Hello Xan and other developers, As I can see, you have a HUGE task ahead. If possible, can you also look at the bug I reported months back? This is, as possibly, may be a webkit bug(as told in the irc), but Chromium/Chrome are not affected. The bug is reported https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82504
That will be really helpful. Sorry if I flooded a rather serious discussion with my issue. On Tue, 2012-10-23 at 11:58 +0200, Xan Lopez wrote: > Hi everyone, > > as discussed in a thread[1] and a bug[2] some time ago there are some > problems with the traditional extension model in epiphany. I recommend > to read those links, but just to summarize: > > - The traditional extension model available in Epiphany has several > serious problems. > - Extensions run in the main browser process, making it more unstable. > - The API surface exposed to them it's huge. Hard to keep it stable > when you want to improve the browser fast. > - Forces people to use relatively obscure technologies to do simple things. > > On top of all these, and as we have said a number of times, our plan > for 3.8 is to switch epiphany to use WebKit2. This would immediately > invalidate all extensions (or at least the few remaining ones that do > actually work), so as you can see we are in a bit of a situation. For > this reason the epiphany maintainers have agreed: > > - To integrate in the core browser the really popular extensions that > we receive feedback about and that people complain when they break. > This basically means 'adblock', which will be available in 3.7.1 as > part of the core browser. > - To remove the support for traditional extensions in ephy. This is > also already done in 3.7.1, so the existing extensions *will not* work > from now on. > - To start the process of defining the future extension model for > ephy, based on the out-of-process web-based technologies used in > Chrome or Firefox. > > Obviously this last step requires a big effort, so we absolutely > welcome everyone interested in seeing a lot of well supported and > interesting extensions for ephy to join us in this project. We still > think a strong extension ecosystem around a lean core is a great idea, > and we hope this decision will actually get us closer to that future. > > Cheers, > > Xan > > 1: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/epiphany-list/2012-August/msg00002.html > 2: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=646597#c18 > _______________________________________________ > epiphany-list mailing list > epiphany-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list _______________________________________________ epiphany-list mailing list epiphany-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list
