I personally used elinks with javascript support for browsing banking websites and can no longer access google docs. I know you said you would re-add support if something was critical and I'm almost certain I'm one of the few members that still does this as I do not trust more modern browsers. Is there any possible way from the kindness of your hearts you could continue to maintain this? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.equery u elinks Actual Results: # equery u elinks [ Legend : U - final flag setting for installation] [ : I - package is installed with flag ] [ Colors : set, unset ] * Found these USE flags for www-client/elinks-0.13.5-r100: U I - - X : Add support for X11 - - bittorrent : Enable support for the BitTorrent protocol - - brotli : Enable support for brotli compression + + bzip2 : Use the bzlib compression library - - debug : Enable extra debug codepaths, like asserts and extra output. If you want to get meaningful backtraces see https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/Backtraces - - finger : Enable support for the finger protocol - - ftp : Add FTP (File Transfer Protocol) support - - gnutls : Prefer net-libs/gnutls as SSL/TLS provider (ineffective with USE=-ssl) - - gopher : Enable support for the gopher protocol - - gpm : Add support for sys-libs/gpm (Console-based mouse driver) - - idn : Enable support for Internationalized Domain Names + + ipv6 : Add support for IP version 6 - - lua : Enable Lua scripting support + + lua_single_target_lua5-1 : Build for Lua 5.1 only - - lua_single_target_lua5-2 : Build for Lua 5.2 only + - mouse : Make elinks to grab all mouse events + + nls : Add Native Language Support (using gettext - GNU locale utilities) - - nntp : Add support for newsgroups (Network News Transfer Protocol) - - perl : Add optional support/bindings for the Perl language - - ruby : Add support/bindings for the Ruby language - - samba : Add support for SAMBA (Windows File and Printer sharing) + + ssl : Add support for SSL/TLS connections (Secure Socket Layer / Transport Layer Security) - - tre : Enable support for regex searches via dev-libs/tre + + unicode : Add support for Unicode - - xml : Enable support for bookmarks via dev-libs/expat + + zlib : Add support for zlib (de)compression - - zstd : Enable support for ZSTD compression Expected Results: # equery u elinks [ Legend : U - final flag setting for installation] [ : I - package is installed with flag ] [ Colors : set, unset ] * Found these USE flags for www-client/elinks-0.13.5-r100: U I - - X : Add support for X11 - - bittorrent : Enable support for the BitTorrent protocol - - brotli : Enable support for brotli compression + + bzip2 : Use the bzlib compression library - - debug : Enable extra debug codepaths, like asserts and extra output. If you want to get meaningful backtraces see https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/Backtraces - - finger : Enable support for the finger protocol - - ftp : Add FTP (File Transfer Protocol) support - - gnutls : Prefer net-libs/gnutls as SSL/TLS provider (ineffective with USE=-ssl) - - gopher : Enable support for the gopher protocol - - gpm : Add support for sys-libs/gpm (Console-based mouse driver) - - idn : Enable support for Internationalized Domain Names + + ipv6 : Add support for IP version 6 - + javascript : Add support for javascript via dev-lang/spidermonkey - - lua : Enable Lua scripting support + + lua_single_target_lua5-1 : Build for Lua 5.1 only - - lua_single_target_lua5-2 : Build for Lua 5.2 only + - mouse : Make elinks to grab all mouse events + + nls : Add Native Language Support (using gettext - GNU locale utilities) - - nntp : Add support for newsgroups (Network News Transfer Protocol) - - perl : Add optional support/bindings for the Perl language - - ruby : Add support/bindings for the Ruby language - - samba : Add support for SAMBA (Windows File and Printer sharing) + + ssl : Add support for SSL/TLS connections (Secure Socket Layer / Transport Layer Security) - - tre : Enable support for regex searches via dev-libs/tre + + unicode : Add support for Unicode - - xml : Enable support for bookmarks via dev-libs/expat + + zlib : Add support for zlib (de)compression - - zstd : Enable support for ZSTD compression
This commit message said to post a bug for this if we considered it critical--- https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=d7c4df5c9424a2e359beb10531adcf37f21a96ec
The problem is, right now, newer versions are reliant on vulnerable versions of Spidermonkey and the code is scary: https://github.com/rkd77/elinks/blob/master/NEWS#L61. But there may be experimental mujs support in the repo? Not sure.
(In reply to Sam James from comment #2) > The problem is, right now, newer versions are reliant on vulnerable versions > of Spidermonkey and the code is scary: > https://github.com/rkd77/elinks/blob/master/NEWS#L61. > > But there may be experimental mujs support in the repo? Not sure. https://github.com/rkd77/elinks/issues/178 is the issue to watch.
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=582813bc85632cd46b874ca1f9fba48e22fc73a0 commit 582813bc85632cd46b874ca1f9fba48e22fc73a0 Author: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2022-12-29 21:25:48 +0000 Commit: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2022-12-29 21:26:44 +0000 www-client/elinks: add 0.16.0 Note that this adds USE=javascript masked because it can't work yet (because of pending libxmlpp bump) but added to ensure we don't forget about it. Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/797427 Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> profiles/base/package.use.mask | 4 + www-client/elinks/Manifest | 1 + www-client/elinks/elinks-0.16.0.ebuild | 163 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ www-client/elinks/elinks-9999.ebuild | 15 ++- 4 files changed, 180 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=032ff4acf3b23136f91f857252ff14abbf724aef commit 032ff4acf3b23136f91f857252ff14abbf724aef Author: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2022-12-31 21:08:57 +0000 Commit: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2022-12-31 21:08:57 +0000 www-client/elinks: fix tests, add mujs support Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/797427 Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> profiles/base/package.use.mask | 4 ---- www-client/elinks/elinks-0.16.0.ebuild | 8 ++++++-- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=88534051b733404af8dd28783a7e7d02ede98c4d commit 88534051b733404af8dd28783a7e7d02ede98c4d Author: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2022-12-31 22:40:23 +0000 Commit: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2022-12-31 22:40:23 +0000 www-client/elinks: add missing patches Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/797427 Fixes: 032ff4acf3b23136f91f857252ff14abbf724aef Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> .../files/elinks-0.16.0-fix-build-mujs.patch | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++ .../elinks/files/elinks-0.16.0-fix-tests.patch | 19 +++++++++ 2 files changed, 66 insertions(+)
