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Allow to run Konqueror as root

Stefano Crocco requested to merge stefanocrocco/konqueror:dont-crash-when-running-as-superuser into master

Note that this is dangerous because it requires the --no-sandbox flag to be passed to QtWebEngine. Even worse, since there's only one Konqueor instance, if the user runs Konqueror as root, then launch it again, the new instance will also be run as root, even if the user may not be aware of it.

This should be improved in several ways:

  • make the text in the message box more clearer, especially the part about future Konqueor invocations
  • find a way to completely skip using WebEnginePart when Konqueror is run as root. This is problematic because the other two existing html engines (KHTML and KWebKitPart are deprecated); besides, the introduction page requires WebEnginePart.

BUG: 463451

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