrl-D>:scroll-page 0 0.5 -
<Ctrl-F5>:reload -f -
<Ctrl-F>:scroll-page 0 1 -
<Ctrl-N>:open -w -
<Ctrl-PgDown>:tab-next -
<Ctrl-PgUp>:tab-prev -
<Ctrl-Q>:quit -
<Ctrl-Return>:selection-follow -t -
<Ctrl-Shift-N>:open -p -
<Ctrl-Shift-T>:undo -
<Ctrl-Shift-Tab>:nop -
<Ctrl-Shift-W>:close -
<Ctrl-T>:open -t -
<Ctrl-Tab>:tab-focus last -
<Ctrl-U>:scroll-page 0 -0.5 -
<Ctrl-V>:mode-enter passthrough -
<Ctrl-W>:tab-close -
<Ctrl-X>:navigate decrement -
<Ctrl-^>:tab-focus last -
<Ctrl-h>:home -
<Ctrl-p>:tab-pin -
<Ctrl-s>:stop -
<Escape>:clear-keychain ;; search ;; fullscreen --leave -
<F11>:fullscreen -
<F5>:reload -
<Return>:selection-follow -
<back>:back -
<forward>:forward -
=:zoom -
?:cmd-set-text ? -
@:macro-run -
B:cmd-set-text -s :quickmark-load -t -
D:tab-close -o -
F:hint all tab -
G:scroll-to-perc -
H:back -
J:tab-next -
K:tab-prev -
L:forward -
M:bookmark-add -
N:search-prev -
O:cmd-set-text -s :open -t -
PP:open -t -- {primary} -
Pp:open -t -- {clipboard} -
R:reload -f -
Sb:bookmark-list --jump -
Sh:history -
Sq:bookmark-list -
Ss:set -
T:cmd-set-text -sr :tab-focus -
U:undo -w -
V:mode-enter caret ;; selection-toggle --line -
ZQ:quit -
ZZ:quit --save -
[[:navigate prev -
]]:navigate next -
`:mode-enter set_mark -
ad:download-cancel -
b:cmd-set-text -s :quickmark-load -
cd:download-clear -
co:tab-only -
d:tab-close -
f:hint -
g$:tab-focus -1 -
g0:tab-focus 1 -
gB:cmd-set-text -s :bookmark-load -t -
gC:tab-clone -
gD:tab-give -
gJ:tab-move + -
gK:tab-move - -
gO:cmd-set-text :open -t -r {url:pretty} -
gU:navigate up -t -
g^:tab-focus 1 -
ga:open -t -
gb:cmd-set-text -s :bookmark-load -
gd:download -
gf:view-source -
gg:scroll-to-perc 0 -
gi:hint inputs --first -
gm:tab-move -
go:cmd-set-text :open {url:pretty} -
gt:cmd-set-text -s :tab-select -
gu:navigate up -
h:scroll left -
i:mode-enter insert -
j:scroll down -
k:scroll up -
l:scroll right -
m:quickmark-save -
n:search-next -
o:cmd-set-text -s :open -
pP:open -- {primary} -
pp:open -- {clipboard} -
q:macro-record -
r:reload -
sf:save -
sk:cmd-set-text -s :bind -
sl:cmd-set-text -s :set -t -
ss:cmd-set-text -s :set -
tCH:config-cycle -p -u *://*.{url:host}/* content.cookies.accept all no-3rdparty never ;; reload -
tCh:config-cycle -p -u *://{url:host}/* content.cookies.accept all no-3rdparty never ;; reload -
tCu:config-cycle -p -u {url} content.cookies.accept all no-3rdparty never ;; reload -
tIH:config-cycle -p -u *://*.{url:host}/* content.images ;; reload -
tIh:config-cycle -p -u *://{url:host}/* content.images ;; reload -
tIu:config-cycle -p -u {url} content.images ;; reload -
tPH:config-cycle -p -u *://*.{url:host}/* content.plugins ;; reload -
tPh:config-cycle -p -u *://{url:host}/* content.plugins ;; reload -
tPu:config-cycle -p -u {url} content.plugins ;; reload -
tSH:config-cycle -p -u *://*.{url:host}/* content.javascript.enabled ;; reload -
tSh:config-cycle -p -u *://{url:host}/* content.javascript.enabled ;; reload -
tSu:config-cycle -p -u {url} content.javascript.enabled ;; reload -
tcH:config-cycle -p -t -u *://*.{url:host}/* content.cookies.accept all no-3rdparty never ;; reload -
tch:config-cycle -p -t -u *://{url:host}/* content.cookies.accept all no-3rdparty never ;; reload -
tcu:config-cycle -p -t -u {url} content.cookies.accept all no-3rdparty never ;; reload -
th:back -t -
tiH:config-cycle -p -t -u *://*.{url:host}/* content.images ;; reload -
tih:config-cycle -p -t -u *://{url:host}/* content.images ;; reload -
tiu:config-cycle -p -t -u {url} content.images ;; reload -
tl:forward -t -
tpH:config-cycle -p -t -u *://*.{url:host}/* content.plugins ;; reload -
tph:config-cycle -p -t -u *://{url:host}/* content.plugins ;; reload -
tpu:config-cycle -p -t -u {url} content.plugins ;; reload -
tsH:config-cycle -p -t -u *://*.{url:host}/* content.javascript.enabled ;; reload -
tsh:config-cycle -p -t -u *://{url:host}/* content.javascript.enabled ;; reload -
tsu:config-cycle -p -t -u {url} content.javascript.enabled ;; reload -
u:undo -
v:mode-enter caret -
wB:cmd-set-text -s :bookmark-load -w -
wIf:devtools-focus -
wIh:devtools left -
wIj:devtools bottom -
wIk:devtools top -
wIl:devtools right -
wIw:devtools window -
wO:cmd-set-text :open -w {url:pretty} -
wP:open -w -- {primary} -
wb:cmd-set-text -s :quickmark-load -w -
wf:hint all window -
wh:back -w -
wi:devtools -
wl:forward -w -
wo:cmd-set-text -s :open -w -
wp:open -w -- {clipboard} -
xO:cmd-set-text :open -b -r {url:pretty} -
xo:cmd-set-text -s :open -b -
yD:yank domain -s -
yM:yank inline [{title}]({url:yank}) -s -
yP:yank pretty-url -s -
yT:yank title -s -
yY:yank -s -
yd:yank domain -
ym:yank inline [{title}]({url:yank}) -
yp:yank pretty-url -
yt:yank title -
yy:yank -
{{:navigate prev -t -
}}:navigate next -t
-
-
passthrough:-
<Shift-Escape>:mode-leave
-
-
prompt:-
<Alt-B>:rl-backward-word -
<Alt-Backspace>:rl-backward-kill-word -
<Alt-D>:rl-kill-word -
<Alt-E>:prompt-fileselect-external -
<Alt-F>:rl-forward-word -
<Alt-Shift-Y>:prompt-yank --sel -
<Alt-Y>:prompt-yank -
<Ctrl-?>:rl-delete-char -
<Ctrl-A>:rl-beginning-of-line -
<Ctrl-B>:rl-backward-char -
<Ctrl-E>:rl-end-of-line -
<Ctrl-F>:rl-forward-char -
<Ctrl-H>:rl-backward-delete-char -
<Ctrl-K>:rl-kill-line -
<Ctrl-P>:prompt-open-download --pdfjs -
<Ctrl-Shift-W>:rl-filename-rubout -
<Ctrl-U>:rl-unix-line-discard -
<Ctrl-W>:rl-rubout " " -
<Ctrl-X>:prompt-open-download -
<Ctrl-Y>:rl-yank -
<Down>:prompt-item-focus next -
<Escape>:mode-leave -
<Return>:prompt-accept -
<Shift-Tab>:prompt-item-focus prev -
<Tab>:prompt-item-focus next -
<Up>:prompt-item-focus prev
-
-
register:-
<Escape>:mode-leave
-
-
yesno:-
<Alt-Shift-Y>:prompt-yank --sel -
<Alt-Y>:prompt-yank -
<Escape>:mode-leave -
<Return>:prompt-accept -
N:prompt-accept --save no -
Y:prompt-accept --save yes -
n:prompt-accept no -
y:prompt-accept yes
-
bindings.key_mappings
Map keys to other keys, so that they are equivalent in all modes.
When the key used as dictionary-key is pressed, the binding for the key used as dictionary-value is invoked instead.
This is useful for global remappings of keys, for example to map <Ctrl-[> to <Escape>.
NOTE: This should only be used if two keys should always be equivalent, i.e. for things like <Enter> (keypad) and <Return> (non-keypad). For normal command bindings, qutebrowser works differently to vim: You always bind keys to commands, usually via :bind or config.bind(). Instead of using this setting, consider finding the command a key is bound to (e.g. via :bind gg) and then binding the same command to the desired key.
Note that when a key is bound (via bindings.default or bindings.commands), the mapping is ignored.
Type: Dict
Default:
-
<Ctrl-6>:<Ctrl-^> -
<Ctrl-Enter>:<Ctrl-Return> -
<Ctrl-I>:<Tab> -
<Ctrl-J>:<Return> -
<Ctrl-M>:<Return> -
<Ctrl-[>:<Escape> -
<Enter>:<Return> -
<Shift-Enter>:<Return> -
<Shift-Return>:<Return>
changelog_after_upgrade
When to show a changelog after qutebrowser was upgraded.
Type: String
Valid values:
-
major: Show changelog for major upgrades (e.g. v2.0.0 → v3.0.0). -
minor: Show changelog for major and minor upgrades (e.g. v2.0.0 → v2.1.0). -
patch: Show changelog for major, minor and patch upgrades (e.g. v2.0.0 → v2.0.1). -
never: Never show changelog after upgrades.
Default: minor
colors.completion.category.bg
Background color of the completion widget category headers.
Type: QssColor
Default: qlineargradient(x1:0, y1:0, x2:0, y2:1, stop:0 #888888, stop:1 #505050)
colors.completion.category.border.bottom
Bottom border color of the completion widget category headers.
