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Why you should try Epiphany as your default browser with GNOME 2.14

Epiphany Web Browser
Epiphany Web Browser

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In the GNOME philosophy, we want applications that do their job, only their job, and we want those to do it perfectly. Epiphany's job is to browse the web. Only browsing the web. But browsing the web in a GNOME fashioned way."

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bookmark multiple sites at once by Anonymous George

bookmark multiple sites

Nice suggestion. Could you open a bug for that please?

ctrl+enter ctrl+shit by Anonymous George
Feature by Anonymous George
Re: Feature by Anonymous George
What good is Epiphany... by Anonymous George

Gecko

I don't really understand why the dependency on a Mozilla browser holds you back from running Epiphany. But you'll be delighted to know that the latest Epiphany release can be built against XULRunner, and thus no longer requires Firefox or Seamonkey to be installed beside it!

Great news! The reason the by Anonymous George

epiphany with xulrunner

it's gentoo

at least debian is building epiphany with xulrunner, so there's no need for installing any other browsers

a few things missing

here's a short list of a few things that are missing in epiphany

- shortcut keys for smart bookmarks (a very useful features)
- content block (not just adblock like in the current adblock extension of epi, but a way to block anything, or at least any image that the user desires from a page)
- a way to use only tabs. Currenly, it uses the gtk-notebook widget, which is really not suitable for this, because when the tabs become too many, it hides a few and places silly arrows. A better way is to use whatever tabbed widget the gnome-terminal uses, because these tabs scale.

Changing wheel mouse text zoom

Under Epiphany Ctrl+Wheel mouse up increases the font size and Ctrl+ Wheel mouse down decreases the font size. In firefox that same behaviour is swapped and I got used to it. Is there a way to change the actions for text zooming with the wheel mouse?

Epiphany is realy Great!

The only "Serious" Problems with epihany are those from the Mozilla Engine. I don't understand why many distributors replace this great App with Firefox.

Question: does anybody works on an del.icio.us plugin for epiphany?
The "Tagged Bookmarks" are screaming for a del.icio.us integration.

Epilicious

Speaking of Gnome 2.14 by Anonymous George

No Autocomplete/FormHistory

No Autocomplete/FormHistory in every textbox on the website!

That's really bad, as I usually use this feature a lot! (to configure router/switches/search on forums)

For the paranoid users without their own and password protected computers, this feature should be disabled by default.

The other things on Epiphany are really great, but this feature is a-must-have for me. Sorry, I looked at about:config in Epiphany and compared with Firefox ones, but found nothing to enable autocomplete :(

(I don't mean Autocomplete on URL box!!)

form history

Yes, this is a feature that is apparently very difficult to duplicate. The relevant bug is #166172.

One reason why not: no bookmark sidebar

Where is the Bookmark Sidebar? Maybe I'm to stupid to find it, but that's the reason why i'm using Galeon...

bookmark sidebar

There is no bookmark sidebar (yet-- it might be ported from Galeon one day). However, there are several other ways to easily access your bookmarks in Epiphany, most importantly the address bar itself that will show bookmarks in the dropdown when you type words from the title or the corresponding topic. I never miss a bookmark sidebar browsing in this way.

Fanboy here

Epiphany is just the best browser I've ever used. I love the fact that I can search google and bookmarks in the location entry. I mean it's all in the details, if you read a page stored on your local machine, Epiphany will re-read the page if it changes - lovely.

Adblock

Actually I swore to epiphany for quite some time, but then one day it began sending me to my startpage everytime I pressed "i", so everytime i googled on something with "i" in it, I was sent to my startpage. After some months I gave up and started using firefox. It was quite uneasy to get firefox as good looking as epiphany, but there was no choice.

Today I don't think I would be able to leave the extensions I've got addicted too. Like adblock.

editable menu accelerator keys

This is why the 'editable menu accelerator keys' pref is not enabled by default in GNOME :-)

Next time you have such a problem, please visit the #epiphany irc channel or mailing list. We would have been glad to help you solve it!

I have visited #epiphany to by Anonymous George

tabs

I was laughed at and told that this is a "wrong behaviour" and therefore should not be asked for. Since then I have gotten used to tabs, but I am not switching to epiphany, because in my personal opinion the community behind this browser sucks.

Nearly every waking hour I spend behind a computer I monitor the #epiphany channel. I have never seen anybody laughed at for asking a question, and cannot imagine this happening. You don't happen to have an irc log of this incident?

Solution

Perhaps you assigned 'i' as the shortcut key for the Go -> Home menu item? You can assign shortcut keys to any GTK program by pressing them while your mouse hovers over the menu.

What?

Can you do that?
I tried to press some different letters while hovering some menuitems in evolution and epiphany, but it didn't seam to work.

But on the other hand, I haven't got the problem in epiphany anymore, so perhaps I've just got the feature disabled some way...

look in by Anonymous George

Adblock is in epiphany

adblock.. which is in epiphany 2.14 :)

But then, probably I will

But then, probably I will try it :)
It would be nice if epiphany was compatible with firefox extensions, but I don't know if it is possible?

Some extensions will work,

Some extensions will work, but not out of the box afaik

Nice round up of ff features by Anonymous George
Mouse setup by Anonymous George
Epiphany is built upon by Anonymous George
Go and read again (slowly); by Anonymous George