Re: A change in direction for Epiphany?



On Wed, 2005-22-06 at 16:28 -0700, Ryan Thiessen wrote:
> You are certainly correct, my concerns are even more poignant for
> Galeon.  But I'm not a Galeon user, and I'm not writing to the Galeon
> mailing list.  I am concerned about the long-term success of the
> Epiphany browser, which I prefer over the alternatives available.  I
> just see the status quo of the embedded mozilla widget bugs (both
> security and annoyance level) stagnating for another couple of years
> because all of the gecko developers are concerned primarily with
> Firefox.  Unless something changes to make this no longer the case
> with the embedded gecko widget, I can't see a lot of future with
> Epiphany.  Is this overly negative or just realistic?

It might be overly negative :). One of the biggest focus annoyances has
semi-recently been worked around in Galeon (I don't know if the changes
have been ported to Epiphany yet). And Christian's recent work on
nsContentPolicy should let us enable the adblock extension soon (not a
gtkmozembed problem, but still related to Epiphany/Mozilla interaction).

My take on it is that while there are indeed Mozilla bugs which get in
Epiphany's way, they are steadily getting squashed.

I'm also under the impression that Firefox will get more and more
bloated until it can't even pretend to be easy to use any more. When
that happens, Epiphany will still be around.

-- 
Adam Hooper <adamh densi com>

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