bug#43071: closed (Enable WebKit sandboxing)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Enable WebKit sandboxing Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 06:14:37 -0700 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 Qiantan Hong suggested that Emacs should enable sandboxing in WebKit, for all the usual security reasons. (Thanks, Qiantan!)

Attached is a proposed patch to implement that suggestion; it's a bit fancier than what Qiantan originally proposed in <https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2020-08/msg00896.html> because it checks that WebKit 2.26 or later is in use, and it avoids a duplicate call to webkit_web_context_get_default. I'm cc'ing this to Qiantan and to other recent committers to xwidget.c, to get their opinions.

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> No further comment, so I installed the WebKit sandboxing patch into the emacs-27 
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> <https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?h=emacs-27&id=71661b287297f328c2c5ad67e180a760f80850cb>. 
> After the next merge from emacs-27 to master, this patch should appear in the 
> master branch. I am closing Bug#43071.
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> While testing the fix, I ran into a problem with xwidgets and filed Bug#44204 
> "Emacs --with-xwidgets complains under Ubuntu 20.04" which you can see here:
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> https://bugs.gnu.org/44204
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> Has anyone had luck running Emacs --with-xwidgets under Ubuntu 20.04 or later? 
> I'll cc. this to 44204@debbugs.gnu.org to try to move that part of the 
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