Epiphany 3.27.2 Improves GNOME Web Apps, Firefox Sync

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Epiphany 3.27.2 Improves GNOME Web Apps, Firefox Sync

Epiphany 3.27.2 is now available as the latest web browser release in the road to next year's GNOME 3.28 desktop...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GNOME-Epiphany-3.27.2

[Modu]

I wish they made it possible to browse YouTube with Gnome Web...

[Anvil]

Gnome Web is a total Flop like Gnome Polari is.

[grok]

I wish they made it possible to browse YouTube with Gnome Web...

I think it's google breaking old browsers and stuff on purpose. Gnome Web might be vulnerable to that as you need to upgrade the entire OS to get a newer version.
yea I think they break their sites e.g. new google maps was super slow, so that they gain Chrome users.
This fall/autumn, they're punishing tor browser users.

[Anvil]

what i dont get is, why the Gnome Devs didnt/dont use Google Blink rather than Apples Webkit2 ?

[TingPing]

what i dont get is, why the Gnome Devs didnt/dont use Google Blink rather than Apples Webkit2 ?

Webkit is a smaller and more contained engine that is better designed to be embedded, already has high quality bindings with platform integration, and they already have a relationship with Apple. Moving to Chromium would be an insane amount of work and be harder to maintain.

I wish they made it possible to browse YouTube with Gnome Web...

WebkitGtk has experimental support for MSE, just needs a bit more testing and polish as I understand it.

[Anvil]

Webkit is a smaller and more contained engine that is better designed to be embedded, already has high quality bindings with platform integration, and they already have a relationship with Apple. Moving to Chromium would be an insane amount of work and be harder to maintain.




WebkitGtk has experimental support for MSE, just needs a bit more testing and polish as I understand it.

ohh okz thanks for the input Ting. so saying that, i take it Epiphany/Gnome Web will never really be Feature Complete like Chrome/Chromium ?

[TingPing]

ohh okz thanks for the input Ting. so saying that, i take it Epiphany/Gnome Web will never really be Feature Complete like Chrome/Chromium ?

Honestly that is a safe assumption.

[Guest]

The one time I tried chromium, resizing the window left black shadows. The same thing happened under Opera so I'm blaming chromium x11 support. Resizing epiphany windows is however very fluid. I think webkigtk+ works better under gtk+. I just can't open too many epiphany tabs because my system currently only has 8GB of memory. I use epiphany for certain things like irccloud, etc... where I need to keep certain websites open for prolonged periods since the memory usage per website/tab is stable.