http://blogs.gnome.org/epiphany The web through the eyes of GNOME Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:39:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Attention! Ceci n'est pas un poisson d'avril! Over the last few months, the Epiphany development team has been discussing the future of the Gnome web browser. We feel that we haven't been living up to the full potential of a well-integrated Gnome application, due to both internal and external constraints. The Epiphany ... http://blogs.gnome.org/epiphany/2008/04/01/the-future-of-epiphany/ This 2.22 release of Epiphany brings a few architectural changes as well as some user-visible ones. It blesses us with a migration from gnome-vfs to GIO. Also, thanks to a refactoring of Epiphany's internals, cross engine support has improved a lot. If you're feeling adventurous, feel free to try Epiphany ... http://blogs.gnome.org/epiphany/2008/03/12/epiphany-2220-minus-379-released/ The first Epiphany release in the unstable development series has hit the FTP servers! A lot has happened on the WebKit front, get all the facts from Xan... A lot of changes and bugfixes have accumulated before this release. Check the release announcement for details. Unfortunately, Epiphany-extensions isn't in releaseable state yet ... http://blogs.gnome.org/epiphany/2007/12/17/epiphany-2214-the-case-of-mr-epifanio-navegared/ It's been way too long since an "official" Epiphany blog. Anyway, here are a few highlights to keep you up to date. As Wouter noted already, Epiphany 2.20.2 is out. We even have a proper NEWS file this time! It includes a few notable bug fixes, for example in the areas ... http://blogs.gnome.org/epiphany/2007/11/27/epiphany-2202-out/ If you haven't had the time to check ThirdPartyExtensions page in the wiki, then you might be missing the following cool extensions. Empowering your tabs Two cool extensions from George Notaras: Tab Links This extension allows you to export that interesting tabs you have open to various formats so you can share them: Mediawiki, ... http://blogs.gnome.org/epiphany/2007/08/27/some-extensions-you-didnt-know/ GUADEC The most important change in this release is obviously that an experimental WebKit back-end was added by Xan Lopez during the GNOME conference. Read all about it here. Fer also blogged about it and it was even mentioned in an article on Ars Technica. Imran posted additional build instructions. The Epiphany team was ... http://blogs.gnome.org/epiphany/2007/07/30/epiphany-2196-released-webkit-back-end/ In case you were wondering: Epiphany 2.19.3 and 2.19.4 were never released. Changes since 2.19.2: Copy the lock icons from g-i-t 2.16 into epiphany, since the new ones in g-i-t are broken (see bug #348350 comment 93 ff). Sync with latest libegg toolbareditor use "document-page-setup" named icon for STOCK_PRINT_SETUP (now available on gnome-icon-theme ... http://blogs.gnome.org/epiphany/2007/07/10/epiphany-2195-released/ Galeon/Epiphany You’re one of those quiet people who hangs out in the back and of whom everybody thinks little about until they come talk to you. Then they find out you’re an exotic dancer, movie stuntman, or NSA agent. This would be discounted, however, by the fact that you use ... http://blogs.gnome.org/epiphany/2007/06/19/what-your-web-browser-says-about-you/ It's been awhile since the last blog, but Epiphany hasn't been standing still! Since the 2.18.0 release, there have been quite some improvements: Support using named icons in the toolbareditor and attach them to the mouse pointer while dragging them to the toolbar. Fixes bug #436684. Make Shift+Return find previous when searching. ... http://blogs.gnome.org/epiphany/2007/05/13/epiphany-epiphany-extensions-2192/ Yesterday, Thilo Pfennig told us some great news: The upcoming release of Foresight Linux will have Epiphany as default browser! And it's not the only distro doing so: Arch Linux also prefers Epiphany over other Gecko-based browsers. :-) Furthermore, at long last, Magnus Therning's Epilicious extension has been included in Epiphany-extensions ... http://blogs.gnome.org/epiphany/2007/03/04/foresight-and-epilicious/