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-## Keyboard shortcuts
+## Principles
-### Navigation
-- F4 to focus the address bar and type an address; F2 show its menu
-- Ctrl + Left - go back
-- Ctrl + Right - go forward
+### Simplicity
+This should be a simple browser that only does its browsing job with as little
+fuss as possible. This is not a platform.
+
+### Customizability
+This browser should be usable with minimal configuration necessary. At the same
+time, all functionality should be user-customizable. It is the user's
+responsibility to ensure a stable working state when changing settings.
+
+This browser should be kept as platform-agnostic as possible, while learning
+from and implementing the UNIX philosophy as applicable.
-### Tabs
+### Pragmatic Freedom
+Free software should serve the user, not impose unbreakable barriers for
+ideological reasons.
+
+QtWebEngine allows the usage of third-party non-free codecs and non-free
+plugins. This browser does not prevent you from doing so. It's up to you how
+you exercise your freedom.
+
+## Keyboard shortcuts
+- F4 to focus the address bar and type an address; F2 show its menu
+- Ctrl + Left/Right - go back/forward
- Ctrl + T - new tab
- Ctrl + X - close tab
-- Ctrl + O - previous tab
-- Ctrl + P - next tab
+- Ctrl + O/P - previous tab/next tab
+- Ctrl + Shift + O/P - move tab left/right
+- Ctrl + B - show/hide bookmarks
+- Ctrl + D - show/hide downloads
-### Subwindows
-A subwindows is a collection of tabs. It can be minimized, resized, moved,
+## Subwindows
+A subwindow is a multiple document interface window that contains a collection
+of tabs and has a default profile. It can be minimized, resized, moved,
maximized, tiled (F9) and cascaded (F10) within the main window.
- Ctrl + G - new subwindow
- Ctrl + W - close subwindow
-### Other
-- Ctrl + B - show/hide bookmarks
-- Ctrl + D - show/hide downloads
-
## Profiles
A Profile is a collection of settings, policies, scripts, cookies, cache and
history. Profiles can be used to isolate pages from each other.
@@ -39,4 +55,5 @@ site would still be using the default off-the-record profile.
## Configuration files
Configuration is saved in:
-- on Linux, _~/.config/smolbote/smolbote.cfg_
+- on Linux, _~/.config/smolbote/_
+