Submitted by This recent article on Epiphany has garnered many comments, both on FootNotes and OSNews. This followup article addresses some concerns that have been raised about Epiphany.
This recent article on Epiphany has garnered many comments, both on FootNotes and OSNews. This followup article addresses some concerns that have been raised about Epiphany.
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Still, hardly interesting. Only 1 concern is attended.
Hm? What do you mean by only one concern is ‘attended’?
” …rarely used, such as ‘Send Link,’ ‘View Source’, ‘View Page Info’ and ‘Select All’.”
Personally, i use Send Link and View Source a lot!
” there are plans to add truely useful features such as making animations, Flash, and Java click-to-play, ”
Making animations is more useful than viewing source?
Making Flash is more useful than sending a link to a friend? Are they trying to turn Epiphany into an Amateur Developer’s tool?
New Tabs stealing focus – I am glad there is a work-around, but one that disables my home-page? not very friendly!
The one thing I like about Firefox, more than anything else, is the ability to customize it. Extensions, context-menu, buttons, I have the ones I use, and not the ones i don’t – MY choices, not the developer’s choice.
Excuse me, but how can one remove items from the context menu in Firefox?
How many people who surf the web are web developers?
You might use such functions often, but that doesn’t make them often used in general, just for you.
Epiphany has some extensions, which can be written in C or Python. Epiphany does have much fewer extensions than Firefox. http://www.gnome.org/projects/epiphany/extensions“>Epiphany
But comparing Epiphany to Firefox, Epiphany warns you when you attempt to close a tab with unsummited form elements. Epiphany can save and restore the open tabs in the default installation, Firefox requires an extension to do that. Epiphany lets you search directly from the location bar, in Firefox you must use a seperate bar or customize it.
Firefox is quite customizable, but I have better things to do than customize it to what it should be by default.
Personally, i use Send Link and View Source a lot!
I believe you’re in the minority. Speaking personally, I use view source perhaps once every two months (and in Epi it’s available under the View menu). I have never in my life used Send Link, in any browser. If I really want to send the link, I open up my email and send it.
I’ll back up the developer’s decision to simplify the context menu. I was using Firefox the other day to save some notes to my Desktop, and I found myself actively irritated by the amount of effort I had to put in to finding the Save Link option in the context menu.
That’s some creative misreading.
What they’re saying is that they want to make “animations, Flash, and Java” be “click-to-play”.
IOW, “make it so that things don’t display until you click them”. Much like the firefox extention, I guess.
one thing i like about epiph is it reloads all open tabs if it crashes or something
Amen , the other day power went down and epiphany recovered open pages