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# qutebrowser

> A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on PyQt5.
> More information: <https://qutebrowser.org/doc/qutebrowser.1.html>.

- Open qutebrowser with a specified storage directory:

`qutebrowser --basedir {{path/to/directory}}`

- Open a qutebrowser instance with temporary settings:

`qutebrowser --set {{content.geolocation}} {{true|false}}`

- Restore a named session of a qutebrowser instance:

`qutebrowser --restore {{session_name}}`

- Launch qutebrowser, opening all URLs using the specified method:

`qutebrowser --target {{auto|tab|tab-bg|tab-silent|tab-bg-silent|window|private-window}}`

- Open qutebrowser with a temporary base directory and print logs to `stdout` as JSON:

`qutebrowser --temp-basedir --json-logging`
