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An epiphany in browsing

Submitted by stro on Tue, 2003-02-18 18:14. 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 foo on Tue, 2003-02-18 21:19.

Ahh, I remember the good old days before mozilla 1.0, xft, gcc3 and gnome2... Sure, the fonts sucked but back then a guy could just download some mozilla and galeon rpms/debs/tar.gz/whatever and be off and running with two (?) functioning browsers with little or no hassle.

It seems like all these big changes have succeeded in producing some nice fonts but otherwise mostly pain and frustration. No more galeon rpms (that actually work with rh8). My plugins mostly don't work anymore or cause mozilla to crash. Lately printing has gone south and causes my browser (epiphany, mozilla, and galeon) to crash.

I thought that post 1.0 mozilla was supposed to be api stable for embedders? Why do I still need mozilla for galeon and epiphany? That is not a requirement for kmellon.

And what about nautilus as browser with mozilla? No one even talks about that anymore. Where is a functioning galeon or epiphany view for nautilus?

So many questions, so few really nice, stable and easy to install browsers for gnomers (only mozilla itself actually). Gnome web browsers are at a very exciting time but also I have never seen a greater time of total disarray since Netscape 4x was the only option.

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