We should probably contact them about this and invite them to a discussion about why we think the outstanding issues are still relevant.
Best, -A On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 03:18:44PM -0400, bill-auger wrote: > check this out - when you launch qutebrowser, you are greeted > with this prominent warning - as a justification for abandoning > webkit support, the upstream is explicitly warning users not to > use the parabola qutebrowser package > > QtWebKit backend warning > > Because of those security issues and the maintaince burden > coming with supporting QtWebKit, support for it will be dropped > in a future qutebrowser release. It's recommended that you use > QtWebEngine instead. > > (Outdated) reasons to use QtWebKit > > Most reasons why people preferred the QtWebKit backend aren't > relevant anymore: > > QtWebEngine being unavailable on Parabola: Claims of Parabola > developers about QtWebEngine being "non-free" have repeatedly > been disputed, and so far nobody came up with solid evidence > about that being the case. Also, note that their qutebrowser > package is orphaned and was often outdated in the past (even > qutebrowser security fixes took months to arrive there). You > might be better off chosing an alternative install method. > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ my GPG Public Key: https://files.grapentin.org/.gpg/public.key ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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