On Fri, 2015-10-02 at 16:12 -0300, Bastián Díaz wrote: > Hello, I am delighted the evolution that epiphany has taken, and this > release I have become my default web browser. > However, I have some doubts about its future performance and features > that would make before writing a report.
Hi, glad you're enjoying Epiphany! Since the development team is small, and I'm personally more interested in working on security features, the common refrain for my answers here is unfortunately "patches welcome," but most of these would be good (not-too-complicated) projects for new contributors. > Improvements: > > Pin epiphany tabs: This is a feature used by many browsers (safari > recently) and is convenient to maintain some websites or webapps > always > open. I think this would be fine, but not a priority to me; patches welcome. This might be a harder project, though. > Warning when closing multiple tabs: It may seem minor, but it is > important to avoid mistakes. I'm not sure what the problem is here? If you have any modified forms, you'll get a warning. Otherwise, closing the browser is harmless: all your pages will be loaded again next time you start the browser. > Reading view: Another practical element of modern web browsers. > https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-reader-view-clutter-free > -web-pages I'm not sure about this one either. I'm not super opposed to it but we should be extremely hesitant to add icons to the header bar; Firefox's top bar has recently taken a turn for the worse because their designers don't know how to say no to things. But apparently the reader mode is fairly popular, so maybe we should have it. Anyway, it should be fairly easy to implement by using WebKitUserContentManager and WebKitUserStyleSheet. If you navigate to chrome ://global/skin/aboutReaderContent.css in Firefox you'll find a nice style sheet; GNOME News has a copy of it with some modifications to work in WebKit. > Add-ons: > > Evince browser plugin: An excellent alternative to read pdf directly > in > the web browser. Unfortunately the only way to install is via > terminal. > Is it possible to add as a complement or recommend it to be seen and > installed from gnome-software? GNOME expects it to be installed and enabled by default, but distributions have the final say on this and can screw that up intentionally or unintentionally. You can file a bug report with your distro. It's enabled by default in Fedora Workstation. > Webextension API: Mozilla announced a new implementation will allow > Chrome support extensions (blink api) in Firefox, opening the > possibility of universal extensions. Does this fit for the > development > of epiphany? https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions I think it mostly fits; certainly, it would be nice to support extensions, and it would be quite silly to use any other extension model now that there is convergence on WebExtensions. Some particular APIs just might not be workable, though; e.g. we probably don't want to let extensions touch the top bar, since that results in cluttered and mismatched icons. But in that case, we could still support the same API, and just implement the silly buttons as new menu entries instead. Note that Firefox is only implementing a subset of the Chrome API, so the best way to start would be to work towards supporting the same API subset as Firefox. This would be a big project. > Other issues > > Plugin manager: The current ad blocker is very general.It does not > allow > enable/disable for some websites or block particular elements. I'm planning to work on improving this. > Moreover, > it is not possible to activate/deactivate a particular plugin. In my > case, I have installed the Java plugin for use in some web, but I > like > to keep it off. A welcome feature. I'm not going to work on this myself, because (1) I don't use any plugins personally, and (2) there isn't any long-term value in the project, because we are pushing hard to switch to Wayland by default ASAP, and plugins will never be supported under Wayland. > Any feature click-to-play? Ditto. > Password Manager: The Password Manager in GNOME worked perfectly > until I > changed my desktop environment (XFCE). Now I can not access some web > pages automatically and less asks me to save passwords. > Any ideas?, there how to use it in conjunction with seahorse? This is the only request that I see as out-of-scope. It's great that Epiphany works well in Xfce, but we don't design for that case, and should assume the existence of gnome-keyring. It should not be too hard to get gnome-keyring running under Xfce; I'm not familiar with the process, but you could look into https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeKeyring/RunningDaemon Cheers, Michael _______________________________________________ epiphany-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list
