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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 1st Apr 2008 15:47 UTC, submitted by RJop

Epiphany, GNOME's web browser, will drop support for the Gecko engine, focusing on WebKit instead. "we will choose only one web engine back-end to support and concentrate our efforts on it instead of spreading our efforts to multiple back-ends and restricting us to the common features all back-ends support. This single back-end will be WebKit." Assuming this is not an April Fool's joke, that is. Seriously, we ought to just shut down teh intertubes every April 1st. It's getting out of hand.

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RE: Epiphany

by RJop on Tue 1st Apr 2008 18:38 UTC in reply to "Epiphany"

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2007-01-08

Epiphany is an excellent browser and better integrated with GNOME (for example supports GIO) then Firefox.

I hope Fedora will make Epiphany it's default browser. That whould be really great.

Edited 2008-04-01 18:43 UTC

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RE[2]: Epiphany

by Xaero_Vincent on Tue 1st Apr 2008 18:47 in reply to "RE: Epiphany"

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2006-08-18

Does Epiphany support Firefox's extensive browser extensions?

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RE[3]: Epiphany

by sbergman27 on Tue 1st Apr 2008 18:53 in reply to "RE[2]: Epiphany"

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2005-07-24

It has its own Python-based extension mechanism. Extensions for Epiphany are easier to write, and analogues to popular FF extensions, like adblock, are there. I did not use a lot of FF extensions, and did not miss any when I switched to Epiphany. YMMV.

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