Type: QssColor
Default: black
colors.completion.category.border.top
Top border color of the completion widget category headers.
Type: QssColor
Default: black
colors.completion.category.fg
Foreground color of completion widget category headers.
Type: QtColor
Default: white
colors.completion.even.bg
Background color of the completion widget for even rows.
Type: QssColor
Default: #333333
colors.completion.fg
Text color of the completion widget. May be a single color to use for all columns or a list of three colors, one for each column.
Default:
-
white -
white -
white
colors.completion.item.selected.bg
Background color of the selected completion item.
Type: QssColor
Default: #e8c000
colors.completion.item.selected.border.bottom
Bottom border color of the selected completion item.
Type: QssColor
Default: #bbbb00
colors.completion.item.selected.border.top
Top border color of the selected completion item.
Type: QssColor
Default: #bbbb00
colors.completion.item.selected.fg
Foreground color of the selected completion item.
Type: QtColor
Default: black
colors.completion.item.selected.match.fg
Foreground color of the matched text in the selected completion item.
Type: QtColor
Default: #ff4444
colors.completion.match.fg
Foreground color of the matched text in the completion.
Type: QtColor
Default: #ff4444
colors.completion.odd.bg
Background color of the completion widget for odd rows.
Type: QssColor
Default: #444444
colors.completion.scrollbar.bg
Color of the scrollbar in the completion view.
Type: QssColor
Default: #333333
colors.completion.scrollbar.fg
Color of the scrollbar handle in the completion view.
Type: QssColor
Default: white
colors.contextmenu.disabled.bg
Background color of disabled items in the context menu. If set to null, the Qt default is used.
Type: QssColor
Default: empty
colors.contextmenu.disabled.fg
Foreground color of disabled items in the context menu. If set to null, the Qt default is used.
Type: QssColor
Default: empty
colors.contextmenu.menu.bg
Background color of the context menu. If set to null, the Qt default is used.
Type: QssColor
Default: empty
colors.contextmenu.menu.fg
Foreground color of the context menu. If set to null, the Qt default is used.
Type: QssColor
Default: empty
colors.contextmenu.selected.bg
Background color of the context menu’s selected item. If set to null, the Qt default is used.
Type: QssColor
Default: empty
colors.contextmenu.selected.fg
Foreground color of the context menu’s selected item. If set to null, the Qt default is used.
Type: QssColor
Default: empty
colors.downloads.start.bg
Color gradient start for download backgrounds.
Type: QtColor
Default: #0000aa
colors.downloads.stop.bg
Color gradient stop for download backgrounds.
Type: QtColor
Default: #00aa00
colors.downloads.system.bg
Color gradient interpolation system for download backgrounds.
Type: ColorSystem
Valid values:
-
rgb: Interpolate in the RGB color system. -
hsv: Interpolate in the HSV color system. -
hsl: Interpolate in the HSL color system. -
none: Don’t show a gradient.
Default: rgb
colors.downloads.system.fg
Color gradient interpolation system for download text.
Type: ColorSystem
Valid values:
-
rgb: Interpolate in the RGB color system. -
hsv: Interpolate in the HSV color system. -
hsl: Interpolate in the HSL color system. -
none: Don’t show a gradient.
Default: rgb
colors.hints.bg
Background color for hints.
Note that you can use a rgba(...) value for transparency.
Type: QssColor
Default: qlineargradient(x1:0, y1:0, x2:0, y2:1, stop:0 rgba(255, 247, 133, 0.8), stop:1 rgba(255, 197, 66, 0.8))
colors.keyhint.bg
Background color of the keyhint widget.
Type: QssColor
Default: rgba(0, 0, 0, 80%)
colors.keyhint.suffix.fg
Highlight color for keys to complete the current keychain.
Type: QssColor
Default: #FFFF00
colors.messages.warning.bg
Background color of a warning message.
Type: QssColor
Default: darkorange
colors.prompts.border
Border used around UI elements in prompts.
Type: String
Default: 1px solid gray
colors.prompts.selected.bg
Background color for the selected item in filename prompts.
Type: QssColor
Default: grey
colors.prompts.selected.fg
Foreground color for the selected item in filename prompts.
Type: QssColor
Default: white
colors.statusbar.caret.bg
Background color of the statusbar in caret mode.
Type: QssColor
Default: purple
colors.statusbar.caret.fg
Foreground color of the statusbar in caret mode.
Type: QssColor
Default: white
colors.statusbar.caret.selection.bg
Background color of the statusbar in caret mode with a selection.
Type: QssColor
Default: #a12dff
colors.statusbar.caret.selection.fg
Foreground color of the statusbar in caret mode with a selection.
Type: QssColor
Default: white
colors.statusbar.command.bg
Background color of the statusbar in command mode.
Type: QssColor
Default: black
colors.statusbar.command.fg
Foreground color of the statusbar in command mode.
Type: QssColor
Default: white
colors.statusbar.command.private.bg
Background color of the statusbar in private browsing + command mode.
Type: QssColor
Default: darkslategray
colors.statusbar.command.private.fg
Foreground color of the statusbar in private browsing + command mode.
Type: QssColor
Default: white
colors.statusbar.insert.bg
Background color of the statusbar in insert mode.
Type: QssColor
Default: darkgreen
colors.statusbar.insert.fg
Foreground color of the statusbar in insert mode.
Type: QssColor
Default: white
colors.statusbar.passthrough.bg
Background color of the statusbar in passthrough mode.
Type: QssColor
Default: darkblue
colors.statusbar.passthrough.fg
Foreground color of the statusbar in passthrough mode.
Type: QssColor
Default: white
colors.statusbar.private.bg
Background color of the statusbar in private browsing mode.
Type: QssColor
Default: #666666
colors.statusbar.private.fg
Foreground color of the statusbar in private browsing mode.
Type: QssColor
Default: white
colors.statusbar.url.error.fg
Foreground color of the URL in the statusbar on error.
Type: QssColor
Default: orange
colors.statusbar.url.fg
Default foreground color of the URL in the statusbar.
Type: QssColor
Default: white
colors.statusbar.url.hover.fg
Foreground color of the URL in the statusbar for hovered links.
Type: QssColor
Default: aqua
colors.statusbar.url.success.http.fg
Foreground color of the URL in the statusbar on successful load (http).
Type: QssColor
Default: white
colors.statusbar.url.success.https.fg
Foreground color of the URL in the statusbar on successful load (https).
Type: QssColor
Default: lime
colors.statusbar.url.warn.fg
Foreground color of the URL in the statusbar when there’s a warning.
Type: QssColor
Default: yellow
colors.tabs.indicator.start
Color gradient start for the tab indicator.
Type: QtColor
Default: #0000aa
colors.tabs.indicator.system
Color gradient interpolation system for the tab indicator.
Type: ColorSystem
Valid values:
-
rgb: Interpolate in the RGB color system. -
hsv: Interpolate in the HSV color system. -
hsl: Interpolate in the HSL color system. -
none: Don’t show a gradient.
Default: rgb
colors.tabs.pinned.even.bg
Background color of pinned unselected even tabs.
Type: QtColor
Default: darkseagreen
colors.tabs.pinned.even.fg
Foreground color of pinned unselected even tabs.
Type: QtColor
Default: white
colors.tabs.pinned.odd.bg
Background color of pinned unselected odd tabs.
Type: QtColor
Default: seagreen
colors.tabs.pinned.odd.fg
Foreground color of pinned unselected odd tabs.
Type: QtColor
Default: white
colors.tabs.pinned.selected.even.bg
Background color of pinned selected even tabs.
Type: QtColor
Default: black
colors.tabs.pinned.selected.even.fg
Foreground color of pinned selected even tabs.
Type: QtColor
Default: white
colors.tabs.pinned.selected.odd.bg
Background color of pinned selected odd tabs.
Type: QtColor
Default: black
colors.tabs.pinned.selected.odd.fg
Foreground color of pinned selected odd tabs.
Type: QtColor
Default: white
colors.tooltip.bg
Background color of tooltips. If set to null, the Qt default is used.
Type: QssColor
Default: empty
colors.tooltip.fg
Foreground color of tooltips. If set to null, the Qt default is used.
Type: QssColor
Default: empty
colors.webpage.bg
Background color for webpages if unset (or empty to use the theme’s color).
Type: QtColor
Default: white
colors.webpage.darkmode.algorithm
Which algorithm to use for modifying how colors are rendered with dark mode.
The lightness-cielab value was added with QtWebEngine 5.14 and is treated like lightness-hsl with older QtWebEngine versions.
This setting requires a restart.
This setting is only available with the QtWebEngine backend.
Type: String
Valid values:
-
lightness-cielab: Modify colors by converting them to CIELAB color space and inverting the L value. Not available with Qt < 5.14. -
lightness-hsl: Modify colors by converting them to the HSL color space and inverting the lightness (i.e. the "L" in HSL). -
brightness-rgb: Modify colors by subtracting each of r, g, and b from their maximum value.
Default: lightness-cielab
colors.webpage.darkmode.contrast
Contrast for dark mode.
This only has an effect when colors.webpage.darkmode.algorithm is set to lightness-hsl or brightness-rgb.
This setting requires a restart.
This setting is only available with the QtWebEngine backend.
Type: Float
Default: 0.0
colors.webpage.darkmode.enabled
Render all web contents using a dark theme.
On QtWebEngine < 6.7, this setting requires a restart and does not support URL patterns, only the global setting is applied.
Example configurations from Chromium’s chrome://flags:
- "With simple HSL/CIELAB/RGB-based inversion": Set
colors.webpage.darkmode.algorithm accordingly, and
set colors.webpage.darkmode.policy.images to never.
-
"With selective image inversion": qutebrowser default settings.
This setting supports URL patterns.
This setting is only available with the QtWebEngine backend.
Type: Bool
Default: false
colors.webpage.darkmode.policy.images
Which images to apply dark mode to.
This setting requires a restart.
This setting is only available with the QtWebEngine backend.
