Ship epiphany, make it the "default" browser?

[Jordan Erickson]

Just a few things from my experience,

1) Epiphany is a good browser over-all.. it's fast, I've been using it
as my main browser on my eeepc 701 and it's good for the most part.

2) I had one of the schools I work with test out Epiphany since Firefox
was giving us some grief... I didn't get into too much detail, but I'll
note that the teacher told us Ephiphany performed even worse than
Firefox. So in any case we'll want to do some testing with a recent
version (I'm still on 8.04 atm) and a moderately sized LTSP lab.

3) We're going to want to extensively test all of the plugins for
Epiphany (which I haven't done yet myself).. Flash, Java being the most
noteable ones. All of the people I've worked with with Linux/LTSP seem
to really show that the plugins are the most important thing since so
many sites use them so much. I just installed epiphany-browser on my Ubu
9.10 AMD64 machine at home and Java doesn't work ootb. Not really sure
how to get it going right now actually. Last I heard Webkit and Java
weren't very good friends.

4) 100% agree on gconf == good. I've always envied Epiphany because of
what you can do with it in gconf, and the lack of support Firefox has
for it.

All in all I'm for testing and making it a goal.. I'm not really happy
with the direction Firefox is going in, anyway. If Epiphany can smooth
out the rough edges I think we'd have a good candidate for a replacement
default browser.


Jordan


Scott Balneaves wrote:
> After a few weeks of testing, I'd like to make a, err... Possibly controversial
> suggestion. :)
> 
> Certainly not for Lucid, but say, for 12.04, it might be interesting to switch
> to Epiphany for Edubuntu's "Default" web browser.  Here's why:
> 
> 1) It's based on WebKit, which, with my initial testing, works MUCH better on
> thin clients, with much less X server ram usage.
> 2) It integrates very well into Gnome, being the default Gnome browser.
> 3) (A biggie) it speaks gconf, and you can do lockdown on it in Pessulus and
> Sabayon.
> 4) With my newfound idears gained from playing with evoldap, getting som gconf
> setting via an LDAP backend shouldn't be too hard.
> 
> Not saying we should.  Just saying it might be worth... examining, post lucid.
> 
> Cheers,
> Scott