Few days ago the launch of the new version of the web browser cutebrowser 2.3 and in it some improvements have been made to the blocking of ads, as well as improvements to avoid unnecessary animations which translates into an improvement in performance and also the solution to the problem with logging into google accounts in MacOS and other changes more.
For those who do not know the browser should know that this provides a minimal graphical interface that is not distracting from viewing of the content, and a navigation system in the style of the Vim text editor, built entirely with keyboard shortcuts.
The browser supports a tab system, download manager, private browsing mode, built-in PDF viewer (pdf.js), ad blocking system, interface to view browsing history.
Scrolling through the page is done using the «hjkl» keys, to open a new page you can press «or», the change between tabs is done using the «J» and «K» keys or «Alt-numeric tabulator».
Main new features of qutebrowser 2.3
As such, this new version is considered as a minor version than It was launched with the main purpose of being able to solve (now with proper luck) to sign in to Google accounts on macOS.
Regarding the changes that have been made, it is mentioned that in ad blocker which uses domain redirection via / etc / hosts, in the now blocking of all subdomains of blocked hosts has been implemented.
Besides that in the configuration "content.prefers_reduced_motion" which serves to inform the sites through media consultation about the need to disable animated effects that can aggravate the condition of users with migraines and epilepsy, has received some improvements to avoid even more non-essential effects and animations.
On the other hand, in the command ": greasemonkey-reload", it now only shows all loaded scripts (disabled by specifying the "–quiet" option).
Also added the "colors.prompts.selected.fg" setting to override the text color of the selected elements in the file path prompts.
Of the other changes that stand out from this new version:
- URL patterns are allowed in the "fonts.web. *" Setting.
- New `colors.prompts.selected.fg` setting to customize text color for
selected items in file name prompts. - Fix for bug when two Greasemonkey scripts have the same name (usually happens
because the same file is in both the data directory and the configuration directory). - - Obsolescence warnings removed
Finally if you want to know more about it About this new version or about the browser, you can check the details on its official website. The link is this.
How to install Qutebrowser on Ubuntu and derivatives?
For those who are interested in being able to try this web browser, they should know that the installation in Ubuntu as well as its derivatives is quite simple, since the package is within the Ubuntu repositories
To install the browser, we simply have to open a terminal (you can do it with the key combination Ctrl + Alt + T) and write the following command in it:
sudo apt update
And now we can install the browser with the following command:
sudo apt install qutebrowser -y
And that's it, you can start using this browser on your system.
Another installation method and for those interested in being able to try the new version (since the newer packages take longer to be updated in the Ubuntu repositories)
We can install the browser from the source code which we can obtain from la releases page.
There we we will download the Source code (Zip) package and we will unzip it in our team. To run the browser, just enter the folder and run the following commands:
sudo apt install --no-install-recommends git ca-certificates python3 python3-venv asciidoc libglib2.0-0 libgl1 libfontconfig1 libxcb-icccm4 libxcb-image0 libxcb-keysyms1 libxcb-randr0 libxcb-render-util0 libxcb-shape0 libxcb-xfixes0 libxcb-xinerama0 libxcb-xkb1 libxkbcommon-x11-0 libdbus-1-3 libyaml-dev gcc python3-dev libnss3
And we can run the browser with the following command:
python3 qutebrowser.py