Type: String
Valid values:
-
always: Apply dark mode filter to all images. -
never: Never apply dark mode filter to any images. -
smart: Apply dark mode based on image content. Not available with Qt 5.15.0. -
smart-simple: On QtWebEngine 6.6, use a simpler algorithm for smart mode (based on numbers of colors and transparency), rather than an ML-based model. Same as smart on older QtWebEnigne versions.
Default: smart
colors.webpage.darkmode.policy.page
Which pages to apply dark mode to. The underlying Chromium setting has been removed in QtWebEngine 5.15.3, thus this setting is ignored there. Instead, every element is now classified individually.
This setting requires a restart.
This setting is only available with the QtWebEngine backend.
Type: String
Valid values:
-
always: Apply dark mode filter to all frames, regardless of content. -
smart: Apply dark mode filter to frames based on background color.
Default: smart
colors.webpage.darkmode.threshold.background
Threshold for inverting background elements with dark mode.
Background elements with brightness above this threshold will be inverted, and below it will be left as in the original, non-dark-mode page. Set to 256 to never invert the color or to 0 to always invert it.
Note: This behavior is the opposite of colors.webpage.darkmode.threshold.foreground!
This setting requires a restart.
This setting is only available with the QtWebEngine backend.
Type: Int
Default: 0
colors.webpage.darkmode.threshold.foreground
Threshold for inverting text with dark mode. Text colors with brightness below this threshold will be inverted, and above it will be left as in the original, non-dark-mode page. Set to 256 to always invert text color or to 0 to never invert text color.
This setting requires a restart.
This setting is only available with the QtWebEngine backend.
Type: Int
Default: 256
colors.webpage.preferred_color_scheme
Value to use for prefers-color-scheme: for websites.
The "light" value is only available with QtWebEngine 5.15.2+. On older versions, it is the same as "auto".
The "auto" value is broken on QtWebEngine 5.15.2 due to a Qt bug. There, it will fall back to "light" unconditionally.
This setting requires a restart.
This setting is only available with the QtWebEngine backend.
Type: String
Valid values:
-
auto: Use the system-wide color scheme setting. -
light: Force a light theme. -
dark: Force a dark theme.
Default: auto
completion.cmd_history_max_items
Number of commands to save in the command history. 0: no history / -1: unlimited
Type: Int
Default: 100
completion.delay
Delay (in milliseconds) before updating completions after typing a character.
Type: Int
Default: 0
completion.favorite_paths
Default filesystem autocomplete suggestions for :open.
The elements of this list show up in the completion window under the Filesystem category when the command line contains :open but no argument.
Type: List of String
Default: empty
completion.height
Height (in pixels or as percentage of the window) of the completion.
Type: PercOrInt
Default: 50%
completion.min_chars
Minimum amount of characters needed to update completions.
Type: Int
Default: 1
completion.open_categories
Which categories to show (in which order) in the :open completion.
Type: FlagList
Valid values:
-
searchengines -
quickmarks -
bookmarks -
history -
filesystem
Default:
-
searchengines -
quickmarks -
bookmarks -
history -
filesystem
completion.quick
Move on to the next part when there’s only one possible completion left.
Type: Bool
Default: true
completion.scrollbar.padding
Padding (in pixels) of the scrollbar handle in the completion window.
Type: Int
Default: 2
completion.scrollbar.width
Width (in pixels) of the scrollbar in the completion window.
Type: Int
Default: 12
completion.show
When to show the autocompletion window.
Type: String
Valid values:
-
always: Whenever a completion is available. -
auto: Whenever a completion is requested. -
never: Never.
Default: always
completion.shrink
Shrink the completion to be smaller than the configured size if there are no scrollbars.
Type: Bool
Default: false
completion.timestamp_format
Format of timestamps (e.g. for the history completion). See https://sqlite.org/lang_datefunc.html and https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#strftime-strptime-behavior for allowed substitutions, qutebrowser uses both sqlite and Python to format its timestamps.
Type: String
Default: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M
completion.use_best_match
Execute the best-matching command on a partial match.
Type: Bool
Default: false
completion.web_history.exclude
A list of patterns which should not be shown in the history.
This only affects the completion. Matching URLs are still saved in the history (and visible on the :history page), but hidden in the completion.
Changing this setting will cause the completion history to be regenerated on the next start, which will take a short while.
This setting requires a restart.
Type: List of UrlPattern
Default: empty
completion.web_history.max_items
Number of URLs to show in the web history. 0: no history / -1: unlimited
Type: Int
Default: -1
confirm_quit
Require a confirmation before quitting the application.
Type: ConfirmQuit
Valid values:
-
always: Always show a confirmation. -
multiple-tabs: Show a confirmation if multiple tabs are opened. -
downloads: Show a confirmation if downloads are running -
never: Never show a confirmation.
Default:
-
never
content.autoplay
Automatically start playing <video> elements.
This setting supports URL patterns.
This setting is only available with the QtWebEngine backend.
Type: Bool
Default: true
content.blocking.adblock.lists
List of URLs to ABP-style adblocking rulesets.
Only used when Brave’s ABP-style adblocker is used (see content.blocking.method).
You can find an overview of available lists here:
https://adblockplus.org/en/subscriptions - note that the special
subscribe.adblockplus.org links aren’t handled by qutebrowser, you will instead
need to find the link to the raw .txt file (e.g. by extracting it from the
location parameter of the subscribe URL and URL-decoding it).
Type: List of Url
Default:
-
https://easylist.to/easylist/easylist.txt -
https://easylist.to/easylist/easyprivacy.txt
content.blocking.enabled
Enable the ad/host blocker
This setting supports URL patterns.
Type: Bool
Default: true
content.blocking.hosts.block_subdomains
Block subdomains of blocked hosts.
Note: If only a single subdomain is blocked but should be allowed, consider using content.blocking.whitelist instead.
Type: Bool
Default: true
content.blocking.hosts.lists
List of URLs to host blocklists for the host blocker.
Only used when the simple host-blocker is used (see content.blocking.method).
The file can be in one of the following formats:
-
An
/etc/hosts-like file -
One host per line
-
A zip-file of any of the above, with either only one file, or a file named
hosts(with any extension).
It’s also possible to add a local file or directory via a file:// URL. In
case of a directory, all files in the directory are read as adblock lists.
The file ~/.config/qutebrowser/blocked-hosts is always read if it exists.
Type: List of Url
Default:
-
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts
content.blocking.method
Which method of blocking ads should be used.
Support for Adblock Plus (ABP) syntax blocklists using Brave’s Rust library requires
the adblock Python package to be installed, which is an optional dependency of
qutebrowser. It is required when either adblock or both are selected.
Type: String
Valid values:
-
auto: Use Brave’s ABP-style adblocker if available, host blocking otherwise -
adblock: Use Brave’s ABP-style adblocker -
hosts: Use hosts blocking -
both: Use both hosts blocking and Brave’s ABP-style adblocker
Default: auto
content.blocking.whitelist
A list of patterns that should always be loaded, despite being blocked by the ad-/host-blocker.
Local domains are always exempt from adblocking.
Note this whitelists otherwise blocked requests, not first-party URLs. As an example, if example.org loads an ad from ads.example.org, the whitelist entry could be https://ads.example.org/*. If you want to disable the adblocker on a given page, use the content.blocking.enabled setting with a URL pattern instead.
Type: List of UrlPattern
Default: empty
content.cache.appcache
Enable support for the HTML 5 web application cache feature. An application cache acts like an HTTP cache in some sense. For documents that use the application cache via JavaScript, the loader engine will first ask the application cache for the contents, before hitting the network.
This setting supports URL patterns.
This setting is only available with the QtWebKit backend.
Type: Bool
Default: true
content.cache.maximum_pages
Maximum number of pages to hold in the global memory page cache. The page cache allows for a nicer user experience when navigating forth or back to pages in the forward/back history, by pausing and resuming up to n pages. For more information about the feature, please refer to: https://webkit.org/blog/427/webkit-page-cache-i-the-basics/
This setting is only available with the QtWebKit backend.
Type: Int
Default: 0
content.cache.size
Size (in bytes) of the HTTP network cache. Null to use the default value. With QtWebEngine, the maximum supported value is 2147483647 (~2 GB).
Type: Int
Default: empty
content.canvas_reading
Allow websites to read canvas elements. Note this is needed for some websites to work properly. On QtWebEngine < 6.6, this setting requires a restart and does not support URL patterns, only the global setting is applied.
This setting supports URL patterns.
This setting is only available with the QtWebEngine backend.
Type: Bool
Default: true
content.cookies.accept
Which cookies to accept.
With QtWebEngine, this setting also controls other features with tracking capabilities similar to those of cookies; including IndexedDB, DOM storage, filesystem API, service workers, and AppCache.
Note that with QtWebKit, only all and never are supported as per-domain values. Setting no-3rdparty or no-unknown-3rdparty per-domain on QtWebKit will have the same effect as all.
If this setting is used with URL patterns, the pattern gets applied to the origin/first party URL of the page making the request, not the request URL.
With QtWebEngine 5.15.0+, paths will be stripped from URLs, so URL patterns using paths will not match. With QtWebEngine 5.15.2+, subdomains are additionally stripped as well, so you will typically need to set this setting for example.com when the cookie is set on somesubdomain.example.com for it to work properly.
To debug issues with this setting, start qutebrowser with --debug --logfilter network --debug-flag log-cookies which will show all cookies being set.
This setting supports URL patterns.
Type: String
Valid values:
-
all: Accept all cookies. -
no-3rdparty: Accept cookies from the same origin only. This is known to break some sites, such as GMail. -
no-unknown-3rdparty: Accept cookies from the same origin only, unless a cookie is already set for the domain. On QtWebEngine, this is the same as no-3rdparty. -
never: Don’t accept cookies at all.
Default: all
content.default_encoding
Default encoding to use for websites. The encoding must be a string describing an encoding such as utf-8, iso-8859-1, etc.
Type: String
Default: iso-8859-1
content.desktop_capture
Allow websites to share screen content.
This setting supports URL patterns.
Type: BoolAsk
Valid values:
-
true -
false -
ask
Default: ask
content.dns_prefetch
Try to pre-fetch DNS entries to speed up browsing.
This setting supports URL patterns.
