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qutebrowser
===========

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image:icons/qutebrowser-64x64.png[qutebrowser logo] *A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on PyQt5 and Qt.*

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link:https://www.qutebrowser.org[website] | link:https://blog.qutebrowser.org[blog] | link:https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/releases[releases]
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qutebrowser is a keyboard-focused browser with a minimal GUI. It's based
on Python and PyQt5 and free software, licensed under the GPL.

It was inspired by other browsers/addons like dwb and Vimperator/Pentadactyl.

Screenshots
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image:doc/img/main.png["screenshot 1",width=300,link="doc/img/main.png"]
image:doc/img/downloads.png["screenshot 2",width=300,link="doc/img/downloads.png"]
image:doc/img/completion.png["screenshot 3",width=300,link="doc/img/completion.png"]
image:doc/img/hints.png["screenshot 4",width=300,link="doc/img/hints.png"]

Downloads
---------

See the https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/releases[github releases
page] for available downloads (currently a source archive, and standalone
packages as well as MSI installers for Windows).

See link:INSTALL.asciidoc[INSTALL] for detailed instructions on how to get
qutebrowser running for various platforms.

Documentation
-------------

In addition to the topics mentioned in this README, the following documents are
available:

* A https://qutebrowser.org/img/cheatsheet-big.png[key binding cheatsheet]: +
image:https://qutebrowser.org/img/cheatsheet-small.png["qutebrowser key binding cheatsheet",link="https://qutebrowser.org/img/cheatsheet-big.png"]
* link:doc/quickstart.asciidoc[Quick start guide]
* A https://www.shortcutfoo.com/app/dojos/qutebrowser[free training course] to remember those key bindings.
* link:FAQ.asciidoc[Frequently asked questions]
* link:CONTRIBUTING.asciidoc[Contributing to qutebrowser]
* link:INSTALL.asciidoc[INSTALL]
* link:CHANGELOG.asciidoc[Change Log]
* link:doc/stacktrace.asciidoc[Reporting segfaults]
* link:doc/userscripts.asciidoc[How to write userscripts]

Getting help
------------

You can get help in the IRC channel
irc://irc.freenode.org/#qutebrowser[`#qutebrowser`] on
http://freenode.net/[Freenode]
(https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#qutebrowser[webchat]), or by writing a
message to the
https://lists.schokokeks.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/qutebrowser[mailinglist] at
mailto:qutebrowser@lists.qutebrowser.org[].

There's also a https://lists.schokokeks.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/qutebrowser-announce[announce-only mailinglist]
at mailto:qutebrowser-announce@lists.qutebrowser.org[].

Contributions / Bugs
--------------------

You want to contribute to qutebrowser? Awesome! Please read
link:CONTRIBUTING.asciidoc[the contribution guidelines] for details and
useful hints.

If you found a bug or have a feature request, you can report it in several
ways:

* Use the built-in `:report` command or the automatic crash dialog.
* Open an issue in the Github issue tracker.
* Write a mail to the
https://lists.schokokeks.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/qutebrowser[mailinglist] at
mailto:qutebrowser@lists.qutebrowser.org[].

For security bugs, please contact me directly at mail@qutebrowser.org, GPG ID
https://www.the-compiler.org/pubkey.asc[0xFD55A072].

Requirements
------------

The following software and libraries are required to run qutebrowser:

* http://www.python.org/[Python] 3.4 or newer
* http://qt.io/[Qt] 5.2.0 or newer (5.5.1 recommended)
* QtWebKit (old or link:https://github.com/annulen/webkit/wiki[reloaded]/NG) or QtWebEngine
* http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/intro[PyQt] 5.2.0 or newer
(5.5.1 recommended) for Python 3
* https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools/[pkg_resources/setuptools]
* http://fdik.org/pyPEG/[pyPEG2]
* http://jinja.pocoo.org/[jinja2]
* http://pygments.org/[pygments]
* http://pyyaml.org/wiki/PyYAML[PyYAML]

The following libraries are optional and provide a better user experience:

* http://cthedot.de/cssutils/[cssutils]

To generate the documentation for the `:help` command, when using the git
repository (rather than a release), http://asciidoc.org/[asciidoc] is needed.

