@@peterjansen4826 Qutebrowser has a way to mimic NoScript functionality, it is pretty great. As blocking is only host based right now, which is kinda doodoo, but works decently well, because the list included by default is pretty good and you can use umpv to launch RUclips videos from a custom shortcut
Hey thanks DT, patreon, & QB dev/devs! really like those global search options in config and the quickmarks, this browser is super productive and is setting a good example for what makes a fantastic browser. Especially love how the interface is very keyboard driven and tends to stay out of the way.
qutebrowser is pretty cool but I still rather stick to firefox for all my extensions. With TabCenter reborn, vim-vixen and some customCSS I have a quite minimal looking setup with vim/qute like keybinds. And I can still use all of my other firefox extensions like firenvim etc
My most used bind I use in my qutebrowser is: :bind t set-cmd-text -s :open -t I just type t and get a blank :open -t so I can open any url I type in a new tab
might be a bit faster to just do capital O (default bind), which automatically does ":open -t", you can just write an URL after it. no reason to open up a blank tab for it
@@i.8530 Yes, capital O does not need a special keybinding, but there are still 2 reasons I use my binding. First and foremost, just before I switched to qutebrowser I was using Vimperator on Firefox and pressing t did just that and I was used to it. And second capital O is still one more button to press than a lower case t…
Redirect "F" (follow in new tab) to your favourite script by :bind F hint links spawn {hint-url} . I wrote a little document and url queuing script that waits with new opens until CPU drops below 15% usage and there is no i/o wait on the disk. So now I can "F" as many urls as I want in quick succession on my news site without overloading even the slowest machine. Instead of fighting dozens of new pages in parallel, they will be opened one by one when the computer is ready. :-)
If you're using a window manager like XMonad, you could simply use F11 to go into "full screen mode" inside the specific window, this way you get rid of the boilerplate at the top of the browser UI.
I love qutebrowser. The only reason I have Firefox on my FreeBSD laptop because of Google believing Qutebrowser is insecure. Though, it's quite the opposite for my Windows and Linux partitions in my desktop - I have qutebrowser around because it's light.
the reason why qutebrowser is so much faster than browsers like surf or vimb is that it doesn't use webkit by default like those do. You can compile it with webkit but by default it uses qtwebengine which is what chromium is built on
qutebrowser is quite nice and someone is working at implementing the adblock from brave browser. The boring part is that you can't hint on javascripts elements. A cool browser that you can try is wyeb. You can go full keyboard with it. Even a hjkl pointer inside it.
@@peterjansen4826 ain't you the fancy one. Drinking tea without the tea leafs 🍃, how posh. I drink from an empty cup and imagine afterwards how it tasted 😎
Totally wish I could switch over from firefox, except this is not the right way to surf the web these days. There is no tracker blocking or browser compartmentalization.
Installed it yesterday, it's awesome. Btw what is the program you used to launch neovim to edit the config file? It let you choose config file. Nice video!
You not talking into the camera felt a bit weird, but comepletely made up for with the great and clear content. Im not a huge computer nerd and I honestly feel like I can easily use qutebrowser right now. Also, great voice
Hi! I just downloaded the "Windows installer" but my Laptop/Firefox says it contains a virus/malware. Why is that and is it safe to open the file? A response would be great. Thanks!
It used to be my default browser. But I've just changed to firefox becuz of 2 things. It doesn't have element blocker to block ads (which can't be blocked by qutebrowser's blocked-host list) and playing video on qutebrowser makes my cpu go crazy, especially on youtube. I did use mpv to watch video on qutebrowser but it's still not the best solution
@Agnish Roy Have you ever heard of Phishing? A phishing website (sometimes called a "spoofed" site) tries to steal your account password or other confidential information by tricking you into believing you're on a legitimate website. You could even land on a phishing site by mistyping a URL (web address).
lots of attacks happens because people are not aware of the URL they are on. I also use a lot of browsing tricks based on URLs. It makes my life so easy.
I remember there was a video on this distro that was supposed to be good for educational purposes. Like for children to use. Does anyone else remember that? I can't remember the name and can't find it when searching for it.