This setting is only available with the QtWebEngine backend.
Type: Bool
Default: true
content.frame_flattening
Expand each subframe to its contents. This will flatten all the frames to become one scrollable page.
This setting supports URL patterns.
This setting is only available with the QtWebKit backend.
Type: Bool
Default: false
content.fullscreen.overlay_timeout
Set fullscreen notification overlay timeout in milliseconds. If set to 0, no overlay will be displayed.
Type: Int
Default: 3000
content.fullscreen.window
Limit fullscreen to the browser window (does not expand to fill the screen).
Type: Bool
Default: false
content.geolocation
Allow websites to request geolocations.
This setting supports URL patterns.
Type: BoolAsk
Valid values:
-
true -
false -
ask
Default: ask
content.headers.accept_language
Value to send in the Accept-Language header.
Note that the value read from JavaScript is always the global value.
This setting supports URL patterns.
Type: String
Default: en-US,en;q=0.9
content.headers.custom
Custom headers for qutebrowser HTTP requests.
This setting supports URL patterns.
Type: Dict
Default: empty
content.headers.do_not_track
Value to send in the DNT header.
When this is set to true, qutebrowser asks websites to not track your identity. If set to null, the DNT header is not sent at all.
This setting supports URL patterns.
Type: Bool
Default: true
content.headers.referer
When to send the Referer header.
The Referer header tells websites from which website you were coming from when visiting them. Note that with QtWebEngine, websites can override this preference by setting the Referrer-Policy: header, so that any websites visited from them get the full referer.
No restart is needed with QtWebKit.
This setting requires a restart.
Type: String
Valid values:
-
always: Always send the Referer. With QtWebEngine 6.2+, this value is unavailable and will act likesame-domain. -
never: Never send the Referer. This is not recommended, as some sites may break. -
same-domain: Only send the Referer for the same domain. This will still protect your privacy, but shouldn’t break any sites. With QtWebEngine, the referer will still be sent for other domains, but with stripped path information.
Default: same-domain
content.headers.user_agent
User agent to send.
The following placeholders are defined:
-
{os_info}: Something like "X11; Linux x86_64". -
{webkit_version}: The underlying WebKit version (set to a fixed value with QtWebEngine). -
{qt_key}: "Qt" for QtWebKit, "QtWebEngine" for QtWebEngine. -
{qt_version}: The underlying Qt version. -
{upstream_browser_key}: "Version" for QtWebKit, "Chrome" for QtWebEngine. -
{upstream_browser_version}: The corresponding Safari/Chrome version. -
{qutebrowser_version}: The currently running qutebrowser version.
The default value is equal to the unchanged user agent of QtWebKit/QtWebEngine.
Note that the value read from JavaScript is always the global value. With QtWebEngine between 5.12 and 5.14 (inclusive), changing the value exposed to JavaScript requires a restart.
This setting supports URL patterns.
Type: FormatString
Default: Mozilla/5.0 ({os_info}) AppleWebKit/{webkit_version} (KHTML, like Gecko) {qt_key}/{qt_version} {upstream_browser_key}/{upstream_browser_version} Safari/{webkit_version}
content.hyperlink_auditing
Enable hyperlink auditing (<a ping>).
This setting supports URL patterns.
Type: Bool
Default: false
content.images
Load images automatically in web pages.
This setting supports URL patterns.
Type: Bool
Default: true
content.javascript.can_close_tabs
Allow JavaScript to close tabs.
This setting supports URL patterns.
This setting is only available with the QtWebKit backend.
Type: Bool
Default: false
content.javascript.can_open_tabs_automatically
Allow JavaScript to open new tabs without user interaction.
This setting supports URL patterns.
Type: Bool
Default: false
content.javascript.clipboard
Allow JavaScript to read from or write to the clipboard. With QtWebEngine, writing the clipboard as response to a user interaction is always allowed.
This setting supports URL patterns.
Type: String
Valid values:
-
none: Disable access to clipboard. -
access: Allow reading from and writing to the clipboard. -
access-paste: Allow accessing the clipboard and pasting clipboard content.
Default: none
content.javascript.enabled
Enable JavaScript.
This setting supports URL patterns.
Type: Bool
Default: true
content.javascript.legacy_touch_events
Enables the legacy touch event feature. This affects JS APIs such as: - ontouch* members on window, document, Element - document.createTouch, document.createTouchList - document.createEvent("TouchEvent") Newer Chromium versions have those disabled by default: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=392584 https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/KV6kqDJpYiE
This setting requires a restart.
This setting is only available with the QtWebEngine backend.
Type: String
Valid values:
-
always: Legacy touch events are always enabled. This might cause some websites to assume a mobile device. -
auto: Legacy touch events are only enabled if a touch screen was detected on startup. -
never: Legacy touch events are always disabled.
Default: never
content.javascript.log
Log levels to use for JavaScript console logging messages.
When a JavaScript message with the level given in the dictionary key is logged, the corresponding dictionary value selects the qutebrowser logger to use.
On QtWebKit, the "unknown" setting is always used.
The following levels are valid: none, debug, info, warning, error.
Type: Dict
Default:
-
error:debug -
info:debug -
unknown:debug -
warning:debug
content.javascript.log_message.excludes
Javascript messages to not show in the UI, despite a corresponding content.javascript.log_message.levels setting.
Both keys and values are glob patterns, with the key matching the location of the error, and the value matching the error message.
By default, the Content security policy violations triggered by qutebrowser’s stylesheet handling are excluded, as those errors are to be expected and can’t be easily handled by the underlying code.
Type: Dict
Default:
-
userscript:_qute_stylesheet:-
*Refused to apply inline style because it violates the following Content Security Policy directive: *
-
content.javascript.log_message.levels
Javascript message sources/levels to show in the qutebrowser UI. When a JavaScript message is logged from a location matching the glob pattern given in the key, and is from one of the levels listed as value, it’s surfaced as a message in the qutebrowser UI. By default, errors happening in qutebrowser internally are shown to the user.
Type: Dict
Default:
-
qute:*:-
error
-
-
userscript:*:-
error
-
-
userscript:GM-*: empty
content.javascript.modal_dialog
Use the standard JavaScript modal dialog for alert() and confirm().
Type: Bool
Default: false
content.local_content_can_access_file_urls
Allow locally loaded documents to access other local URLs.
This setting supports URL patterns.
Type: Bool
Default: true
content.local_content_can_access_remote_urls
Allow locally loaded documents to access remote URLs.
This setting supports URL patterns.
Type: Bool
Default: false
content.local_storage
Enable support for HTML 5 local storage and Web SQL.
This setting supports URL patterns.
Type: Bool
Default: true
content.media.audio_capture
Allow websites to record audio.
This setting supports URL patterns.
This setting is only available with the QtWebEngine backend.
Type: BoolAsk
Valid values:
-
true -
false -
ask
Default: ask
content.media.audio_video_capture
Allow websites to record audio and video.
This setting supports URL patterns.
This setting is only available with the QtWebEngine backend.
Type: BoolAsk
Valid values:
-
true -
false -
ask
Default: ask
content.media.video_capture
Allow websites to record video.
This setting supports URL patterns.
This setting is only available with the QtWebEngine backend.
Type: BoolAsk
Valid values:
-
true -
false -
ask
Default: ask
content.mouse_lock
Allow websites to lock your mouse pointer.
This setting supports URL patterns.
This setting is only available with the QtWebEngine backend.
Type: BoolAsk
Valid values:
-
true -
false -
ask
Default: ask
content.mute
Automatically mute tabs.
Note that if the :tab-mute command is used, the mute status for the affected tab is now controlled manually, and this setting doesn’t have any effect.
This setting supports URL patterns.
Type: Bool
Default: false
content.netrc_file
Netrc-file for HTTP authentication.
If unset, ~/.netrc is used.
Type: File
Default: empty
content.notifications.enabled
Allow websites to show notifications.
This setting supports URL patterns.
Type: BoolAsk
Valid values:
-
true -
false -
ask
Default: ask
content.notifications.presenter
What notification presenter to use for web notifications.
Note that not all implementations support all features of notifications:
- The qt and systray options only support showing one notification at the time
and ignore the tag option to replace existing notifications.
- The herbe option only supports showing one notification at the time and doesn’t
show icons.
- The messages option doesn’t show icons and doesn’t support the click and
close events.
This setting is only available with the QtWebEngine backend.
Type: String
Valid values:
-
auto: Trieslibnotify,systrayandmessages, uses the first one available without showing error messages. -
qt: Use Qt’s native notification presenter, based on a system tray icon. Switching from or to this value requires a restart of qutebrowser. -
libnotify: Shows messages via DBus in a libnotify-compatible way. If DBus isn’t available, falls back tosystrayormessages, but shows an error message. -
systray: Use a notification presenter based on a systray icon. Falls back tolibnotifyormessagesif not systray is available. This is a reimplementation of theqtsetting value, but with the possibility to switch to it at runtime. -
messages: Show notifications as qutebrowser messages. Most notification features aren’t available. -
herbe: (experimental!) Show notifications using herbe (github.com/dudik/herbe). Most notification features aren’t available.
Default: auto
content.notifications.show_origin
Whether to show the origin URL for notifications.
Note that URL patterns with this setting only get matched against the origin part of the URL, so e.g. paths in patterns will never match.
Note that with the qt presenter, origins are never shown.
This setting supports URL patterns.
This setting is only available with the QtWebEngine backend.
Type: Bool
Default: true
content.pdfjs
Display PDF files via PDF.js in the browser without showing a download prompt.
Note that the files can still be downloaded by clicking the download button in the pdf.js viewer. With this set to false, the :prompt-open-download --pdfjs command (bound to <Ctrl-p> by default) can be used in the download prompt.
This setting supports URL patterns.
Type: Bool
Default: false
content.persistent_storage
Allow websites to request persistent storage quota via navigator.webkitPersistentStorage.requestQuota.
This setting supports URL patterns.
This setting is only available with the QtWebEngine backend.
Type: BoolAsk
Valid values:
-
true -
false -
ask
Default: ask
content.plugins
Enable plugins in Web pages.
