Qutebrowser – a keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on PyQt5 and QtWebKit

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28 points·fdik··11 comments

Trying to use it right now, it works quite well for what I expected! I'm especially impressed by Youtube, the keyboard navigation even works in the player (which defaults to html5)!

It is a bit hard to stay motivated to use this, like I had when starting to use vim and dvorak, but it certainly has potential.

I love the idea (I use FFox with vimperator as my browser of choice), but the OS-X install instructions are too cumbersome at the moment.

It's easy on MacOS X if you have i.e. MacPorts:

$ sudo port install python34 py34-jinja2 asciidoc py34-pygments py34-pyqt5

$ git clone https://github.com/The-Compiler/qutebrowser.git

I just merged a pull request which makes things a lot easier by using MacPorts/Homebrew:

https://github.com/The-Compiler/qutebrowser/blob/master/doc/...

Any relation to qute?

http://www.inkcode.net/qute

None I knew of. Flo (“The Compiler”) is just hacking stuff, with help from some others.

Nope - damn, choosing a good name with no collisions is hard ;)

What's the status of QtWebKit now? It was removed from WebKit trunk about a year ago...

As of Qt 5.4, it's in maintenance mode, and will be deprecated soon.

Source: http://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/2014/12/10/qt-5-4-released/

Development still was continued in Qt's own tree, but as it was mentioned, as of Qt 5.4 only bugfixes will be done.

Though at some point I plan adding a QtWebEngine (i.e. Blink/Chromium) backend to qutebrowser.

Instead of w3-mode, I always thought someone should combine Emacs with a web layout engine.

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