Fedora has a spin/flavor dedicated for kids: spins.fedoraproject.org/pl/soas/ Sugar on a Stick is a Fedora-based operating system featuring the award-winning Sugar Learning Platform and designed to fit on an ordinary USB thumbdrive ("stick"). Sugar sets aside the traditional “office-desktop” metaphor, presenting a child-friendly graphical environment. Sugar automatically saves your progress to a "Journal" on your stick, so teachers and parents can easily pull up "all collaborative web browsing sessions done in the past week" or "papers written with Daniel and Sarah in the last 24 hours" with a simple query rather than memorizing complex file/folder structures. Applications in Sugar are known as Activities, some of which are described below. It is now deployable for the cost of a stick rather than a laptop; students can take their Sugar on a Stick thumbdrive to any machine - at school, at home, at a library or community center - and boot their customized computing environment without touching the host machine’s hard disk or existing system at all.
Qt, Open Source and Corona.I haven't heard anything lately about whether Qt is still wanting have a pay plan and if KDE will still have access to still use it. Would this affect Qutebrowser
The url bar on chrome is absolutely horrible with all the crap it has on it that you wish you could customize but it won't let you. Reminds me of how everywhere you went online you were bugged to install some kind of toolbar, and it was all crapware. But, the thing is all you have to do is press f11 and all that junk is gone. So plz can someone explain to me besides the bloated addressbar what is the advantage of Qutebrowser over chrome? The Vimium extension can get you all those shortcuts, so what's the advantage?
@DT Why don't you make a video on the Surfingkeys extension for Firefox and Chrome? It's a very good vim keys extension. Could be interesting for people interested in vim and using keyboard but who can't or don't want to switch browsers entirely.
14:44 Sign of a true vi user: "pretty easy, something I'll work on... maybe over a weekend" to avoid using browser with a real GUI to handle 5 bookmarks.
Hey DT, genuine question I heard you saying you didn't wanted tabs and bars appearing on your browser, why not pressing 'F11'? I have brave and I like a lot its blocking capabilities, I basically can't browse without it anymore, so when you talked about not seeing bars and tabs, I remembered F11, tested it and noted that i doesn't show the tabs and bars when it goes fullscreen. I use a extension called 'vimium' which adds dozens of vin-like new functionalities to the browser, can't browse without it either. Great video
@@sohn7767 I only use one, and since I have full hd, it doesn't waste so much. But maybe for someone who opens a lot of windows instead of tabs it might really waste a lot of space.
this is amazing, I was instantlly converted. 5 minutes later hopes got shutters since there desn't seem to be a way to install browser extensions. I need my password manager extension. Is any one aware of a workaround for add ons with qute browser?
@@DistroTube Well, actually, Vivaldi became open source, but due to this browser is based in Blink, I can discar it due to the preference of many developers to optimize their websites to the Chromium-like browsers.
It's neither "free software" nor "open source" as those terms are defined by the FSF and OSI. Vivaldi has a EULA that goes against everything that those terms stand for: vivaldi.com/privacy/vivaldi-end-user-license-agreement/ In particular, read section 7 of the EULA: 7. Without limiting the foregoing, you are neither allowed to (a) adapt, alter, translate, embed into any other product or otherwise create derivative works of, or otherwise modify the Software ; (b) separate the component programs of the Software for use on different computers; (c) reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or otherwise attempt to derive the source code for the Software, except as permitted by applicable law; or (d) remove, alter or obscure any proprietary notices on the Software or the applicable documentation therein. That's proprietary garbage 101 right there!
@@DistroTube I will always use FOSS when it meets my needs. Even when this is not the case, I will look seriously at a FOSS alternative. Unfortunately, in browsers, no alternative is good enough. So, I have been using Vivaldi as an alternative to Firefox for quite some time.
@@nivaddoniv8363 For jblock it explains how to install and use it under the 'qutebrowser' heading on the gitlab page. As for the userscript styling, there are styles you can download on userstyles.org that work with qutebrowser. Hit 'download as userscript', just place the resulting file in ~/.local/share/qutebrowser/greasemonkey You can just edit these userscripts to whatever colors and sites you want.
I don't know about an "empty" tab but gC will open a new tab with the page you were already on, or :open -t will open a new tab with your default page (duckduckgo unless you change it).
@@DistroTube Thank you. I also, just found . Now, I'm trying to get gD to Detach a tab. It doesn't do anything. If I go into the settings, copy the Bindings.Default textbox, paste it into a text editor, do a search for gD, it's not there. Only , for download.
