Add qutebrowser, with ad blocking and ad-free YouTube

[Maximilian-Maag]

Adds qutebrowser alongside the other browsers, set up so it is actually pleasant out of the box rather than a bare profile with no blocklists.

• omarchy install browser qutebrowser installs qutebrowser, python-adblock, mpv and yt-dlp, and drops in the config below.
• omarchy remove browser qutebrowser drops qutebrowser and python-adblock and removes omarchy.py. The profile, config.py, bookmarks and history stay, and so do mpv and yt-dlp, which are useful on their own.
• Both appear under Install → Browser and Remove → Browser.

Ad blocking. content.blocking.method = "both" runs the Brave filter-list engine next to the hosts blocklist, with EasyList, EasyPrivacy, Fanboy's annoyances and the uBlock Origin filter and privacy lists.

YouTube. Worth being straight about why this is not just another filter list: qutebrowser's blocker is network-level only — no cosmetic filtering, no scriptlet injection — and YouTube serves its video ads from the same hosts as the video. No blocklist will make YouTube ad-free here. What does work is handing the URL to mpv: yt-dlp resolves the stream directly and the ad breaks are never part of it. ,m plays the current page, ,M hints a link on the page first.

Config layout. config/qutebrowser/omarchy.py holds the managed settings and is refreshed on upgrade through omarchy-refresh-config. config.py is written once, sources omarchy.py and then calls config.load_autoconfig(True), so :set changes and hand edits outlive an upgrade. A config.py that predates the install is never overwritten — instead the installer prints the one line that wires the defaults up, so the settings cannot silently do nothing.

Tested with test/cli, by checking the routes resolve via omarchy commands --all, and by exercising setup_qutebrowser_config against a sandboxed HOME: first install, re-running it as an upgrade (managed file restored and backed up, user's config.py untouched), a pre-existing config.py (left alone, notice printed), and one already sourcing omarchy.py (no notice). The desktop id used for the default-browser fallback was checked against the package contents rather than assumed.

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