Re:OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR
by snazz on Saturday January 11, 2020 @08:14PM
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I'd still be seriously concerned about how few eyeballs they get with regards to security---Google has entire fleets of machines dedicated to fuzzing every line of Chromium code and both Chrome and Firefox use advanced sandboxing to make it so that a single exploit in the JavaScript engine wouldn't be able to result in user-level remote code execution. I'm sure they're both probably fine (if nothing else from security by obscurity) but modern browsers are complicated pieces of software that require a lot of engineering to keep secure.
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Re:OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR
by saagarjha on Saturday January 11, 2020 @10:03PM
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GNOME Web is based on WebKit, while Falkon has migrated away from QtWebKit to QtWebEngine, which is Chromium based.
Re:OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR
by LeoPanthera on Saturday January 11, 2020 @10:05PM
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It's slightly ironic for KDE, as Blink is a fork of WebKit, which itself is a fork of KHTML, which was originally the KDE HTML renderer.
Full circle!