Epiphany (browser)
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| Epiphany | |
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 Epiphany showing the Wikipedia homepage |
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| Developed by | Various |
| Stable release | 2.22.1.1 (April 7, 2008) [+/−] |
| Preview release | none (n/a) [+/−] |
| OS | Cross-platform |
| Platform | GNOME |
| Genre | Web browser |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | gnome.org/projects/epiphany/ |
Epiphany is a Web browser for the GNOME graphical computing desktop. It is also available for Mac OS X[citation needed] 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[1][2]. 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 either Epiphany 2.24 or 2.26.[3] 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 planned Firefox 3.0 Places feature which will integrate 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. (Firefox 3 and later have added support for native control styles as specified in the operating system settings.)
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[edit] External links
- Epiphany Homepage
- Galeon History homepage covering the decision to split development
- GNOME Human Interface Guidelines
- Epiphany WebKit Project
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