Epiphany Web Browser
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As seen on OSNews...
In the GNOME philosophy, we want applications that do their job, only their job, and we want those to do it perfectly. Epiphany's job is to browse the web. Only browsing the web. But browsing the web in a GNOME fashioned way."
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The recent article on Epiphany has garnered many comments, both on FootNotes and on OSNews.
This followup article addresses some concerns that have been raised about Epiphany.
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Since the GNOME 2.12 feature freeze is in effect, it’s time to reflect on where Epiphany, GNOME’s default web browser, stands and where it’s going. Perhaps you want to contribute!
Epiphany aims to be as easy to use as possible. Examples include:- Enabling searching by typing search terms in the location bar
- Organizing bookmarks by category, instead of in a hierarchy
- Using GNOME programs when appropriate: view source launches GEdit, email links launch Evolution, and help launches Yelp.
Much has happened since Epiphany 1.0 became the default web browser on the GNOME desktop, which are already discussed in an previously previous article published on Footnotes (Epiphany celebrates its second birthday). After that article was published, Epiphany gradually improved, both on the architectural side with D-BUS support and Python extensions, and on the interface side, with an improved full-screen mode and customized error pages (error page screenshot). However, many ideas to make web surfing more pleasant and intuive are unimplemented.
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Yesterday marks the first Pyphany release. Pyphany is a set of Python bindings for Epiphany and a Python extension loader for Epiphany. You can use Pyphany to write Python extensions for the Epiphany web browser. I have written a quick guide to the first Python Epiphany extension: the Python Console.
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by Reinout van Schouwen
Epiphany's inception
On December 25, 2002, Marco Pesenti Gritti announced the first release of his brainchild, the Epiphany browser, to the world. The name Epiphany ("intuitive grasp of reality through something usually simple and striking") was chosen for a reason. Partly based on code from Galeon, that Marco had been project lead of until shortly before, Epiphany's design was minimalistic, yet innovative and aimed for maximum usability. To that end, Epiphany featured a unique non-hierarchical, topic based bookmarks system and a smart location bar entry that offered suggestions retrieved from bookmarks as well as the browser history.
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Epiphany 1.1.7 has been released. Not much has changed since the recent Epiphany 1.1.6 release, but this new one has typo fixes, downloader view fixes and a crash fix in the extensions manager.
This release of Epiphany was made especially to cope with Epiphany Extensions, which are self-contained pieces of code which alter the behavior of Epiphany. Epiphany Extensions 0.7 has been released, which now contains extensions for mouse gestures, per-site popup blocking, extra options in the Tabs menu, a Javascript and HTML page validator (local validation of HTML with the same precision as validator.w3.org), an SSL certificate viewer and a Dashboard frontend.
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Epiphany is a GNOME web browser based on the mozilla
rendering engine. It aims to be simple and easy to use.
This new stable release features support for mozilla 1.6 and numerous bug fixes.
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Epiphany is the default GNOME web browser based on the mozilla
rendering engine. It aims to be simple and easy to use.
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Epiphany is the GNOME web browser based on the mozilla
rendering engine. It aims to be simple and easy to use. This new release now depends on GTK 2.3.x and Mozilla 1.4 or preferably Mozilla 1.5.
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Epiphany is a GNOME web browser based on the mozilla
rendering engine. It aims to be simple and easy to use.
This new release features numerous bugfixes and support for mozilla 1.4.1 and 1.6a.
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Epiphany is a GNOME web browser based on the mozilla
rendering engine.
The name meaning:
"An intuitive grasp of reality through
something (as an event) usually simple and striking"
You can find more info about the project goals at:
http://epiphany.mozdev.org
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Epiphany is a GNOME web browser based on the mozilla
rendering engine.
The name meaning:
"An intuitive grasp of reality through
something (as an event) usually simple and striking"
You can find more info about the project goals at:
http://epiphany.mozdev.org
Also the first release of Epiphany Plugins is now available, including a Gestures plugin
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Epiphany is a GNOME web browser based on the mozilla
rendering engine.
The name meaning:
"An intuitive grasp of reality through
something (as an event) usually simple and striking"
You can find more info about the project goals at:
http://epiphany.mozdev.org
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Epiphany is a GNOME web browser based on the mozilla
rendering engine.
The name meaning:
"An intuitive grasp of reality through
something (as an event) usually simple and striking"
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Epiphany is a GNOME web browser based on the mozilla
rendering engine.
The name meaning:
"An intuitive grasp of reality through
something (as an event) usually simple and striking"
