Settings

Search

Search engine

Search suggestions while typing Off = nothing you type in the address bar is sent to the search engine.

The address bar

Appearance

How pages are drawn

White Google Off = pitch-black Google Auto-darken light websites Bright pages get darkened so they don't blind you at night. Theme websites Websites take on the browser's theme and colours. Right-click a page to leave that site alone. Smooth scrolling Scrolling glides instead of jumping line by line. Applies to pages you open from now on.

How websites are shown

Dim pages in the evening

From until

Warmer colours in the evening

How warm

Show pages in grey

Scrollbars on websites

Selected text in my accent colour Give pages with no background of their own mine Plain files on my background A checkerboard behind images Dark PDF pages

Sites to leave alone

The fonts websites fall back to

Colour emoji

The size of the browser's own furniture

Chrome size

The font the browser is lettered in

How round the corners are

How see-through Glass is

Words on the toolbar instead of glyphs

How keyboard focus is drawn

Animate the browser's own chrome

Widest a tab may get

How tall the toolbar is

Plain menus with bigger rows Favicons in one colour Hide the tabs and the toolbar until I want them Show the chrome at the top edge in fullscreen

Where a link under the mouse is said

What the window is called

Let a site tint the toolbar Show failed loads in the browser's own style DevTools in the browser's colours

What the start page shows

The clock With seconds The date Twenty-four hour clock

Where the search box sits

How big the quick links are

A folder of wallpapers

Change the picture every

Size

Page zoom Makes everything on a website bigger or smaller. Ctrl + and Ctrl − zoom one tab; Ctrl 0 puts it back to this.

Minimum text size Forces tiny website text to be at least this big.

Keys and the mouse

Shortcuts follow the key, not the letter Ctrl+Tab goes in most-recently-used order Vim keys on a page Terminal keys in the address bar Keep what I type, in case the page reloads

Keys to ignore

Sites that keep their own keys

Two-step keys

The editor for a text box

The script a key runs

The mouse

Mouse gestures, the rocker and buttons 4-9 Hold the right button and draw: left is back, right is forward, up reloads, down opens a tab, down-right closes one, up-down brings one back.

Wheel step

Arrow-key step

Global keys, for the window manager

Keyboard shortcuts

Side mouse buttons go back and forward

Recording and captures

Frames a second

Recordings are saved as

Recording quality

How many seconds the replay buffer keeps

Draw clicks and keys into a recording

Capture this page every few minutes

Where a capture is uploaded

The OCR program

The ffmpeg program

Screenshot

Where screenshots go Empty = a Screenshots folder beside your downloads.

Screenshot file name strftime marks, {title} and {site}.

Screenshot format

Blur password fields in captures What is typed in a password field is blurred before the picture is taken.

What this is costing

Which graphics card draws the pages

On a machine with more than one card the system picks for you, and the quiet card is the slow one. Applies when the browser is started again.

Ask at every start which card to use A window before the browser opens, listing every card this machine has.

Sites that are never slept or frozen

Freeze a background tab after

Total memory budget

Sleep background tabs before the machine swaps Say when a background tab keeps the processor busy Notice a tab whose memory keeps climbing Give background tabs a lower claim on the processor Pause animations in tabs nobody is looking at Stop silent video in a tab you cannot see Make off-screen pictures wait

Cap video quality at

Fetch a link the mouse rests on Open connections early to the sites I use most Restore a big session in stages Tidy up when I am not using it Keep a small log of start-up time and memory

Offer to close tabs not looked at for

Cache on disk, at most

Keep the cache in memory only Hardware video decoding (VA-API)

Chromium flags worth having

Where the start-up time went

Getting around

The switches here can be set for one site alone from the getting-around popup (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+G).

Shift and hover shows the linked page Try a failed load again when the network is back

Addresses to rewrite before loading

The external player

Which program should open this?

Reading a page

Every one of these can be set for one site alone from the reading-help popup (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+A).

What is done to a page

Line, word and letter spacing

Text size only

Line spacing

Word spacing

Letter spacing

A font for pages

Colour-blindness filter

Left and right balance

How much the lens magnifies

A short sound when a page or a download finishes

Live captions for what a tab is playing

The recorder

The transcriber

The model file

The translator

Translate the captions

Toolbar

A right-click on the toolbar itself opens the same list.

On the toolbar

Not shown

Elsewhere in the chrome

These sit where they sit — you can take one away, but not move it.

Taking a button away never touches its keyboard shortcut — Ctrl+P still prints.

Back, forward, reload and the address bar stay. A browser with no way back is a broken browser.

Theme

A theme paints the browser and its own pages. Websites keep the colours their makers gave them.

Catppuccin Mocha

No theme by that name.

Edit this theme

Favourite themes

Follow the desktop's light or dark setting

Follow the desktop

The dark theme to use The light theme to use

Follow a colour file

Put appearance back as it came

Look

A look moves the furniture — where things sit and what shape they are. Every look works with every theme.

