Dear Epiphany developers, I've been using Epiphany for years and I'm quite happy with it. Nevertheless I gave Chromium a try over the past few weeks.
At first I was impressed by some of its features and its browsing speed. Despite both of them using Webkit as their base Epiphany just doesn't feel as snappy for some webpages. Scrolling speed is particularly slow on a website I'm maintaining for my brother's girlfriend's business (I can supply you with the address for testing purposes if necessary). Also, Chromium's handling of who can set cookies and who can't is much more to my liking. When Epiphany was still Gecko-based I used to set the cookie lifetime policy in about:config to 1 to get asked for every single cookie a website wanted to set - until that stopped working one day (strange website hangs, I even reported a bug about this). Now that option is completely gone with Webkit. Chromium just lets me block everything and enable cookies on a site-by-site basis. I like that. But... The way it doesn't integrate with Gnome (I don't blame it, but it just doesn't for obvious reasons), the way it doesn't have an option for a static status bar that doesn't pop up over a website's contents everytime I hover over a link, and, most importantly, its lack of Epiphany's wonderful feature of placeholders in bookmarks that provide you with an easy way to add new searches in the address bar ... those all got terribly annoying after only two weeks. Switching back to Epiphany felt like coming home after a long, exhausting journey, sinking down onto your sofa, and feeling like you were right were you belonged. Thank you so much for a beautiful webbrowser that just does its job, doesn't get in the way, and makes using it a joy. There's certainly room for improvement but for me Epiphany is light years ahead of the competition with respect to the everyday browsing experience. Thanks for a job well done. Kind regards, Chris _______________________________________________ epiphany-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list