This setting supports URL patterns.
Type: Bool
Default: false
content.prefers_reduced_motion
Request websites to minimize non-essentials animations and motion.
This results in the prefers-reduced-motion CSS media query to evaluate to reduce (rather than no-preference).
On Windows, if this setting is set to False, the system-wide animation setting is considered.
This setting requires a restart.
This setting is only available with the QtWebEngine backend.
Type: Bool
Default: false
content.print_element_backgrounds
Draw the background color and images also when the page is printed.
This setting supports URL patterns.
This setting is only available with the QtWebEngine backend.
Type: Bool
Default: true
content.private_browsing
Open new windows in private browsing mode which does not record visited pages.
Type: Bool
Default: false
content.proxy
Proxy to use.
In addition to the listed values, you can use a socks://... or http://... URL.
Note that with QtWebEngine, it will take a couple of seconds until the change is applied, if this value is changed at runtime. Authentication for SOCKS proxies isn’t supported due to Chromium limitations.
Type: Proxy
Valid values:
-
system: Use the system wide proxy. -
none: Don’t use any proxy
Default: system
content.proxy_dns_requests
Send DNS requests over the configured proxy.
This setting is only available with the QtWebKit backend.
Type: Bool
Default: true
content.register_protocol_handler
Allow websites to register protocol handlers via navigator.registerProtocolHandler.
This setting supports URL patterns.
This setting is only available with the QtWebEngine backend.
Type: BoolAsk
Valid values:
-
true -
false -
ask
Default: ask
content.site_specific_quirks.enabled
Enable quirks (such as faked user agent headers) needed to get specific sites to work properly.
This setting requires a restart.
Type: Bool
Default: true
content.site_specific_quirks.skip
Disable a list of named quirks.
Type: FlagList
Valid values:
-
ua-whatsapp -
ua-google -
ua-slack -
ua-googledocs -
js-whatsapp-web -
js-discord -
js-string-replaceall -
js-array-at -
misc-krunker -
misc-mathml-darkmode
Default: empty
content.tls.certificate_errors
How to proceed on TLS certificate errors.
This setting supports URL patterns.
Type: String
Valid values:
-
ask: Ask how to proceed for every certificate error (unless non-overridable due to HSTS). -
ask-block-thirdparty: Ask how to proceed for normal page loads, but silently block resource loads. -
block: Automatically block loading on certificate errors. -
load-insecurely: Force loading pages despite certificate errors. This is insecure and should be avoided. Instead of using this, consider fixing the underlying issue or importing a self-signed certificate viacertutil(or Chromium) instead.
Default: ask
content.unknown_url_scheme_policy
How navigation requests to URLs with unknown schemes are handled.
This setting supports URL patterns.
This setting is only available with the QtWebEngine backend.
Type: String
Valid values:
-
disallow: Disallows all navigation requests to URLs with unknown schemes. -
allow-from-user-interaction: Allows navigation requests to URLs with unknown schemes that are issued from user-interaction (like a mouse-click), whereas other navigation requests (for example from JavaScript) are suppressed. -
allow-all: Allows all navigation requests to URLs with unknown schemes.
Default: allow-from-user-interaction
content.user_stylesheets
List of user stylesheet filenames to use.
Type: List of File, or File
Default: empty
content.webrtc_ip_handling_policy
Which interfaces to expose via WebRTC.
This setting requires a restart.
This setting is only available with the QtWebEngine backend.
Type: String
Valid values:
-
all-interfaces: WebRTC has the right to enumerate all interfaces and bind them to discover public interfaces. -
default-public-and-private-interfaces: WebRTC should only use the default route used by http. This also exposes the associated default private address. Default route is the route chosen by the OS on a multi-homed endpoint. -
default-public-interface-only: WebRTC should only use the default route used by http. This doesn’t expose any local addresses. -
disable-non-proxied-udp: WebRTC should only use TCP to contact peers or servers unless the proxy server supports UDP. This doesn’t expose any local addresses either.
Default: all-interfaces
content.xss_auditing
Monitor load requests for cross-site scripting attempts. Suspicious scripts will be blocked and reported in the devtools JavaScript console. Note that bypasses for the XSS auditor are widely known and it can be abused for cross-site info leaks in some scenarios, see: https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/xss-auditor
This setting supports URL patterns.
Type: Bool
Default: false
downloads.location.directory
Directory to save downloads to. If unset, a sensible OS-specific default is used.
Type: Directory
Default: empty
downloads.location.prompt
Prompt the user for the download location.
If set to false, downloads.location.directory will be used.
Type: Bool
Default: true
downloads.location.suggestion
What to display in the download filename input.
Type: String
Valid values:
-
path: Show only the download path. -
filename: Show only download filename. -
both: Show download path and filename.
Default: path
downloads.open_dispatcher
Default program used to open downloads.
If null, the default internal handler is used.
Any {} in the string will be expanded to the filename, else the filename will be appended.
Type: String
Default: empty
downloads.position
Where to show the downloaded files.
Type: VerticalPosition
Valid values:
-
top -
bottom
Default: top
downloads.prevent_mixed_content
Automatically abort insecure (HTTP) downloads originating from secure (HTTPS) pages. For per-domain settings, the relevant URL is the URL initiating the download, not the URL the download itself is coming from. It’s not recommended to set this setting to false globally.
This setting supports URL patterns.
Type: Bool
Default: true
downloads.remove_finished
Duration (in milliseconds) to wait before removing finished downloads. If set to -1, downloads are never removed.
Type: Int
Default: -1
editor.command
Editor (and arguments) to use for the edit-* commands.
The following placeholders are defined:
-
{file}: Filename of the file to be edited. -
{line}: Line in which the caret is found in the text. -
{column}: Column in which the caret is found in the text. -
{line0}: Same as{line}, but starting from index 0. -
{column0}: Same as{column}, but starting from index 0.
Type: ShellCommand
Default:
-
gvim -
-f -
{file} -
-c -
normal {line}G{column0}l
fileselect.folder.command
Command (and arguments) to use for selecting a single folder in forms. The command should write the selected folder path to the specified file or stdout.
The following placeholders are defined:
* {}: Filename of the file to be written to. If not contained in any argument, the
standard output of the command is read instead.
Type: ShellCommand
Default:
-
xterm -
-e -
ranger -
--choosedir={}
fileselect.handler
Handler for selecting file(s) in forms. If external, then the commands specified by fileselect.single_file.command, fileselect.multiple_files.command and fileselect.folder.command are used to select one file, multiple files, and folders, respectively.
Type: String
Valid values:
-
default: Use the default file selector. -
external: Use an external command.
Default: default
fileselect.multiple_files.command
Command (and arguments) to use for selecting multiple files in forms. The command should write the selected file paths to the specified file or to stdout, separated by newlines.
The following placeholders are defined:
* {}: Filename of the file to be written to. If not contained in any argument, the
standard output of the command is read instead.
Type: ShellCommand
Default:
-
xterm -
-e -
ranger -
--choosefiles={}
fileselect.single_file.command
Command (and arguments) to use for selecting a single file in forms. The command should write the selected file path to the specified file or stdout.
The following placeholders are defined:
* {}: Filename of the file to be written to. If not contained in any argument, the
standard output of the command is read instead.
Type: ShellCommand
Default:
-
xterm -
-e -
ranger -
--choosefile={}
fonts.completion.category
Font used in the completion categories.
Type: Font
Default: bold default_size default_family
fonts.completion.entry
Font used in the completion widget.
Type: Font
Default: default_size default_family
fonts.contextmenu
Font used for the context menu. If set to null, the Qt default is used.
Type: Font
Default: empty
fonts.debug_console
Font used for the debugging console.
Type: Font
Default: default_size default_family
fonts.default_family
Default font families to use. Whenever "default_family" is used in a font setting, it’s replaced with the fonts listed here. If set to an empty value, a system-specific monospace default is used.
Type: List of Font, or Font
Default: empty
fonts.default_size
Default font size to use. Whenever "default_size" is used in a font setting, it’s replaced with the size listed here. Valid values are either a float value with a "pt" suffix, or an integer value with a "px" suffix.
Type: String
Default: 10pt
fonts.messages.warning
Font used for warning messages.
Type: Font
Default: default_size default_family
fonts.tabs.unselected
Font used for unselected tabs.
Type: Font
Default: default_size default_family
fonts.tooltip
Font used for tooltips. If set to null, the Qt default is used.
Type: Font
Default: empty
fonts.web.family.cursive
Font family for cursive fonts.
This setting supports URL patterns.
Type: FontFamily
Default: empty
fonts.web.family.fantasy
Font family for fantasy fonts.
This setting supports URL patterns.
Type: FontFamily
Default: empty
fonts.web.family.fixed
Font family for fixed fonts.
This setting supports URL patterns.
Type: FontFamily
Default: empty
fonts.web.family.sans_serif
Font family for sans-serif fonts.
This setting supports URL patterns.
Type: FontFamily
Default: empty
fonts.web.family.serif
Font family for serif fonts.
This setting supports URL patterns.
Type: FontFamily
Default: empty
fonts.web.family.standard
Font family for standard fonts.
This setting supports URL patterns.
Type: FontFamily
Default: empty
fonts.web.size.default
Default font size (in pixels) for regular text.
This setting supports URL patterns.
Type: Int
Default: 16
fonts.web.size.default_fixed
Default font size (in pixels) for fixed-pitch text.
This setting supports URL patterns.
Type: Int
Default: 13
fonts.web.size.minimum
Hard minimum font size (in pixels).
This setting supports URL patterns.
Type: Int
Default: 0
fonts.web.size.minimum_logical
Minimum logical font size (in pixels) that is applied when zooming out.
This setting supports URL patterns.
Type: Int
Default: 6
hints.auto_follow
When a hint can be automatically followed without pressing Enter.
Type: String
Valid values:
-
always: Auto-follow whenever there is only a single hint on a page. -
unique-match: Auto-follow whenever there is a unique non-empty match in either the hint string (word mode) or filter (number mode). -
full-match: Follow the hint when the user typed the whole hint (letter, word or number mode) or the element’s text (only in number mode). -
never: The user will always need to press Enter to follow a hint.
