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qutebrowser — A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on PyQt5. More information: <https://qutebrowser.org/doc/q

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Problem

How to use the qutebrowser command: A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on PyQt5. More information: <https://qutebrowser.org/doc/qutebrowser.1.html>.

Solution

qutebrowser — A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on PyQt5. More information: <https://qutebrowser.org/doc/qutebrowser.1.html>.

Open qutebrowser with a specified storage directory:

qutebrowser --basedir {{path/to/directory}}

Open a qutebrowser instance with temporary settings:

qutebrowser --set {{content.geolocation}} {{true|false}}

Restore a named session of a qutebrowser instance:

qutebrowser --restore {{session_name}}

Launch qutebrowser, opening all URLs using the specified method:

qutebrowser --target {{auto|tab|tab-bg|tab-silent|tab-bg-silent|window|private-window}}

Open qutebrowser with a temporary base directory and print logs to stdout as JSON:

qutebrowser --temp-basedir --json-logging

Code Snippets

Open qutebrowser with a specified storage directory

qutebrowser --basedir {{path/to/directory}}

Open a qutebrowser instance with temporary settings

qutebrowser --set {{content.geolocation}} {{true|false}}

Restore a named session of a qutebrowser instance

qutebrowser --restore {{session_name}}

Launch qutebrowser, opening all URLs using the specified method

qutebrowser --target {{auto|tab|tab-bg|tab-silent|tab-bg-silent|window|private-window}}

Open qutebrowser with a temporary base directory and print logs to `stdout` as JSON

qutebrowser --temp-basedir --json-logging

Context

tldr-pages: common/qutebrowser

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