| Setting | Description | 
|---|---|
| Whether to find text on a page case-insensitively. | |
| The default page(s) to open at the start, separated by commas. | |
| The URL parameters to strip with :yank url, separated by commas. | |
| The default program used to open downloads. Set to an empty string to use the default internal handler. | |
| The page to open if :open -t/-b/-w is used without URL. Use  | |
| Whether to start a search when something else than a URL is entered. | |
| Whether to save the config automatically on quit. | |
| How often (in milliseconds) to auto-save config/cookies/etc. | |
| The editor (and arguments) to use for the  | |
| Encoding to use for editor. | |
| Do not record visited pages in the history or store web page icons. | |
| Enable extra tools for Web developers. | |
| Whether the background color and images are also drawn when the page is printed. | |
| Whether load requests should be monitored for cross-site scripting attempts. | |
| Enable QtWebKit workarounds for broken sites. | |
| Default encoding to use for websites. | |
| How to open links in an existing instance if a new one is launched. | |
| Which window to choose when opening links as new tabs. | |
| How to log javascript console messages. | |
| Whether to always save the open pages. | |
| The name of the session to save by default, or empty for the last loaded session. | |
| The URL segments where  | 
| Setting | Description | 
|---|---|
| The available zoom levels, separated by commas. | |
| The default zoom level. | |
| Where to show the downloaded files. | |
| The position of the status bar. | |
| Time (in ms) to show messages in the statusbar for. | |
| Whether to show messages in unfocused windows. | |
| Whether to confirm quitting the application. | |
| Whether the zoom factor on a frame applies only to the text or to all content. | |
| Whether to expand each subframe to its contents. | |
| User stylesheet to use (absolute filename or filename relative to the config directory). Will expand environment variables. | |
| Hide the main scrollbar. | |
| Set the CSS media type. | |
| Whether to enable smooth scrolling for webpages. | |
| Number of milliseconds to wait before removing finished downloads. Will not be removed if value is -1. | |
| Whether to hide the statusbar unless a message is shown. | |
| Padding for statusbar (top, bottom, left, right). | |
| The format to use for the window title. The following placeholders are defined: | |
| Use standard JavaScript modal dialog for alert() and confirm() | |
| Hide the window decoration when using wayland (requires restart) | |
| Keychains that shouldn’t be shown in the keyhint dialog | |
| The rounding radius for the edges of prompts. | |
| Show a filebrowser in upload/download prompts. | 
| Setting | Description | 
|---|---|
| Value to send in the  | |
| Value to send in the  | |
| Send the Referer header | |
| User agent to send. Empty to send the default. | |
| The proxy to use. | |
| Whether to send DNS requests over the configured proxy. | |
| Whether to validate SSL handshakes. | |
| Whether to try to pre-fetch DNS entries to speed up browsing. | |
| Set custom headers for qutebrowser HTTP requests. | |
| Set location of a netrc-file for HTTP authentication. If empty, ~/.netrc is used. | 
| Setting | Description | 
|---|---|
| When to show the autocompletion window. | |
| What to display in the download filename input. | |
| How to format timestamps (e.g. for history) | |
| The height of the completion, in px or as percentage of the window. | |
| How many commands to save in the command history. | |
| How many URLs to show in the web history. | |
| Whether to move on to the next part when there’s only one possible completion left. | |
| Whether to shrink the completion to be smaller than the configured size if there are no scrollbars. | |
| Width of the scrollbar in the completion window (in px). | |
| Padding of scrollbar handle in completion window (in px). | 
| Setting | Description | 
|---|---|
| Timeout (in milliseconds) for ambiguous key bindings. | |
| Timeout (in milliseconds) for partially typed key bindings. | |
| Whether to switch to insert mode when clicking flash and other plugins. | |
| Whether to leave insert mode if a non-editable element is clicked. | |
| Whether to automatically enter insert mode if an editable element is focused after page load. | |
| Whether to forward unbound keys to the webview in normal mode. | |
