{"slug": "qutebrowser", "name": "qutebrowser", "category": "browsers", "category_name": "Browsers and extensions", "description": "", "recommenders": 5, "commenters": 10, "warners": 0, "score": 5.96, "rising": 2.35, "first": "2026-03-04", "latest": "2026-10-26", "why": "My favorite example of keyboard power is qutebrowser", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 5, "neutral": 4, "compare": 1, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "My favorite example of keyboard power is qutebrowser", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": "qutebrowser.org", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://qutebrowser.org", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["qutebrowser", "Qutebrowser"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 803820352, "item_id": 50238772, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50238772", "by": "opan", "date": "2026-10-26", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "on FF mobile I do often miss qutebrowser's quickmarks", "excerpt": "Been years since I used tags in bookmarks, but on FF mobile I do often miss qutebrowser's quickmarks. I have a lot of stuff like \"malw\" to get to my MAL Watching list on my PC. My compromise on mobile is to use the bookmark titles kinda like a search or a description with keyboard stuffing, so maybe the default name of the bookmark is something generic like \"MyAnimeList.net\", I'll put \"malw - \" at the start of it, th", "context": "", "use_case": "quickmarks for bookmarks", "switched_from": "", "story": "Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs"}, {"id": 796033552, "item_id": 49752097, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49752097", "by": "negura", "date": "2026-09-18", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "In qutebrowser I use them reliably all the time.", "excerpt": "Maybe stop using the mickey mouse browsers? I mean Firefox is pretty much a lost cause.. unless you start using extensions. I agree those are basic features that should be built-in. In qutebrowser I use them reliably all the time. E.g press T (keybinding for :tab-focus command) - type keyword (matches against tab ID, page title, page URL & the tab's process ID) - press Tab - menu is populated with results - cycle thr", "context": "", "use_case": "searching tabs, history, bookmarks", "switched_from": "", "story": "Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep"}, {"id": 791859440, "item_id": 49491215, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49491215", "by": "wraptile", "date": "2026-08-29", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "My favorite example of keyboard power is qutebrowser", "excerpt": "My favorite example of keyboard power is qutebrowser\u00b9 which turns any website keyboard navigable as well as all browser functionality too. It's a really fast and comfortable work flow. https://qutebrowser.org/", "context": "", "use_case": "Keyboard-driven web browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven"}, {"id": 769089104, "item_id": 48068069, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48068069", "by": "hansvm", "date": "2026-05-08", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Qutebrowser is my favorite daily driver", "excerpt": "Qutebrowser is my favorite daily driver, save for a few sites I can't boycott and which need Firefox or something.", "context": "", "use_case": "Daily-driver web browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged"}, {"id": 756048305, "item_id": 47253019, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47253019", "by": "bayesianbot", "date": "2026-03-04", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I've used qutebrowser for years as I feel the keyboard controlled web is much more convenient", "excerpt": "Just as FYI, for people currently using firefox or want to use firefox but found its keyboard control (or plugins like Vimperator) lacking, I really recommend glide[0] highly. I've used qutebrowser for years as I feel the keyboard controlled web is much more convenient, and there hasn't been any reasonable competition to qutebrowser. The vim keyboard control plugins for chrome or firefox don't fit the bill for me, th", "context": "", "use_case": "Keyboard-driven browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Making Firefox's right-click not suck with about:config"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["quickmarks for bookmarks", "searching tabs, history, bookmarks", "keyboard-driven web browsing", "ad blocking support", "daily-driver web browser", "web browsing"], "compared": [{"slug": "firefox", "name": "Firefox", "co": 5, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50197108", "title": "Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50070302", "title": "Firefox Enterprise", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49743097", "title": "Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49479837", "title": "GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49303202", "title": "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48191192", "title": "Bournegol???", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {"recommend": 1, "neutral": 2}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {"recommend": 1, "neutral": 1}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {"neutral": 1, "recommend": 1}, "2026-09": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-10": {"compare": 1, "recommend": 1}}, "versions": [], "version_unnamed": 0, "family_ref": null, "runs_on": null, "lines": [], "quotes": [{"id": 803820352, "item_id": 50238772, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50238772", "by": "opan", "date": "2026-10-26", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "on FF mobile I do often miss qutebrowser's quickmarks", "excerpt": "Been years since I used tags in bookmarks, but on FF mobile I do often miss qutebrowser's quickmarks. I have a lot of stuff like \"malw\" to get to my MAL Watching list on my PC. My compromise on mobile is to use the bookmark titles kinda like a search or a description with keyboard stuffing, so maybe the default name of the bookmark is something generic like \"MyAnimeList.net\", I'll put \"malw - \" at the start of it, th", "context": "", "use_case": "quickmarks