Epiphany Tech Preview Delivers Flatpak'ed WebKitGTK+ Browser Daily

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Epiphany Tech Preview Delivers Flatpak'ed WebKitGTK+ Browser Daily

Thanks to several efforts coming together, there's now an Epiphany Technology Preview project delivering you a bleeding-edge GNOME web-browser in a sane and easily deployable manner...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Epiphany-Tech-Preview

[fagnerln]

it's sad the fact that many of "alternative" browsers, like Epiphany (Web) and Qupzilla (falkon?) isn't updated on official ubuntu repository.

Firefox and Chromium runs poorly on old machines.

[Anvil]

it's sad the fact that many of "alternative" browsers, like Epiphany (Web) and Qupzilla (falkon?) isn't updated on official ubuntu repository.

Firefox and Chromium runs poorly on old machines.

Chrome/Chromium should run fine on old Machines, where firefox wont its to bloated IMO , i still think Epiphany is a Crapola browser, will it handle Audio/Video any better in this Tech Preview ? prolly not

[Anvil]

i tried it on youtube, Crashed immediately

[Anvil]

Buy a new one. The Chromium browser runs fine and uses all the CPU cores of the Amlogic S912 octa core CPU in the 57 usd Sunvell T95Z Plus TV box. I have made a Debian testing Xfce distribution for it.

not everyone can afford to go out an buy a New PC did you know that.

[andyprough]

Chrome/Chromium should run fine on old Machines, where firefox wont its to bloated IMO , i still think Epiphany is a Crapola browser, will it handle Audio/Video any better in this Tech Preview ? prolly not

Chrome/Chromium don't even run well on modern computers. Talk about a bloated memory hog. At least Firefox actually exits when you ask it to nicely, instead of closing the window yet continuing to run its processes at full blast indefinitely.

I wouldn't run either one on an old computer. But I certainly wouldn't run any web browser on an old computer via flatpak. That's just adding a lot of extra processing time for zero benefit. I would probably try QupZilla -- that little browser seemed to do OK last time I tried it.

[Anvil]

Chrome/Chromium don't even run well on modern computers. Talk about a bloated memory hog. At least Firefox actually exits when you ask it to nicely, instead of closing the window yet continuing to run its processes at full blast indefinitely.

I wouldn't run either one on an old computer. But I certainly wouldn't run any web browser on an old computer via flatpak. That's just adding a lot of extra processing time for zero benefit. I would probably try QupZilla -- that little browser seemed to do OK last time I tried it.

that Browser doesnt play nicely with Nvidia for some reason. it'll startup but as sdoon as you wanna browserr to a website it'll Crash

[dkasak]

It ( flatpak versino ) works, and starts quickly, which is great. But the tab navigation ( especially once you open > 10 tabs ) really is bad. The combo-box-style navigator they've added is at least somewhat of an improvement, but really, the tabs should shrink like in other browsers. Scrolling the list of tabs is horrible. The combo-box-style navigator doesn't have icons, so it's not as easy to navigate as the tabs are. <sigh>.

[Anvil]

It ( flatpak versino ) works, and starts quickly, which is great. But the tab navigation ( especially once you open > 10 tabs ) really is bad. The combo-box-style navigator they've added is at least somewhat of an improvement, but really, the tabs should shrink like in other browsers. Scrolling the list of tabs is horrible. The combo-box-style navigator doesn't have icons, so it's not as easy to navigate as the tabs are. <sigh>.

thats another Gripe i have with Epiphany, the Tabs are to ugly an FAT/HUGE. but it'll never really be a serious browser, it Crashes way to much on Video type websites.
starting FlatPak apps is kinda slow. https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2018/0...startup-times/

[starshipeleven]

not everyone can afford to go out an buy a New PC did you know that.

Anything that was midrange or better in 2007 is fine. With like 50$ tops you get a good enough used PC.

If you don't have 50-100$ to buy a new PC after like a decade, you have bigger issues than browsers.