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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 11:20.

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).

That's because galeon isn't actually released yet.

My plugins mostly don't work anymore or cause mozilla to crash.

Which plugins? This is probably an artifact of the gcc3.2 conversion. Painful but necessary basically.

Lately printing has gone south and causes my browser (epiphany, mozilla, and galeon) to crash.

Ephy and Galeon are still in beta (if you mean galeon2). I dunno why printing went south, but that sounds like an individual problem than a generic one.

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.

Large parts of Moz are API stable. However Galeon and Ephy use all kinds of interfaces that weren't frozen in order to totally integrate with Mozilla. Embedding Gecko is light years away from producing a completely new user interface to Mozilla, based on a different toolkit.

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?

I think there is one, but nobody talks about it because it sucks. Nautilus is a fairly good file browser, why bother load it down with stuff to make it a web browser when ephy and galeon do a much better job?

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