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Comment by djfergus | Hacker News Reader

So many good options here.

Vimium is the gateway drug to the fantastic qutebrowser (more integration and customisation, scripting, based on qtwebkit/engine).

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I'm really interested in trying qutebrowser, but I've had so many issues with near-constant breakage in python projects. Are there no similar projects in statically typed languages, or maybe compiled?

Also qutebrowser's less powerful adblock, and missing a few other plugins I rely heavily upon...

FWIW I use qutebrowser on macOS (homebrew), alpine(postmarketos), Arch and Ubuntu and have never had an issue - installs cleanly via os package manager and just works (including wayland and x11). It’s under active development and the main devs seem pretty responsive to issues. It uses qtwebengine(chromium) - so none of the browser heavy lifting is in python. Don’t write it off due to the language used.

I just want to say thank you for mentioning qutebrowser. I'd never heard of it before and I'm now hooked.

Qutebrowser is not perfect but the concept and keyboard control is spot on.

Specifically ad blocking is not as comprehensive as eg brave or ublock since they don’t have element hiding - just domain blocking. There was some discussion on GitHub to add it but I’m not sure of current status. This means that you’ll see Reddit and YouTube ads unfortunately (without some scripting effort;)

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