...advanced dreams

14 December 2007

Firefox

You know how people use Internet Explorer just to download Firefox? Well, I predict same future for Firefox on Linux - it will become a tool to visit and follow instructions on pages like:

http://live.gnome.org/WebKitGtk
http://live.gnome.org/Epiphany/WebKit

Right, until we get epiphany-webkit package in Ubuntu :)

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posted by ivoks at 20:42

8 Comments:

  • There is epiphany-webkit packages for Ubuntu, but frankly it's quite worthless.
    I suggest you take a look at midori (webkit engine) ;)

    By OpenID stemp, at 9:01 PM  

  • I know about midori, but it can't replace epiphany at the moment. Yes, I use it from time to time :D

    By Blogger ivoks, at 9:05 PM  

  • Now that we are at it, I don't know if you're an Epiphany developer but can't you tell me why epiphany doesn't have a Search Box? Like this I mean: http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/6324/rnusersepiphanyjo3.jpg (GIMPed image) Is something very basic...

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 4:37 AM  

  • the adress bar *IS* a search field. Try it. :-)

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 2:42 PM  

  • Maybe Epiphany will get a better rendering engine, for some values of better, but Epiphany the user interface and system still has many many miles to go before that is happening.

    There's just so many things that Firefox does better, even if sometimes slower, and there is some kind of allergy to picking up any good stuff from FF just because it is from FF.

    One day, though, one day... I would really love to have a true GNOME browser that is usable for more than basic browsing in max 5 tabs. Using it for development I guess is a total pipedream.

    By Anonymous Stoffe, at 7:36 PM  

  • So, Mac uses Webkit (obviously). Epiphany (Gnome) is going to use webkit. Konqueror uses KHTML (the predicessor to webkit) and may move to webkit very soon. That means that everyone in the non-windows non-firefox world will use webkit-- very nice. In light of this, it would be great if firefox moved to webkit, which would mean that there would only be two major rendering engines, webkit and trident (internet explorer). I think that would be a good thing; it will make the web a much better place to be.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 12:15 PM  

  • No no no. Diversity is good, as long we all agree on the standards. The best of all possible worlds has 12, or 20, or 100 viable rendering engines that *all* render CSS and XHTML flawlessly and concistently.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 2:49 AM  

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