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 // QUTE_WEB_HIDE
 image:icons/qutebrowser-64x64.png[qutebrowser logo] *A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on PyQt5 and Qt.*
 
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 image:https://travis-ci.org/qutebrowser/qutebrowser.svg?branch=master["Build Status", link="https://travis-ci.org/qutebrowser/qutebrowser"]
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