Epiphany / Firefox

[Sandis Neilands]

Hi!

I tried preview release live cd (breezy) and guess what - epiphany depends
on it again!

On 9/20/05, Edward H. Trager <ehtrager at umich.edu> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 2005.09.20 21:48:44 +0300, Sandis Neilands wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > After reading gnome-bittorent-too-simple thread I have a question about
> > browsers - why not to include Epiphany as a default gnome web browser?
> It is
> > better integrated in gnome, it's simplier, it doesn't use THAT much
> > reousrces as firefox does. Don't know about security though.
>
> 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).
>
> While Firefox still has a fair share of problems with it (hence the need,
> for example,
> for Ubuntu to patch it to handle Indic rendering properly, something that
> the Firefox
> people really need to settle once and for all in their own code base),
> does it not seem
> wiser to stick with the more actively developed and presumably more
> actively tested
> browser?


Then how did evolution get in? I don't really think it's used more than
thunderbird.
And Jeff - where else can i ask question to devs?

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Sandis
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