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Possible to use on Windows without the IE rendering engine? #25

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Gitoffthelawn opened this issue Sep 18, 2022 · 2 comments
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Possible to use on Windows without the IE rendering engine? #25

Gitoffthelawn opened this issue Sep 18, 2022 · 2 comments

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@Gitoffthelawn
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The FAQ currently states:

Since switching to WebKit only in 5.0 most browsing issues should be gone. If you’re using a pre-5.0 version and have the issues with CHM browsing, please only report the bug if the problem is reproduced in WebKit browser as well (Settings – second tab – select “Webkit”). Or upgrade to version 5.0.

When using kchmviewer portable on Windows, I'm not seeing that option in the Settings tab. Is it possible to use kchmviewer on Windows and explicitly not use the IE rendering engine?

@brjsp
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brjsp commented Sep 19, 2022

Kchmviewer, at least version 7.7, does not use the IE engine on Windows. Only a (very old) version of WebKit is available. (because QtWebKit got deprecated and dropped Windows support)

The “IE engine” note seems to refer to Microsoft's original “HH” viewer.

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@brjsp Thanks Bruno. A few follow-up q's:

  1. On Windows, kchmviewer uses the WebKit engine regardless of the Windows version, correct?
  2. Is JavaScript completely turned off in the WebKit engine within kchmviewer?
  3. Because the WebKit version being used by kchmviewer is old, are they any known security issues to using it in this context?

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