Qutebrowser

Added

- New `:scroll-to-anchor` command to scroll to an anchor in the document.
- New `url.open_base_url` option to open the base URL of a searchengine when no
search term is given.
- New `tabs.min_width` setting to configure the minimal width for tabs.
- New userscripts:
* `getbib` to download bibtex information for DOIs on a page.
* `qute-keepass` to get passwords from KeePassX.

Changed

- QtWebEngine: Support for JavaScript Shared Web Workers have been disabled on
Qt versions older than 5.11 because of security issues in in Chromium.
You can get the same effect in earlier versions via
`:set qt.args ['disable-shared-workers']`. An equivalent workaround is also
contained in Qt 5.9.5 and 5.10.1.
- The file dialog for downloads now has basic tab completion based on the
entered text.
- `:version` now shows OS information for POSIX OS other than Linux/macOS.
- When there's an error inserting the text from an external editor, a backup
file is now saved.
- The `window.hide_wayland_decoration` setting got renamed to
`window.hide_decoration` and now also works outside of wayland.
- The `tabs.favicons.show` setting now can take three values: `'always'` (was
`True`), `'never'` (was `False`) and `'pinned'` (to only show favicons for
pinned tabs).
- Hover tooltips on tabs now always show the webpage's title.
- The default value for `content.host_blocking.lists` was changed to only
include https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts[Steven Black's hosts-list] which
combines various sources.
- Error messages when trying to wrap when `tabs.wrap` is `False` are now logged
to debug instead of messages.

Fixed

- Using hints before a page is fully loaded is now possible again.
- Selecting hints with the number keypad now works again.
- Tab titles for tabs loaded from sessions should now really be correct instead
of showing the URL.
- Loading URLs with customized settings from a session now avoids an additional
reload.
- The window icon and title now get set correctly again.
- The `tabs.switching_delay` setting now has a correct maximum value limit set.
- The `taskadd` script now works properly when there's multi-line output.
- QtWebEngine: Worked around issues with GreaseMonkey/stylesheets not being
loaded correctly in some situations.
- The statusbar now more closely reflects the caret mode state.
- The icon on Windows should now be displayed in a higher resolution.
- The QtWebEngine development tools (inspector) now also work when JavaScript is
disabled globally.
- Building `.exe` files now works when `upx` is installed on the system.
- The keyhint widget now shows the correct text for chained modifiers.
- Loading GreaseMonkey scripts now also works with Jinja2 2.8 (e.g. on Debian
Stable).
- Adding styles with GreaseMonkey on fast sites now works properly.
- Window ID 0 is now excluded properly from `:tab-take` completion.
- A rare crash when cancelling a download has been fixed.
- The Makefile (intended for packagers) now supports `PREFIX` properly.
- The workaround for a black window with Nvidia graphics is now enabled on
non-Linux systems (like FreeBSD) as well.
- Initial support for Qt 5.11.
- Checking for a new version after sending a crash report now works properly
again.
- `match` in Greasemonkey scripts now more closely matches the proper pattern
syntax.
- Searching via `/` or `?` now doesn't handle any characters in a special way.
- Fixed crash when trying to retry some failed downloads on QtWebEngine.
- An invalid spellcheck dictionary filename now doesn't crash anymore.
- When no spellcheck dictionaries are configured, it's now disabled internally.
This works around an issue with entering special characters on Facebook
messenger.
- The macOS release now should work again on macOS 10.11 and newer.

Fixed

- qutebrowser now starts properly when the PyQt5 QOpenGLFunctions package wasn't
found.
- The keybinding cheatsheet on the quickstart page is now loaded from a local
`qute://` URL again.
- With "tox -e mkvenv-pypi", PyQt 5.10.0 is used again instead of Qt 5.10.1,
because of an issue with Qt 5.10.1 which causes qutebrowser to fail to start
("Could not find QtWebEngineProcess").
- Unbinding keys which were bound in older qutebrowser versions now doesn't
crash anymore.
- Fixed a crash when reloading a page which wasn't fully loaded with v1.2.0
- Keys on the numeric keypad now fall back to the same bindings without `Num+`
if no `Num+` binding was found.
- Fixed hinting on some pages with Qt < 5.10.
- Titles are now displayed correctly again for tabs which are cloned or loaded
from sessions.
- Shortcuts now correctly use `Ctrl` instead of `Command` on macOS again.

