qutebrowser-profile

A simple wrapper script for qutebrowser that allows you to maintain different profiles, each with their own history and session state but sharing the same config.py.

Why?

I use my system for different projects and purposes, such as email, cloud development, web browsing and so on. Using qutebrowser-profile I can keep all of these in separate qutebrowser profiles. (I in fact also keep them in separate i3 profiles via i3-launcher too, but that's another story).

Installation

Clone this repository and add it to your $PATH.

The script depends on dmenu. Rofi is also supported and automatically used if available. You can also override, e.g. --dmenu="rofi -dmenu".

Arch Linux

There is a package available in the AUR:

yay qutebrowser-profile-git

Getting started

To create a new profile, just call the script:

qutebrowser-profile

You'll get a rofi prompt asking for a profile name (if you don't have rofi installed, the script will try to use dmenu, and fallback to asking via the terminal). Type one in and hit enter, and qutebrowser will load your profile.

Note that:

qutebrowser's window will have [my-profile-name] at the start, so you can easily distinguish different qutebrowsers loaded with different profiles
qutebrowser loads configuration from the normal location (and all qutebrowsers share configuration regardless of profile, this includes quickmarks/bookmarks)
other data, such as session history, cache, cookies, etc, will be unique to that profile

Credit to @ayekat for the inspiration for the approach.

Other options

Here's the full options list (also available with --help):

  qutebrowser-profile - use qutebrowser with per-profile cache, session history, etc

USAGE
    Usage: qutebrowser-profile [OPTIONS] [QB_ARGS]...

    Options:
      --profiles-root TEXT            The directory to store profiles in
      --choose / --no-choose          Prompt the user to choose a profile, then
                                      launch it (try rofi, dmenu then fallback to terminal)
      --load TEXT                     Load the given profile (fails if profile
                                      does not exist, see --new)
      --new / --no-new                Allow --load to create a new profile if it
                                      does not exist
      --dmenu TEXT                    Override the location of dmenu/rofi when
                                      using --choose
      --only-existing / --no-only-existing
                                      Do not allow the user to specify a new (non-
                                      existent) profile during --choose
      -l, --list-profiles, --list / --no-list-profiles, --no-list
                                      List existing profiles
      --show-stdio / --no-show-stio   Show stdout/stderr from qutebrowser when it
                                      is launched
      --qutebrowser TEXT              Location of qutebrowser launcher
      --help                          Show this message and exit.

Licence

MIT