Epiphany / Firefox

[Lionel Dricot (aka Ploum)]

I started this page on the wiki a while ago :
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EpiphanyDefaultBrowser

This is a perfect place to discuss this kind of things. There's also a
thread on ubuntuforums.

Remember that we are talking here about a "sensible default". Not
about our prefered browser !  This is really two different things.
(just as a reminder ;-) )

On 21/09/05, Trent Lloyd <lathiat at bur.st> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 01:46:52PM +0300, Sandis Neilands wrote:
> > 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
>
> Epiphany uses the firefox engine, so you get all of this for free, it
> just changes the UI.
>
> IMHO firefox is better, it has a more consistent UI, and people know
> about 'firefox', can use it on windows/mac, so easy transition point, etc.
>
> Trent
>
> >     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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