| Enables or disables the Spatial Navigation feature. | |
| Whether hyperlinks should be included in the keyboard focus chain. | |
| Whether to enable Opera-like mouse rocker gestures. This disables the context menu. | |
| How much to divide the mouse wheel movements to translate them into zoom increments. | 
| Setting | Description | 
|---|---|
| Whether to open new tabs (middleclick/ctrl+click) in background. | |
| Which tab to select when the focused tab is removed. | |
| How new tabs are positioned. | |
| How new tabs opened explicitly are positioned. | |
| Behavior when the last tab is closed. | |
| When to show the tab bar | |
| Time to show the tab bar before hiding it when tabs→show is set to switching. | |
| Whether to wrap when changing tabs. | |
| Whether tabs should be movable. | |
| On which mouse button to close tabs. | |
| The position of the tab bar. | |
| Whether to show favicons in the tab bar. | |
| The width of the tab bar if it’s vertical, in px or as percentage of the window. | |
| Width of the progress indicator (0 to disable). | |
| Whether to open windows instead of tabs. | |
| The format to use for the tab title. The following placeholders are defined: | |
| Alignment of the text inside of tabs | |
| Switch between tabs using the mouse wheel. | |
| Padding for tabs (top, bottom, left, right). | |
| Padding for indicators (top, bottom, left, right). | 
| Setting | Description | 
|---|---|
| The directory to save downloads to. An empty value selects a sensible os-specific default. Will expand environment variables. | |
| Whether to prompt the user for the download location. | |
| Whether to remember the last used download directory. | |
| The maximum number of pages to hold in the global memory page cache. | |
| The capacities for the global memory cache for dead objects such as stylesheets or scripts. Syntax: cacheMinDeadCapacity, cacheMaxDead, totalCapacity. | |
| Default quota for new offline storage databases. | |
| Quota for the offline web application cache. | |
| Whether support for the HTML 5 offline storage feature is enabled. | |
| Whether support for the HTML 5 web application cache feature is enabled. | |
| Whether support for the HTML 5 local storage feature is enabled. | |
| Size of the HTTP network cache. Empty to use the default value. | 
| Setting | Description | 
|---|---|
| Whether images are automatically loaded in web pages. | |
| Enables or disables the running of JavaScript programs. | |
| Enables or disables plugins in Web pages. | |
| Enables or disables WebGL. | |
| Enable or disable support for CSS regions. | |
| Enable or disable hyperlink auditing (<a ping>). | |
| Allow websites to request geolocations. | |
| Allow websites to show notifications. | |
| Allow websites to record audio/video. | |
| Whether JavaScript programs can open new windows without user interaction. | |
| Whether JavaScript programs can close windows. | |
| Whether JavaScript programs can read or write to the clipboard. | |
| Whether all javascript prompts should be ignored. | |
| Whether all javascript alerts should be ignored. | |
| Whether locally loaded documents are allowed to access remote urls. | |
| Whether locally loaded documents are allowed to access other local urls. | |
| Control which cookies to accept. | |
| Whether to store cookies. Note this option needs a restart with QtWebEngine. | |
| List of URLs of lists which contain hosts to block. | |
| Whether host blocking is enabled. | |
| List of domains that should always be loaded, despite being ad-blocked. | |
| Enable pdf.js to view PDF files in the browser. | 
| Setting | Description | 
|---|---|
| CSS border value for hints. | |
| Mode to use for hints. | |
| Chars used for hint strings. | |
| Minimum number of chars used for hint strings. | |
| Whether to scatter hint key chains (like Vimium) or not (like dwb). Ignored for number hints. | |
| Make chars in hint strings uppercase. | |
| The dictionary file to be used by the word hints. | |
| Controls when a hint can be automatically followed without the user pressing Enter. | |
| A timeout (in milliseconds) to inhibit normal-mode key bindings after a successful auto-follow. | |
| A comma-separated list of regexes to use for next links. | |
| A comma-separated list of regexes to use for prev links. | |
| Which implementation to use to find elements to hint. | |
| Controls hiding unmatched hints in rapid mode. |