Finally gave up fighting with qutebrowser, for a few days now, and purged it. Issue (1) - gives v1.1.1 - gives v1.7 - gives 1.11 - but there aren't any instructions on installing it. You can run it, but it's in what they call a virtual environment. Issue (2) RUclips videos don't play, Twitch simply locks and there's other sites, which have issues. Issue (3) De-attaching a tab, with any of the tab- commands, don't really de-attach the tab. All it does is re-open the url in a new window. This is fine 90 some percent of the time. But, this causes you to lose your place on the page you were viewing. Issue (4) Talking to the developer, he pretty much told me ... Sucks to be you and I could care less.
Can't remember where I fund this usefull binding - at least for me. (It open youtube video in mpv pressing C+S+y) Put next to the end of ~/.config/qutebrowser/config.py # Open youtube and supported by youtube-dl in mpv by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Y config.bind('', 'hint links spawn --detach mpv --hwdec=vdpau --force-window yes {hint-url}') Note: and your favorite theme draculatheme.com/qutebrowser
tbh, from Web Developer perspective -> Firefox is a garbage (imo). Doesn't support many new features like f.e custom scroll bar, blurred background. They keep saying that chromium "monopol" slow down development but they are not support new features, the slow down.
"Nowadays the web is so bloated you need a bloated browser"
-Luke Smith
@@peterjansen4826 Qutebrowser has a way to mimic NoScript functionality, it is pretty great. As blocking is only host based right now, which is kinda doodoo, but works decently well, because the list included by default is pretty good and you can use umpv to launch RUclips videos from a custom shortcut
@@zehph I just run my pihole on my PC. Local DNS and fast.
@@zehph play youtube using mpv+ytdl now being limited for some certain quota per day. it will give you an error when the quota is over
@@AlpahardGX invidio.us makes youtube quite lean.
@Agnish Roy It is a relatively know extension for popular browsers that gives a way to use a whitelist that enables JavaScript execution on websites
The biggest problem for me with switching to one of these more minimal browsers is the lack of ad and script blocking
If they could somehow incorporate uBlock Origin I'd make the full switch. Until then I'll continue to use Firefox with Tridactyl
Another commenter suggested using jblock. Might be worth checking out the Github page.
Qutebrowser has a built in ad-blocker
@@Daoist_Oak it's shite. Even with python-adblock it's nowhere near as good as uBlock.
dt is salty about people being salty about snaps...
Hey thanks DT, patreon, & QB dev/devs!
really like those global search options in config and the quickmarks, this browser is super productive and is setting a good example for what makes a fantastic browser. Especially love how the interface is very keyboard driven and tends to stay out of the way.
Appreciate that, j3! :D
Have used it for 5 minutes, I am a convert.
qutebrowser is pretty cool but I still rather stick to firefox for all my extensions. With TabCenter reborn, vim-vixen and some customCSS I have a quite minimal looking setup with vim/qute like keybinds. And I can still use all of my other firefox extensions like firenvim etc
"Getting Started With Qutebrowser"
*Up next:
"Bye-bye, Qutebrowser..." by Wolfgang
kek
“The time used to configure-adding a few lines of code- your WM and CLI applications could be used for actual work” - Wolfgang
lmao I was just now trying to get it to work as well! what timing!
Thank you so much for this video. I started using qute browser and it is great!
My most used bind I use in my qutebrowser is: :bind t set-cmd-text -s :open -t
I just type t and get a blank :open -t so I can open any url I type in a new tab
Nice!
might be a bit faster to just do capital O (default bind), which automatically does ":open -t", you can just write an URL after it. no reason to open up a blank tab for it
@@i.8530 Yes, capital O does not need a special keybinding, but there are still 2 reasons I use my binding. First and foremost, just before I switched to qutebrowser I was using Vimperator on Firefox and pressing t did just that and I was used to it. And second capital O is still one more button to press than a lower case t…
Redirect "F" (follow in new tab) to your favourite script by :bind F hint links spawn {hint-url} . I wrote a little document and url queuing script that waits with new opens until CPU drops below 15% usage and there is no i/o wait on the disk. So now I can "F" as many urls as I want in quick succession on my news site without overloading even the slowest machine. Instead of fighting dozens of new pages in parallel, they will be opened one by one when the computer is ready. :-)
It sounds interesting, thanks.
