I was hoping the developers could reply to my suggestions, but I haven't received any reactions on this anymore. I know everyone is probably busy with developing Epiphany 1.10, but aren't there any long term goals, isn't there place for my suggestions on the to-do list?
After reading some of the comments on bug reports in Bugzilla having to do with downloading functionality, Epiphany can't implement anything if that feature isn't supported by Firefox. I don't understand, can anyone explain? I read in Mozilla's bugzilla that it's probably going to take a long time before Firefox has functionality for resuming downloads and speed limiting. Is there no way for Epiphany to implement this functionality independently, or would that take a lot of work? On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 21:48 +0100, Sander van Loon wrote: > One of the things which I miss in Epiphany (and all other browsers which > I've tried, Internet Explorer and Firefox) is a good download manager. > > 1. The download manager doesn't support resuming an incomplete download > after restarting my PC. > 2. I also noticed that when I shut down my PC with a download still > running, I don't get a warning that my file which is being downloaded > will be lost if I shut down. > 3. Long file names in the download manager don't get shortened, which > makes a scroll bar appear so that I can't see the progress bar. > Screenshot here: http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Evanlonen/epiphany_download.jpg > 4. I'd like to have the possibility of limiting my download speed. > Sometimes I'm downloading huge files which take a long time to download. > The download will also consume all my downstream bandwith. I'm behind a > router with two other PC's, if my brother wants to play a game online > while I'm downloading with full speed for an hour or so, that's > impossible for him because I'm using all the bandwith then. This is > quite a serious problem for me and other people sharing internet > connections. Maybe for other people as well, it could be useful to limit > download speed so that you can still browse the web while downloading. > Maybe you could put such a seek bar, like the one in Totem, in the > download manager window as an easy way to control the percentage of > download bandwith which is used. I've searched Bugzilla for this issue, > and I've found this: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117939 > That feature request is one and a half year old however, so I wonder if > it still isn't possible? > > I have some other requests as well. Please read: > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=327382 currently you have to > enter "epiphany -n %s" in Preferred Applications to get links to open in > new tabs instead of new windows. It seems to me like this is better > default behavior. Maybe this could be changed in Epiphany so we don't > have to use this obscure tweak with the command? > > Last question, in my previous post to this mailing list - > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/epiphany-list/2005-November/msg00021.html > - Reinout van Schouwen told me of this extension: > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118618 Last comment on that > Bugzilla entry is from 4 November last year, has there been any progress > on that extension? Will it make it into epiphany-extensions someday? > Currently I'm using smart bookmarks and the deskbar applet to accomplish > quick searching, but those aren't ideal. This extension would make my > life a lot easier, so I hope it will be included. > > _______________________________________________ > epiphany-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list > _______________________________________________ epiphany-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list
