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Clarify QtWebKit wording in README

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Florian Bruhin 2021-01-26 16:59:33 +01:00
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@ -82,12 +82,13 @@ The following software and libraries are required to run qutebrowser:
- QtSQL (part of qtbase in some distributions)
- QtOpenGL
- QtWebEngine, or
- alternatively QtWebKit - only the
link:https://github.com/qtwebkit/qtwebkit/wiki[updated fork] (5.212) is
supported. **Note: The latest QtWebKit release is based on old WebKit
revision with known unpatched vulnerabilities. Please use it carefully and
avoid visiting untrusted websites and using it for transmission of
sensitive data.**
- alternatively QtWebKit (5.212) - **This is not recommended** due to known security
issues in QtWebKit, you most likely want to use qutebrowser with the
default QtWebEngine backend (based on Chromium) instead. Quoting the
https://github.com/qtwebkit/qtwebkit/releases[QtWebKit releases page]:
_[The latest QtWebKit] release is based on [an] old WebKit revision with known
unpatched vulnerabilities. Please use it carefully and avoid visiting untrusted
websites and using it for transmission of sensitive data._
* https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/intro[PyQt] 5.12.0 or newer
for Python 3
* https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools/[pkg_resources/setuptools] (being