I just tried the new version of epiphany in karmic that uses webkit and its very nice. Of course I did some moving around and removing of stuff from the UI but now its uncluttered and simple.
I have been a firefox user for about 3 years now but now firefox is becoming a little out of place. Its really strange when you try Epiphany because its like firefox but its more integrated but on the flip side its missing some features. The integration is great in very small little touches, its very integrated with GNOME’s theme and the address bar doubles as a progress bar for the page loading (I love that). Also everything can be moved or removed if the user wants (I love this too). The biggest difference is webkit, with webkit pages load nice and fast and it passes the acid3 test (unlike firefox).
Of course somethings annoy me about epiphany like the spell checker deletes words, why is there a tabs menu bar entry when its a button on the browser anyway? Why is there a go meny bar entry when that is on the browser anyway? Why is it so easy to just open the browser and view/edit all of the passwords without asking the user for a password?
So really I dont know which I will use, its a choice between full featured Firefox and fast and integrated Epiphany.
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Epiphany uses the Gnome keyrings for passwords (lp:3467).
So passwords should only be visible/editable if you have your keyring unlocked (which Ubuntu usually tends to do on login).
But it shouldnt be so easy to get them, firefox is no better in this area either. Gnome keyring is a lot safer than the way they did it with firefox. Only certain things should be open at login.
I agree with that completely.
To the defense of Firefox, if you set the master password, it’s really quite safe.
And to the defense of all software: the problem is hardly to make sensible data stored and accessible in a secure way, it’s simply the fact that users are simply annoyed by security because it forces them to take action (like typing in passwords).
Epiphany really should have a master password that is possibly independent of the gnome Keyring. Whenever a user selects a “show passwords” option, they should be greeted EACH AND EVERY TIME with a master password (if it’s enabled), whether or not the passwords themselves are stored in the gnome keyring. I mean, come on: people have their banking passwords, etc. stored in their browsers!
it’s competition to chromium
i’m using chromium[open source] and firefox. maybe i’ll replace firefox with epiphany.
Thanks for the info!!
What JS engine is it using?
Webkit
Fission is great: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1951
Thats cool
Shane Fagan: Epiphany http://bit.ly/h6RPy #postrank #linux
I would say Chromium. https://launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/ppa
Its not stable enough.