Default: unique-match
hints.auto_follow_timeout
Duration (in milliseconds) to ignore normal-mode key bindings after a successful auto-follow.
Type: Int
Default: 0
hints.dictionary
Dictionary file to be used by the word hints.
Type: File
Default: /usr/share/dict/words
hints.find_implementation
Which implementation to use to find elements to hint.
This setting is only available with the QtWebKit backend.
Type: String
Valid values:
-
javascript: Better but slower -
python: Slightly worse but faster
Default: python
hints.mode
Mode to use for hints.
Type: String
Valid values:
-
number: Use numeric hints. (In this mode you can also type letters from the hinted element to filter and reduce the number of elements that are hinted.) -
letter: Use the characters in thehints.charssetting. -
word: Use hints words based on the html elements and the extra words.
Default: letter
hints.next_regexes
Comma-separated list of regular expressions to use for next links.
Type: List of Regex
Default:
-
\bnext\b -
\bmore\b -
\bnewer\b -
\b[>→≫]\b -
\b(>>|»)\b -
\bcontinue\b
hints.padding
Padding (in pixels) for hints.
Type: Padding
Default:
-
bottom:0 -
left:3 -
right:3 -
top:0
hints.prev_regexes
Comma-separated list of regular expressions to use for prev links.
Type: List of Regex
Default:
-
\bprev(ious)?\b -
\bback\b -
\bolder\b -
\b[<←≪]\b -
\b(<<|«)\b
hints.scatter
Scatter hint key chains (like Vimium) or not (like dwb). Ignored for number hints.
Type: Bool
Default: true
hints.selectors
CSS selectors used to determine which elements on a page should have hints.
This setting supports URL patterns.
This setting can only be set in config.py.
Type: Dict
Default:
-
all:-
a -
area -
textarea -
select -
input:not([type="hidden"]) -
button -
frame -
iframe -
img -
link -
summary -
[contenteditable]:not([contenteditable="false"]) -
[onclick] -
[onmousedown] -
[role="link"] -
[role="option"] -
[role="button"] -
[role="tab"] -
[role="checkbox"] -
[role="switch"] -
[role="menuitem"] -
[role="menuitemcheckbox"] -
[role="menuitemradio"] -
[role="treeitem"] -
[aria-haspopup] -
[ng-click] -
[ngClick] -
[data-ng-click] -
[x-ng-click] -
[tabindex]:not([tabindex="-1"])
-
-
images:-
img
-
-
inputs:-
input[type="text"] -
input[type="date"] -
input[type="datetime-local"] -
input[type="email"] -
input[type="month"] -
input[type="number"] -
input[type="password"] -
input[type="search"] -
input[type="tel"] -
input[type="time"] -
input[type="url"] -
input[type="week"] -
input:not([type]) -
[contenteditable]:not([contenteditable="false"]) -
textarea
-
-
links:-
a[href] -
area[href] -
link[href] -
[role="link"][href]
-
-
media:-
audio -
img -
video
-
-
url:-
[src] -
[href]
-
history_gap_interval
Maximum time (in minutes) between two history items for them to be considered being from the same browsing session.
Items with less time between them are grouped when being displayed in :history. Use -1 to disable separation.
Type: Int
Default: 30
input.forward_unbound_keys
Which unbound keys to forward to the webview in normal mode.
Type: String
Valid values:
-
all: Forward all unbound keys. -
auto: Forward unbound non-alphanumeric keys. -
none: Don’t forward any keys.
Default: auto
input.insert_mode.auto_enter
Enter insert mode if an editable element is clicked.
Type: Bool
Default: true
input.insert_mode.auto_leave
Leave insert mode if a non-editable element is clicked.
Type: Bool
Default: true
input.insert_mode.auto_load
Automatically enter insert mode if an editable element is focused after loading the page.
Type: Bool
Default: false
input.insert_mode.leave_on_load
Leave insert mode when starting a new page load. Patterns may be unreliable on this setting, and they may match the url you are navigating to, or the URL you are navigating from.
This setting supports URL patterns.
Type: Bool
Default: true
input.insert_mode.plugins
Switch to insert mode when clicking flash and other plugins.
Type: Bool
Default: false
input.links_included_in_focus_chain
Include hyperlinks in the keyboard focus chain when tabbing.
This setting supports URL patterns.
Type: Bool
Default: true
input.match_counts
Interpret number prefixes as counts for bindings.
This enables for vi-like bindings that can be prefixed with a number to indicate a count. Disabling it allows for emacs-like bindings where number keys are passed through (according to input.forward_unbound_keys) instead.
Type: Bool
Default: true
input.media_keys
Whether the underlying Chromium should handle media keys. On Linux, disabling this also disables Chromium’s MPRIS integration.
This setting requires a restart.
This setting is only available with the QtWebEngine backend.
Type: Bool
Default: true
input.mode_override
Mode to change to when focusing on a tab/URL changes.
This setting supports URL patterns.
Type: String
Valid values:
-
normal -
insert -
passthrough
Default: empty
input.mouse.back_forward_buttons
Enable back and forward buttons on the mouse.
Type: Bool
Default: true
input.mouse.rocker_gestures
Enable Opera-like mouse rocker gestures. This disables the context menu.
Type: Bool
Default: false
input.partial_timeout
Timeout (in milliseconds) for partially typed key bindings. If the current input forms only partial matches, the keystring will be cleared after this time. If set to 0, partially typed bindings are never cleared.
Type: Int
Default: 0
input.spatial_navigation
Enable spatial navigation. Spatial navigation consists in the ability to navigate between focusable elements, such as hyperlinks and form controls, on a web page by using the Left, Right, Up and Down arrow keys. For example, if a user presses the Right key, heuristics determine whether there is an element they might be trying to reach towards the right and which element they probably want.
This setting supports URL patterns.
Type: Bool
Default: false
keyhint.blacklist
Keychains that shouldn’t be shown in the keyhint dialog.
Globs are supported, so ;* will blacklist all keychains starting with ;. Use * to disable keyhints.
Type: List of String
Default: empty
keyhint.delay
Time (in milliseconds) from pressing a key to seeing the keyhint dialog.
Type: Int
Default: 500
keyhint.radius
Rounding radius (in pixels) for the edges of the keyhint dialog.
Type: Int
Default: 6
logging.level.console
Level for console (stdout/stderr) logs. Ignored if the --loglevel or --debug CLI flags are used.
Type: LogLevel
Valid values:
-
vdebug -
debug -
info -
warning -
error -
critical
Default: info
logging.level.ram
Level for in-memory logs.
Type: LogLevel
Valid values:
-
vdebug -
debug -
info -
warning -
error -
critical
Default: debug
messages.timeout
Duration (in milliseconds) to show messages in the statusbar for. Set to 0 to never clear messages.
Type: Int
Default: 3000
new_instance_open_target
How to open links in an existing instance if a new one is launched.
This happens when e.g. opening a link from a terminal.
See new_instance_open_target_window to customize in which window the link is opened in.
Type: String
Valid values:
-
tab: Open a new tab in the existing window and activate the window. -
tab-bg: Open a new background tab in the existing window and activate the window. -
tab-silent: Open a new tab in the existing window without activating the window. -
tab-bg-silent: Open a new background tab in the existing window without activating the window. -
window: Open in a new window. -
private-window: Open in a new private window.
Default: tab
new_instance_open_target_window
Which window to choose when opening links as new tabs.
When new_instance_open_target is set to window, this is ignored.
Type: String
Valid values:
-
first-opened: Open new tabs in the first (oldest) opened window. -
last-opened: Open new tabs in the last (newest) opened window. -
last-focused: Open new tabs in the most recently focused window. -
last-visible: Open new tabs in the most recently visible window.
Default: last-focused
qt.args
Additional arguments to pass to Qt, without leading --.
With QtWebEngine, some Chromium arguments (see https://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/ for a list) will work.
This setting requires a restart.
Type: List of String
Default: empty
qt.chromium.experimental_web_platform_features
Enables Web Platform features that are in development.
This passes the --enable-experimental-web-platform-features flag to Chromium. By default, this is enabled with Qt 5 to maximize compatibility despite an aging Chromium base.
This setting requires a restart.
This setting is only available with the QtWebEngine backend.
Type: String
Valid values:
-
always: Enable experimental web platform features. -
auto: Enable experimental web platform features when using Qt 5. -
never: Disable experimental web platform features.
Default: auto
qt.chromium.low_end_device_mode
When to use Chromium’s low-end device mode. This improves the RAM usage of renderer processes, at the expense of performance.
This setting requires a restart.
This setting is only available with the QtWebEngine backend.
Type: String
Valid values:
-
always: Always use low-end device mode. -
auto: Decide automatically (uses low-end mode with < 1 GB available RAM). -
never: Never use low-end device mode.
Default: auto
qt.chromium.process_model
Which Chromium process model to use. Alternative process models use less resources, but decrease security and robustness. See the following pages for more details:
This setting requires a restart.
This setting is only available with the QtWebEngine backend.
Type: String
Valid values:
-
process-per-site-instance: Pages from separate sites are put into separate processes and separate visits to the same site are also isolated. -
process-per-site: Pages from separate sites are put into separate processes. Unlike Process per Site Instance, all visits to the same site will share an OS process. The benefit of this model is reduced memory consumption, because more web pages will share processes. The drawbacks include reduced security, robustness, and responsiveness. -
single-process: Run all tabs in a single process. This should be used for debugging purposes only, and it disables:open --private.
Default: process-per-site-instance
qt.chromium.sandboxing
What sandboxing mechanisms in Chromium to use.
Chromium has various sandboxing layers, which should be enabled for normal browser usage. Mainly for testing and development, it’s possible to disable individual sandboxing layers via this setting.
Open chrome://sandbox to see the current sandbox status.
Changing this setting is only recommended if you know what you’re doing, as it disables one of Chromium’s security layers. To avoid sandboxing being accidentally disabled persistently, this setting can only be set via config.py, not via :set.
See the Chromium documentation for more details:
- Linux - Windows - Mac - FAQ (Windows-centric)
This setting requires a restart.