On Windows, https://pypi.python.org/pypi/colorama/[colorama] is needed to
display colored log output.

See link:INSTALL.asciidoc[INSTALL] for directions on how to install qutebrowser
and its dependencies.

Donating
--------

Working on qutebrowser is a very rewarding hobby, but like (nearly) all hobbies
it also costs some money. Namely I have to pay for the server and domain, and
do occasional hardware upgrades footnote:[It turned out a 160 GB SSD is rather
small - the VMs and custom Qt builds I use for testing/developing qutebrowser
need about 100 GB of space].

If you want to give me a beer or a pizza back, I'm trying to make it as easy as
possible for you to do so. If some other way would be easier for you, please
get in touch!

* PayPal: me@the-compiler.org
* Bitcoin: link:bitcoin:1PMzbcetAHfpxoXww8Bj5XqquHtVvMjJtE[1PMzbcetAHfpxoXww8Bj5XqquHtVvMjJtE]

Authors
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Contributors, sorted by the number of commits in descending order:

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* Florian Bruhin
* Daniel Schadt
* Ryan Roden-Corrent
* Jan Verbeek
* Jakub Klinkovský
* Antoni Boucher
* Lamar Pavel
* Marshall Lochbaum
* Bruno Oliveira
* Alexander Cogneau
* Felix Van der Jeugt
* Daniel Karbach
* Imran Sobir
* Martin Tournoij
* Kevin Velghe
* Raphael Pierzina
* Joel Torstensson
* Patric Schmitz
* Tarcisio Fedrizzi
* Claude
* Corentin Julé
* meles5
* Philipp Hansch
* Panagiotis Ktistakis
* Artur Shaik
* Nathan Isom
* Thorsten Wißmann
* Austin Anderson
* Fritz Reichwald
* Jimmy
* Niklas Haas
* Maciej Wołczyk
* Spreadyy
* Alexey "Averrin" Nabrodov
* pkill9
* nanjekyejoannah
* avk
* ZDarian
* Milan Svoboda
* John ShaggyTwoDope Jenkins
* Clayton Craft
* Peter Vilim
* knaggita
* Oliver Caldwell
* Julian Weigt
* Tomasz Kramkowski
* Sebastian Frysztak
* Nikolay Amiantov
* Julie Engel
* Jonas Schürmann
* error800
* Michael Hoang
* Liam BEGUIN
* Daniel Fiser
* skinnay
* Zach-Button
* Samuel Walladge
* Peter Rice
* Ismail S
* Halfwit
* David Vogt
* Claire Cavanaugh
* rikn00
* kanikaa1234
* haitaka
* Nick Ginther
* Michał Góral
* Michael Ilsaas
* Martin Zimmermann
* Jussi Timperi
* Cosmin Popescu
* Brian Jackson
* thuck
* sbinix
* rsteube
* neeasade
* jnphilipp
* Yannis Rohloff
* Tobias Patzl
* Stefan Tatschner
* Samuel Loury
* Peter Michely
* Panashe M. Fundira
* Lucas Hoffmann
* Link
* Larry Hynes
* Kirill A. Shutemov
* Johannes Altmanninger
* Jeremy Kaplan
* Ismail
* Edgar Hipp
* Daryl Finlay
* arza
* adam
* Samir Benmendil
* Regina Hug
* Mathias Fussenegger
* Marcelo Santos
* Joel Bradshaw
* Jean-Louis Fuchs
* Franz Fellner
* Eric Drechsel
* zwarag
* xd1le
* rmortens
* oniondreams
* issue
* haxwithaxe
* evan
* dylan araps
* caveman
* addictedtoflames
* Xitian9
* Vasilij Schneidermann
* Tomas Orsava
* Tom Janson
* Tobias Werth
* Tim Harder
* Thiago Barroso Perrotta
* Sorokin Alexei
* Simon Désaulniers
* Rok Mandeljc
* Noah Huesser
* Moez Bouhlel
* Matthias Lisin
* Marcel Schilling
* Lazlow Carmichael
* Kevin Wang
* Ján Kobezda
* Johannes Martinsson
* Jean-Christophe Petkovich
* Jay Kamat
* Helen Sherwood-Taylor
* HalosGhost
* Gregor Pohl
* Eivind Uggedal
* Dietrich Daroch
* Derek Sivers
* Daniel Lu
* Arseniy Seroka
* Andy Balaam
* Andreas Fischer
* Amos Bird
* Akselmo
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The following people have contributed graphics:

