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The 6th most popular browser on Linux

Epiphany is a simple yet powerful GNOME web browser targeted at non-technical users. Its principles are simplicity and standards compliance. Simplicity is achieved by a well designed user interface and reliance on external applications for performing external tasks (such as reading email). Simplicity should not mean less powerful. Standards compliance is achieved on the HTML side by using the Gecko rendering engine, as developed for the Mozilla and Iceweasel browsers; and on the user interface side by closely following the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) and by close integration with the GNOME desktop.

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  • ghannad expert
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    Simple browser.

  • Arsam_Arsam fanatic
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    مرورگر دوست داشتی گنوم که هنوز مثلش پیدا نمیشه واقعا عزیز هست برام و قابل احترام...
    فقط حیف که Ctrl+enter رو ساپورت نمیکنه

  • Behrad devotee
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    It's a very nice and decent browser even now, and they're changing to WebKit, I'm ready to be surprised!

  • neutron devotee
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    Smart browser, good to integrated with GNOME.
    It's reasonable to be the default browser of GNOME.
    It's render Thai correclty. :)

  • thep devotee
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    I like its being closely integrated with GNOME.

    Before using it, I usually customize the tool bar by moving everything into a single bar, to save vertical space.

    My favorite feature is smart bookmark. It allows me to add quick search shortcuts right in the same location bar. This saves more space in the location bar than the separate search bar design in Firefox/Iceweasel, as well as provides quicker access -- just Ctrl-L and type your keyword and then select the desired search engine. No separate shortcuts for typing URL and search keyword.

    For more features, some extensions from GNOME (http://projects.gnome.org/epiphany/extensions - Debian: epiphany-extensions) and from third party (http://live.gnome.org/Epiphany/ThirdPartyExtensions - Debian: epiphany-extensions-more) are available.

    Interesting extensions include News Feed Subscription (a perfect integration to feed reader like liferea); Page Info (page content analysis, which is useful when you like to find the embeded media, for example); Tab Groups (to open relevant tabs next to the referer tab, instead of always at the end).

    For third-party extensions, I think the most useful ones are Video Downlader (useful for those who like to keep YouTube clips locally --but it sometimes buggy, though) and View Source the fast way (using gecko view-source: instead of opening a new GEdit window to show page source).

    One feature I find missing, though, is the flash block. Currently, I rely on swfdec's pause/play to block flash animations which insanely consume CPU load from time to time. But some flashes still appear to cause heavy CPU load even when paused. In this case, Firefox/Iceweasel performs better by totally blocking the flash contents.

  • ernest expert
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    I've been liking epiphany more and more lately. Subjectively it seems faster than firefox.

  • Med Mohamed devotee
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    متصفح مميز، يستحق بعض الإهتمام
    بديل للفايرفوكس أثناء التصفح السريع

  • georgep expert
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    przeglądarka dobra, ale co z tego jak brakuje jej funkcjonalności. Szybkość to nie wszystko. Wyświetlanie stron kuleje, a do tego brak funkcji podstawowych.

  • hezy devotee
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    I think that Epiphany's minimalist user interface is very well designed. The bookmarks system works very well, but newcomers tend to misunderstand that it is based on tags rather than folders, leading to their disapointment. I would probably use Epiphany much more frequently once the crash problem is fixed.

  • naesk overlord
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    A quick & lightweight browser, as @JimHellas suggests useful for fast access to sites from other applications, or if you don't want to relaunch a closed Firefox session.

    So as not to confuse it with the game be sure to install the package named epiphany-browser.

  • bgbk devotee
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    Çok hafif çok hızlı ama, bazı linkleri inatla yeni sayfada açıyor. Eklenti desteği de çok kısıtlı. Yine de eski makineler için ideal.

  • JimHellas expert
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    A very light and decent browser. I am using it when I want to have a quick access to a webpage (e.g. clicking external links from other apps). The only thing that I really don't like on this browser is the Bookmarks manager. A firefox-like bookmarks toolbar installed by default would make it much better! Also, it crashes sometimes for no obvious reason.

  • berot3 expert

    for some more Features: http://projects.gnome.org/epiphany/extensions
    i think there is a ubuntu-package too

  • ModusOperandi fanatic
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    Decent browser, could use a few more features and a bit of polish but otherwise good.

  • nadster fanatic
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    Nice lightweight browser, good for older PC's.

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Website: gnome.org/projects/epi...
Developer: Various Developers
License: Free
Version: 2.28.1
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Usage: 5 months, 4 days, 20 hours and 46 minutes
Usage since: 11 February 2009
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