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  Epiphany/Downloads - GNOME Live!
Using the package manager that came with your distribution is the easiest way to install Epiphany.
Epiphany binary downloads do not include dependencies, so please follow the above instruction corresponding to your distribution to install Epiphany, instead of downloading a binary.
Mandriva Linux 2007.1: the previous stable version 2.18 of Epiphany is included.
live.gnome.org /Epiphany/Downloads   (165 words)

  
 Epiphany (web browser) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is one of a family of web browsers that use the Gecko layout engine from the Mozilla project to display web pages.
Epiphany can be extended with the Epiphany-extensions package.
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.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Epiphany_web_browser   (256 words)

  
 Comparison of web browsers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Partial indicates that while the browser works, it lacks important functionality or is extremely unstable compared to versions for other OSs (that is to say it has roughly alpha or pre-alpha quality).
Dropped indicates that the latest stable version of the browser does not work on the operating system, although an older version is available that does.
Netscape Navigator was also developed for OS/2 at a time when Mac OS X did not yet exist) but does not include the growing appliance segment (e.g.the Opera browser has gained a leading role for use in mobile phones, smartphones and Personal Digital Assistants, and is also used in Interactive televisions).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Comparison_of_web_browsers   (959 words)

  
 NewsForge | Galeon, Epiphany ready for a reunion
Two years after the Galeon browser's source code was forked, resulting in the Epiphany browser, developers of the two GNOME-based browsers announced they are coming back together by writing extensions to bring Galeon features and functionality to Epiphany.
Epiphany developer Christian Persch said the plan to have developers work together specifically to improve the one browser is a "great validation" of the effort put into the extensions interfaces in Epiphany.
Gritti's changes, justified by his original intent for the browser and position as lead developer, sparked a debate on the galeon-devel list as to what the best path was for Galeon, most notably in October and November 2002.
internet.newsforge.com /internet/05/11/22/1748215.shtml   (1159 words)

  
 mozdev.org - epiphany: documentation/manifesto
A web browser is more than an application, it is a way of thinking, it is a way of seeing the world.
Epiphany is going to follow version 1.0 of the gnome user guidelines.
Epiphany's main goal is to be integrated with the gnome desktop.
epiphany.mozdev.org /documentation/manifesto.html   (442 words)

  
 Open source and the web browser
Firefox is rare amongst open source browsers in its cross platform goals; it is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Firefox has been developed as a small, fast, simple to use and highly extensible web browser.
Epiphany is a web browser developed for the GNOME computer desktop, a desktop environment that competes with KDE for the Linux platform.
There are of course many proprietary web browsers available which are not the subject of this document but it is worth noting how some of these proprietary products have influenced, come from or contributed to the open source community.
www.oss-watch.ac.uk /resources/webbrowser.xml?style=text   (1801 words)

  
 WriteTheWeb - An epiphany in browsing
Epiphany, created by Marco Pesenti Gritti, seeks to live up to the claims of its name in terms of simplicity and intuition.
Epiphany does nothing new for web browsing per se, dependent as it is on the Mozilla project's rendering engine, but it does a lot for the simplicity and usability of browsing within the GNOME environment.
Epiphany is very much still in development, so users shouldn't expect a bug free experience.
writetheweb.com /Members/edd/Articles/2003-02-epiphany   (930 words)

  
 Epiphany 1.0 Released - MozillaZine Talkback
Epiphany is a GNOME web browser based on the Gecko rendering engine with a focus on usability and simpicity.
It will be included as the default web browser in GNOME 2.4 which is due to be released on Wednesday." The Epiphany downloads page has builds for various Linux distributions, as well as source tarballs.
I use epiphany as a back-up browser for days when Firebird is unstable and I really rather like it.
www.mozillazine.org /talkback.html?article=3685   (270 words)

  
 Epiphany celebrates its second birthday! | FootNotes   (Site not responding. Last check: )
However, since Epiphany's goals seemed more in line with the newfound "keep it simple" approach of GNOME, it happened that GNOME 2.4.0 was released with the 1.0 release of the Epiphany browser.
Epiphany has gained exposure and developed a user base, and quite a few lines of code and user interface improvements (such as the GtkUIManager, formerly EggMenuMerge) that pioneered in Epiphany, are now part of the GNOME platform.
Epiphany Extensions contains features that more experienced users expect, like gestures, an extension to add a "Page Properties" dialogue, switch between style sheets, group newly opened tabs, off-line HTML validation etc. It also works as a testbed for functionality slated to be included in Epiphany at a later stage, like the Certificate extension.
gnomedesktop.org /node/2096   (3717 words)

  
 Eitan Suez's Blog: An Epiphany
Epiphany is to Gnome what Camino is to MacOSX: a web browser that uses Gecko but its UI uses the Gnome and GTK APIs for a user interface.
Epiphany was designed to fit in on a Gnome desktop.
Epiphany's philosophy appears to be along the lines of stay out of the user's way and less is more.
weblogs.java.net /blog/eitan/archive/2005/12/an_epiphany.html   (902 words)

