[Ayatana] Epiphany as a desktop-consistent web browser in Ubuntu

[Jeremy Nickurak <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm curious to find out if many users on this list have been paying much attention to what epiphany-browser is doing in Lucid.

Epiphany provides a web browser experience that's much more consistent with the rest of the gtk/gnome desktop environment. It has a few rough edges, but the 2.30.x branch has made some HUGE leaps in terms of usability and website compatability, via the webkit-gtk project.

Epiphany also might yield better results than other browsers like Firefox and Chrome, which use relatively heavyweight custom toolkits and widgets. I get the impression that integrating Epiphany into newer ubuntu design goals (global menu, windicator, etc) would be substantially less work.

As someone who's successfully switched to using epiphany for about 99% of my browsing, my experience can't help but ask if epiphany is the best route going forward. Is it getting much attention from Ayatana?

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