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# A Taste of QuteBrowser
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I finally sat down and started fully using [Qutebrowser](https://www.qutebrowser.org/) and to be honest, it's great.
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I had tried using it before but I never bothered to learn how to to use it nor did I try to rice it to be liking.
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However there are two things which came be a pleasant surprise about the browser:
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1. No ricing past basic setup involved for comfortable use
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2. There were way more /comfy/ reasons to like this over other browsers
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I'm was Chromium user for a while since the adblocking and extension support was ultra convinient for me to take advantage of, and it let's me sync things together across devices, _somthing about being a good goy here_.
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Say what you want about syncing across devices and """_the cloud_""" but its pretty comfy since everything is setup essentially where-ever you go.
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In other words Chrome and the like get the good ole' stamp of _werks for me_.
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## Out of the box experience
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Personally the only thing I did was change the default starting page for new windows and new tabs.
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Which of course is my own personal /comfy/ [start-page](https://gitlab.com/AlejandroS/start-page-tab).
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After that, there was basically no more setup since most/all of the keybindings are sensible enough to warrant not changing them, _imo_.
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The only functionality I couldn't figure out at first was escaping out of drop-down menus and/or text-boxes.
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I did however come up with this:
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"e":"fake-key <escape>"
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```
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Just enter the command `:set` to get to your config page, make the changes you want, like adding the above in your aliases section, then run the command `config-write-py`.
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If you have to save over an old config file just use `config-write-py --force`.
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However, even without this the browser is still massively usable and convenient, it's just that you're able to rice the _fug_ out of this but I personally didn't that route.
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Mouse control is just like any other browser I've ever used so there's that too.
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Text boxes are usually auto-detected by the browser so that you are put into `insert mode` just like in vim.
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Some nice things that I use constantly are the commands below, which don't require command mode:
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* yy - copies page url to clipboard
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* wp - opens new window with clipboard contents as url-argument
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* r - sick refresh
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* D - deletes tab
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## Main Gripes
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Keep in mind that all of these complaints, _except the last one_ can be mitigated by changing a setting once in your config and forgetting about it forever.
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Also if you use qutebrowser on multiple machines consider copying that config file over to usb and using that to set yourself up wherever you are.
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> 'J' move right and 'K' move right along the tab list
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If you look at it as a horizontal list then yes it doesn't make sense. Instead think of the tabs as vertically aligned and the rest should follow suit.
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```
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Rebinding or just getting used to it are the "_fixes_" for this since it is such a minor coplaint about the out-of-the-box experience.
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> ***Adveritements Everywhere***
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The built-in adblocker is just a host list which means it won't exactly do ~~much~~ anything on most websites.
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Plugin support is coming soon but for now adblocking is basically non-existant if you browser _any_ modern websites.
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Hopefully we get a proper ad-blocker in the future that can keep things a bit cleaner like _Adblocker+_ or better yet _Ublock Origin_.
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## Bindings and Defualts mostly
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There are plenty of binds but if you just read the docs then you should be fine.
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[Link to official binding cheat sheet](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/master/doc/img/cheatsheet-big.png)
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Just like any program with tons of keyboard shortcuts, it's better to learn whatever you need and progressively learn more commands as you need them.
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## Is it worth it tho?
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Ya. It's a good browser, it's solid and besides a few minor hiccups it's very close to BTFO every other browser out there.
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If you don't like using keyboard shortcuts, and prefer to use the mouse however, stick to using what you are most comfortable with.
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In general if you are comfortable with shortcuts and want to support a free privacy-respecting(_as far as I know_) browser; also you can rice it :^).
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