  
 Epiphany - GNOME Live!
Old roadmaps: Epiphany 2.16 roadmap Epiphany 1.10 roadmap and 1.8 roadmap and 1.6 roadmap and 1.4 roadmap.
Third Party Epiphany Extensions - A list of extensions that are not part of the official extensions.
Epiphany: The Web through the eyes of GNOME - general information on Epiphany, and a call to action.
live.gnome.org /Epiphany   (323 words)

  
 NewsForge | Why I chose Firefox over Epiphany for my GNOME desktop
Epiphany is completely written in GNOME's native toolkit, which makes Epiphany look and feel like a true desktop component.
Epiphany, while based on the same Gecko rendering engine that Firefox uses, lacks this support, or any kind of commercial support for that matter.
Firefox is great browser and one of its bigest advanteges, is that it looks similar on all platforms (and on win it does not use default windows save us dialogs or anz other default dialogs).
software.newsforge.com /software/04/05/11/194215.shtml?tid=130&tid=79&tid=82&tid=90   (2276 words)

  
 Epiphany Browser Review
Today, while searching the web for any potential extra Epiphany plugins, I came accross a couple of blog posts, which, when combined together, they make a great review of my beloved web browser.
Until today, I thought that falling upon Epiphany reviews was one of the rarest things to happen to me, so I decided to write a post about them.
Epiphany is hype, get over it - Deals with Epiphany and the Deskbar-applet integration.
www.raoul.shacknet.nu /2006/04/05/epiphany-browser-review   (252 words)

  
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Epiphany, and GNOME in general, will benefit from mozilla.org's Gecko Runtime Environment; this will enable Epiphany to fully shed unnecessary Mozilla dependencies.
Unlike some other browsers, in Epiphany you will not find half a dozen ways to use tabs and manage cookies and bookmarks, as Epiphany is targeted towards the average user.
Taking a page from Mozilla Firebird, the Epiphany browser includes a plug-in architecture that allows more advanced users to extend the functionality of the browser without cluttering the interface for less experienced users.
arstechnica.com /reviews/os/gnome2.4.ars/3   (1171 words)

  
 Unicode Web browsers for Unix and Linux computers
The Mozilla layout engine is used in Epiphany and Galeon (Gnome Web browsers) and in Nautilus (a Gnome file manager that includes an HTML viewer).
Setting up the browser to use your preferred fonts for various languages and scripts is presumably similar to the Windows version or the Macintosh version.
Epiphany is a Web browser for GNOME, an Open Source desktop that is included in most BSD and GNU/Linux distributions.
www.alanwood.net /unicode/browsers_unix.html   (716 words)

  
 Epiphany or Firefox default browser for Dapper? - Ubuntu Forums
The main point for firefox seems to be its an accepted standard, easy for windows and OS x converts, but epiphany is a very intuitive application and all the semantics are the same for both apps, so getting up to speed on epiphany shouldnt be hard.
Epiphany is pretty good but too explorer-ish for me. I 'd stick with firefox.
Epiphany is up to speed, but the interface and toolbars are wayyy too big without some modification, some things like autoscroll are only available via extension, there's no way to control how many lines the wheel scrolls, (it uses the system default which is unchangeable in gnome.
www.ubuntuforums.org /showthread.php?t=93219   (914 words)

  
 Mozilla Hall of Fame
These are some of the vendors that use the Mozilla platform, the Mozilla browser, the source code, or Mozilla development tools to create applications and other products.
Fabula has produced a set of easy-to-use software for making and interacting with bilingual multimedia storybooks, allowing teachers and their children to combine texts in two languages, interactive images, sounds, on-screen wordlists and word games into rich and entertaining learning resources.
The DocZilla Browser is a component add-on for Mozilla based browsers which includes XML/SGML Parser, DTD Parser, Link Manager and CALS Table Support components.
www.mozilla.org /projects/distros.html   (1173 words)

  
 Epiphany - SWiK
Epiphany is a Gecko based browser, which means that it uses the same Mozilla engine as Firefox, Camino, and Seamonkey.
Epiphany uses the latest version of the Gecko engine also used by Firefox 1.5.
Switching to Epiphany is sometimes difficult for advanced surfers used to their browser.
swik.net /Epiphany   (952 words)

  
 Epiphany: The web browser for the GNOME desktop
Epiphany ties together many GNOME components in order to let you focus on the Web content, instead of the browser application.
Epiphany shows you clearly if the information you enter on a webpage is transmitted securely.
Epiphany lets you arrange user interface elements by simply dragging and dropping with your mouse.
www.gnome.org /projects/epiphany   (479 words)

  
 Pretty much OK with . . .
Unlike other browser companies, we don't think the web should be like TV, where you tune in to channels and passively watch whatever the powers-that-be decide you should watch." Well said.
It is the source of a number of innovations which have since been copied by other web browsers, such as HTML tables and style sheets.
Armadillo, previously Gzilla, "an open source, Gtk+-based web browser, written completely from scratch in C. It aims to be fast, efficient, highly extensible and fully standards-compliant." It lives on in Dillo.
www.hoary.org /browse   (3134 words)

