{"id":200,"date":"2006-07-18T11:10:26","date_gmt":"2006-07-18T09:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/?p=200"},"modified":"2006-07-20T07:05:35","modified_gmt":"2006-07-20T05:05:35","slug":"switching-from-firefox-to-epiphany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/?p=200","title":{"rendered":"Switching from Firefox to Epiphany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More and more, I have problems dealing with Firefox&#8217;s bloat. I gave epiphany a try as a replacement for a week, to see if it&#8217;s actually a valid replacement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Part 0: installing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Debian\/Ubuntu, don&#8217;t forget to install epiphany-extensions as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Part 1: making the switch<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>System -> Preferences -> Preferred Applications : select epiphany instead.<\/li>\n<li>That&#8217;s all for now. (What about update-alternatives ? Is it necessary ? Seems it isn&#8217;t.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Part 2: Configuring<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I just added my language preferences. Why doesn&#8217;t it follow my session&#8217;s defaults ? (It seems that this waits for a localization configuration applet inside Gnome)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Part 3: Importing Bookmarks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bookmarks -> Edit bookmarks -> File -> Import bookmarks -> Firefox<\/p>\n<p><em>Bookmarks toolbar<\/em> handling in epiphany is a bit strange. It seems that you have to add <em>Quick bookmark<\/em> buttons for each bookmark you want in it. (related bugs: <a href=\"http:\/\/bugzilla.gnome.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=116726\">116726<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/bugzilla.gnome.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=112660\">112660<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>After one week of use &#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Epiphany isn&#8217;t faster than Firefox. It might slightly faster to start up, but switching between tabs feels slower. (I reported bug <a href=\"http:\/\/bugzilla.gnome.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=347225\">347225<\/a> about this, but it&#8217;s non-conclusive ATM.)<\/li>\n<li>Tabs are fixed-size in epiphany, not variable size like it firefox. It makes it difficult to have a large number of tabs open (in 1280&#215;1024, you can only have 7 open tabs before small arrows appear to let you move the tab bar left\/right). It&#8217;s actually not an epiphany problem, but a gtk+ one (<a href=\"http:\/\/bugzilla.gnome.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=330676\">330676<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Looks like I&#8217;m going back to Firefox&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update :<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.0d.be\">Frederic Peters<\/a> posted a comment mentionning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sstuhr.dk\/epiphany-extensions\/\">unofficial Epiphany extensions<\/a> which solve the fixed-size tabs problem. Thanks a lot :-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More and more, I have problems dealing with Firefox&#8217;s bloat. I gave epiphany a try as a replacement for a week, to see if it&#8217;s actually a valid replacement. Part 0: installing On Debian\/Ubuntu, don&#8217;t forget to install epiphany-extensions as well. Part 1: making the switch System -> Preferences -> Preferred Applications : select epiphany [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14,12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-planetdebian","category-planetgnomefr","category-planetubuntu","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}