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| author | Florian Bruhin <me@the-compiler.org> | 2021-01-26 16:59:33 +0100 |
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| committer | Florian Bruhin <me@the-compiler.org> | 2021-01-26 17:47:38 +0100 |
| commit | e773cc970b8b866e082b1bbce85c7ec5ffed9de6 (patch) | |
| tree | b63dd63359f1a34bd0f78075696fcdc9f304a125 /README.asciidoc | |
| parent | 3abe6b34457aac0102bb2a716cb04709cf377310 (diff) | |
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Clarify QtWebKit wording in README
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diff --git a/README.asciidoc b/README.asciidoc index 7759b18b6..6867a5acc 100644 --- a/README.asciidoc +++ b/README.asciidoc @@ -82,12 +82,13 @@ The following software and libraries are required to run qutebrowser: - QtSQL (part of qtbase in some distributions) - QtOpenGL - QtWebEngine, or - - alternatively QtWebKit - only the - link:https://github.com/qtwebkit/qtwebkit/wiki[updated fork] (5.212) is - supported. **Note: The latest QtWebKit release is based on old WebKit - revision with known unpatched vulnerabilities. Please use it carefully and - avoid visiting untrusted websites and using it for transmission of - sensitive data.** + - alternatively QtWebKit (5.212) - **This is not recommended** due to known security + issues in QtWebKit, you most likely want to use qutebrowser with the + default QtWebEngine backend (based on Chromium) instead. Quoting the + https://github.com/qtwebkit/qtwebkit/releases[QtWebKit releases page]: + _[The latest QtWebKit] release is based on [an] old WebKit revision with known +unpatched vulnerabilities. Please use it carefully and avoid visiting untrusted +websites and using it for transmission of sensitive data._ * https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/intro[PyQt] 5.12.0 or newer for Python 3 * https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools/[pkg_resources/setuptools] (being |