  
 Epiphany – The web browser for the GNOME Desktop   (Site not responding. Last check: )
An epiphany is an intuitive grasp of reality through something usually simple and striking.
Epiphany browser aims to be simple and easy to use.
Epiphany is the web browser for the GNOME desktop, it aims to be simple and easy to use.
www.telecable.es /personales/algarcia/epiphany   (129 words)

  
 Epiphany celebrates its second birthday! :: OSDir.com :: Open Source, Linux News & Software   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The name Epiphany ("intuitive grasp of reality through something usually simple and striking") was chosen for a reason.
To that end, Epiphany featured a unique non-hierarchical, topic based bookmarks system and a smart location bar entry that offered suggestions retrieved from bookmarks as well as the browser history.
The most important event undoubtedly was the decision to include Epiphany in the core GNOME desktop.
osdir.com /Article3149.phtml   (231 words)

  
 Why you should try Epiphany as your default browser with GNOME 2.14 | FootNotes   (Site not responding. Last check: )
However, there are several other ways to easily access your bookmarks in Epiphany, most importantly the address bar itself that will show bookmarks in the dropdown when you type words from the title or the corresponding topic.
Actually I swore to epiphany for quite some time, but then one day it began sending me to my startpage everytime I pressed "i", so everytime i googled on something with "i" in it, I was sent to my startpage.
I was laughed at and told that this is a "wrong behaviour" and therefore should not be asked for.
gnomedesktop.org /node/2619   (1056 words)

  
 Browser Plugin - CC Wiki
MozCC: Extension for Mozilla-based browsers that adds relevant license characteristic icons to the status bar as you surf and adds a button to the toolbar which allows you to explore associated metadata.
Epiphany CC Extension: Extension for the Epiphany browser that detects embedded license information and adds a CC license icon to the status bar if a license is present.
CC Search Browser Panel: Adds a panel / sidebar for the Creative Commons search engine to any modern Web browser.
wiki.creativecommons.org /Browser_Plugin   (424 words)

  
 BTRC On-line Catalog
Epiphany is (we think) a radically different role-playing game for a radically changing world.
Epiphany is set in the ancient mythical lands known to the Greeks as Hyperborea, the land north of the north wind.
Thousands of years of conflict have left the land pocked with ruins and poor in resources, but science and the magic of the metaplanes combine to keep them powerful, and a strict social order allows them to keep true revolution and change at bay.
www.btrc.net /html/catalog/catmain.html   (2728 words)

  
 Mozilla upstart looks up to Safari | CNET News.com
A new development project called Epiphany has splintered from the Galeon effort, which also was formed to create a simplified Mozilla-based browser for GNOME.
One analyst said Epiphany's reason for existence was unlikely to win it many converts beyond those already disenchanted with Microsoft's Internet Explorer, the Netscape-branded version of Mozilla or the Norwegian browser Opera--which comes in both advertising-supported and paid versions.
Last month saw a significant advance for a small, simple, open-source Unix browser when Apple Computer bypassed Mozilla for its Safari browser and instead chose the obscure KHTML project--a part of GNOME competitor the K Desktop Environment (KDE) for Linux and Unix systems.
news.com.com /2100-1023-985188.html   (701 words)

  
 doron's blaahg: Best Linux Browser
I've been using Epiphany as my main browser, since my main desktop at IBM is running linux (Red Hat 9).
But you don’t need such cues with Epiphany because its toolbar icons are more obvious than those of other Gnome apps.
Posted by: mpt at September 5, 2003 02:03 AM Because I know the toolbar icons on epiphany (or any browser) are simple, but some other gnome app might not be as logical.
weblogs.mozillazine.org /doron/archives/003990.html   (1056 words)

  
 Epiphany Browser | iface thoughts
Other browsers have a concept of web shortcuts to tell the browser where you want to go.
Epiphany gives you a chance to visually select, which is more usable, at least for the everyday user.
The browser has its own download manager, but there is no way of integrating it with others.
ifacethoughts.net /2007/08/08/epiphany-browser   (1050 words)

  
 Epiphany 2.20.1 download - Epiphany
Epiphany - GNOME web browser based on mozilla.
Epiphany is a GNOME web browser based on the mozilla rendering engine.
Epiphany aims to utilize the simplest interface possible for a browser.It also address simplicity with modularity to make a light and powerful application.
www.icewalkers.com /Linux/Software/519380/Epiphany.html   (95 words)

  
 Ubuntu Tutorials : Dapper - Edgy - Feisty - Gutsy
Nearly everyone at the conference was using Epiphany browser on the Gnome desktop.
Installing Epiphany can be done a few ways, depending on your preference.
The Epiphany browser is based on the Gecko 1.8 engine and it does appear to render web pages very quickly.
ubuntu-tutorials.com   (1694 words)

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