Epiphany Update
Ever since I wrote my last post about the state of Epiphany as the default web browser for Gnome, I completely switched from Firefox to it! Cold turkey! I must tell you, there are certain things which can be annoying at times… But the sheer speed I have gained while performing my web surfing “duties” is more than enough justification as to why I will keep using it for now. Thanks to some great comments I received, I am now subscribed to their mailing list and have solved some of my initial issues by installing the epiphany-extensions package. I still find the default behavior of newly created tabs (which will always open your home page) annoying but the truth is I haven’t completely immersed myself yet and explored other venues for information. I definitely see something here that has a lot of potential! The volume of discussion in the mailing list has been completely null for these last 14 days or so… I think I will add Epiphany to my “evangelization” topics next time I talk to my friends…
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May 15th, 2006 at 2:36 pm
In regards to the homepage always opening when you open a new tab, the best solution I know of is setting the homepage to something like the following:
about:notarealthing
This will make it so that, when opening a new tab, you just get a grey background with no error messages/waiting for a page to load/needing to press Ctrl+L. Hope that helps. Cheers.
May 15th, 2006 at 4:35 pm
Try…
http://www.peteogrady.com/temp/epiphany-blank-new-tab/
This extension is what caused me to start using Epiphany. Now if only type ahead find would autostart…
May 15th, 2006 at 6:39 pm
Leave your homepage blank. Now go to the page you want as your homepage and drag the page icon to the Gnome panel. There’s your starter for Epiphany, starting with your new homepage.
I absolutely love Epiphany and have already convinced both my parents to use it instead of Firefox. The main thing I would like to see is perfect del.icio.us integration (Epilicious is a nice start but not quite there yet).
May 15th, 2006 at 6:47 pm
I can’t switch : no security policy for javascript and cookies.
(And no print margins).
May 15th, 2006 at 8:15 pm
What are you guys using for ad blocking in Epiphany? I’ve been a Epiphany zealot, but recently switched to Firefox because I can no longer deal with the full screen flash ads. I like flash and there are sites I use it for regularly, but I wish I could blacklist other sites. I’m using the userContent.css file from mozilla.org and that does a decent job blocking banner ads..
May 15th, 2006 at 8:29 pm
Just tried adblock on Epiphany again, it works better than it did last time, pretty impressive. The version I was trying was a pre-release so that could be why it was buggy.
May 15th, 2006 at 9:50 pm
Hey guys,
Thank you all for the feedback. I ended, as per your suggestions, using a blank page as my home page. Not the most elegant way of doing it IMHO, but it does the trick.
My browsing experience has just been augmented!
Cheers,
Og