what is the reason for not making epiphany the default browser?

[Lee Revell]

On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 07:15 +0100, Emilio Jesús Gallego Arias wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com> writes:
> > On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 06:36 +0100, John Nilsson wrote:
> >> I'm not sure if it's Dapper or me, but Firefox is really unstable ATM.
> Flash + Sound makes the browser hang every minute ATM.
> 

Yep that could be it - I installed "click to play" to deal with Flash
ads in Epiphany and it drastically sped things up.  I'll try that.

It really seems that there's some "single-threaded" behavior going on -
activity in a hidden tab "stalls" the current tab.

> > FWIW I have been having similar problems lately - lots of stalls and
> > hangs.  If I use the middle button to open a link in a new tab, the
> > current page stalls for several seconds (can't scroll).  It seems to be
> > worse the past few weeks.
> Are you using tabbrowser extensions? I had similar troubles until past
> week I got tired and uninstalled the extension. Now firefox works like
> a charm.
> 

Nope, my Extensions window is completely empty.

> Regards,
> 
> Emilio
>