for bookmarks", "switched_from": "", "story": "Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs"}, {"id": 801367489, "item_id": 50085468, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50085468", "by": "OroPla", "date": "2026-10-14", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "I'd really like to move to qutebrowser, but it doesn't have good enough adblocking.", "excerpt": "It's because since FF3.5 they only made the browsing experience worse. To the point I hate updating Firefox, because it there's a chance it will do something silly I'll have to fix. But all the other browsers are even worse. I'd really like to move to qutebrowser, but it doesn't have good enough adblocking. I'd give Zen a try, too, but it's not in the repositories of my Linux machine and I'm never installing a browse", "context": "Linux user", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Firefox Enterprise"}, {"id": 796033552, "item_id": 49752097, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49752097", "by": "negura", "date": "2026-09-18", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "In qutebrowser I use them reliably all the time.", "excerpt": "Maybe stop using the mickey mouse browsers? I mean Firefox is pretty much a lost cause.. unless you start using extensions. I agree those are basic features that should be built-in. In qutebrowser I use them reliably all the time. E.g press T (keybinding for :tab-focus command) - type keyword (matches against tab ID, page title, page URL & the tab's process ID) - press Tab - menu is populated with results - cycle thr", "context": "", "use_case": "searching tabs, history, bookmarks", "switched_from": "", "story": "Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep"}, {"id": 791859440, "item_id": 49491215, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49491215", "by": "wraptile", "date": "2026-08-29", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "My favorite example of keyboard power is qutebrowser", "excerpt": "My favorite example of keyboard power is qutebrowser\u00b9 which turns any website keyboard navigable as well as all browser functionality too. It's a really fast and comfortable work flow. https://qutebrowser.org/", "context": "", "use_case": "Keyboard-driven web browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven"}, {"id": 788937344, "item_id": 49308584, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49308584", "by": "WhyNotHugo", "date": "2026-08-15", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Qutebrowser seems to _want_ uBlock Origin-style filtering, but development on the feature has been ongoing for a long time and seems to have somewhat stalled", "excerpt": "Qutebrowser seems to _want_ uBlock Origin-style filtering, but development on the feature has been ongoing for a long time and seems to have somewhat stalled: https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/pull/7629", "context": "", "use_case": "ad blocking support", "switched_from": "", "story": "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"}, {"id": 771668112, "item_id": 48229257, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48229257", "by": "59nadir", "date": "2026-05-21", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "When I try to open this URL in qutebrowser I get redirected to a random anthropic.com URL", "excerpt": "When I try to open this URL in qutebrowser I get redirected to a random anthropic.com URL, for example: https://www.anthropic.com//0.76447840537627 Setting my User-Agent to match my Firefox instance fixes it.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Bournegol???"}, {"id": 769089104, "item_id": 48068069, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48068069", "by": "hansvm", "date": "2026-05-08", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Qutebrowser is my favorite daily driver", "excerpt": "Qutebrowser is my favorite daily driver, save for a few sites I can't boycott and which need Firefox or something.", "context": "", "use_case": "Daily-driver web browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged"}, {"id": 760855952, "item_id": 47553497, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47553497", "by": "imiric", "date": "2026-03-28", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "it doesn't work for me in qutebrowser because it depends on profile data", "excerpt": "To be fair, the .xpi is just a .zip file, and the JS isn't minimized. I vibe-converted it to a userscript[1], but it doesn't work for me in qutebrowser because it depends on profile data fetched from `https://hn-trustspark.com/alltrust.json`, which seems to be periodically updated by the author, and qutebrowser has limited userscript support. :( It could probably be worked around by fetching the data externally, but ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Trust Signals as Sparklines for Hacker News"}, {"id": 758852032, "item_id": 47428252, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47428252", "by": "Babkock", "date": "2026-03-18", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I can't read your blog because I use Qutebrowser?", "excerpt": "| Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information). Wtf? I can't read your blog because I use Qutebrowser?", "context": "", "use_case": "web browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "JPEG Compression"}, {"id": 756048305, "item_id": 47253019, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47253019", "by": "bayesianbot", "date": "2026-03-04", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I've used qutebrowser for years as I feel the keyboard controlled web is much more convenient", "excerpt": "Just as FYI, for people currently using firefox or want to use firefox but found its keyboard control (or plugins like Vimperator) lacking, I really recommend glide[0] highly. I've used qutebrowser for years as I feel the keyboard controlled web is much more convenient, and there hasn't been any reasonable competition to qutebrowser. The vim keyboard control plugins for chrome or firefox don't fit the bill for me, th", "context": "", "use_case": "Keyboard-driven browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Making Firefox's right-click not suck with about:config"}]}