A big thank you

[Christian von Kietzell <cuboci gmail com>]

Dear Epiphany developers,

I've been using Epiphany for years and I'm quite happy with it.
Nevertheless I gave Chromium a try over the past few weeks.

At first I was impressed by some of its features and its browsing speed.
Despite both of them using Webkit as their base Epiphany just doesn't
feel as snappy for some webpages. Scrolling speed is particularly slow
on a website I'm maintaining for my brother's girlfriend's business (I
can supply you with the address for testing purposes if necessary).

Also, Chromium's handling of who can set cookies and who can't is much
more to my liking. When Epiphany was still Gecko-based I used to set the
cookie lifetime policy in about:config to 1 to get asked for every
single cookie a website wanted to set - until that stopped working one
day (strange website hangs, I even reported a bug about this). Now that
option is completely gone with Webkit. Chromium just lets me block
everything and enable cookies on a site-by-site basis. I like that.

But...

The way it doesn't integrate with Gnome (I don't blame it, but it just
doesn't for obvious reasons), the way it doesn't have an option for a
static status bar that doesn't pop up over a website's contents
everytime I hover over a link, and, most importantly, its lack of
Epiphany's wonderful feature of placeholders in bookmarks that provide
you with an easy way to add new searches in the address bar ... those
all got terribly annoying after only two weeks.

Switching back to Epiphany felt like coming home after a long,
exhausting journey, sinking down onto your sofa, and feeling like you
were right were you belonged.

Thank you so much for a beautiful webbrowser that just does its job,
doesn't get in the way, and makes using it a joy. There's certainly room
for improvement but for me Epiphany is light years ahead of the
competition with respect to the everyday browsing experience. Thanks for
a job well done.


Kind regards,
  Chris