What your web browser says about you

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 Gnome.

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Epiphany & Epiphany-Extensions 2.19.2

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. Fixes bug #412033
• Copy the items on the completion list as the user moves through them. The original input can be restored pressing Esc. The tentative
  completion can be made definitive pressing Left or Right. Fixes #409291, #102528

• Use xdg-user-dirs to get a better default Downloads. Fixes #415342
• Middle clicking the Go button should open the location bar address
  content in a new tab. Fixes #362591.

• Fix printing of frames.
• Allow the user to select a different bookmark topic on the toolbar by just moving the mouse. Old behaviour forced the user to click each
  topic button to activate the menu, now only the first click is required. Fixes #363848.

• In Epiphany-Extensions, a localization problem and a configuration dialog problem with Epilicious have been fixed.

Contributors to this release:
Felix Riemann, Diego Escalante Urrelo, Robin Stocker, Xan Lopez, Bastien Nocera, John Millikin, Christian Persch, Magnus Therning

Updated translations:
Josep Puigdemont i Casamajó, Luca Ferretti, Ignacio Casal Quinteiro, Jakub Friedl, Ignacio Casal Quinteiro, Jorge Gonzalez, Reinout van Schouwen, Stéphane Raimbault, Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle, Gabor Kelemen, Pema Geyleg, Takeshi AIHANA, Daniel Nylander, Christophe Merlet, Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Kjartan Maraas, Mişu Moldovan, Hendrik Richter, Goran Rakić, I Felix, Djihed Afifi

We should not forget to mention here that one Google Summer of Code project was accepted, called: Integrating Epiphany Bookmarks and Browsing History For GNOME-wide Access! Imran Patel is the student who will be working on this. Good luck Imran!

Foresight and Epilicious

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 2.17.92. This means that keeping your del.icio.us bookmarks in sync with Epiphany is now easier than ever!

Since the last blog entry, some new Epiphany development releases have made it to the FTP mirrors. The bug fixes have been mostly cosmetic, but at least one crasher with D-BUS 1.0.2 has been fixed thanks to Jan de Groot.

A new stabler stable release

Epiphany 2.16.3 is out and it’s probably the most stable edition in the “stable” 2.16 series! A nasty crash when deleting bookmarks has been worked around (thanks to dieguito!) so
please stop
filing bug reports
for
this problem with
bug-buddy , ok?

Of course, development for the GNOME 2.18 is well underway. Noticeable changes in the last development releases are mostly visual polish and stability improvements: the themed icon support is now (almost) complete, favicons and page titles are now shown in the address bar dropdown, a problem with the browser history and the deskbar applet has been resolved, and last but not least, the Epiphany Adblock extension is now configurable through the graphical user interface!

Because of a harddisk replacement I don’t have any screenshots of these nice improvements ready right now, but feel free to contribute one…

Before I forget: info about obtaining Epiphany is on the downloads page.

Epiphany 2.17.2

Keeping you up to date with the latest developments: Epiphany 2.17.2 is out! No shocking changes but some nice little patches from contributors all over the place bring you an interesting release.

Here’s a quick summary:

• Clicking favicon in the location bar selects URL. Fix bug #349557.
• Default to printing background images.
• Add middle-click on New Tab/Window button to open URL on clipboard. Fix bug 149715.
• Automatically open a Nautilus window after downloading has finished. Fixes bug #138876. Try this and tell us what you think!
• Fix printing of page ranges.

Misc bug fixes: bug #347750,
bug #330415, bug #357456, Bug #352733, bug #361606, Bug #362063, bug #349349, bug #358007, bug #350053.

Contributors to this release:
John Millikin, Diego Escalante Urrelo, Jean-François Rameau, Wouter Bolsterlee, Ed Catmur, Christian Persch.

Downloads: http://live.gnome.org/Epiphany/Downloads

Epiphany 2.16

Admittedly somewhat overdue, here’s the announcement of Epiphany 2.16.
Read all about it in the Release Notes!

Epiphany 2.15.91 released

Epiphany update for GNOME 2.16 beta 2

Epiphany is getting in shape for the GNOME 2.16 release. This time around, no big new features are planned but a lot of work has gone into bugfixes, polish, and keeping up with changes in Mozilla and GTK. Notable improvements are that basic support for spell checking in HTML text forms is now working, and the Certificates extension is merged into the core.

The list below covers the changes and bugfixes from 2.15.3 until the current release. Thanks to all contributors!

Changes:

• Spell check support using the gecko ’spellchecker’ extension.
  No corrections context menu or language switching yet. The default
  dictionary is based on applicable locale names.

• Add page security info dialogue from Certificates extension.
• Drop libgnomeprint[ui] and use gtk printing. Add our options in
  a custom tab in the print dialogue. Print settings and page setup
  persist now.