Added

- Initial implementation of per-domain settings:
* `:set` and `:config-cycle` now have a `-u`/`--pattern` argument taking a
[URL match pattern](https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/match_patterns)
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.
- The `hostblock_blame` 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.
- The `hist_importer.py` script now only imports URL schemes qutebrowser can
handle.
- Deleting a prefix (`:`, `/` or `?`) via backspace now leaves command mode.
- Angular 1 elements and `<summary>`/`<details>` now get hints assigned.
- `:tab-only` with pinned tabs now still closes unpinned tabs.
- The `url.incdec_segments` option now also can take `port` as possible segment.
- QtWebEngine: `:view-source` now uses Chromium's `view-source:` 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.
- 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.
- `:spawn -o` 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`.
- When using `:bookmark-add --toggle`, 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.
- 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.
- Bindings to an empty commands are now ignored rather than crashing.

Removed

- `QUTE_SELECTED_HTML` is now not set for userscripts anymore except when called
via hints.
- The `qutebrowser_viewsource` userscript has been removed as
`:view-source --edit` can now be used.
- The `tabs.persist_mode_on_change` setting has been removed and replaced by
`tabs.mode_on_change`.

Changed

- Windows/macOS releases now bundle Qt 5.10.1 which includes security fixes from
Chromium up to version 64.0.3282.140.

Fixed

- QtWebEngine: Crash with Qt 5.10.1 when using :undo on some tabs.
- Compatibility with Python 3.7

Fixed

- The Makefile now actually works.
- Fixed crashes with Qt 5.10 when closing a tab before it finished loading.

Added

- Initial support for Greasemonkey scripts. There are still some rough edges,
but many scripts should already work.
- There's now a `misc/Makefile` file in releases, which should help
distributions which package qutebrowser, as they can run something like
`make -f misc/Makefile DESTDIR="$pkgdir" install` now.
- New fields for `window.title_format` and `tabs.title.format`:
* `{current_url}`
* `{protocol}`
- New settings:
* `colors.statusbar.passthrough.fg`/`.bg`
* `completion.delay` and `completion.min_chars` to update the completion less
often.
* `completion.use_best_match` to automatically use the best-matching
command in the completion.
* `keyhint.radius` to configure the edge rounding for the key hint widget.
* `qt.highdpi` to turn on Qt's High-DPI scaling.
* `tabs.pinned.shrink` (`true` by default) to make it possible
for pinned tabs and normal tabs to have the same size.
* `content.windowed_fullscreen` to show e.g. a fullscreened video in the
window without fullscreening that window.
* `tabs.persist_mode_on_change` to keep the current mode when
switching tabs.
* `session.lazy_restore` which allows to not load pages immediately
when restoring a session.
- New commands:
* `:tab-give` and `:tab-take`, to give tabs to another window, or take them
from another window.
* `:completion-item-yank` (bound to `<Ctrl-C>`) to yank the current
completion item text.
* `:edit-command` to edit the commandline in an editor.
* `search.incremental` for incremental text search.
- New flags for existing commands:
* `-o` flag for `:spawn` to show stdout/stderr in a new tab.
* `--rapid` flag for `:command-accept` (bound to `Ctrl-Enter` by default),
which allows executing a command in the completion without closing it.
* `--private` and `--related` flags for `:edit-url`, which have the
same effect they have with `:open`.
* `--history` for `:completion-item-focus` which causes it to go
through the command history when no text was entered. The default bindings for
cursor keys in the completion changed to use that, so that they can be used
again to navigate through completion items when a text was entered.
* `--file` for `:debug-pyeval` which makes it take a filename instead of a
line of code.
- New `config.source(...)` method for `config.py` to source another file.
- New `{line}` and `{column}` replacements for `editor.command` to position the
cursor correctly.
- New `qute-pass` userscript as alternative to `password_fill` which allows
selecting accounts via rofi or any other dmenu-compatile application.
- New `hist_importer.py` script to import history from Firefox/Chromium.