Browsing

Calendar file for today's agenda A local or LAN .ics file. Repeating events (RRULE) are not worked out — they are left out rather than shown on the wrong day.

Keep the daily summary as a note Keep a copy of the page when I bookmark it One MHTML file per bookmark, here on the disk, so the page can still be read after it goes away. Keep Favourites open beside the page The same panel, in the window rather than over it. Reopen tabs from last time Start again where you left off.

When the browser starts

The first tab at launch. Tabs reopened from last time come back instead of it.

Pages

Show the bookmarks you added last A row on the start page with the newest bookmarks. Tidy up page titles Takes the counts and site names off what is written down. Bookmarks remember where you had read to Reopening one goes back to that place. A dated copy of the bookmarks every day Kept beside the bookmarks file; the last fourteen.

Keep history for Days. 0 = for ever.

Keep a copy of the bookmarks in A folder of yours. No account and no cloud.

Open some sites in another browser

Some sites refuse to work in this browser — Gmail and Google sign-in among them. Rather than a wall, they open in your other browser.

Hand these sites to another browser Off = they load here like any other page.

Sites to open elsewhere One domain a line. A domain covers its sub-domains too.

Tabs

What a new tab shows

Where a new tab opens

After closing a tab, go to

How wide tabs are

Narrowest a tab gets Below this the strip scrolls.

Ask before closing this many tabs 0 = never ask.

Close tabs not looked at for Days. 0 = never.

Show the close cross

Double-click on the empty strip

Double-click on a tab

Middle-click on a tab

Every tab

Hide the tab strip with one tab A single tab needs no strip. Show the unread count on tabs The number a page puts in its title. Give each site its own tab colour A faint wash taken from the site’s own icon. Fold the other groups away Switching into one group collapses the rest. Links open next to the tab they came from Off = at the end of the strip. Back closes a tab that came from a link On a tab with nothing behind it. Close tabs that only started a download The blank tab a download link leaves behind. Keep snapshots of the open tabs Every few minutes, so an older set can come back. Offer the last tabs back after a crash A list with a box beside each tab.

Sites that always open in one virtual browser One “domain = browser name” a line.

Put new tabs into groups by address One “group = domain, domain” a line.

Where the tabs are

Down either side they are a list you can read the titles in, with the groups folding. F9 switches between the top and the side; Shift+F9 folds the list to icons.

Mouse wheel over the tab strip

Show the number of tabs A plain count at the end of the strip. Show the link under the mouse A line at the bottom left with the real target. Show the search text in the address bar On a results page the bar shows what you searched for. Pinned tabs stay on their site A link to another site opens in a new tab.

Video and sound

Media

Block videos from playing on their own A page has to be clicked before it may play sound or video. Applies to pages you open from now on. Open PDFs in the browser Off = a PDF is downloaded instead of shown. Applies to pages you open from now on.

Notes and tools

Text snippets Short keys that become longer text while you type. Remember what I copy In memory only, never from a private tab. Off by default. Use desktop notifications Through notify-send when it is installed.

Remind me to take a break after Minutes of actually using the browser. 0 = never.

Where the notes are kept A folder of plain .md files. Empty = beside the settings.

Countdowns on the start page One “name = date” a line.

Games and streaming

While you are streaming

Claim channel points Presses Twitch’s own bonus button when it appears. Mute and dim through ads On Twitch: sound off and picture dark until the ad is over. Big player by default On Twitch and YouTube, without being asked each time. Let a gamepad scroll and play The sticks scroll, the shoulders change tab, A plays or pauses. Open Discord links in the Discord tab Rather than a new tab each time. Show Discord’s unread count In the tab’s title, from Discord’s own count. Game mode when a game is in front Asks the window manager what is in front; nothing happens where there is none.

Also blur these words One a line: a name, a street, anything that should not be legible on the stream.

Hide chat lines containing One a line.

Hide these chatters One name a line.

Highlight lines containing Your own name, say. One a line.

Channels being watched One a line. Each is asked about once every few minutes, and only while the interval below is set.

Minecraft instances One folder a line. A mod is written into /mods and nowhere else.

My own checklist One item a line. Empty = the standard list.

Ask every Minutes. 0 = never ask.

Stream delay Seconds. The timer counts this down.

OBS

OBS address ws://127.0.0.1:4455 is OBS’ default. Empty = off.

OBS password From OBS: Tools → WebSocket Server Settings.

Downloads

Ask where to save each download Off = everything lands in your download folder.

Download folder Where files land when you are not asked.

Downloads

Sort downloads into folders Pictures, Video, Music, Documents, Archives, Programs, Mods. Open the folder when a download finishes Search history by what was on the page Keeps a few hundred words of each page, on this computer. Never from a private tab. Never ask about notifications Sites asking to send notifications are told no without a card.

Language

Browser and translate language Used by the translate button next to the address bar.

Check spelling as I type Needs the matching dictionary installed on this computer.

Spell-check language

Check spelling in both languages German and English at once, where the dictionaries are installed.

