qutebrowser v0.2.0

Added

• Session support
  • new command :session-load to load a session.
  • new command :session-save to save a session.
  • new command :session-delete to delete a session.
  • new setting general -> save-session to always save the session on quit.
  • new setting general -> session-default-name to configure the session name to use if none is given.
  • new argument -r/--restore to specify a session to load.
  • new argument -R/--override-restore to not load a session even if one was saved.
• New commands to manage downloads:
  • :download to download a URL or the current page.
  • :download-cancel to cancel a download.
  • :download-delete to delete a download from disk.
  • :download-open to open a finished download.
  • :download-remove to remove a download from the list. :download-remove --all or the new 'cd' keybinding can be used to clear all finished downloads.
• History completion
  • New option completion -> timestamp-format to set the format used to display the history timestamps.
  • New option completion -> web-history-max-items to configure how many history items to show in the completion.
  • The option completion -> history-length for the command history got renamed to cmd-history-max-items.
• Better save logic for the config/state:
  • Only save files if modified (e.g. don't overwrite the config if it was edited outside of qutebrowser and nothing was changed in qutebrowser).
  • Save things (cookies, config, quickmarks, ...) periodically all 15 seconds (time can be changed with the general -> auto-save-interval option).
• Opera-like mouse rocker gestures
  • New option input -> rocker-gestures. When turned on, the history can be navigated back/forward by holding a mouse button and pressing the other one.
• New -f option for :reload to reload and bypass the cache.
• Pass more information (QUTE_MODE, QUTE_SELECTED_TEXT, QUTE_SELECTED_HTML, QUTE_USER_AGENT, QUTE_HTML, QUTE_TEXT) to userscripts.
• New --userscript option to :spawn (which deprecates :run-userscript).
• Ability to toggle a value to :set by appending a ! to the value.
• New options to hide the tab-/statusbar:
  • tabs -> hide-always for the tabbar
  • ui -> hide-statusbar for the statusbar
• New options to configure how the tab/window titles should look:
  • tabs -> title-format for the tabbar
  • ui -> window-title-format for the window title
• HTML5 Geolocation/Notification support:
  • New option content -> geolocation to permanently turn the geolocation off.
  • New option content -> notifications to permanently turn notifications off.
• New options to disable javascript prompts/alerts:
  • content -> ignore-javascript-prompt to turn off prompts.
  • content -> ignore-javascript-alerts to turn off alerts.
• Two new options to customize the behavior of hints:
  • hints -> min-chars to set minimum number of chars in hints.
  • hints -> scatter which when turned off distributes the hints sequentially (like dwb) instead of scattering their positions (like Vimium).
• Make it possible to use :open -[twb] without url.
  • New option general -> default-page to set the page to be opened when doing that.
• New input -> partial-timeout option to clear partial keystrings.
• New option completion -> download-path-suggestion to configure what to show in the completion for downloads.
• Queue messages shown in unfocused windows and show them when the window is focused.
  • New option ui -> message-unfocused to disable this behavior.
• New --relaxed-config argument which ignores unknown options.
• New :tab-detach command to open the current tab in a new window.
• Zooming via Ctrl-Mousewheel.
  • New option input -> mouse-zoom-divider to control how much the page is zoomed when rotating the wheel.
• New option (content -> host-blocking-enabled) to enable/disable host blocking.
• New values tab-bg/tab-bg-silent for new-instance-open-target to open a background tab.
• New ui -> downloads-position setting to move the downloads to the bottom.
• New ui -> hide-mouse-cursor option to hide the mouse cursor inside qutebrowser.
• New argument -s for qutebrowser to set a temporary config option.
• New argument -p for the :set command to print the new value.
• New --rapid option to :hint. The rapid/rapid-win targets are now deprecated, and --rapid can be used as well with the targets run/hover/userscript/spawn as well.
• New -f argument to :bind to overwrite the old binding.
• New --qt-name argument to qutebrowser which is passed to Qt to set WM_CLASS.
• Alternating row colors in completion. This adds a new colors -> completion.alternate-bg option.

