Ship epiphany, make it the "default" browser?

[john]

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Scott Balneaves
<sbalneav at legalaid.mb.ca> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 09:50:57AM -0800, Jordan Erickson wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Yeah, as part of my "experiment" I've switched myself over to it.
>
>> 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.
>
> Hmmm, interesting.  On my home ltsp "lab" (two thin clients), it was
> "noticeably" peppier, for completely subjective values of "noticeably".  Like I
> say, I think I really need to sit down and come up with some objective
> measurements opposite speed, memory usage, etc.  As well, the ephy you'd have
> been running on would have been gecko based, same renderer as in FF, with all
> it's associated goodness/badness.  9.10's ephy's switched over to webkit, which
> seems (to me) to haul donkey/horse admixtures way faster.
>
>> 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.
>
> Flash I know works, Java I haven't tested yet.

Hi Guys,

This sounds pretty cool. I'll just throw in my .02 and say that it
would be great to devise a way to test under load. A lot
of the gotcha's that I have encountered with firefox don't even start
to manifest until I have many concurrent sessions. I suspect the same
may be true of Epiphany. If automated load testing could be built into
this, I think it might be very useful.

Also there are some web sites that "don't work" with less usual
browsers (e.g. users are blocked by client side java script checks
etc), so it might be necessary for epiphany to be able to "lie" (a la
konqueror) about who it is for some sites to work. Perhaps this won't
be much of a problem these days.

Thanks!

John

John