Open mailto: links in A compose page of your webmail instead of a desktop mail program. None = leave it to the desktop.

Remember where I was in a PDF Strip tracking from an address I paste into a page The same cleaning the address bar does, where it is pasted.

Privacy

Clear cookies logs this virtual browser out everywhere.

Tell sites where you came from

An allowed window opens as

Trackers and the home network

Keep websites off the home network A page on the internet may not reach 192.168.x.x, localhost or a .local name. Strip tracking from addresses utm_*, fbclid and the rest are taken off before the request goes out.

Passwords

Offer to save passwords When you log in somewhere, the browser asks whether it should remember it.

— Logins, secure notes, cards and identities — with a generator, two-factor codes and a health check.

Forms and passwords

Keep what I type in forms Kept on this computer and put back after a crash or a misclick. Never a password, never a private tab. Remember what I type in boxes Offered again on the next visit, per site. Off in private tabs, and never a password. An eye in every password box To see what you typed. The browser’s own button, not the page’s. Offer to save logins sent by scripts Sites that sign in without submitting a form — which is most of them now. Say something about the form in front of me A password box on an unencrypted page, and a sign-up form on a site you already have a login for. Check my passwords against known leaks Sends the first five characters of each password’s SHA-1 and compares the answer here, so the service never learns which password was asked about.

Clear copied passwords from the clipboard after Seconds. 0 = leave them there.

Warn about keys and cards Days before the date.

Call a login unused after Days.

Keep this many backups The older ones are deleted.

Back up every Days. 0 = only when you ask.

My address for plus-addresses name@example.com becomes name+site@example.com on sign-up forms.

Keep encrypted vault backups in A folder on this machine. Empty = no backups.

Passphrase for the backups Without it nothing is written: a backup nobody can read is not a backup.

Passphrase language Which word list the word passphrases come from.

Sites that are the same account One group a line, hosts separated by spaces. amazon.de and amazon.com are built in.

Stored scrambled on this computer — anyone who can use this user account can read them.

Master password

Lock the vault with a master password

Plugins

Installed

Userscripts (.user.js) in this folder run on matching pages.

Built-in features

Vault Password Saves and fills your logins — plus secure notes, cards, 2FA codes and a generator. Off until you switch it on.

Quick install

Developer tools

Allow checking the links on a page Off by default: it visits every address on the page, which tells each of those servers you looked. Remote debugging port For Playwright and CDP tools. Off by default, and the engine binds it to this machine only. Applies after a restart. Accept self-signed certificates on localhost and the home network Only for addresses on this machine or in the private ranges — never for a site on the internet.

Chromium flags One a line. They are read once, at start-up, so a change applies after a restart. A wrong flag can stop the browser starting.

Point a name at an address One a line: example.com 192.0.2.10. For this browser only, and only after a restart.

My JavaScript snippets One a line: name|the code. They only ever run when you pick one.

Addresses to block or send elsewhere One a line: a piece of an address blocks it, and “what -> where” sends it to a file or another address.

Headers to add One a line: “Name: value” for every site, or “host | Name: value” for one.

Network (proxy)

Pick a profile here or from the toolbar proxy button.

Per-site rules

→

Rules override the mode above for matching sites; changes apply after a restart (system proxy is read at launch).

Add proxy profile

Name

Type

Host

Port

Press F12 on any page to open the inspector (DevTools).

Updates

Keep the libraries up to date How often to look for a newer web engine (PyQt6 and QtWebEngine). Nothing is ever installed without asking.

Setup

Language, search, wallpaper, privacy and quick links

Settings

Search

Search engine

The address bar

The address bar

Appearance

How pages are drawn

How websites are shown

The size of the browser's own furniture

What the start page shows

Size

Keys and the mouse

The mouse

Global keys, for the window manager

Keyboard shortcuts

Recording and captures

Screenshot

What this is costing

Which graphics card draws the pages

Chromium flags worth having

Where the start-up time went

Getting around

Reading a page

What is done to a page

Line, word and letter spacing

Live captions for what a tab is playing

Reading and text

Toolbar

On the toolbar

Not shown

Elsewhere in the chrome

Theme

Edit this theme

Favourite themes

Follow the desktop's light or dark setting

Look

Browsing

When the browser starts

Pages

Open some sites in another browser

Tabs

What a new tab shows

Where a new tab opens

After closing a tab, go to

How wide tabs are

Show the close cross

Double-click on the empty strip

Double-click on a tab

Middle-click on a tab

Every tab

Where the tabs are

Mouse wheel over the tab strip

Video and sound

Video and sound

Media

Notes and tools

Notes and tools

Games and streaming

While you are streaming

OBS

Downloads

Downloads

Downloads and files

Language

Privacy

What is kept

What a page may do

Tell sites where you came from

An allowed window opens as

Trackers and the home network

Connections

Passwords

Forms and passwords

Master password

Plugins

Installed

Built-in features

Quick install

Developer tools

Developer tools