Default browser in Fedora KDE Plasma

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Sat Aug 8 12:53:46 UTC 2015


On Sat, 2015-08-08 at 02:14 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Kevin Kofler wrote:
> 
> > Mustafa Muhammad wrote:
> > > Some of my points were:
> > > 
> > > 1) Almost dead upstream for Konq, vs thriving upstream for 
> > > Firefox, Konq
> > > may have undiscovered security vulnerabilities, but the limited 
> > > number of
> > > users is hiding them.
> > 
> > The limited number of users also means nobody will be targeting 
> > Konqueror
> > with attacks. IMHO, this is actually an advantage.
> 
> PS: A Firefox 0-day exploited in the wild:
> https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2015/08/06/firefox-exploit-found-in
> -the-wild/
> Do we really want to expose our users to such risks?

Up to now I had a neutral view in this discussion (I'm not against
Konqueror though I don't use it), but I'm afraid that remark is making
me think again, perhaps not in the way you intended.

poc



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