How do Safari/Webkit updates affect Iron?

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DaveIron
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How do Safari/Webkit updates affect Iron?

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How do the recent updates for Safari affect Chromium based browsers like Iron?


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SRWare :?: answer
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Hello,

i will research this in detail, normally Iron isn't accected of most bugs because it uses a much newer Webkit.
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OK. Does this mean that Iron is safer than Google Chrome & Safari 4?
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DaveIron wrote:How do the recent updates for Safari affect Chromium based browsers like Iron?
Safari 4.0.5 (2010-03-13) is based on WebKit 531.22.7
Chrome 4.0.249.89 (2010-02-10) is based on WebKit 532.5

Chromium 5.0.354.0 (41547) build (2010-03-14) ......... WebKit 533.3
SRware Iron 5.0.326.0 alpha ......... WebKit 533.1
SRware Iron 4.0.280.0 stable ........ WebKit 532.9

Safari 4 http://secunia.com/advisories/product/2 ... advisories
Chrome 4 http://secunia.com/advisories/product/2 ... advisories
Iron 4 http://secunia.com/advisories/product/2 ... advisories
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@ z25blink, thanks for the links. That was quite interesting.
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z25blink wrote:
DaveIron wrote:How do the recent updates for Safari affect Chromium based browsers like Iron?
Safari 4.0.5 (2010-03-13) is based on WebKit 531.22.7
Chrome 4.0.249.89 (2010-02-10) is based on WebKit 532.5

Chromium 5.0.354.0 (41547) build (2010-03-14) ......... WebKit 533.3
SRware Iron 5.0.326.0 alpha ......... WebKit 533.1
SRware Iron 4.0.280.0 stable ........ WebKit 532.9
How do you figure out what version of webkit of these browsers using? Thanks.
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jerrytouille wrote:
How do you figure out what version of webkit of these browsers using? Thanks.
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An update info for your pleasure for tonight

Safari 4.0.5 stable ----------------- WebKit/531.22.7 ---(2010-03-13)
Chrome 4.1.249.1036 stable ----- WebKit/532.5 ------ (2010-03-17)
SRware Iron 4.0.280.0 stable ----- WebKit/532.9 ----- (2010-01-27)
SRware Iron 5.0.326.0 alpha ----- WebKit/533.1----- (2010-02-28)
Chromium 5.0.360.0 nightly ----- WebKit/533.3 ----- (2010-03-22)

Despite update of Safari, Chrome browsers was released few days ago, You can see, they are old ! (older build of WebKit) and possibly unsecure (look at Secunia for more)
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