Privacy Browser PC 0.8 was released on 30 January 2025. From the beginning, there have been problems when changing the user agent. Doing so would cause the current page to reload, interrupting the loading of the new URL. I have finally implemented a solution to this that works around Qt WebEngine’s buggy behavior. Basically, the system detects when a reload relating to the changing of the user agent interrupts the loading of a new URL and tries again after the new user agent is in place...| Stoutner
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Up until this point I have been backporting Privacy Browser PC releases to bookworm-backports (bookworm is the current Debian stable release). However, the 0.7 release represents a major change from Qt5 and KF5 (KDE Frameworks 5) to Qt6 and KF6. Debian bookworm does not contain all of the necessary KF6 components to build Privacy Browser PC 0.7. Specifically, KCompletion is not available on bookworm, and backporting it would require backporting the entire KF6 6.8.0 suite (and likely other thi...| Stoutner
Privacy Browser PC 0.7 was released on 11 December 2024. The major feature of this release is that Privacy Browser PC has been rebased on KDE 6 and Qt 6. Qt 5 was in EOL (End of Life) maintenance mode, meaning that from a feature perspective Qt WebEngine was based on Chromium 87.0.4280.144. The Qt 6 WebEngine currently in Debian unstable is 6.7.x, which is based on Chromium 118.0.5993.220. The next stable release of Debian, codenamed trixie, will likely ship with Qt WebEngine 6.8.x, which...| Stoutner