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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 Sun, 2003-06-08 02:51.

I still fail to see the point of downloading a browser that depends on another. Its simply stupid IMO. Its one of the weakest points of Gnome in general. It seems the term "Web Browser" is very misleading in regards to both Galeon and Epiphany, the correct term should be "Fast Gecko Based Interface".

I can't help but wonder why I end up with a package called "Gtkhtml" which presumably is an HTML renderer, yet still require Gecko. And why can't either project at least take Gecko and distribute it as part of their respective project.

Epiphany claims to not be bloated, but it still takes up almost twice the harddrive space due to needing mozilla as my current browser - konqueror. Size needed for a project is my deffinition of bloat. Mozilla alone is larger then Konqueror, let alone added size of Epiphany itself!

Get it together Gnome folks, get rid of the dependency on Mozilla, then maybe you can be taken seriously, after all, if I need to have Mozilla installed, I might as well use it as my default browser.

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