This setting can only be set in config.py.
This setting is only available with the QtWebEngine backend.
Type: String
Valid values:
-
enable-all: Enable all available sandboxing mechanisms. -
disable-seccomp-bpf: Disable the Seccomp BPF filter sandbox (Linux only). -
disable-all: Disable all sandboxing (not recommended!).
Default: enable-all
qt.environ
Additional environment variables to set. Setting an environment variable to null/None will unset it.
This setting requires a restart.
Type: Dict
Default: empty
qt.force_platform
Force a Qt platform to use.
This sets the QT_QPA_PLATFORM environment variable and is useful to force using the XCB plugin when running QtWebEngine on Wayland.
This setting requires a restart.
Type: String
Default: empty
qt.force_platformtheme
Force a Qt platformtheme to use.
This sets the QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME environment variable which controls dialogs like the filepicker. By default, Qt determines the platform theme based on the desktop environment.
This setting requires a restart.
Type: String
Default: empty
qt.force_software_rendering
Force software rendering for QtWebEngine. This is needed for QtWebEngine to work with Nouveau drivers and can be useful in other scenarios related to graphic issues.
This setting requires a restart.
This setting is only available with the QtWebEngine backend.
Type: String
Valid values:
-
software-opengl: Tell LibGL to use a software implementation of GL (LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE/QT_XCB_FORCE_SOFTWARE_OPENGL) -
qt-quick: Tell Qt Quick to use a software renderer instead of OpenGL. (QT_QUICK_BACKEND=software) -
chromium: Tell Chromium to disable GPU support and use Skia software rendering instead. (--disable-gpu) -
none: Don’t force software rendering.
Default: none
qt.highdpi
Turn on Qt HighDPI scaling.
This is equivalent to setting QT_ENABLE_HIGHDPI_SCALING=1 (Qt >= 5.14) in the environment.
It’s off by default as it can cause issues with some bitmap fonts. As an alternative to this, it’s possible to set font sizes and the zoom.default setting.
This setting requires a restart.
Type: Bool
Default: false
qt.workarounds.disable_accelerated_2d_canvas
Disable accelerated 2d canvas to avoid graphical glitches. On some setups graphical issues can occur on sites like Google sheets and PDF.js. These don’t occur when accelerated 2d canvas is turned off, so we do that by default. So far these glitches only occur on some Intel graphics devices.
This setting requires a restart.
This setting is only available with the QtWebEngine backend.
Type: String
Valid values:
-
always: Disable accelerated 2d canvas -
auto: Disable on Qt6 < 6.6.0, enable otherwise -
never: Enable accelerated 2d canvas
Default: auto
qt.workarounds.disable_hangouts_extension
Disable the Hangouts extension. The Hangouts extension provides additional APIs for Google domains only. Hangouts has been replaced with Meet, which appears to work without this extension. Note this setting gets ignored and the Hangouts extension is always disabled to avoid crashes on Qt 6.5.0 to 6.5.3 if dark mode is enabled, as well as on Qt 6.6.0.
This setting requires a restart.
This setting is only available with the QtWebEngine backend.
Type: Bool
Default: false
qt.workarounds.locale
Work around locale parsing issues in QtWebEngine 5.15.3. With some locales, QtWebEngine 5.15.3 is unusable without this workaround. In affected scenarios, QtWebEngine will log "Network service crashed, restarting service." and only display a blank page. However, It is expected that distributions shipping QtWebEngine 5.15.3 follow up with a proper fix soon, so it is disabled by default.
This setting is only available with the QtWebEngine backend.
Type: Bool
Default: false
qt.workarounds.remove_service_workers
Delete the QtWebEngine Service Worker directory on every start. This workaround can help with certain crashes caused by an unknown QtWebEngine bug related to Service Workers. Those crashes happen seemingly immediately on Windows; after one hour of operation on other systems. Note however that enabling this option can lead to data loss on some pages (as Service Worker data isn’t persisted) and will negatively impact start-up time.
Type: Bool
Default: false
scrolling.bar
When/how to show the scrollbar.
Type: String
Valid values:
-
always: Always show the scrollbar. -
never: Never show the scrollbar. -
when-searching: Show the scrollbar when searching for text in the webpage. With the QtWebKit backend, this is equal tonever. -
overlay: Show an overlay scrollbar. On macOS, this is unavailable and equal towhen-searching; with the QtWebKit backend, this is equal tonever. Enabling/disabling overlay scrollbars requires a restart.
Default: overlay
scrolling.smooth
Enable smooth scrolling for web pages.
Note smooth scrolling does not work with the :scroll-px command.
This setting supports URL patterns.
Type: Bool
Default: false
search.ignore_case
When to find text on a page case-insensitively.
Type: IgnoreCase
Valid values:
-
always: Search case-insensitively. -
never: Search case-sensitively. -
smart: Search case-sensitively if there are capital characters.
Default: smart
search.incremental
Find text on a page incrementally, renewing the search for each typed character.
Type: Bool
Default: true
search.wrap
Wrap around at the top and bottom of the page when advancing through text matches using :search-next and :search-prev.
Type: Bool
Default: true
search.wrap_messages
Display messages when advancing through text matches at the top and bottom of the page, e.g. Search hit TOP.
Type: Bool
Default: true
session.default_name
Name of the session to save by default. If this is set to null, the session which was last loaded is saved.
Type: SessionName
Default: empty
spellcheck.languages
Languages to use for spell checking. You can check for available languages and install dictionaries using scripts/dictcli.py. Run the script with -h/--help for instructions.
This setting is only available with the QtWebEngine backend.
Type: List of String
Valid values:
-
af-ZA: Afrikaans (South Africa) -
bg-BG: Bulgarian (Bulgaria) -
ca-ES: Catalan (Spain) -
cs-CZ: Czech (Czech Republic) -
da-DK: Danish (Denmark) -
de-DE: German (Germany) -
el-GR: Greek (Greece) -
en-AU: English (Australia) -
en-CA: English (Canada) -
en-GB: English (United Kingdom) -
en-US: English (United States) -
es-ES: Spanish (Spain) -
et-EE: Estonian (Estonia) -
fa-IR: Farsi (Iran) -
fo-FO: Faroese (Faroe Islands) -
fr-FR: French (France) -
he-IL: Hebrew (Israel) -
hi-IN: Hindi (India) -
hr-HR: Croatian (Croatia) -
hu-HU: Hungarian (Hungary) -
id-ID: Indonesian (Indonesia) -
it-IT: Italian (Italy) -
ko: Korean -
lt-LT: Lithuanian (Lithuania) -
lv-LV: Latvian (Latvia) -
nb-NO: Norwegian (Norway) -
nl-NL: Dutch (Netherlands) -
pl-PL: Polish (Poland) -
pt-BR: Portuguese (Brazil) -
pt-PT: Portuguese (Portugal) -
ro-RO: Romanian (Romania) -
ru-RU: Russian (Russia) -
sh: Serbo-Croatian -
sk-SK: Slovak (Slovakia) -
sl-SI: Slovenian (Slovenia) -
sq: Albanian -
sr: Serbian -
sv-SE: Swedish (Sweden) -
ta-IN: Tamil (India) -
tg-TG: Tajik (Tajikistan) -
tr-TR: Turkish (Turkey) -
uk-UA: Ukrainian (Ukraine) -
vi-VN: Vietnamese (Viet Nam)
Default: empty
statusbar.padding
Padding (in pixels) for the statusbar.
Type: Padding
Default:
-
bottom:1 -
left:0 -
right:0 -
top:1
statusbar.position
Position of the status bar.
Type: VerticalPosition
Valid values:
-
top -
bottom
Default: bottom
statusbar.show
When to show the statusbar.
Type: String
Valid values:
-
always: Always show the statusbar. -
never: Always hide the statusbar. -
in-mode: Show the statusbar when in modes other than normal mode.
Default: always
statusbar.widgets
List of widgets displayed in the statusbar.
Type: List of StatusbarWidget
Valid values:
-
url: Current page URL. -
scroll: Percentage of the current page position like10%. -
scroll_raw: Raw percentage of the current page position like10. -
history: Display an arrow when possible to go back/forward in history. -
search_match: A match count when searching, e.g.Match [2/10]. -
tabs: Current active tab, e.g.2. -
keypress: Display pressed keys when composing a vi command. -
progress: Progress bar for the current page loading. -
text:foo: Display the static text after the colon,fooin the example. -
clock: Display current time. The format can be changed by adding a format string viaclock:.... For supported format strings, see the Python datetime documentation.
Default:
-
keypress -
search_match -
url -
scroll -
history -
tabs -
progress
tabs.close_mouse_button
Mouse button with which to close tabs.
Type: String
Valid values:
-
right: Close tabs on right-click. -
middle: Close tabs on middle-click. -
none: Don’t close tabs using the mouse.
Default: middle
tabs.close_mouse_button_on_bar
How to behave when the close mouse button is pressed on the tab bar.
Type: String
Valid values:
-
new-tab: Open a new tab. -
close-current: Close the current tab. -
close-last: Close the last tab. -
ignore: Don’t do anything.
Default: new-tab
tabs.favicons.scale
Scaling factor for favicons in the tab bar.
The tab size is unchanged, so big favicons also require extra tabs.padding.
Type: Float
Default: 1.0
tabs.favicons.show
When to show favicons in the tab bar. When switching this from never to always/pinned, note that favicons might not be loaded yet, thus tabs might require a reload to display them.
Type: String
Valid values:
-
always: Always show favicons. -
never: Always hide favicons. -
pinned: Show favicons only on pinned tabs.
Default: always
tabs.focus_stack_size
Maximum stack size to remember for tab switches (-1 for no maximum).
Type: Int
Default: 10
tabs.indicator.padding
Padding (in pixels) for tab indicators.
Type: Padding
Default:
-
bottom:2 -
left:0 -
right:4 -
top:2
tabs.indicator.width
Width (in pixels) of the progress indicator (0 to disable).
Type: Int
Default: 3
tabs.last_close
How to behave when the last tab is closed.
