Tag Archives: Epiphany
Gnome Yelp is much too slow
If you start GNOME help the first time this takes a lot of time. On my system (1.4 Ghz) I am guessing it needs about 30 seconds (and therefore about 6 times slower than Epiphany) – and you do not … Continue reading
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First impressions of Ubuntu 9.04 beta
I have just updated to newest Ubuntu. Here are some points of interest: Thes removed the shutdown option from system menu. You now HAVE to use the stupid applet. IS this a GNOME or an Ubuntu decision. Personally i dont … Continue reading
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Googles Chrome looks good
I have read the comic about Googles new chrome browser and I must day I am impressed. It targets some points I like to see in browsers: They call it “omnibar” – others say Opera was the first – personally … Continue reading
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Enabling epiphany as default browser in OpenBSD
I had the experience that on GNOME on OpenBSD strangely Firefox is started as default. This shoudl not be the case as Epiphany is the default. One way to set it is when you start “gconf-.editor” and browse to the … Continue reading
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FF3 criticism part II
Some other things I like to critisize: This is a good thing: Actually FF now uses Epiphanys model of accessing (via “Smart Location bar” ) bookmarks – bookmarks, tags and history are searched while you type. Also bookmarks now get … Continue reading
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Ubuntu investigated
I have taken a deeper look into Ubuntu. Those are some things I find weird: Firefox is the default browser. I think this is ugly, but anyway… if you try to install Epiphany the problem is you can only install … Continue reading
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Why have intelligent bookmarks or search plugins?
People like to search – and often people like to search for specific stuff – like a wikipedia article, the Amazon product base, a movie in IMDB or in social bookmarking. I have thought about that for a while. Firefox … Continue reading
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Apples an Oranges
Ok Adam wanted to have some feedback about his latest post about Apples and Oranges. I will take on this task. Lets start with: I could not disagree more: Adam thinks that Microsoft is successful because its monolithic and that … Continue reading
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Foresight chooses Epiphany as new default browser on upcoming release!
Why did we do this? Why didn’t we continue to present Firefox as the front row browser? Well its simple: We are THE GNOME distribution. We want to show the latest and greatest in GNOME software – and to experience … Continue reading
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