Epiphany 1.5.3



Hi,

* What is it ?
==============

Epiphany is the GNOME web browser, based on the mozilla
rendering engine. It aims to be simple and easy to use.

http://gnome.org/projects/epiphany/

Epiphany 1.5.3 is the first release in the unstable series leading
up to GNOME 2.10.

* What's changed ?
==================

==============
Epiphany 1.5.3
==============

New features

        * Update bookmarks from HTTP 301 [#126312]
        * Add bookmarks export to bookmarks editor
          (patch by John Spray, XSL stylesheet by Stefan Rotsch) [#157745]


Interface improvements

        * Fix "Open Frame" menu item name [#153816]
        * Use stock icon for "Open In New Tab" in History Window and Bookmarks Editor
        * Use ellipsised labels everywhere instead of shortening strings
        * Tell the user with which application we're going to open the content [#141327]
        * Add stock icon to "Save As..." button in content handler
        * Add "Clear" to entry context menu [#118395]
        * Add app name to content handler dialogue [#141327]
        * Implement context menu on tray icon, as per HIG [#152903]
        * Add "View Properties" to duplicated bookmarks dialogue [#117643, #138300]
        * Remove inline help in toolbar editor [#137603]

Code changes

        * Removed usage of deprecated gconf API
        * Removed usage of deprecated glade API
        * Makefile.am modernisations
        * Ensure the extensions manager UI is loaded
        * Use alignments instead of empty labels for alignment in glade files
        * Disable search in downloader window [#157157]
        * Check the encodings before we set the mozilla pref [#150266]
        * Add attach_tab and detach_tab functions to extension interface
          (Crispin Flowerday, Adam Hooper) [#153732]
        * Use gtk_show_about_dialog(), and handle urls and mailto (Adam Hooper)
        * Disable Zoom items for images, and disable zoom, encoding and view source
          for images and xml (xul) documents [#132240]
        * Make sure we don't have any app-modal dialogues [#110479]
        * Adapt to mozilla API changes

Bug fixes

        * Don't offer to resume if there are open windows [#160345]
        * Deactivate the context menu on window close [#156812]
        * Fix double-opening of content [backed out patch from #158466]
        * Fix name for "gd" language (Scots Gaelic) [#161509]
        * Disable Print and Print Preview while still loading the page [#116344]
        * Don't show multiple toolbar editors for the same window [#111114]
        * Correct language code for Afrikaans

Translation updates

        * Vladimir Petkov (bg)
        * Miloslav Trmac (cs)
        * Martin Willemoes Hansen (da)
        * Adam Weinberger (en_CA)
        * David Lodge (en_GB)
        * Francisco Javier F. Serrador (es)
        * Takeshi AIHANA (ja)
        * Žygimantas Beručka (lt)
        * Reinout van Schouwen (nl)
        * Marcel Telka (sk)
        * Laurent Dhima (sq)
        * Ercin Eker (tr)
        * Liu Songhe (zh_CN)

* Where can I get it ?
======================

Source code:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/epiphany/1.5/epiphany-1.5.3.tar.bz2

sha1 sum:
e00734b506a2bf88c5100897e0f017b5af053702  epiphany-1.5.3.tar.bz2

Epiphany 1.5.3 requires mozilla 1.7, 1.7.x, 1.7 branch, 1.8a5 or trunk.
The recommended version is Mozilla 1.7.5:
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.7.5/src/mozilla-source-1.7.5.tar.bz2

More about dependencies and installation tips:
http://gnome.org/projects/epiphany/downloads.html

Enjoy.

Christian





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