• Add methods to EphyNode to set typed properties. This change improves the
  Python API so it should be easy now to play with bookmarks.
  Add https and ftp local bookmarks. Based on a patch by Celso Pinto,
  bug 330679.

Bug fixes:

• Misc fixes: 337913,
  312869,
  345934,
  346662,
  339548,
  347022,
  344848,
  343592.

• Add a way to turn off password remembering. Bug 332374.
• Don’t crash when adding zeroconf bookmarks while bookmarks are locked
  down. Bug 341379.

• Fix middle-click and ctrl-enter in the location entry autocompletion
  drop-down. Bug 345934, based on a patch by johannes at sipsolutions-net.

• Make the crash recovery dialog appear on the taskbar.
  Fixes bug 345010.

• copy history over when opening link in new tab/win using
  context menu. Fixes bug 340742, patch by René Stadler.

• Don’t crash on error from zeroconf bookmarks. Fixes bug 343922.
• Don’t set cookies from favicon downloads. Bug 337835.
• Allow cookie list to be sorted. (fixes 337845)
• Fix crash when moving zoom widget on toolbar (338682)
• Display the find bar for “Find Next” and “Find Previous”
  if it wasn’t visible already. Entry focus is handlded
  with care so that use cases like incremental search work
  as expected. Fixes bug 333020.

• Remove Shift+Ctrl+T accelerator, it was pressed accidentally
  too often and people would lose their toolbars. Bug 328783.

Documentation:

• Manpage update from Victor Osadci.

Contributors to this release:

Johannes Berg, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Luca Ferretti,
Crispin Flowerday, Victor Osadci, Christian Persch,
Frederic Peters , Celso Pinto, Jean-François Rameau,
René Stadler, Diego Escalante Urrelo.

Documentation translations:

Francisco Javier F. Serrador (es), Daniel Nylander (sv), Vitaly Kormilov (ru).

Translations:

Ales Nyakhaychyk (be), Rostislav “zbrox” Raykov (bg), Gil Forcada (ca),
Jakub Friedl (cs), Hendrik Richter (de), Mindu Dorji (dz),
Kostas Papadimas (el), Crispin Flowerday (en_GB),
Francisco Javier F. Serrador (es), Priit Laes (et),
Iñaki Larrañaga Murgoitio (eu), Ilkka Tuohela (fi),
Christophe Merlet (RedFox) (fr), Ankit Patel (gu), Satoru SATOH (ja),
Changwoo Ryu (ko), Jovan Naumovski (mk), Øivind Hoel (nb),
Reinout van Schouwen (nl), Daniel Nylander (sv),
Theppitak Karoonboonyanan (th), Maxim Dziumanenko (uk), Funda Wang (zh_CN).

New extensions and 2.15 developments

• Two generous people have contributed some new Epiphany extensions for you to try out. See the webpages of dieguito and Stefan Suhr. A couple of highlights: Undo tab close, Menu bar and toolbar besides each other, and Remove throbber. Thanks for the contributions!
• Since the last post, there have been a couple of Epiphany minor releases (2.14.1, 2.14.2, 2.15.1, 2.15.2, 2.15.3) that went by unannounced. The stable branch has received mostly polish and a few translation updates. In the 2.15 branch, support for mozilla 1.7 has been dropped, GTK 2.9.x is required and the code is ported to the new notebook API. And here is a small hint about what else is being worked on for the next release:

  

  Please note that the UI isn’t finished yet!

π -1

A.k.a. “Epiphany 2.14 released!”
(OK, it’s an approximation

Epiphany 2.14.0 is the first release in the stable series for GNOME
2.14. It features automatic bookmark hierarchies, NetworkManager
awareness, a topic chooser that suggests additional topics, more
flexible toolbars, custom stylesheets and countless small improvements all over the place.

And the biggest new feature of all: the Epiphany version number scheme is now in sync with GNOME!

A special “thank you” to all the night-time code forgers, extension writers (AdBlock, finally!), usability experts, whiny bug reporters , documenters and translators who made this release possible.

Epiphany 2.14 is an awesome release — Go play with it and spread the word! [download]

Update: Wow, that’s a fast response, ploum!

Enjoy,

The Epiphany team

1.9.8 released; XULRunner

Version 1.9.8 of the GNOMEyest browser on Earth has hit the streets! The last rough UI edges have been polished, thanks to the people who participated in the UI review. Download instructions are here.

From this release on, XULRunner is a supported Gecko version to build Epiphany with. Soon, you will be able to run Epiphany without a mandatory Firefox or Seamonkey installation next to it

As you may know, the bookmark menu, the toolbar and the topic chooser have received lots of love this cycle. Peter Harvey is the driving force behind all this, and now he has even created a short video (play in fullscreen) of the topic chooser in action. The full description can be read by following this link. Enjoy!