Thanks Jonathon and Jamin.

Is this only in 2.8 of Gnome? (other than as a separate pkg?) Or in a fresh install of Gnome 2.6? I can't find it on my FC2 which has been running Gnome since I installed it.

But, realistically I'm very happy with Firefox. The release of 1.0 is only a few days hence. :)

Ed

Jamin Philip Gray wrote:

On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Ed Howland wrote:



Anyone know of this. A port of Mozilla for Gnome.

http://www.gnome.org/projects/epiphany/

Rumored to be the default browser in Novells upcoming SuSE Desktop Linux
distro.

Does it replace Galeon? Why would I want to use this one?



Epiphany is the default Gnome browser. Although many Gnome users prefer Firefox and Galeon. I was fairly sure that Novell was going to ship Firefox with their new desktop, but maybe that has changed. Epiphany is a pretty good browser. It's mozilla-based and has solid integration with the Gnome desktop. It offers a unique bookmark system based on categories rather than folders. I used epiphany for many months until I recently switched to Firefox.

As far as the relationship between Galeon and Epiphany, Marco (the original
Galeon author) decided to abandon Galeon after struggling to keep down
feature bloat.  He had a vision for a very simple web browser and it was
clear that many people involved in the Galeon project didn't want that.  So
he simply started a new project: Epiphany.  It is designed to be
minimalistic and easy to use.  For some that's perfect.  For others who
require more features, Firefox or Galeon might be a better fit.  To each
his own...

Epiphany does have a certain elegance and polish which I do miss.  But I
couldn't resist Firefox's features and extensions since I do a fair bit of
web development for work.




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