If the tabs.tabs_are_windows setting is set, this is ignored and the behavior is always identical to the close value.
Type: String
Valid values:
-
ignore: Don’t do anything. -
blank: Load a blank page. -
startpage: Load the start page. -
default-page: Load the default page. -
close: Close the window.
Default: ignore
tabs.max_width
Maximum width (in pixels) of tabs (-1 for no maximum).
This setting only applies when tabs are horizontal.
This setting does not apply to pinned tabs, unless tabs.pinned.shrink is False.
This setting may not apply properly if max_width is smaller than the minimum size of tab contents, or smaller than tabs.min_width.
Type: Int
Default: -1
tabs.min_width
Minimum width (in pixels) of tabs (-1 for the default minimum size behavior).
This setting only applies when tabs are horizontal.
This setting does not apply to pinned tabs, unless tabs.pinned.shrink is False.
Type: Int
Default: -1
tabs.mode_on_change
When switching tabs, what input mode is applied.
Type: String
Valid values:
-
persist: Retain the current mode. -
restore: Restore previously saved mode. -
normal: Always revert to normal mode.
Default: normal
tabs.new_position.related
Position of new tabs opened from another tab.
See tabs.new_position.stacking for controlling stacking behavior.
Type: NewTabPosition
Valid values:
-
prev: Before the current tab. -
next: After the current tab. -
first: At the beginning. -
last: At the end.
Default: next
tabs.new_position.stacking
Stack related tabs on top of each other when opened consecutively.
Only applies for next and prev values of tabs.new_position.related and tabs.new_position.unrelated.
Type: Bool
Default: true
tabs.new_position.unrelated
Position of new tabs which are not opened from another tab.
See tabs.new_position.stacking for controlling stacking behavior.
Type: NewTabPosition
Valid values:
-
prev: Before the current tab. -
next: After the current tab. -
first: At the beginning. -
last: At the end.
Default: last
tabs.padding
Padding (in pixels) around text for tabs.
Type: Padding
Default:
-
bottom:0 -
left:5 -
right:5 -
top:0
tabs.position
Position of the tab bar.
Type: Position
Valid values:
-
top -
bottom -
left -
right
Default: top
tabs.select_on_remove
Which tab to select when the focused tab is removed.
Type: SelectOnRemove
Valid values:
-
prev: Select the tab which came before the closed one (left in horizontal, above in vertical). -
next: Select the tab which came after the closed one (right in horizontal, below in vertical). -
last-used: Select the previously selected tab.
Default: next
tabs.show
When to show the tab bar.
Type: String
Valid values:
-
always: Always show the tab bar. -
never: Always hide the tab bar. -
multiple: Hide the tab bar if only one tab is open. -
switching: Show the tab bar when switching tabs.
Default: always
tabs.show_switching_delay
Duration (in milliseconds) to show the tab bar before hiding it when tabs.show is set to switching.
Type: Int
Default: 800
tabs.title.alignment
Alignment of the text inside of tabs.
Type: TextAlignment
Valid values:
-
left -
right -
center
Default: left
tabs.title.elide
Position of ellipsis in truncated title of tabs.
Type: ElidePosition
Valid values:
-
left -
right -
middle -
none
Default: right
tabs.title.format
Format to use for the tab title. The following placeholders are defined:
-
{perc}: Percentage as a string like[10%]. -
{perc_raw}: Raw percentage, e.g.10. -
{current_title}: Title of the current web page. -
{title_sep}: The string" - "if a title is set, empty otherwise. -
{index}: Index of this tab. -
{aligned_index}: Index of this tab padded with spaces to have the same width. -
{relative_index}: Index of this tab relative to the current tab. -
{id}: Internal tab ID of this tab. -
{scroll_pos}: Page scroll position. -
{host}: Host of the current web page. -
{backend}: Eitherwebkitorwebengine -
{private}: Indicates when private mode is enabled. -
{current_url}: URL of the current web page. -
{protocol}: Protocol (http/https/…) of the current web page. -
{audio}: Indicator for audio/mute status.
Type: FormatString
Default: {audio}{index}: {current_title}
tabs.title.format_pinned
Format to use for the tab title for pinned tabs. The same placeholders like for tabs.title.format are defined.
Type: FormatString
Default: {index}
tabs.tooltips
Show tooltips on tabs. Note this setting only affects windows opened after it has been set.
Type: Bool
Default: true
tabs.undo_stack_size
Number of closed tabs (per window) and closed windows to remember for :undo (-1 for no maximum).
Type: Int
Default: 100
tabs.width
Width (in pixels or as percentage of the window) of the tab bar if it’s vertical.
Type: PercOrInt
Default: 15%
url.auto_search
What search to start when something else than a URL is entered.
Type: String
Valid values:
-
naive: Use simple/naive check. -
dns: Use DNS requests (might be slow!). -
never: Never search automatically. -
schemeless: Always search automatically unless URL explicitly contains a scheme.
Default: naive
url.default_page
Page to open if :open -t/-b/-w is used without URL.
Use about:blank for a blank page.
Type: FuzzyUrl
Default: https://start.duckduckgo.com/
url.incdec_segments
URL segments where :navigate increment/decrement will search for a number.
Type: FlagList
Valid values:
-
host -
port -
path -
query -
anchor
Default:
-
path -
query
url.open_base_url
Open base URL of the searchengine if a searchengine shortcut is invoked without parameters.
Type: Bool
Default: false
url.searchengines
Search engines which can be used via the address bar.
Maps a search engine name (such as DEFAULT, or ddg) to a URL with a
{} placeholder. The placeholder will be replaced by the search term, use
{{ and }} for literal {/} braces.
The following further placeholds are defined to configure how special characters in the search terms are replaced by safe characters (called quoting):
-
{}and{semiquoted}quote everything except slashes; this is the most sensible choice for almost all search engines (for the search termslash/and&this placeholder expands toslash/and%26amp). -
{quoted}quotes all characters (forslash/and&this placeholder expands toslash%2Fand%26amp). -
{unquoted}quotes nothing (forslash/and&this placeholder expands toslash/and&). -
{0}means the same as{}, but can be used multiple times.
The search engine named DEFAULT is used when url.auto_search is turned
on and something else than a URL was entered to be opened. Other search
engines can be used by prepending the search engine name to the search
term, e.g. :open google qutebrowser.
Type: Dict
Default:
-
DEFAULT:https://duckduckgo.com/?q={}
url.start_pages
Page(s) to open at the start.
Default: https://start.duckduckgo.com
url.yank_ignored_parameters
URL parameters to strip when yanking a URL.
Type: List of String
Default:
-
ref -
utm_source -
utm_medium -
utm_campaign -
utm_term -
utm_content -
utm_name
window.hide_decoration
Hide the window decoration.
This setting requires a restart on Wayland.
Type: Bool
Default: false
window.title_format
Format to use for the window title. The same placeholders like for
tabs.title.format are defined.
Type: FormatString
Default: {perc}{current_title}{title_sep}qutebrowser
window.transparent
Set the main window background to transparent.
This allows having a transparent tab- or statusbar (might require a compositor such
as picom). However, it breaks some functionality such as dmenu embedding via its
-w option. On some systems, it was additionally reported that main window
transparency negatively affects performance.
Note this setting only affects windows opened after setting it.
Type: Bool
Default: false
zoom.levels
Available zoom levels.
Type: List of Perc
Default:
-
25% -
33% -
50% -
67% -
75% -
90% -
100% -
110% -
125% -
150% -
175% -
200% -
250% -
300% -
400% -
500%
zoom.mouse_divider
Number of zoom increments to divide the mouse wheel movements to.
Type: Int
Default: 512
zoom.text_only
Apply the zoom factor on a frame only to the text or to all content.
This setting supports URL patterns.
This setting is only available with the QtWebKit backend.
Type: Bool
Default: false
Setting types
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
Bool |
A boolean setting, either When setting from a string, |
BoolAsk |
Like |
ColorSystem |
The color system to use for color interpolation. |
Command |
A qutebrowser command with arguments. |
ConfirmQuit |
Whether to display a confirmation when the window is closed. |
Dict |
A dictionary of values. When setting from a string, pass a json-like dict, e.g. |
Directory |
A directory on the local filesystem. |
ElidePosition |
Position of ellipsis in truncated text. |
Encoding |
Setting for a python encoding. |
File |
A file on the local filesystem. |
FlagList |
A list of flags. Lists with duplicate flags are invalid. Each item is checked against the valid values of the setting. |
Float |
Base class for a float setting. |
Font |
A font family, with optional style/weight/size. * Style: |
FontFamily |
A Qt font family. |
FormatString |
A string with placeholders. |
FuzzyUrl |
A URL which gets interpreted as search if needed. |
IgnoreCase |
Whether to search case insensitively. |
Int |
Base class for an integer setting. |
Key |
A name of a key. |
List |
A list of values. When setting from a string, pass a json-like list, e.g. |
ListOrValue |
A list of values, or a single value. |
LogLevel |
A logging level. |
NewTabPosition |
How new tabs are positioned. |
Padding |
Setting for paddings around elements. |
Perc |
A percentage. |
PercOrInt |
Percentage or integer. |
Position |
The position of the tab bar. |
Proxy |
A proxy URL, or |
QssColor |
A color value supporting gradients. A value can be in one of the following formats: * |
QtColor |
A color value. A value can be in one of the following formats: * |
Regex |
A regular expression. When setting from |
SearchEngineUrl |
A search engine URL. |
SelectOnRemove |
Which tab to select when the focused tab is removed. |
SessionName |
The name of a session. |
ShellCommand |
A shell command as a list. See the documentation for |
StatusbarWidget |
A widget for the status bar. Allows some predefined widgets and custom text-widgets via text:$CONTENT. |
String |
A string value. See the setting’s valid values for more information on allowed values. |
TextAlignment |
Alignment of text. |
UniqueCharString |
A string which may not contain duplicate chars. |
Url |
A URL as a string. |
UrlPattern |
A match pattern for a URL. See https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/develop/concepts/match-patterns for the allowed syntax. |
VerticalPosition |
The position of the download bar. |