Re: Initial reactions

[Nick Downing <downing nick gmail com>]

Further issues with Epiphany:
- ftp:// links don't work.
- after highlighting and copying text, can't paste it as text, e.g.
into terminal or a vi session, can only paste into gedit and possibly
other gnome applications (this is a massive inconvenience for me as I
use it for saving bibliographic data from sites like acm.org, also I
could work around the ftp:// link problem using wget except that I
can't paste the URL onto the command line, ! #!@#!#*)
- seem to be some inconsistency with location of downloaded files,
when I right-click to save a page or downloaded file locally I would
expect it to prompt me with either Downloads folder (currently set in
preferences) or the last place I saved something, instead I get my
home directory, can someone please try to reproduce this and see if
it's a problem generally?  As my setup may be unusual
cheers, Nick

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Nick Downing <downing nick gmail com> wrote:
> hi all,
> I just switched over to Epiphany, as I finally got sick of Firefox's
> slowness and unreliable behaviour, and as the new owner of a
> smartphone I recently became aware of webkit so I made a quick check
> to see if any webkit browsers were available on the PC to try out.  I
> must say Epiphany is really great, it just feels right, it seems a lot
> faster, this may be an illusion based on the webpages loading and the
> screen being updated in a more consistent way, but anyway I like it.
> Convincing my wife has been more difficult though:
> 1. She doesn't like the behaviour of opening URLs in a new window, she
> would prefer a new tab (so would I).  Could this be made configurable?
> 2. She has to go into the File menu to add a new tab, could a '+' icon
> be added in the tab bar?
> 3. One of her fave websites, http://www.theage.com.au doesn't load
> properly.  It redirects to a mobile website.  I understand this is
> probably not an Epiphany/Webkit issue, just the brain-dead
> implementation of the website, it probably thinks that if the browser
> identifies itself as Webkit it must be running on an iPhone or
> something.  But experience tells me that asking them to correct this
> problem will probably get nowhere fast, so could we have a workaround?
>  Maybe a revised identification string, or option to change it or
> something?
> 4. (I noticed this) It would be good if the location bar had focus
> after adidng a new tab, I haven't checked but probably the same issue
> is present on startup, new window, etc.
> I thought I might have a crack at making these changes but I couldn't
> easily see if there is an svn/git/etc repository or something
> containing the bleeding edge code?  Also I have many projects open and
> little time so it's probably easier if someone else does it, who is
> more familiar with the code.
> cheers, Nick
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