Qutebrowser

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qutebrowser
Original author(s) Florian Bruhin ("the Compiler")
Developer(s)
Initial release14 December 2014;10 years ago (2014-12-14) [4]
Stable release
v3.5.0 / 12 April 2025;4 months ago (2025-04-12)
Repository
Written in Python, JavaScript
Engine WebKit or QtWebEngine
Operating system Linux, Windows, macOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD [5]
Available in1 languages [6]
List of languages
English [6]
Type Web browser
License GNU General Public License
Website qutebrowser.org

qutebrowser (pronounced "cute browser") is a web browser for the operating systems Linux, Windows, and macOS, with vim-style key bindings and a minimal graphical user interface (GUI). [7] It is keyboard-driven and is inspired by similar software such as Vimperator and dwb. [8] It is developed by Florian Bruhin. [1]

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Qutebrowser is free and open-source software released under the GNU General Public License, and is included in the native repositories of Linux distributions such as Fedora and Arch Linux. [9]

Qutebrowser can use two layout or browser engines: QtWebEngine by default, or WebKit optionally instead. It uses DuckDuckGo as the default search engine.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "CH Open Source Awards 2016: vergeben". Pro-Linux (in German). Retrieved 13 December 2016.
  2. 長岡弥太郎 (16 October 2017). "PythonやPyQtをベースのテキストドリブンBrowser「Qutebrowser」がv1.0に" (in Japanese).
  3. "qutebrowser – Authors". qutebrowser.org. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
  4. "Release qutebrowser v0.1". GitHub . Retrieved 27 November 2017.
  5. "Installing qutebrowser". qutebrowser.org. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
  6. 1 2 "Internationalization #31". GitHub . GitHub . Retrieved 9 September 2018.
  7. "Qutebrowser: браузер для поклонников vim". PCWeek Russia (in Russian). Retrieved 13 December 2016.
  8. "FAQ". qutebrowser.org.
  9. "qutebrowser – ArchWiki". archlinux.org. Retrieved 13 December 2016.