Re: Epiphany strategy vs. Firefox

["Nathan Samson" <nathansamson gmail com>]

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 8:45 PM, Luis Villa <luis tieguy org> wrote:

>  On that topic of smooth operations, I think one spot Epiphany needs to
>  catch up is installing extensions. Perhaps there could be a default
>  extension that handles automatically downloading and installing them?

It would be nice if there were a polished UI for both extensions and
plugins. It is sort of embarassing (for both browsers) that
about:plugins is still as good as it gets.

Firefox 3 Beta 5 Has now a quite good UI for plugins (Found in Extra->Add-ons) 

Luis

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The feautures that makes me using Firefox 3 (Beta 5) are (in no particular order)
* A recent version of GreaseMonkey that works and is fully compatible
* The WebDeveloper plugin (For web design I should test my sites in Firefox anyway - when Epiphany uses WebKit - so this isn't a real problem)
* GMail notifier extension
* The new Places (it is very usefull, albeit sometimes slow)
* Minimeter (although I can live without this one)

The faeatures that would make me use Epiphany are:
* WebKit
* Gnome integration
* Smaller memory use / faster (but that is probably also part of WebKit)

So my main problems with Epiphany are mainly because of missing plugins, and I think they are quite popular (WebDeveloper, Greasemonkey) or are relatively easy to implement (Minimeter, Gmail Notifier). So I hope that they can be resolved (I'm a programmer to, so maybe I'll take some time in the future to implement them myself).

Greetings,
Nathan


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