qutebrowser development blog - qtplanet

Happy 9th birthday, qutebrowser!

Florian Bruhin — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 21:19:56 +0100

qutebrowser is turning 9 today! I’ll use the opportunity for a – perhaps slightly tl;dr – overview of how it all came to be. As you might notice by the length of this post, stopping to write once I started writing something like this… isn’t exactly my forte! Hopefully …

CVE-2021-41146: Arbitrary command execution in qutebrowser on Windows via URL handler

Florian Bruhin — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 19:28:57 +0200

I'm happy to announce that I just released qutebrowser v2.4.0!

This release fixes a high-severity arbitrary command execution on Windows via URL handlers, see the security advisory and commit message for details.

Windows users are urged to update as soon as possible. For everyone else, this is a …

qutebrowser moving to Libera Chat

Florian Bruhin — Wed, 26 May 2021 10:52:52 +0200

This blog has been lying dormant for almost a year now, but rest assured it's still alive. I usually don't bother posting minor release announcements here (they can be found on the announcement mailinglist as well as the subreddit), on top of that I totally forgot writing a blog post …

Paving the road towards qutebrowser v2.0

Florian Bruhin — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 22:15:46 +0200

Today, it's been exactly 6 months since I launched the GitHub Sponsors campaign - time flies!

I wanted to use this opportunity to update everyone on what has been going on, on my plans for qutebrowser's future, and on various other bits and bytes - I have a lot of things I …

2019 qutebrowser crowdfunding - reminder

Florian Bruhin — Mon, 30 Dec 2019 18:54:38 +0100

Two months ago, I wrote:

Just like in the 2017/2018 crowdfundings, it'll be possible to get t-shirts and stickers again. I'll also add some new swag to the mix :)

Just a quick reminder: If you want physical rewards with the current perk levels, sign up to the GitHub Sponsors …

qutebrowser meetup Berlin (2019-11-28)

Florian Bruhin — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 20:55:50 +0100

I (The-Compiler) am currently in Berlin - I've met with Qt/QtWebEngine developers at Qt Contributors Summit and had some very interesting development discussions there. There are some writeups available in the Qt Wiki.

Next Thursday (28th) I'd like to have a small qutebrowser user meetup here :) We'll meet at 19 …

2019 qutebrowser crowdfunding with shirts, stickers and more!

Florian Bruhin — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:51:15 +0100

I'm very happy to announce that the next qutebrowser crowdfunding went live today! o/

This time, I'm focused on recurring donations via GitHub Sponsors. Those donations will allow me to work part-time on qutebrowser! Thanks to the GitHub Matching Fund, all donations (up to $5000 in the first year) will …

Current qutebrowser roadmap and next crowdfunding

Florian Bruhin — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 15:50:02 +0200

More than half a year ago, I posted a qutebrowser roadmap - I thought it's about time for an update on how things are looking at the moment!

Upcoming crowdfunding

I finished my Bachelor of Science in September at the University of Applied Sciences in Rapperswil.

Now I'm employed around 16h …

Happy birthday, qutebrowser!

Florian Bruhin — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 16:46:38 +0200

5 years ago today, this happened:

commit 11a94957dc038fc27c5ff976197ad2b2d0352d20
Author: Florian Bruhin <git@the-compiler.org>
Date:   Sat Dec 14 22:15:16 2013 +0100

    Initial commit

That's how qutebrowser looked a day after that (and that commit still seems to run!): https://imgur.com/a/xoG1r4G

Exactly a year later, things …

CVE-2018-10895: Remote code execution due to CSRF in qutebrowser

Florian Bruhin — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 18:02:29 +0200

Description

Due to a CSRF vulnerability affecting the qute://settings page, it was possible for websites to modify qutebrowser settings. Via settings like editor.command, this possibly allowed websites to execute arbitrary code.

This issue has been assigned CVE-2018-10895.

Affected versions

The issue was introduced in v1.0.0, as …

qutebrowser v1.3.3 released (security update!)

Florian Bruhin — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 02:04:18 +0200

I've just released qutebrowser v1.3.3, which fixes an XSS vulnerability on the qute://history page (:history).

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

The vulnerability allowed websites to inject HTML into the page via a crafted title tag …

qutebrowser v1.2.0 released!

Florian Bruhin — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 23:28:43 +0100

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 …

qutebrowser v1.0.0 released!

Florian Bruhin — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 11:16:42 +0200

I'm delighted to announce that I just released qutebrowser v1.0.0!

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

This release comes with many big breaking changes such as the new config and QtWebEngine by default, so please take a …

Getting started again

Florian Bruhin — Sat, 03 Jun 2017 21:32:12 +0200

As you all probably know already, the crowdfunding for qutebrowser ended up being more than fully funded - thanks to everyone again!

The funds arrived on my bank account yesterday, minus some 10% fees for Kickstarter and payment processing. Yesterday also was the last day with lectures before my summer holidays …

Second qutebrowser crowdfunding launched!

Florian Bruhin — Tue, 18 Apr 2017 17:53:11 +0200

Like last year, I'd love to spend my summer holidays working full-time on qutebrowser again!

This is why I started another crowdfunding - with the goal of finally implementing the new config system. See the Kickstarter campaign for details.

In a nutshell, that means:

There's a separate (optional) config file, which …

qutebrowser v0.10.0 released

Florian Bruhin — Sat, 25 Feb 2017 22:22:14 +0100

I'm happy to annouce the release of qutebrowser v0.10.0!

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

I haven't announced the v0.9.0 release in this blog (or any patch releases), but for v0.10.0 it definitely …

qutebrowser v0.8.0 released

Florian Bruhin — Tue, 26 Jul 2016 14:29:08 +0200

I'm happy to annouce the release of qutebrowser v0.8.0!

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

The main reason for this release is that v0.7.0 will break with PyQt 5.7 which is soon going to …

qutebrowser v0.7.0 released

Florian Bruhin — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 15:55:57 +0200

I'm happy to annouce the release of qutebrowser v0.7.0!

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

As usual the source release is available, binary releases (Windows as usual, and now also a standalone OS X .app/.dmg and …

About and Timeline

Florian Bruhin — Sun, 05 Jun 2016 13:08:59 +0200

Introduction

A bit over two months ago, I started a crowdfunding campaign for qutebrowser, with the goal of working full-time on adding QtWebEngine support to it, which will bring more stability, security and features.

I asked for 3000€ to fund a month of full-time work before starting my studies in …