From dfe5a3789c5833c3e6313f708661b22048d6a5e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Florian Bruhin Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2021 10:42:00 +0100 Subject: Update session warning See #5359 --- qutebrowser/html/warning-sessions.html | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/qutebrowser/html/warning-sessions.html b/qutebrowser/html/warning-sessions.html index d297a2656..422b409a9 100644 --- a/qutebrowser/html/warning-sessions.html +++ b/qutebrowser/html/warning-sessions.html @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ qute://warning/sessions to show it again at a later time.

Since Qt doesn't provide an API to load the history of a tab, qutebrowser relies on a reverse-engineered binary serialization format to load tab history from session files. With Qt 5.15, unfortunately that format changed (due to the underlying Chromium upgrade), in a way which makes it impossible for qutebrowser to load tab history from existing session data.

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At the time of writing (January 2021), a new session format which stores part of the needed binary data in saved sessions is in development. However, it unfortunately wasn't ready in time for qutebrowser v2.0.0, as it's a rather big refactoring. It's currently expected to be released as part of qutebrowser v2.1.0.

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At the time of writing (January 2021), a new session format which stores part of the needed binary data in saved sessions is in development. However, it unfortunately wasn't ready in time for qutebrowser v2.0.0, as it's a rather big refactoring. It's currently expected to be released in a future v2.x.0 release.

As a stop-gap measure:

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