A browser that's not Firefox or Chrome scares me slightly, considering the amount of resources that go into securing them, yet they all fall at cansecwest.
How vulnerable can I expect to be running Midori?
Re:Elementary OS 0.3 “Freya” is released
by TazeTSchnitzel on Saturday April 11, 2015 @02:05PM
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Midori is WebKit-based, so it's only as vulnerable as Safari.
That's not actually true. A browser is not as secure as it's engine. The thing is really more complex than that.
There are configurations concern, certificates, security layer, apps/plugins/add-ons, bugs within the ui layer...
Re:Elementary OS 0.3 “Freya” is released
by TazeTSchnitzel on Sunday April 12, 2015 @07:19AM
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Sure, but the bulk of the issues are in the renderering engine, and for that they are sorted.
I know, it's the exposed part after all, but still I wouldn't recommend it as "secure as safari".
Re:Elementary OS 0.3 “Freya” is released
by setpatchaddress on Saturday April 11, 2015 @05:02PM
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WebKit isn't the only possible source of insecurity in an app that uses it. It may not even be in the top 10 versus things like image and font rendering libraries.
"elementary OS is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu. It makes use of a desktop with its own shell named Pantheon,[2] and is deeply integrated with other elementary OS applications like Plank (a dock), Midori (the default web browser) and Scratch (a simple text editor). This distribution uses Gala as its window manager..." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary_OS
"elementary OS Freya vs elementary OS Luna - What's new?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CBS6RDLTNA
It looks intriguing. A host of application level services built on linux leads me to think of this as a KDE-like effort to remake the desktop.