Changed

- Some settings got renamed:
* `tabs.width.bar` -> `tabs.width`
* `tabs.width.indicator` -> `tabs.indicator.width`
* `tabs.indicator_padding` -> `tabs.indicator.padding`
* `session_default_name` -> `session.default_name`
* `ignore_case` -> `search.ignore_case`
- Much improved user stylesheet handling for QtWebEngine which reduces
flickering and updates immediately after setting a stylesheet.
- High-DPI favicons are now used when available.
- The `asciidoc2html.py` script now uses Pygments (which is already a dependency
of qutebrowser) instead of `source-highlight` for syntax highlighting.
- The `:buffer` command now doesn't require quoting anymore, similar to `:open`.
- The `importer.py` script was largely rewritten and now also supports importing
from Firefox' `places.sqlite` file and Chrome/Chromium profiles.
- Various internal refactorings to use Python 3.5 and ECMAscript 6 features.
- If the `window.hide_wayland_decoration` setting is False, but
`QT_WAYLAND_DISABLE_WINDOWDECORATION` is set in the environment,
the decorations are still hidden.
- The `install_dict.py` script for QtWebEngine was renamed to `dictcli.py` and
can now also upgrade dictionaries correctly.
- `:undo` now can re-open multiple tabs after `:tab-only` was used.
- `:config-write-py` with a relative path now puts the file into the config
directory.
- The `qute://version` page now also shows the uptime of qutebrowser.
- qutebrowser now prompts to create a non-existing directory when starting a
download.
- `:jseval --file` now searches relative paths in a `js/` subdir in
qutebrowser's data dir, e.g. `~/.local/share/qutebrowser/js`.
- The current/default bindings are now shown in the ``:bind` completion.
- Empty categories are now hidden in the `:open` completion.
- Search terms for URLs and titles can now be mixed when filtering the
completion.
- The default font size for the UI got bumped up from 8pt to 10pt.
- Improved matching in the completion: The words entered are now matched in any
order, and mixed matches on URL/tite are possible.
- The system's default encoding (rather than UTF-8) is now used to decode
subprocess output.
- qutebrowser now ensures it's focused again after an external editor is closed.
- The `colors.completion.fg` setting can now be a list, allowing to specify
different colors for the three completion columns.

Fixed

- More consistent sizing for favicons with vertical tabs.
- Using `:home` on pinned tabs is now prevented.
- Fix crash with unknown file types loaded via `qute://help`.
- Scrolling performance improvements.
- Sites like `qute://help` now redirect to `qute://help/` to make sure links
work properly.
- Fixes for the size calculation of pinned tabs in the tab bar.
- Worked around a crash with PyQt 5.9.1 compiled against Qt < 5.9.1 when using
`:yank` or `qute://` URLs.
- Fixed crash when opening `qute://help/img`.
- Fixed `gU` (`:navigate up`) on `qute://help` and webservers not handling `..`
in a URL.
- Using e.g. `-s backend webkit` to set the backend now works correctly.
- Fixed crash when closing the tab an external editor was opened in.
- When using `:search-next` before a search is finished, no warning about no
results being found is shown anymore.
- Fix `:click-element` with an ID containing non-alphanumeric characters.
- Fix crash when a subprocess outputs data which is not decodable as UTF-8.
- Fix crash when closing a tab immediately after hinting.
- Worked around issues in Qt 5.10 with loading progress never being finished.
- Fixed a crash when writing a flag before a command (e.g. `:-w open `).
- Fixed a crash when clicking certain form elements with QtWebEngine.

Deprecated

- `:tab-detach` has been deprecated, as `:tab-give` without argument can be used
instead.

Removed

- The long-deprecated `:prompt-yes`, `:prompt-no`, `:paste-primary` and `:paste`
commands have been removed.
- The invocation `:download <url> <dest>` which was deprecated in v0.5.0 was
removed, use `:download --dest <dest> <url>` instead.
- The `messages.unfocused` option which wasn't used anymore was removed.
- The `x[xtb]` default bindings got removed again as many users accidentally
triggered them.