Re: Compaisions with galeon 1.2

[Adam Hooper <adamh densi com>]

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Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
| What I see as missing is (based on using epihpany 1.0.6):
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|   - something like "myportal://" in galeon
|   - the ability of setting "myportal://" as my startup page

This used to be in Epiphany but it seems to have disappeared from the
code.  My guess is that it's not coming back.

Debian has its own 'start-here'-type page, anyway. It's at
file:///usr/share/doc/mozilla-browser/localstart.html

|   - more finely grained handling of cookies (like galeon 1.2)

This may become an extension.

In the meantime, you can bookmark
chrome://cookie/content/pref-cookies.xul and click on 'Manage Stored
Cookies' (which is at
chrome://communicator/content/wallet/CookieViewer.xul but only seems to
display content if opened from within another window).

|   - the ability to remember pages loaded in each tab between
|     sessions

Yeah, I'd like this too.

|   - the zoom control

Go to Edit -> Toolbars and drag the zoom control onto the toolbar.

| Are any of these features like to be added in the future? If
| epiphany forked off from the galeon code base, why were these
| features ever removed?

That's a joke, right?

Epiphany was forked from the Galeon code base precisely to remove all
features deemed un-HIG-like or confusing. What's left is a lean, mean
browser, but that may not be what's right for you. From the sounds of
it, you'd probably prefer Galeon 1.3 (a "power user"'s browser). Search
their mailing list for the features you've requested: I'm sure a zillion
people have asked about them (and been answered) before you.

On the other hand, extensions can make Epiphany a power user's browser
too. I personally don't plan on writing a cookie-editing extension,
though, since I'd never use it.

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Adam Hooper
adamh densi com
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