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> but sadly even the qt5-webengine backend is stuck back in Chromium 65.X which was released at the very beginning of this year

Good shout, I did not realise this, however the last release (5.11.2) was relatively recently in June... however I can't find release details for qtwebengine, where are you getting your release information from RE chromium?

This was the main reason I was attracted to this browser because the old webkit2 based vim-like browsers were hopelessly out of date to point of being very dangerous.

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Yeah, they don't call out what version they're on without some digging. I had to actually download the browser and check manually

> This was the main reason I was attracted to this browser because the old webkit2 based vim-like browsers were hopelessly out of date to point of being very dangerous.

Same here. I had to forgo other browsers I quite like because of their older versions of webkit

If the user-agent string is to be trusted the latest version released in June is still based on chrome 65.x like you said... :/ it's not terrible but not great either.

However they do claim to backport security patches on their front page so it should technically be secure.

I suppose it would take a lot of repetetive effort going through the same process to pull apart chromium each major release, so perhaps they settle on backporting patches in between larger breaks.

Yeah, I recall them saying they need something like two man-months for each Chromium release to adapt (the changed lines in the imported Chromium source is usually somewhere around a couple of million...).

> the changed lines in the imported Chromium source is usually somewhere around a couple of million.

Yeah that sounds truly horrifying, I guess they must employ some degree of automation though.

It's in their documentation (but a bit hidden): http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwebengine-overview.html#qt-webengine... (This version of Qt WebEngine is based on Chromium version ...).

I usually check their script, which also lets you switch between versions easily: http://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qtwebengine.git/tree/tools/scripts...

And I also have an overview here: https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/blob/master/quteb...

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