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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 Anonymous George on Thu, 2003-02-20 08:09.

No, this person has a point. I installed everything for epiphany, for example. The rpm installed flwlessly and yet I got this when I tried to run it:

epiphany: error while loading shared libraries: libgtkembedmoz.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Trying to install the lastest version of galeon complained:

libbonoboui >= 2.1.1 is needed by galeon-1.3.2-1

Why not install libbonoboui 2.1.1? Try finding the rpm. It might be out there somewhere but I certainly couldn't find it. Its not on rpmfind.

Why not use the latest stable release of galeon which (theoretically) works with mozilla 1.3b? Trying the latest rpm, this is what you get:

error: Failed dependencies:

libgtksuperwin.so is needed by galeon-1.2.8-7.x_8.0

Suggested resolutions:

mozilla-1.0.1-24.i386.rpm

[laughter] Do you have any idea how many dependencies you break if you try installing mozilla 1.0.1 now?

I'm not complaining here, mind you. Stuff happens and, like many linux users who upgrade frequently, I'm used to dealing with things like this. I can, after all, always go back to mozilla 1.2 and install the last galeon release. But there is a point where you have to wonder if developers couldn't take a step back and work with libbonobo 2.0.0, for example, which actually comes with RH 8 and has stable rpms available. Must we always be so far out on the cutting edge that it becomes a royal pain just to find the necessary rpms to do a simple upgrade?

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