eric’s extremeboredom

So I was getting really tired of Firefox making my system run like poo on a stick so I decided to try the browser that comes with gnome, Epiphany.

The first thing I noticed was the preferences window, or lack there of. The entire preferences window has a grand total of 16 options, giving you just enough control to get you pissed off when you realize there is no more.

The browser does not support auto scroll meaning to scroll quickly to the bottom of the page with the mouse you have to actually use the scrollbar.

There’s no image blocking. All the ads! AHH THE HORROR!

There’s a google search toolbar item but it’s got this giant “Search the web” label that you cant seem to remove of. And if you remove the search bar from the toolbar good luck getting it back, theres no option.

I wont say Galeon is perfect but it sure is nice after using epfififiafiny for a week. And I can even spell it correctly every time.

Autoscroll and image blocking both work, as well as mouse gesters. The main gripe i have so far is with the toolbar google search, which is completly worthless since it has a giant image and arrow next to it, and cant be moved to the main toolbar (you can position the two toolbars next to each other but it looks pretty bad..). Firefox still has the best search field of all browsers i’ve used.

Intrestingly enough Galeon used to be the stock gnome browser. I have no idea what prompted the gnome developers to switch. I guess things just made too much sense.

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