* Jad/link:http://yelostudio.com[yelo] (new icon)
* WOFall (original icon)
* regines (key binding cheatsheet)

Thanks / Similar projects
-------------------------

Many projects with a similar goal as qutebrowser exist:

* http://portix.bitbucket.org/dwb/[dwb] (C, GTK+ with WebKit1, currently
http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/2huqbc/dwb_abandoned/[unmaintained] -
main inspiration for qutebrowser)
* https://github.com/fanglingsu/vimb[vimb] (C, GTK+ with WebKit1, active)
* http://sourceforge.net/p/vimprobable/wiki/Home/[vimprobable] (C, GTK+ with
WebKit1, dead)
* http://surf.suckless.org/[surf] (C, GTK+ with WebKit1, active)
* https://mason-larobina.github.io/luakit/[luakit] (C/Lua, GTK+ with
WebKit1, not very active)
* http://pwmt.org/projects/jumanji/[jumanji] (C, GTK+ with WebKit1, not very
active)
* http://www.uzbl.org/[uzbl] (C, GTK+ with WebKit1/WebKit2, active)
* http://conkeror.org/[conkeror] (Javascript, Emacs-like, XULRunner/Gecko,
active)
* https://github.com/AeroNotix/lispkit[lispkit] (quite new, lisp, GTK+ with
WebKit, active)
* http://www.vimperator.org/[Vimperator] (Firefox addon)
* http://5digits.org/pentadactyl/[Pentadactyl] (Firefox addon)
* https://github.com/akhodakivskiy/VimFx[VimFx] (Firefox addon)
* https://github.com/1995eaton/chromium-vim[cVim] (Chrome/Chromium addon)
* http://vimium.github.io/[vimium] (Chrome/Chromium addon)
* https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vichrome/gghkfhpblkcmlkmpcpgaajbbiikbhpdi?hl=en[ViChrome] (Chrome/Chromium addon)
* https://github.com/jinzhu/vrome[Vrome] (Chrome/Chromium addon)

Most of them were inspirations for qutebrowser in some way, thanks for that!

Thanks as well to the following projects and people for helping me with
problems and helpful hints:

* http://eric-ide.python-projects.org/[eric5] / Detlev Offenbach
* https://code.google.com/p/devicenzo/[devicenzo]
* portix
* seir
* nitroxleecher

Also, thanks to:

* Everyone contributing to the link:doc/backers.asciidoc[crowdfunding].
* Everyone who had the patience to test qutebrowser before v0.1.
* Everyone triaging/fixing my bugs in the
https://bugreports.qt.io/secure/Dashboard.jspa[Qt bugtracker]
* Everyone answering my questions on http://stackoverflow.com/[Stack Overflow]
and in IRC.
* All the projects which were a great help while developing qutebrowser.

License
-------

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

pdf.js
------

qutebrowser optionally uses https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/[pdf.js] to
display PDF files in the browser. Windows releases come with a bundled pdf.js.

pdf.js is distributed under the terms of the Apache License. You can
find a copy of the license in `qutebrowser/3rdparty/pdfjs/LICENSE` (in the
Windows release or after running `scripts/dev/update_3rdparty.py`), or online
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html[here].