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The-Compiler | 1 year ago

Note that on Linux, the browser engine (QtWebEngine) is installed/updated separately from qutebrowser. They have a new feature release (updating to a new Chromium baseline) every 6 months, with patch releases backporting security fixes every 1-2 months. Not optimal, but some Linux distributions also backport security fixes as soon as they happen, which is much more often: https://codereview.qt-project.org/q/project:qt/qtwebengine-c...

Then there is the issue of "stable" Linux distributions (mostly Debian/Ubuntu) which never get those updates to you unfortunately, and don't seem to care about those being security-relevant either. Not much either qutebrowser and Qt can do about that sadly, but you can install Qt from somewhere else, e.g. from the PyQt binary builds if you don't mind losing proprietary codec support: https://qutebrowser.org/doc/install.html#tox

As soon as a new Qt/PyQt is out, there is usually also a new qutebrowser release bundling it for Windows/macOS releases.

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