If you're using a window manager like XMonad, you could simply use F11 to go into "full screen mode" inside the specific window, this way you get rid of the boilerplate at the top of the browser UI.
I love qutebrowser. The only reason I have Firefox on my FreeBSD laptop because of Google believing Qutebrowser is insecure. Though, it's quite the opposite for my Windows and Linux partitions in my desktop - I have qutebrowser around because it's light.
@Sebastián I wish I knew of one. I'll have to try on my Manjaro box to see if it's a ports thing or if it's a Qutebrowser thing.
the reason why qutebrowser is so much faster than browsers like surf or vimb is that it doesn't use webkit by default like those do. You can compile it with webkit but by default it uses qtwebengine which is what chromium is built on
qtwebengine is based on chromium; not that chromium is built on the top of it.
here's a cool command to open a new tab at your default page by simply hitting "t":
:bind t :open -t
👍
you could also just press shift o
qutebrowser is quite nice and someone is working at implementing the adblock from brave browser. The boring part is that you can't hint on javascripts elements. A cool browser that you can try is wyeb. You can go full keyboard with it. Even a hjkl pointer inside it.
Great concept, but as an experimental web dev, I think the simple keybindings like "o" would get in the way of the website's...
How would o? What in the world is o used for in any website at all
@distrotube You can open quickmarks with "b" and new tabs with just capital "o"
... and then guess what capital B does. :-)
Finally, a proper sucessor of UZBL.
i am also really liking qutebrowser.
Thank you, Derek. Nice.
You bet!
I am three minutes late because i was making tea
Slacker
git gud
Next time watch the video in the kitchen
Tea is bloat
Drink water and only water 😐
@@peterjansen4826 ain't you the fancy one. Drinking tea without the tea leafs 🍃, how posh. I drink from an empty cup and imagine afterwards how it tasted 😎
Totally wish I could switch over from firefox, except this is not the right way to surf the web these days. There is no tracker blocking or browser compartmentalization.
Search for vim in firefox addons
isnt b.compartmentalization just using a different browser for different activities?
@@user-gi2mn5yf5j It is just one of the ways.. I use firefox profiles for that tho..
@@user-gi2mn5yf5j He probably means the tab containers feature which you have to install as an addon
Set tabs.show to "multiple". Only shows tabs when you have more than one of them.
If you try to run the browser and it crashes right after just run it from terminal and put this before QT_XCB_FORCE_SOFTWARE_OPENGL=1 qutebrowser
the search engines config is like the bang from duckduckgo but configurable and without the!
Installed it yesterday, it's awesome. Btw what is the program you used to launch neovim to edit the config file? It let you choose config file. Nice video!
Thanks for showing us again the amount of things linux allows one to do. It's inspiring
It's not like we don't have QuteBrowser in Windows ;-)
Hello DT, great video. but how can i use a proxy? i use SwitchyOmega with chrome,firefox now. but if use qutebrowser, how can i do it?
is there an extension so that brave can be operated like qutebrowser?
Hey Derek, I really like your videos and I am a huge fen. What linux distribution are you using?
Arco.
Is there any working adblocker for Qutebrowser?
Try jblock, it's far better than the default adblocker.
You not talking into the camera felt a bit weird, but comepletely made up for with the great and clear content. Im not a huge computer nerd and I honestly feel like I can easily use qutebrowser right now. Also, great voice
Is it true that you have to navigate the :open history with the arrow keys? ctrl + j k p and n doesn't work.
hi, DT, it seems tthe statusbar.hide not working any more, do you have any ideas how to hide them? thanks!
Hi! I just downloaded the "Windows installer" but my Laptop/Firefox says it contains a virus/malware. Why is that and is it safe to open the file? A response would be great. Thanks!
It used to be my default browser. But I've just changed to firefox becuz of 2 things. It doesn't have element blocker to block ads (which can't be blocked by qutebrowser's blocked-host list) and playing video on qutebrowser makes my cpu go crazy, especially on youtube. I did use mpv to watch video on qutebrowser but it's still not the best solution
do you mean mpv with youtube-dl? does mpv stream without youtube-dl?
