Epiphany 3.28 Development Kicks Off With Safe Browsing, Better Flatpak Handling

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Epiphany 3.28 Development Kicks Off With Safe Browsing, Better Flatpak Handling

Epiphany 3.27.1 was released a short time ago as the first development release of this web-browser for the GNOME 3.28 cycle...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Epiphany-3.27.1-Released

[Marc Driftmeyer]

This article is a little confusing... The title says 3.28 begins work on Safe Browsing, while the body says 3.27.1 does:

3.27.x is the working alpha-beta to general 3.28 branch of all GNOME 3.28 applications core.

[ElectricPrism]

I have this hotkeyed for keyboard launch because how fadt it loads and how simple it is and clean it is presenting websites to clients or showing off sites.

[Brisse]

I like Epiphany. Wish it could replace Firefox, but there are too many issues. Crashes, sub-par adblocking, bad YouTube experience, no auto-completion and no auto-scrolling just to name a few.

[Anvil]

I like Epiphany. Wish it could replace Firefox, but there are too many issues. Crashes, sub-par adblocking, bad YouTube experience, no auto-completion and no auto-scrolling just to name a few.

i'd like to switch but Epiphany just doesnt have what Firefox gives me.

[Brane215]

I've just emerged it on Gentoo. This version wants a couple of new libraries ( libdazzle etc) but still fails at start with a message that it couldn't find entry in Glib registry for safe browsing or somesuch. Downgraded to 3.26.1 for the moment.

[Vistaus]

I like Epiphany. Wish it could replace Firefox, but there are too many issues. Crashes, sub-par adblocking, bad YouTube experience, no auto-completion and no auto-scrolling just to name a few.

Auto-completion worked fine for me last time I tried it during the 3.25 cycle. Ad-blocking is sub-par by default, but you can extend the list of filters manually: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...advertisements YouTube is a bit iffy in general if you don't use a Chrome-based browser. I had issues with it in Firefox 55 and 57 as well. But yes, Epiphany does crash every now and then but more importantly: it eats up RAM and CPU.

[Brisse]

Vistaus
The adblocker will miss certain elements even though they are included in the block lists. It's just not competent enough to block everything. I know the developers want to overhaul this part of epiphany though, but it will take some time.

[uid313]

This is really cool, a web browser with Flatpak support!
Because Flatpak supports sandboxing.

https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/wiki/Sandbox

http://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/working-with-the-sandbox.html

This makes it possible to run the web browser in a sandbox to make it more secure.

[Vistaus]

Btw, I'm wondering: is auto-scrolling hardware-related? 'Cause I also remember having auto-scroll in Vivaldi earlier this year but people on the Vivaldi forums claimed Vivaldi had no support for auto-scroll. So that leads me to think it has something to do with certain hardware...