I'm happy to announce that I just released qutebrowser v1.2.0!

qutebrowser is a keyboard driven browser with a vim-like, minimalistic interface. It's written using PyQt and cross-platform.

This release comes with a long changelog, but the most interesting changes are probably initial support for per-domain settings (I've had JavaScript disabled globally for a while myself now) and a big refactoring of how keybindings are handled (allowing for emacs-like key chains with modifiers).

Here's the complete changelog:

Added Initial implementation of per-domain settings: :set and :config-cycle now have a -u / --pattern argument taking a URL match pattern for supported settings. config.set in config.py now takes a third argument which is the pattern. New with config.pattern('...') as p: context manager for config.py to use the shorthand syntax with a pattern. New tsh keybinding to toggle scripts for the current host. With a capital S , the toggle is saved. With a capital H , subdomains are included. With u instead of h , the exact current URL is used. New tph keybinding to toggle plugins, with the same additional binding described above.

New QtWebEngine features: Caret/visual mode Authentication via ~/.netrc Retrying downloads with Qt 5.10 or newer Hinting and other features inside same-origin frames

New flags for existing commands: :session-load has a new --delete flag which deletes the session after loading it. New --no-last flag for :tab-focus to not focus the last tab when focusing the currently focused one. New --edit flag for :view-source to open the source in an external editor. New --select flag for :follow-hint which acts like the given string was entered but doesn't necessary follow the hint.

New special pages: qute://bindings (opened via :bind ) which shows all keybindings. qute://tabs (opened via :buffer ) which lists all tabs.

New settings: statusbar.widgets to configure which widgets should be shown in which order in the statusbar. tabs.mode_on_change which replaces tabs.persist_mode_on_change . It can now be set to restore which remembers input modes (input/passthrough) per tab. input.insert_mode.auto_enter which makes it possible to disable entering insert mode automatically when an editable element was clicked. Together with input.forward_unbound_keys , this should allow for emacs-like "modeless" keybindings.

New :prompt-yank command (bound to Alt-y by default) to yank URLs referenced in prompts.

command (bound to by default) to yank URLs referenced in prompts. The hostblock_blame script which was removed in v1.0 was updated for the new config and re-added.

script which was removed in v1.0 was updated for the new config and re-added. New cycle-inputs.js script in scripts/ which can be used with :jseval -f to cycle through inputs.

Changed Complete refactoring of key input handling, with various effects: emacs-like keychains such as <Ctrl-X><Ctrl-C> can now be bound. Key chains can now be bound in any mode (this allows binding unused keys in hint mode). Yes/no prompts don't use keybindings from the prompt section anymore, they have their own yesno section instead. Trying to bind invalid keys now shows an error. The bindings.default setting can now only be set in a config.py , and existing values in autoconfig.yml are ignored.

Improvements for GreaseMonkey support: @include and @exclude now support regex matches. With QtWebEngine and Qt 5.8 and newer, Qt handles the matching, but similar functionality will be added in Qt 5.11. Support for @requires Support for the GreaseMonkey 4.0 API

The sqlite history now uses write-ahead logging which should be a performance and stability improvement.

When an editor is spawned with :open-editor and :config-edit , the changes are now applied as soon as the file is saved in the editor.

and , the changes are now applied as soon as the file is saved in the editor. The hist_importer.py script now only imports URL schemes qutebrowser can handle.

script now only imports URL schemes qutebrowser can handle. Deleting a prefix ( : , / or ? ) via backspace now leaves command mode.

, or ) via backspace now leaves command mode. Angular 1 elements and <summary> / <details> now get hints assigned.

/ now get hints assigned. :tab-only with pinned tabs now still closes unpinned tabs.

with pinned tabs now still closes unpinned tabs. The url.incdec_segments option now also can take port as possible segment.

option now also can take as possible segment. QtWebEngine: :view-source now uses Chromium's view-source: scheme.

now uses Chromium's scheme. Tabs now show their full title as tooltip.

When there are multiple unknown keys in a autoconfig.yml, they now all get reported in one error.

More performance improvements when opening/closing many tabs.

The :version page now has a button to pastebin the information.

page now has a button to pastebin the information. Replacements like {url} can now be escaped as {{url}} .

Fixed QtWebEngine bugfixes: Improved fullscreen handling with Qt 5.10. Hinting and scrolling now works properly on special view-source: pages. Scroll positions are now restored correctly from sessions. :follow-selected should now work in more cases with Qt > 5.10. Incremental search now flickers less and doesn't move to the second result when pressing Enter. Keys like Ctrl-V or Shift-Insert are now correctly handled/filtered with Qt 5.10. Fixed hangs/segfaults on exit with Qt 5.10.1. Fixed favicons sometimes getting cleared with Qt 5.10. Qt download objects are now cleaned up properly when a download is removed. JavaScript messages are now not double-HTML escaped anymore on Qt < 5.11

QtWebKit bugfixes: Fixed GreaseMonkey-related crashes. :view-source now displays a valid URL.

URLs containing ampersands and other special chars are now shown correctly when filtering them in the completion.

:bookmark-add "" foo can now be used to save the current URL with a custom title.

can now be used to save the current URL with a custom title. :spawn -o now waits until the process has finished before trying to show the output. Previously, it incorrectly showed the previous output immediately.

now waits until the process has finished before trying to show the output. Previously, it incorrectly showed the previous output immediately. Suspended pages now should always load the correct page when being un-suspended.

Exception types are now shown properly with :config-source and :config-edit .

and . When using :bookmark-add --toggle , bookmarks are now saved properly.

, bookmarks are now saved properly. Crash when opening an invalid URL from an application on macOS.

Crash with an empty completion.timestamp_format .

. Crash when completion.min_chars is set in some cases.

is set in some cases. HTML/JS resource files are now read into RAM on start to avoid crashes when changing qutebrowser versions while it's open.

Setting bindings.key_mappings to an empty value is now allowed.

to an empty value is now allowed. Bindings to an empty commands are now ignored rather than crashing.