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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 Mike on Wed, 2003-02-19 11:10.

I have to agree with the original poster. If you look at the galeon mailing list, there were all kinds of stupid brokeness going on because that's what the developers had got used to.

I don't think anybody has a problem with making a feature rich, powerful browser. It'd be a cool project (opera is kind of like this). But gnome needs an official browser, and it should be on that is relatively light weight and sane.

Mozilla has a similar problem - the "middle click opens url" madness, where if you accidentally click the mouse wheel over a webpage will attempt to open a paragraphs worth of URL persists because a few old-skool 4.7 developers got used to it and don't want to break their own habits. Ditto for the X clipboard breakage. There are featuers, and then there's crack. Features are fine, crack is not.

So, I agree with Marco - I think you can have usable and also have cool features. The bookmarks thing sounds really great, I find the galeon bookmarks system to be totally broken for me.

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