August 29, 2005
Announcements, New features
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What is it ?
Epiphany is the GNOME web browser, based on the mozilla rendering engine. It aims to be simple and easy to use.
Epiphany 1.7.6 is the last release in the unstable series leading
up to GNOME 2.12.
Changes from Epiphany 1.7.5 to 1.7.6
- Don’t empty find entry on Ctrl-F
- Fix local file monitoring when loaded after a blank page
- Remove check for redirected URL [#313756]
- Fix configure check for gecko >= 1.8
- Disable keyword searches by default [#158486]
- Fix some compile warnings
- Configure and makefile fixes for broken gecko header layouts
- Define out the focus fix for gecko >= 1.8
- Fix pointer grab lockup when gecko pops up a dialogue while reordering tabs with DND
- Don’t create host node in ephy_history_get_host if not already existing
- Add an “add-page” signal to the EphyHistory object
- Set default prefs for warn-on-mixed-security pages [#309088]
Contributors to this release were Crispin Flowerday and Christian Persch.
Updated translations:
- Jordi Mallach (ca)
- Rhys Jones (cy)
- Ivar Smolin (et)
- Xavier Claessens (fr)
- Ankit Patel (gu)
- tunggul arif siswoyo (id)
- Reinout van Schouwen (nl)
- GNOME PL Team (pl)
- Afonso Celso Medina (pt_BR)
- Mugurel Tudor (ro)
- Clytie Siddall (vi)
Where can I get it ?
Source code:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/epiphany/1.7/epiphany-1.7.6.tar.bz2
with SHA1 sum aabc8e9e5c0359742acbfe0c41b5d07313b46547.
Epiphany 1.7.6 requires mozilla 1.7, 1.7.x, 1.7 branch, 1.8b2 or trunk, or firefox 1.0.x or trunk.
The recommended version is Mozilla 1.7.11
More about dependencies and installation tips.
New Epiphany extension: autoscroll
A new epiphany extension has been added to the collection: Autoscroll. Basically it is a port of the Galeon code that enables scrolling a webpage using the middle mouse button. Available for Epiphany 1.6.x (GNOME 2.10) and 1.7.x (GNOME 2.12).
Enjoy.
The Epiphany team
August 23, 2005
Announcements
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Changes:
- Find bar fixes [bug 307216, bug 311985, bug 312419, bug 312367, bug 311929]
- Fix tab properties
- Fix downloading on gecko 1.8
- Open new tabs with blank url bar when loading the homepage [bug 313012]
- Gcc 4 fixes
- Fix download display of unknown sizes [bug 313215]
- Reject favicons that are Add sanity check when opening in external handler [bug 310023]
- Improve menu positioning on toolbar buttons
- Fix some mem leaks
- Try to save images from cache [bug 168554]
Contributors to this release: Crispin Flowerday, Christian Persch,
Jean-François Rameau.
Updated translations:
- Rostislav “zbrox” Raykov (bg)
- Nikos Charonitakis (el)
- Adam Weinberger (en_CA)
- (es)
- Ivar Smolin (et)
- Ilkka Tuohela (fi)
- Gabor Kelemen (hu)
- Takeshi AIHANA (ja)
- Žygimantas Beručka (lt)
- Terance Edward Sola (nb)
- Ganesh Ghimire (ne)
- Reinout van Schouwen (nl)
- Sigurd Gartmann (nn)
- Terance Edward Sola (no)
- GNOME PL Team (pl)
- Duarte Loreto (pt)
- Mugurel Tudor (ro)
- Leonid Kanter (ru)
- Marcel Telka (sk)
- Laurent Dhima (sq)
- Theppitak Karoonboonyanan (th)
- Maxim Dziumanenko (uk)
- Clytie Siddall (vi)
- Liu Songhe (zh_CN)
- Woodman Tuen (zh_TW)
Updated documentation translations:
- Nikos Charonitakis (el)
- Maxim Dziumanenko (uk)
- Francisco Javier F. Serrador (es)
August 9, 2005
Announcements
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What is it ?
Epiphany is the GNOME web browser, based on the mozilla rendering engine. It aims to be simple and easy to use.
Epiphany 1.7.4 is the fourth release in the unstable series leading
up to GNOME 2.12.
Changes from Epiphany 1.7.3 to 1.7.4
- Only show the leaf name on bookmarksbar for hierarchical topics
- Don’t put the archive links on the unknownSocketType error message
- Fix google search URL to include www prefix
- Fix proxy server settings string
- Work around gtkmozembed focus bug [#105153]
- For empty pages, put focus in address bar
- Be careful not to leave a GC scheduled when terminating python
- Realise the embed first before grabbing focus on it
- Implement ::grab-focus and remove ephy_embed_activate
- Update the python bindings
- String fixes [#172230], [#167448]
- Fix setting homepage to current page [#311962]
- Allow EPHY_DEBUG_BREAK even in non-debug builds
- Disable favicons from non-http URLs [#312291]
- Fix location entry favicon updating
- Fix crash on “window.get_toolbar()” [#170105]
- Fix gcc 4.0 warnings
- Fix crash when getting context event, [#310910]
- Fix session saving on recovery with offline network [#147840]
- Fix drawing of location entry with new default GNOME theme (Clearlooks)
- Change the text on the ‘unknown issuer’ dialog [#151519]
- Also clear favicon cache when clearing the cache
- Make download dialog wording clearer
Contributors to this release were Crispin Flowerday, Christian Persch,
Jean-François Rameau and Raphael Slinckx.
Updated translations:
- Rostislav \”zbrox\” Raykov (bg)
- Miloslav Trmac (cs)
- Nikos Charonitakis (el)
- Adam Weinberger (en_CA)
- (es)
- Priit Laes (et)
- Ilkka Tuohela (fi)
- Ankit Patel (gu)
- Gabor Kelemen (hu)
- Takeshi AIHANA (ja)
- Terance Edward Sola (nb)
- Reinout van Schouwen (nl)
- Terance Edward Sola (no)
- GNOME PL Team (pl)
- Afonso Celso Medina (pt_BR)
- Marcel Telka (sk)
- Laurent Dhima (sq)
- Prajasakti Localisation Team (te)
- Theppitak Karoonboonyanan (th)
- Clytie Siddall (vi)
- Liu Songhe (zh_CN)
Where can I get it ?
Source code:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/epiphany/1.7/epiphany-1.7.4.tar.bz2
with SHA1 sum 5cb5ae7ce0d20c8104c181eb8e0d62a9addc1ac1.
Epiphany 1.7.4 requires mozilla 1.7, 1.7.x, 1.7 branch, 1.8b2 or trunk, or firefox 1.0.x or trunk.
The recommended version is Mozilla 1.7.11
More about dependencies and installation tips.
Enjoy.
The Epiphany team
P.S. It may be worth mentioning that the infamous Focus Bug should be fixed with this release… 😀
August 3, 2005
New features
4 Comments
A new address entry widget which supports focus indication and multiple draggable icons on either side of the entry improves Epiphany’s GNOME integration.
