On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 06:54:08PM +0000, Timothy Legge wrote: > I've found this thread to be an interesting read so far, but I do have a few > questions... > > How is Webkit these days?? I only know so much as far as Apple's use of it, > and it has been a source of heavy patching in Safari for some time.
Well every time there is a pwn2own webkit bites it. It doesn't have a shiny sec record if you will. The rendering and stuff is pretty good. > And what are the advantages or dissadvantages of using chromium over xxxterm > in an OpenBSD Desktop environment? Chromium has more features; and I mean many more features, heaps more features, mounds more features. You get the drift. It is also C++ poop and provides absolutely no controls to prevent tracking in any way shape or form. Stuff like pasting you password in the wrong spot and it is used as a google search etc. Stuff you are used to with other browsers. xxxterm has a mode known as "whitelists" which requires all websites to be white listed before cookies are accepted or javascript is allowed to run. Sometimes a bit painful to make sure certain websites work but all in all it prevents (most) tracking. It also has a couple of knobs that other webkit browsers don't have that make it quite a bit snappier. It has other neat features; read the man page for details. Combine with adsuck for extra vroom vroom. That said, if you just want the web to "work" and are patient I'd say use firefox or chrome. If you want more speed and/or better anti-tracking use xxxterm.
