Epiphany (browser)

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Epiphany (browser)

Epiphany


Epiphany showing a web page.
Developer:	Various
Platform:	[[Platform::GNOME]]
Genre:	Web browser
License:	GNU General Public License
Website:	http://gnome.org/projects/epiphany/

Epiphany is a Web browser for the GNOME graphical computing desktop. It is also available for Mac OS X^[1] and is a descendant of Galeon.

It is one of a family of web browsers that use the Gecko layout engine from the Mozilla project to display web pages; however, the Epiphany developers provide an experimental build of Epiphany 2.21.4 using the WebKit engine instead of Gecko^[2]^[3]. It provides a GNOME integrated front-end to Gecko, instead of the Mozilla XUL interface. The Epiphany team intends to drop the Gecko back-end and continue forward only with the WebKit engine, by Epiphany 2.26.^[4] Epiphany supports tabbed browsing, cookie management, popup blocking and an extensions system. Epiphany can be extended with the Epiphany-extensions package

While most browsers feature a hierarchical folder-based bookmark system, Epiphany uses categorized bookmarks, where a single bookmark (such as “Epiphany”) can exist in multiple categories (such as “Web Browsers”, “GNOME”, and “Computer Software”). Special categories include bookmarks that have been used frequently (“Most Frequent”) and bookmarks that have not yet been categorized. This is similar to the Firefox 3.0 Places feature which integrates bookmarks and history into a SQLite database. Another innovative concept supported by Epiphany (though originally from Galeon) is “Smart Bookmarks”. These take a single argument specified from the address bar or from a textbox in a toolbar.

Epiphany was developed from Galeon by Marco Pesenti Gritti (also the initiator of Galeon) with the aim of making a fully GNOME human interface guidelines compliant web browser and a very simple user experience. As a result, Epiphany does not have its own theme settings, like Firefox — it uses GNOME’s settings that are specified in the GNOME Control Center.

1 Epiphany-extensions
2 See also
3 External links
4 References

[edit] Epiphany-extensions

epiphany-extensions
Developer:	[[Developer::GNOME]]
Initial release:	?
Available in:	?
License:	GPL
Website:	[[Website::www.gnome.org/.../extensions]]

Epiphany-extensions is a set of official extensions to the Epiphany web browser. Extensions include:

Actions
Ad filtering
Auto-reload
Autoscroll
Certificate Viewer
Dashboard
Error Viewer
Favicon.ico fallback
Greasemonkey
Imagebar
Java console
Mouse gestures
Newsfeed extractor
Tab Groups
Tab States
Page Info
Permissions
Python Console
Sample, an extension designed to show how to write one's own extension
Select Stylesheet
Sidebar
Smart Bookmarks

[edit] See also

List of web browsers
Comparison of web browsers

[edit] External links

Epiphany Homepage
Galeon History homepage covering the decision to split development
GNOME Human Interface Guidelines
Epiphany WebKit Project

[edit] References

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