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Epiphany 1.1.0 released

Submitted by stro on Sat, 2003-10-25 02:27. Epiphany Web Browser

Epiphany is the GNOME web browser based on the mozilla
rendering engine. It aims to be simple and easy to use. This new release now depends on GTK 2.3.x and Mozilla 1.4 or preferably Mozilla 1.5.
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Epiphany 1.1.0
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Code changes

* Remove most egg code and port to the gtk 2.3 api for toolbars and
menus (Marco, Christian)
* Cleanup gobjects using the new add_private api (Christian)
* Rewrote xbel bookmarks importer using xmlreader api (Christian)
* Use new dynamic api to create dynamic menus (Marco, Christian)
* Load default mozilla prefs from a javascript file,
this is way is possible to override defaults in about:config (Marco)
* Use gtk invisible event boxes (Christian)
* Remove deprecated g_value_set_object_take_ownership() (Christian)
* Use new gnome vfs show_url api (Christian)
* Refactor node db loading functions into a common one in
ephy-node-db. Switch to using xmlReader api. (Christian)
* Use gconf_client_notify to initialize prefs (Christian)
* Refactor initialization/automation code to ensure we dont
use dying shell (Marco)
* Use GtkIconTheme (Marco)
* Use ngettext where useful (Christian)
* New implementation of location entry using GtkComboBox (Marco)
* New downloads implementation (user interface being worked on) (Xan, Marco)
* Remove our custom implementation and use gtk api for
empty bookmarks menu (Marco, credits to Matthias Clasen for gtk implementation)
* Make the favourites menu self-updating (Christian)
* Port history and bookmarks combos to new api (Marco)

New features

* Added migration from galeon settings (Christopher James Lahey)
* Add an --import-bookmarks command line option, and really implement
the --add-bookmark one. (Christian)
* Ability to choose visible columns in bookmarks and history (Marco)
* History time filter (Marco)
* Import bookmarks from Firebird (Christian)
* Ability to import bookmarks from a custom file (Marco)
* Allow dragging of tabs to a window even when the tabs bar is not
shown. (Christian)

Interface improvements

* Simplify font selection and make it use points instead
of pixels like everything in Gnome (Marco)
* Use a line to make more clear Language/Fonts relation (Marco)
* Sync spinner with the current active tab (Marco)
* HIGgify new bookmark dialogue title (Christian)
* Special, more compact, toolbar layout for fullscreen (Marco)
* Gtk versions of the mozilla certificate prompts (from galeon)
* Use Bookmarks instead of All as label in toolbars (Marco)
* Use radio buttons for tabs menu (Marco)
* Fix spacing in a few dialogs (Marco)
* Better icons on mime dialog (Marco)
* Case insensitive bookmarks matching in autocompletion
(Marco, credits to Kristian Rietveld for rocking new widget)
* Show bookmarks at the top of autocompletion list (Marco)
* Speedup history dialog (Marco)
* Visual progress bar in downloader (Marco)
* Better encoding menu interface. Show most common/most used
entry in the menu, split the others out to a dialog. Allow
to revert to Automatic. Show current selected encoding with
radio buttons (Christian, credits to Matthew Thomas for user
interface ideas)
* Toolbar editor improvements. Show a different cursor when
hovering the items. Pickup and drop behavior. Make space
for the item instead of showing a line (Marco, credits to
Soeren Sandmann for gtk changes)
* Make location a normal entry, removing the hard to click,
vastly unused arrow for typed urls. (Marco)
* Focus bookmarks search entry by default (Ettore Perazzoli)

Bugfixes

* Enable dragging the tab from a single-tab window too (Christian)
* Do not fail if prefs.js is corrupted (Marco)
* Fix location entry losing content when editing toolbar (Christian)
* Fix directory selection persistence (Christian)
* Fix a bug that could have caused bookmarks loss with low disk (Christian)
* Save session also when closing windows (Marco)
* Make mime dialogs interrupt download on Esc, simplify the code
using response signal (Marco)
* Fix compilation on Solaris (Marco)
* Set a MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH default. (Christopher James Lahey)
* Fix a warning when printing to a file (Christian)
* Fix intermittent nautilus view activation failure (Mark McLoughlin)
* Fix downloads with authentication (Marco)
* Fix history clear, sometimes sites was not removed
completely (Marco)
* Fix some treeview model leaks (Christian, Marco)

Translations

* cs (Miloslav Trmac)
* en_GB (Christian Persch)
* fr (Eric Seigne)
* ga (Paul Duffy)
* hi (Guntupalli Karunakar)
* hu (Andras Timar)
* lt (Zygimantas Berucka)
* ml (Abel Cheung)
* mn (Sanlig Badral)
* nl (Vincent van Adrighem)
* pt_BR (Evandro Fernandes Giovanini)
* ro (Misu Moldovan)
* sk (Marcel Telka)
* sq (Laurent Dhima)
* sr.po (Danilo Segan)
* sr@Latn.po (Danilo Segan)
* sv (Christian Rose)
* ta (Dinesh Nadarajah)
* vi (Pablo Saratxaga)

* Where can I get it ?
======================

Source code:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/epiphany/1.1/epiphany-1.1.0.tar.gz

Epiphany 1.1.0 requires mozilla 1.4, 1.5.
The suggested version is Mozilla 1.5:
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.5/src/mozilla-source-1.5.tar.gz

More about dependencies and installation tips:
http://epiphany.mozdev.org/downloads.html

Enjoy.

Marco

The argument in favor of pre-loading

Submitted by Anonymous George on Tue, 2003-10-28 05:16.

Memory is cheap and I have plenty. What pisses me off is the time it takes to boot. Even that wouldn't piss me off if I could disable it, but I can't...which is why I like the ability to pre-load Moz., and wish this was in Fb.

In any case, for a long time I was angry at MS for making windows take so much longer to load, but eventually I came around. I never reboot my machine except for critical windows updates, so having it preloaded makes a lot of sense. For this reason IE quickly became my favorite browser for windows, even though I knew it was cheating, and despite being an avid NS fan all the way up to 4.x (ok, at that point I was just being stubborn).

After many years of IE acceptance and enjoyment, and monthly trials of Mozilla (which I have always hated, mostly because it was so much like NS 4.x), I found Firebird .3. By .4 I was using Fb as my primary browser, and now I don't even miss IE (in fact I actually get angry when having to use it).

Which brings me back to my point. The only major thing missing for Fb is pre-loading, IMO. Yes, it loads much faster Moz., but this isn't saying much. On fast machines, it takes much longer than IE to load (especially the 2nd time), and is slower than Moz if Moz is trayed. I probably open a browser 100 times a day (hotkeys). I don't like them open all the time. I end up leaving Fb open because it takes too long to load, but that annoys me.

Yes, IE's preloading is cheating (can't turn it off), but Fb's wouldn't be (optional). And for users who don't care about a slightly longer boot (hey, you'll pay the price when you load Fb anyway, why not just do it once?) and have plenty of memory, the only question is: why not?

Although it annoys me that MS cheated, I actually benefited from their decision for many years, and was grateful, especially since IE was the best browser for so long. Now that it isn't the best (IMO), I wish I could turn off that preloading. But more than that, I wish I could turn it on for Fb.

-Dan

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