Epiphany is a web browser for the GNOME graphical computing desktop. It is also available for Mac OS X[1] and is a descendant of Galeon.
Development
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 — it uses GNOME’s settings that are specified in the GNOME Control Center.[2]
Epiphany is one of a family of web browsers that use the Gecko layout engine from the Mozilla project to display web pages. It provides a GNOME integrated front-end to Gecko, instead of the Mozilla XUL interface. Development is transitioning to use WebKit as its rendering engine in the future and the Epiphany developers provided an experimental build of Epiphany 2.27.x using the WebKit engine instead of Gecko.[3] The Epiphany team announced on 1 April 2008 that intended to drop the Gecko back-end and continue forward only with the WebKit engine.[4] On 1 July 2009 it was announced that Epiphany 2.26.3 will be the last version use the Gecko rendering engine.[5]
Epiphany supports tabbed browsing, cookie management, popup blocking and an extensions system. Epiphany can be extended with the Epiphany-extensions package.
Features
Bookmarks
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.[2]
Epiphany-extensions
Epiphany-extensions is a set of official extensions to the web browser. Extensions include:
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