WebKitGTK+ 2.16.2 Updates User Agent Quirks for New Google Login Page, YouTube

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

WebKitGTK+, the open-source and full-featured port of the WebKit rendering engine to the GTK+ GUI toolkit used to build modern applications for the GNOME desktop environment was updated today to version 2.16.2.

WebKitGTK+ 2.16.2 is just a small bugfix release that only resolves some of the issues users reported since the first maintenance update of the WebKitGTK+ 2.16 stable series. The most prominent change being improved user agent quirks to add compatibility for Google’s new login page and YouTube.

 This release also attempts to update multiple web inspector icons, adds build improvements when OpenGL is disabled and when X11 is disabled but NPAPI (Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface) plugins are enabled, and improves the rendering of animated PNGs.

Other than that, WebKitGTK+ 2.16.2 adds better playback support for various live streams and addresses a bunch of rendering i… (read more)

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