Changed

• Ignore quotes with maxsplit-commands (:open, :quickmark-load, etc.) and don't quote arguments for those commands in the completions. This also means some commands needed adjustments:
  • Clear search when :search without arguments is given. (:search "" will now search for the literal text "")
  • Add -s/--space argument to :set-cmd-text (as :set-cmd-text "foo " will now set the literal text "foo ")
• Ignore ;; for splitting with some commands like :bind.
• Add unbound (new) default keybindings to config. This also adds a new <unbound> special command.
  • To unbind a command keybinding without binding it to a new key, you now have to bind it to <unbound> or it'll be readded automatically.
• If an SSL error is raised multiple times with the same error/certificate/host/scheme/port, the user is only asked once.
• Jump to last instead of first item when pressing Shift-Tab the first time in the completion.
• Add a fullscreen keybinding.
• Add a :search command in addition to /foo so it's more visible and can be used from scripts.
• Various improvements to documentation, logging, and the crash reporter.
• Expand ~ to the users home directory with :run-userscript.
• Improve the userscript runner on Linux/OS X by using QSocketNotifier.
• Add luakit-like gt/gT keybindings to cycle through tabs.
• Show default value for config values in the completion.
• Clone tab icon, tab text and zoom level when cloning tabs.
• Don't open relative file paths with :open, only with commandline arguments.
• Expand environment variables in config settings which take a file path.
• Add a list of common user agents to the user agent setting completion.
• Move cursor to end of textboxes when hinting.
• Don't start searches on invalid URLs for quickmarks/startpage.
• Various performance improvements for the completion.
• Always open URLs given as argument in the foreground.
• Improve various error messages.
• Add startpage/default-page values to tabs -> last-close.
• Various improvements to :restart - it should be more robust now and uses sessions so all state (focused tab, scroll position, etc.) gets remembered.
• Add tab index display to the statusbar.
• Keep progress bar height fixed when the statusbar is multiline.
• Many improvements to tests and related infrastructure:
  • init_venv.py and run_checks.py have been replaced by tox. Install tox and run tox -e mkvenv instead.
  • The tests now use pytest
  • Many new tests added
  • Mac Mini buildbot to run the tests on OS X.
  • Coverage recording via coveage.py.
  • New --pdb-postmortem argument to drop into the pdb debugger on exceptions.
  • Use hunter for line tracing instead of a selfmade solution.

Deprecated

• The :run-userscript command - use :spawn --userscript instead.
• The rapid and rapid-win targets for :hint - use the --rapid argument to :hint instead.
• The :cancel-download command - use :download-cancel instead.
• The :download-page command - use :download instead.

Removed

• init_venv.py and run_checks.py have been replaced by tox. Install tox and run tox -e mkvenv instead..

Fixed

• Fix for cache never being used.
• Fixed handling of key release events (e.g. for javascript) when holding a key and pressing a second one.
• Fix handling of commands using ;; at various places (key config, command parser, :bind)
• Fix splitting of flags with arguments (:bind -m/--mode).
• Fix bindings of special keys with lower-case modifiers (e.g. <ctrl-x>)
• Fix for weird search highlights when changing tabs while search is active.
• Fix starting with -c "".
• Fix removing of partial downloads when a download is cancelled via context menu.
• Fix retrying of downloads which were started in a now closed tab.
• Highlight text case-insensitively in completion.
• Scroll completion to top when showing it.
• Handle unencodable file paths in config types correctly.
• Fix for crash when executing a delayed command (because of a shadowed keybinding) and then unfocusing the window.
• Fix for crash when hinting on a page which doesn't have an URL yet.
• Fix exception when using :set-cmd-text with an empty argument.
• Add a timeout to pastebin HTTP replies.
• Various other fixes for small/rare bugs.