@@thededman5054 yes. I used mpv with youtube-dl
Hey but not seeing the url is dangerous. Just a thought.. albeit i like your philosophy.
@Agnish Roy Have you ever heard of Phishing?
A phishing website (sometimes called a "spoofed" site) tries to steal your account password or other confidential information by tricking you into believing you're on a legitimate website. You could even land on a phishing site by mistyping a URL (web address).
;h - hover over link first to see the url
lots of attacks happens because people are not aware of the URL they are on. I also use a lot of browsing tricks based on URLs. It makes my life so easy.
That's why I keep my status bar on. That shows the url.
@Agnish Roy I'd not trust myself to enter secure urls 24/7
still waiting for a review of links2 and abaco beowsers
I remember there was a video on this distro that was supposed to be good for educational purposes. Like for children to use. Does anyone else remember that? I can't remember the name and can't find it when searching for it.
Was it endless os
Fedora has a spin/flavor dedicated for kids: spins.fedoraproject.org/pl/soas/
Sugar on a Stick is a Fedora-based operating system featuring the award-winning Sugar Learning Platform and designed to fit on an ordinary USB thumbdrive ("stick").
Sugar sets aside the traditional “office-desktop” metaphor, presenting a child-friendly graphical environment. Sugar automatically saves your progress to a "Journal" on your stick, so teachers and parents can easily pull up "all collaborative web browsing sessions done in the past week" or "papers written with Daniel and Sarah in the last 24 hours" with a simple query rather than memorizing complex file/folder structures. Applications in Sugar are known as Activities, some of which are described below.
It is now deployable for the cost of a stick rather than a laptop; students can take their Sugar on a Stick thumbdrive to any machine - at school, at home, at a library or community center - and boot their customized computing environment without touching the host machine’s hard disk or existing system at all.
Qt, Open Source and Corona.I haven't heard anything lately about whether Qt is still wanting have a pay plan and if KDE will still have access to still use it. Would this affect Qutebrowser
I hope you do a video on vimb sometime as well.
The url bar on chrome is absolutely horrible with all the crap it has on it that you wish you could customize but it won't let you. Reminds me of how everywhere you went online you were bugged to install some kind of toolbar, and it was all crapware. But, the thing is all you have to do is press f11 and all that junk is gone. So plz can someone explain to me besides the bloated addressbar what is the advantage of Qutebrowser over chrome? The Vimium extension can get you all those shortcuts, so what's the advantage?
@DT Why don't you make a video on the Surfingkeys extension for Firefox and Chrome? It's a very good vim keys extension. Could be interesting for people interested in vim and using keyboard but who can't or don't want to switch browsers entirely.
I agree. Combined with some theme that makes top toolbars zero pixels high the minimalism of the default window should be taken care of, too.
Is there an option to open some kind of html inspector in qutebrowser?
:inspector
Dmitriy Krasota type “wi”
True minimalism is elinks
14:44 Sign of a true vi user: "pretty easy, something I'll work on... maybe over a weekend" to avoid using browser with a real GUI to handle 5 bookmarks.
Can you make it so that no Ads show up? If so I'm sold (not done with video)
Still using it in 2022?
I might just have to give this browser a try, looks nice.
Hey DT, genuine question
I heard you saying you didn't wanted tabs and bars appearing on your browser, why not pressing 'F11'?
I have brave and I like a lot its blocking capabilities, I basically can't browse without it anymore, so when you talked about not seeing bars and tabs, I remembered F11, tested it and noted that i doesn't show the tabs and bars when it goes fullscreen.
I use a extension called 'vimium' which adds dozens of vin-like new functionalities to the browser, can't browse without it either.
Great video
Imagine having one or multiple smoller browser windows, so much wasted space.
@@sohn7767 I only use one, and since I have full hd, it doesn't waste so much. But maybe for someone who opens a lot of windows instead of tabs it might really waste a lot of space.
Sennin Scorpion yeah screen size probably matters a lot. I don’t mind it on my dual screen desktop, but despise the bar on my 16:9 FHD 14” screen
this is amazing, I was instantlly converted. 5 minutes later hopes got shutters since there desn't seem to be a way to install browser extensions. I need my password manager extension. Is any one aware of a workaround for add ons with qute browser?
@@DavidPfeifferGoogle thanks I had no idea that was possible, I'll check it out!
