Epiphany / Firefox

[Cam]

On 9/20/05, Edward H. Trager <ehtrager at umich.edu> wrote:
> And does it really work as well as Firefox or not?  Has Epiphany really been tested
> in the way the Firefox has?  Not only with regard to security, but also with regard
> to rendering non-Latin web pages, handling Javascript correctly, handling CSS-1 and
> CSS-2 correctly, DOM handling, etc.?  The last time I tested Epiphany (admittedly this was quite a
> while ago), it performed fairly poorly on some of my tests (which were mostly in the
> CSS and DOM realm at that time).

Honestly why would epiphany be any different than firefox?  It's using
the exact same rendering engine.  Rendering non-lating pages looks
exactly the same as firefox, I use it daily.  So does CSS and
everything else.
 
> Actually, I personally have to wonder why Epiphany even exists at all?  The Gnome people
> should just scrap it and work with the Firefox people as closely as possible to insure that
> Firefox is both (i) a good desktop-agnostic browser and (ii) tightly integrated with Gnome when
> used in the Gnome desktop.

Firefox is never going to be part of the GNOME-desktop.  Have you ever
used it in conjunction w/ GNOME?  The look and feel is wildly
different.  As long as it's based on the XUL (and it always will be),
there will not be a place for it as the Official GNOME browser.

My $.02,
Cameron Matheson