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Used this regularly for a couple of years but stopped at some point, had it as my default browser for opening links but it never became my main browser, mainly because it didn’t integrate with password managers and some things didn’t quite work. Haven’t used it for a good year and a half now so it might have improved.

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See passmenu (pass) or passhole (KeePass) for password autotypers that work with any program.

Disclaimer: I wrote passhole.

https://github.com/cdown/passmenu

https://github.com/purduelug/passhole

You may want to try some of the password filling userscripts available. The best support is for pass, but theres userscripts for lastpass and keepass too.

https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/blob/master/misc/...

The word userscript makes me think that it injects js onto the page? If that's the case, couldn't existing js hijack that? Sounds unsafe.

It looks like they're written in python.

Not necessarily - any language which can read environment variables and write into a file should work. Most existing scripts are using either Python or Bash though.

Qutebrowser userscripts aren't in-page JavaScript at all. They're external scripts run by the browser to control its behaviour.

http://qutebrowser.org/doc/userscripts.html

Yeah, the name is a bit unfortunate - it's coming from dwb[1] which I think also invented that concept, and was the main inspiration for qutebrowser.

[1] https://portix.bitbucket.io/dwb/

Interesting, might give it a try again.

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