Have you ever checked out space-vim? It's kinda like what doom-emacs is to emacs but to vim.
LinTux Es imagine being a weeb smh
Vivaldi has everything you need.
I'm not going to use a proprietary web browser when there are so many good FOSS options.
@@DistroTube Well, actually, Vivaldi became open source, but due to this browser is based in Blink, I can discar it due to the preference of many developers to optimize their websites to the Chromium-like browsers.
It's neither "free software" nor "open source" as those terms are defined by the FSF and OSI. Vivaldi has a EULA that goes against everything that those terms stand for: vivaldi.com/privacy/vivaldi-end-user-license-agreement/
In particular, read section 7 of the EULA:
7. Without limiting the foregoing, you are neither allowed to (a) adapt, alter, translate, embed into any other product or otherwise create derivative works of, or otherwise modify the Software ; (b) separate the component programs of the Software for use on different computers; (c) reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or otherwise attempt to derive the source code for the Software, except as permitted by applicable law; or (d) remove, alter or obscure any proprietary notices on the Software or the applicable documentation therein.
That's proprietary garbage 101 right there!
@@DistroTube I will always use FOSS when it meets my needs. Even when this is not the case, I will look seriously at a FOSS alternative. Unfortunately, in browsers, no alternative is good enough. So, I have been using Vivaldi as an alternative to Firefox for quite some time.
only thing stopping me from using qutebrowser is how to install an adblocker and if i can style websites like stylus
There's an adblocker for qutebrowser called jblock, and you can style websites through userscripts.
@@fortnitejimmy-ih3dn doesnt explain how to do so :/
@@nivaddoniv8363 For jblock it explains how to install and use it under the 'qutebrowser' heading on the gitlab page.
As for the userscript styling, there are styles you can download on userstyles.org that work with qutebrowser. Hit 'download as userscript', just place the resulting file in ~/.local/share/qutebrowser/greasemonkey
You can just edit these userscripts to whatever colors and sites you want.
@@fortnitejimmy-ih3dn thank you :)
distrotube is my dad
How do you open a empty new tab?
I don't know about an "empty" tab but gC will open a new tab with the page you were already on, or :open -t will open a new tab with your default page (duckduckgo unless you change it).
@@DistroTube Thank you. I also, just found . Now, I'm trying to get gD to Detach a tab. It doesn't do anything. If I go into the settings, copy the Bindings.Default textbox, paste it into a text editor, do a search for gD, it's not there. Only , for download.
There seems to be compatibility issues on some sites also. :
Finally gave up fighting with qutebrowser, for a few days now, and purged it.
Issue (1) - gives v1.1.1 - gives v1.7 - gives 1.11 - but there aren't any instructions on installing it. You can run it, but it's in what they call a virtual environment.
Issue (2) RUclips videos don't play, Twitch simply locks and there's other sites, which have issues.
Issue (3) De-attaching a tab, with any of the tab- commands, don't really de-attach the tab. All it does is re-open the url in a new window. This is fine 90 some percent of the time. But, this causes you to lose your place on the page you were viewing.
Issue (4) Talking to the developer, he pretty much told me ... Sucks to be you and I could care less.
I am being salty on ad blocking in qutebrowser
Then don't use it, simple
:set tabs.position left
:set tabs.width 10%
Thank me later.
you're configuring it wrong you should be using config.py it's far superior
Can't remember where I fund this usefull binding - at least for me. (It open youtube video in mpv pressing C+S+y)
Put next to the end of ~/.config/qutebrowser/config.py
# Open youtube and supported by youtube-dl in mpv by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Y
config.bind('', 'hint links spawn --detach mpv --hwdec=vdpau --force-window yes {hint-url}')
Note: and your favorite theme draculatheme.com/qutebrowser
He laughed at the word "pp" haha. A pewds subscriber?
Does it have Ad-blocker like Brave Browser?
Yes, but only list based adblocking, so won't work for youtube ads by default. You can use gitlab.com/jgkamat/jblock to block youtube ads.
@@harjuu551 Oh, I see...
“All you need to do is pee-pee”
tbh, from Web Developer perspective -> Firefox is a garbage (imo). Doesn't support many new features like f.e custom scroll bar, blurred background. They keep saying that chromium "monopol" slow down development but they are not support new features, the slow down.