# qutebrowser quickstart

The Compiler
`<mail@qutebrowser.org>`

Note | This page will only appear on the first start. To view it at a later time, use the `:help` command.

## Basic keybindings to get you started

- Use the arrow keys or `hjkl` to move around a webpage (vim-like syntax is used in quite a few places)

- To go to a new webpage, press `o`, then type a url, then press Enter (Use `O` to open the url in a new tab, `go` to edit the current URL)

- If what you’ve typed isn’t a url, then a search engine will be used instead (DuckDuckGo, by default)

- To switch between tabs, use `J` (next tab) and `K` (previous tab), or press `<Alt-num>`, where `num` is the position of the tab to switch to

- To close the current tab, press `d` (and press `u` to undo closing a tab)

- Use `H` and `L` to go back and forth in the history

- To click on something without using the mouse, press `f` to show the hints, then type the keys next to what you want to click on (if that sounds weird, then just try pressing `f` and see what happens)

- Press `:` to show the commandline

- To search in a page, press `/`, type the phrase to search for, then press Enter. Use `n` and `N` to go back and forth through the matches, and press Esc to stop doing the search.

- To close qutebrowser, press `Alt-F4`, or `:q`, or `:wq` to save the currently open tabs and quit (note that in the settings you can make qutebrowser always save the currently open tabs)

## What to do now

- View the key binding cheatsheet to make yourself familiar with the key bindings:

- There’s also a free training course on shortcutfoo for the keybindings - note that you need to be in insert mode (i) for it to work.

- Run `:adblock-update` to download adblock lists and activate adblocking.

- If you just cloned the repository, you’ll need to run `scripts/asciidoc2html.py` to generate the documentation.

- Go to the settings page to set up qutebrowser the way you want it.

- Subscribe to the mailinglist or the announce-only mailinglist.

- Let me know what features you are missing or things that need (even small!) improvements.

## Getting help

If you get stuck, you can get help in multiple ways:

- The `:help` command inside qutebrowser shows the built-in documentation. Additionally, each command can be started with a `--help` flag to show its help.

- IRC channel: `#qutebrowser` on Freenode (webchat)

- Mailinglist: qutebrowser@lists.qutebrowser.org ( subscribe)

## Donating

Working on qutebrowser is a very rewarding hobby, but like (nearly) all hobbies it also costs some money. Namely I have to pay for the server and domain, and do occasional hardware upgrades
[It turned out a 160 GB SSD is rather small - the VMs and custom Qt builds I use for testing/developing qutebrowser need about 100 GB of space]
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If you want to give me a beer or a pizza back, I’m trying to make it as easy as possible for you to do so. If some other way would be easier for you, please get in touch!

- PayPal: me@the-compiler.org

- Bitcoin: 1PMzbcetAHfpxoXww8Bj5XqquHtVvMjJtE