Epiphany 1.7.4

August 9, 2005 12:54 pm reinouts Announcements

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… 😀

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