Which applications does the Plasma team recommend to use with Plasma?

Heiko Becker heirecka at exherbo.org
Tue Jul 5 11:17:51 UTC 2016


>>>>> Browser: We do not recommend one at the moment
>>>>
>>>> for browser I would turn the recommendation the other way: let's
>>>> explicitly
>>>> recommend to not use any of the Qt browsers.
>>>
>>> I've heard people using e.g. QupZilla as their daily browser and not being
>>> unhappy with it. I don't think it's at a state where I'd explicitly
>>> recommend it, but it's not so bad that I'd recommend _against_ it.
>>
>> And from a security perspective?
> Are there any known security flaws with Qt browsers ? I just tried out
> QupZilla and I really like it. The interface is neat and it's not
> taking much memory either. I'm really enjoying it to be honest. But
> what I don't know is, how secure it is ?
> 
> I'm just being curious here. I'm definitely tilting towards wanting to
> use QupZilla on a daily basis, and would be glad to receive any
> heads-ups before I take the plunge :-)

There are gazillion security flaws if they use the unmaintained
QtWebKit. QupZilla >= 2.0 on the other hand uses QtWebEngine. Security
fixes might need some time to trickle down from Chromium to your local
copy of QtWebEngine though.

Cheers,
Heiko



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