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+# A Taste of QuteBrowser
+
+I finally sat down and started fully using [Qutebrowser](https://www.qutebrowser.org/) and to be honest, it's great. 
+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. 
+However there are two things which came be a pleasant surprise about the browser:
+
+1. No ricing past basic setup involved for comfortable use
+2. There were way more /comfy/ reasons to like this over other browsers
+
+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_.
+Say what you want about syncing across devices and """_the cloud_""" but its pretty comfy since everything is setup essentially where-ever you go.
+In other words Chrome and the like get the good ole' stamp of _werks for me_.
+
+![](../media/img/werks.png)
+
+## Out of the box experience
+
+Personally the only thing I did was change the default starting page for new windows and new tabs.
+Which of course is my own personal /comfy/ [start-page](https://gitlab.com/AlejandroS/start-page-tab).
+After that, there was basically no more setup since most/all of the keybindings are sensible enough to warrant not changing them, _imo_.
+The only functionality I couldn't figure out at first was escaping out of drop-down menus and/or text-boxes.
+I did however come up with this:
+
+```
+"e":"fake-key <escape>"
+```
+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`. 
+If you have to save over an old config file just use `config-write-py --force`.
+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.
+
+Mouse control is just like any other browser I've ever used so there's that too.
+Text boxes are usually auto-detected by the browser so that you are put into `insert mode` just like in vim. 
+
+Some nice things that I use constantly are the commands below, which don't require command mode:
+* yy - copies page url to clipboard
+* wp - opens new window with clipboard contents as url-argument
+* r - sick refresh
+* D - deletes tab
+
+## Main Gripes
+
+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.
+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.
+> 'J' move right and 'K' move right along the tab list
+
+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.
+
+```
+---------
+first
+---------
+second
+---------
+third
+---------
+```
+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.
+
+> ***Adveritements Everywhere***
+
+The built-in adblocker is just a host list which means it won't exactly do ~~much~~ anything on most websites.
+Plugin support is coming soon but for now adblocking is basically non-existant if you browser _any_ modern websites.
+Hopefully we get a proper ad-blocker in the future that can keep things a bit cleaner like _Adblocker+_ or better yet _Ublock Origin_.
+
+## Bindings and Defualts mostly
+
+There are plenty of binds but if you just read the docs then you should be fine. 
+
+[Link to official binding cheat sheet](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/master/doc/media/img/cheatsheet-big.png)
+
+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.
+
+## Is it worth it tho?
+
+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.
+If you don't like using keyboard shortcuts, and prefer to use the mouse however, stick to using what you are most comfortable with.
+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 :^).