Further issues with Epiphany: - ftp:// links don't work. - after highlighting and copying text, can't paste it as text, e.g. into terminal or a vi session, can only paste into gedit and possibly other gnome applications (this is a massive inconvenience for me as I use it for saving bibliographic data from sites like acm.org, also I could work around the ftp:// link problem using wget except that I can't paste the URL onto the command line, !...@#!@#!#*) - seem to be some inconsistency with location of downloaded files, when I right-click to save a page or downloaded file locally I would expect it to prompt me with either Downloads folder (currently set in preferences) or the last place I saved something, instead I get my home directory, can someone please try to reproduce this and see if it's a problem generally? As my setup may be unusual cheers, Nick
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Nick Downing <[email protected]> wrote: > hi all, > I just switched over to Epiphany, as I finally got sick of Firefox's > slowness and unreliable behaviour, and as the new owner of a > smartphone I recently became aware of webkit so I made a quick check > to see if any webkit browsers were available on the PC to try out. I > must say Epiphany is really great, it just feels right, it seems a lot > faster, this may be an illusion based on the webpages loading and the > screen being updated in a more consistent way, but anyway I like it. > Convincing my wife has been more difficult though: > 1. She doesn't like the behaviour of opening URLs in a new window, she > would prefer a new tab (so would I). Could this be made configurable? > 2. She has to go into the File menu to add a new tab, could a '+' icon > be added in the tab bar? > 3. One of her fave websites, http://www.theage.com.au doesn't load > properly. It redirects to a mobile website. I understand this is > probably not an Epiphany/Webkit issue, just the brain-dead > implementation of the website, it probably thinks that if the browser > identifies itself as Webkit it must be running on an iPhone or > something. But experience tells me that asking them to correct this > problem will probably get nowhere fast, so could we have a workaround? > Maybe a revised identification string, or option to change it or > something? > 4. (I noticed this) It would be good if the location bar had focus > after adidng a new tab, I haven't checked but probably the same issue > is present on startup, new window, etc. > I thought I might have a crack at making these changes but I couldn't > easily see if there is an svn/git/etc repository or something > containing the bleeding edge code? Also I have many projects open and > little time so it's probably easier if someone else does it, who is > more familiar with the code. > cheers, Nick > _______________________________________________ epiphany-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list
