Hello Kristian, On Fri, 17 Aug 2018 10:53:07 +0200, Kristian Rink via epiphany-list <epiphany-list gnome org> wrote:
I'm looking into (and actually enjoying) epiphany as a lightweight web browser alternative on my GNOME desktop yet so far am missing a feature I haven't really managed to get replaced here: In my environment I'm supposed to use Slack and some other web apps that should be open all the time, which (on Firefox or Chrome) I have been done using "pinned" tabs that started with the browser and were always "open". In Chrome, as an alternative, I could allow these pages to send desktop notifications, leave Chrome running in background and even close the browser window, still being sure I don't miss any relevant notifications. In epiphany, lacking both features as far as I can tell, is there a "preferred" way of doing this? I don't want to install the heavyweight Slack desktop client again as, if doing so, I might as well stay with Firefox or Chrome and won't have any benefits in using a more lightweight browser... ;)
You can use “Install site as Web application…” from the window menu. This will create an application launcher for, which will show in the GNOME Shell overview (and in other applications menus as well) and will launch Epiphany in Web application mode for that site. I you want to check or delete sites which have been saved as Web applications, you can browse “about:applications” in a normal Epiphany window. As an user, I find this nicer than pinned tabs, because I like having a separate entry in the application switcher with its own icon for Web apps (for example when using “Alt-Tab” to navigate windows), the desktop notifications will show with their own title and icon (instead of Epiphany's), and my main Epiphany window is left for just browsing. I hope you will like the Web application mode, please give it a try :-) Cheers, -Adrián
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