Epiphany 1.5.1

[Christian Persch <chpe gnome org>]

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

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

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Epiphany 1.5.1
==============

New features

        * Load and unload extensions on user demand

Interface improvements

        * Separate context menu for email links [#144244]
        * Select the topic when adding it [#151925]
        * Better positioning of context menus for treeviews [#152431]
        * Install a placeholder for the view toggles group [#153767]
        * Add tooltips for context menus [#151764]
        * Support multiple printers in the print dialog
        * Add tooltips on the navigation history arrows, and fix the tooltip
          on the "Up" button to be consistent with nautilus [#155825]
        * Add tooltip on the drag handle [#155827]
        * Add tooltip on close button [#155828]
        * Use new gtk+ HIG message dialogue API [#130232]
        * Make the confirm-close-with-form-data dialogue window modal
        * When showing a modal alert put up by a web page, switch the window
          to that tab

Code changes

        * Adapt to mozilla API changes
        * Use ellipsisation support in GtkLabel
        * Use new gtk+ GtkCellRendererProgress
        * Use more icons from icon theme
        * Use the gtk setting for the menubar accel instead of hardcoding F10
        * Use new GtkMenuToolButton
        * Just pass a GType to ephy_embed_factory_new_object()
        * Add another mimetype to import types file filter
        * Install ephy-embed-factory.h
        * Add ephy_window_get_ui_manager(), and remove the manager
          from the public EphyWindow struct
        * Use GtkAboutDialog
        * Make ephy-state.h public [#153809]
        * Improved debugging support [#153805]
        * Don't reference private objects from public headers [#153766]
        * Split the default prefs into the common part, and mozilla/new toolkit
          specific parts.
        * Use gtk_window_set_default_icon_name()
        * Recognise "Desktop" special downloads directory [#152926]
        * Notify when entering or leaving print preview mode [#154591]
        * Initialize plugins path env var for backward compatibility
        * Allow to set the default window state to maximize, default to maximise
        * Read extension descriptions from .xml, load them with the specified
          loader (for now, just only .so is supported)
        * Add extensions-manager-ui as default active extension
        * Validate extension XML files against an XSD Schema
        * Add varargs version of ephy_dialog_get_control to get more than one widget
          at a time
        * Remove ephy_string_parse_uri_list, and use new glib function
          g_uri_list_extract_uris() instead
        * Only multiplex [attach|detach]_window to extensions implementing the
          EphyExtension interface
        * Annotate "if (type == 0)" in get_type functions with G_UNLIKELY
        * Add EPHY_NODE_CHANGED signal [Peter Harvey]
        * Save tons of strdups in bookmarks menu
        * Unset the use-underline label property instead of doubling the underscores
        * Use named icon for the logo in about dialogue
        * Use gtk_entry_set_width_chars() to set the smart bookmark entry width
        * Use ellipsising labels to shorten the bookmarks and topics titles [#147765]
        * Avoid strdups in entry completion func [Peter Harvey]
        * Make bookmarks menu take a configurable path where to merge its UI
        * Allow localised extensions names and descriptions
        * Disable description file validation for now
        * Fix node signal [dis]connection while a signal emission is running
        * Make sure there's only one properties dialogue per bookmark [#148398]
        * Remove remaining time from tooltip of tray icon [#145955]

Bug fixes

        * Remove -s switch which was used by now-gone nautilus view
        * Use a small custom icon for tabs close button [#144772]
        * Fix navigation and Go button proxy menu items [#151648, #141548]
        * Use rm -f as remove command, not rm -r
        * Use SAME_APP flag for drag destination [#152388]
        * Keep popup position synced with his size requisition [#143585]
        * Enable conversion for favicon downloads [#152866]
        * Fix download progress indicator in downloader view
        * Fix overflow in remaining time calculation [#153136, Jhon Spray]
        * Initialise position passed to gtk_editable_insert_text()
        * Fix some mem leaks
        * Remove explicit PAC autoconf call, it works perfectly ok without it
        * Don't size-allocate unmapped tabs, fixing slow resizes [#128191]
        * Fix print preview and fullscreen mode interaction [#154456]
        * Don't allow activation of the hidden menubar in ppv mode
        * Grammar fix in schema [#154605]
        * Fix crash in bookmarks menu [#154805]
        * Remove duplicate AM_PROG_INTLTOOL [#155028]
        * Fix EphyNode callback data destruction [#152718, Peter Harvey]
        * Fix import of bookmarks in root folder [#152443]
        * Activate tray with double-click, as per HIG [#152899]
        * Always chain up to parent's dispose handler
        * Fix return type of tab_delete slot
        * Move window destruction after tab-removed signal emission [#151607]
        * De-couple instantiation and initialisation of the extensions manager
        * Correctly change the statusbar children's frams's shadow type when
          the statusbar shadow type changes
        * Don't open all bookmarks in tabs [#156843]
        * Depend on libxml >= 2.6.12, for its fix of bug #150647
        * Fix restoring window size on crash recovery [#156881]
        * Fix crash when deleting bookmark with open properties dialogue [#155880]
        * Fix activation of the Go button while in toolbar activation mode [#155650]

Documentation updates

        * Document EPHY_DEBUG_BREAK
        * Add manpage [#156067, Jordi Mallach]

Translation updates

        * Abdulaziz Al-Arfaj (ar)
        * Vladimir Petkov (bg)
        * Miloslav Trmac (cs)
        * Marie Lund (da)
        * Adam Weinberger (en_CA)
        * David Lodge (en_GB)
        * Francisco Javier F. Serrador (es)
        * Meelad Zakaria (fa)
        * Olivier Cortes (fr)
        * Žygimantas Beručka (lt)
        * Hasbullah Bin Pit (ms)
        * Reinout van Schouwen (nl)
        * Marcel Telka (sk)
        * Laurent Dhima (sq)
        * Danilo Segan (sr)


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

Source code:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/epiphany/1.5/epiphany-1.5.1.tar.bz2
with MD5 sum 591648db430aed2290e26b0693c63cb9

Epiphany 1.5.1 requires mozilla 1.7, 1.7.x, 1.7 branch, 1.8a4 or trunk.
The recommended version is Mozilla 1.7.3:
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.7.3/src/mozilla-source-1.7.3.tar.bz2

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

Enjoy.

Christian