qutebrowser
qutebrowser is a web browser with vim-style key bindings based off the QtWebKit (or the QtWebEngine in its latest release). It is lightweight using a minimal GUI and is inspired by software such as Vimperator and dwb. It uses DuckDuckGo as the default search engine.
qutebrowser was developed by Florian Bruhin, for which he received a CH Open Source award in 2016.
Installation
USE flags
USE flags for www-client/qutebrowser Keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on Python and Qt
adblock
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Enable Brave's ABP-style adblocker library for improved adblocking |
pdf
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Add general support for PDF (Portable Document Format), this replaces the pdflib and cpdflib flags |
qt6
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Use Qt6 that provides a newer Chromium version |
test
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Enable dependencies and/or preparations necessary to run tests (usually controlled by FEATURES=test but can be toggled independently) |
widevine
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Unsupported closed-source DRM capability (required by Netflix VOD) |
Turn off the bindist flag to enable support for proprietary codecs on WebEngine.
Emerge
root #emerge --ask www-client/qutebrowserTroubleshooting
Proprietary Codecs
To get proprietary codecs to work, turn off USE=-bindist for dev-qt/qtwebengine in /etc/portage/package.use - see Handbook.
Once the use flag is properly set in the file, re-emerge qtwebengine. Remember to use the --oneshot parameter so as to not add the dependency to the world file:
root #emerge --ask --oneshot dev-qt/qtwebengineroot #emerge --ask www-client/qutebrowserVideo or sound not working well
root #emerge --ask --verbose media-libs/gst-plugins-{base,good,bad,ugly,libav}No sound with Pipewire
To hear sound when Pipewire is used, turn on pipewire-alsa for media-video/pipewire in /etc/portage/package.use.
media-video/pipewire pipewire-alsa
After the USE flag is set properly, re-emerge Pipewire:
root #emerge --ask media-video/pipewire