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An epiphany in browsing

Submitted by stro on Tue, 2003-02-18 18:14. Epiphany Web Browser
Epiphany Web Browser

As many of you know, the former maintainer of Galeon, Marco Pesenti Gritti, recently started a new project based on the Galeon codebase known as Epiphany. The main goals of the Epiphany web browser are simplicity, usability, following the GNOME HIG, and GNOME integration. Epiphany is available from GNOME cvs in the "epiphany" module.

Ed Dumbill has written a nice short little review of Epiphany in its current developmental state, complete with a few screenshots, and some download links.

Also, here is another screenshot of Epiphany taken by James Willcox showing a patch that provides load feedback in the tabs and a bookmark context menu.

On another note, If any of you out there would be interested in contributing to the Epiphany project, Marco could use some help with the Epiphany website

Re: An epiphany in browsing

Submitted by Anonymous George on Tue, 2003-02-18 19:43.

I disagree; take simplification as far as it can go! There are extremely configurable browsers out there like Mozilla, Epiphany can be the trimmed down version with 99% of the configuration options that most users don't need.

People equate simplicity with a lack of features. As far as proxies are concerned, I'd assume a Gnome2 browser would simply honour Gnome2's proxy settings, rather than provide it's own proxy configuration. As far as other REALLY necessary features, I'm sure they'll find their way in. Marco was the man behind Galeon, so he's proved himself more than capable of making an excellent browser!

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