Epiphany (browser)

Infobox Software
name = Epiphany



caption = Epiphany showing a web page.
developer = Various
released =
frequently updated = yes
programming language =
operating system = Cross-platform
platform = GNOME
language =
genre = Web browser
license = GNU General Public License
website = http://gnome.org/projects/epiphany/

Epiphany is a Web browser for the GNOME graphical computing desktop. It is also available for Mac OS X [ [http://epiphany.darwinports.com/ Porting Epiphany to Mac OS X] ] and is a descendant of Galeon.

It is one of a family of web browsers that use the Gecko layout engine from the Mozilla project to display web pages; however, the Epiphany developers provide an experimental build of Epiphany 2.21.4 using the WebKit engine instead of Gecko [ [http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjE3Mg [Phoronix Exciting Features For GNOME 2.22, 2.24 ] ] [ [http://live.gnome.org/Epiphany/Downloads Epiphany Downloads] ] . It provides a GNOME integrated front-end to Gecko, instead of the Mozilla XUL interface. The Epiphany team intends to drop the Gecko back-end and continue forward only with the WebKit engine, by Epiphany 2.26. [ [http://mail.gnome.org/archives/epiphany-list/2008-April/msg00000.html ANNOUNCEMENT: The Future of Epiphany ] ] Epiphany supports tabbed browsing, cookie management, popup blocking and an extensions system. Epiphany can be extended with the Epiphany-extensions package

While most browsers feature a hierarchical folder-based bookmark system, Epiphany uses categorized bookmarks, where a single bookmark (such as “Epiphany”) can exist in multiple categories (such as “Web Browsers”, “GNOME”, and “Computer Software”). Special categories include bookmarks that have been used frequently (“Most Frequent”) and bookmarks that have not yet been categorized. This is similar to the Firefox 3.0 "Places" feature which integrates bookmarks and history into a SQLite database. Another innovative concept supported by Epiphany (though originally from Galeon) is “Smart Bookmarks”. These take a single argument specified from the address bar or from a textbox in a toolbar.

Epiphany was developed from Galeon by Marco Pesenti Gritti (also the initiator of Galeon) with the aim of making a fully GNOME human interface guidelines compliant web browser and a very simple user experience. As a result, Epiphany does not have its own theme settings, like Firefox — it uses GNOME’s settings that are specified in the GNOME Control Center.

Epiphany-extensions

Infobox Software
name = epiphany-extensions



caption =
developer = GNOME
released = ?
frequently_updated = yes
programming language = ?
operating system = Unix-like operating systems
language = ?
genre =
license = GPL
website = [http://www.gnome.org/projects/epiphany/extensions www.gnome.org/.../extensions] Epiphany-extensions is a set of official extensions to the Epiphany web browser. Extensions include:
*Actions
*Ad filtering
*Auto-reload
*Autoscroll
*Certificate Viewer
*Dashboard
*Error Viewer
*Favicon.ico fallback
*Greasemonkey
*Imagebar
*Java console
*Mouse gestures
*Newsfeed extractor
*Tab Groups
*Tab States
*Page Info
*Permissions
*Python Console
*Sample, an extension designed to show how to write one's own extension
*Select Stylesheet
*Sidebar
*Smart Bookmarks

See also

* List of web browsers
* Comparison of web browsers

External links

* [http://www.gnome.org/projects/epiphany/ Epiphany Homepage]
* [http://galeon.sourceforge.net/links/history.php Galeon History homepage] covering the decision to split development
* [http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/ GNOME Human Interface Guidelines]
* [http://live.gnome.org/Epiphany/WebKit Epiphany WebKit Project]

References