GNOME’s Revamped ‘Web’ Browser Is Minimal, Mighty

By Joey Sneddon, Published January 18, 2012

GNOME’s work on a revamped and repurposed ‘Epiphany’ web browser – which seeks to make the browser a core part of the GNOME experience – is coming along nicely.

The redesign of Epiphany, which is relabelled ‘Web’ in the app itself, seeks to to offer GNOME users a ‘simple, clean, beautiful view of the [internet].’

And despite development being relatively early on (Epiphany 3.3.4 isn’t scheduled for release until March) I don’t find it premature to say that it succeeds in its aim.

The name Epiphany finally rings true.

What’s New in Epiphany 3.3.4

Epiphany 3.3.4/Web is one of the first applications to make use of GNOME Shell’s “App Menu”. Clicking on the application title in the top bar drops down a range of configuration and preferences options.

The navigation toolbar is minimal. Buttons for ‘back’ and ‘forward’ are present, and look great in their visual coupling.

‘Stop’ and ‘Reload/Refresh’ actions have been merged and integrated into the URL bar itself – similar to Firefox and Chrome.

A ‘Super Menu’ replaces the traditional menu bar, thus following a trend seen in most web-browsers of late.

Epiphany’s rebirth as ‘Web‘ has only just begun.

With a renewed and reinvigorated aim, the Epiphany development team will next begin porting additional extensions and features over to the app; implementing a new (very stylish) ‘Overview’ page for accessing most-visited pages and bookmarks; and there’s also rumour of a ‘surprise gift’ being added to the ‘web application’ feature.

Exciting stuff.

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José Antonio
Now this is a good looking epiphany :P

http://profiles.google.com/lilianftp Moraru Lilian
I do agree!

http://twitter.com/zc456 Squeaks
Glad Gnome is finally adopting the global menu as well.

Nathan Moos
I like the way GS3 is doing it better than Unity or OS X I must say…
http://www.mhall119.com/ Michael Hall
It’s not quite a global menubar, as it’s per-application not per-window.
Anonymous
This doesn’t look at all like what’s been called global menu so far. There’s a menu on the panel AND another on the app (in this case, hidden -oh how they love hiding things- inside a Chrome-like tools button). Supposedly, the user will somehow know what items belong where…
Is there any website with info on the design rationale of this new “global menu”?
If Gnome apps are going to adopt this, how will it affect to the Unity’s global menu?
How will aps not ready for this new menu style behave?
How will they work in a KDE, Windows or OSX environment?

http://jeremy.bicha.net/ Jeremy Bicha
I don’t think you can say it’s hidden when there’s only 4 buttons: back, forward, stop/reload, and settings. Also, it’s interesting to have epiphany open full screen in Unity showing Google.com as there are three similar but different “gears” in a vertical row in the top right corner for settings. In other words, everyone’s doing it.

Anonymous
It is hidden inside a button. Of course you can call a button a menu, but changing names doesn’t change things.
My mother had a handy reply for those times when I said “everyone’s doing it” but I can’t translate it to English…
That isn’t my main point, anyway. The point is, if this new style of doing things (a sort-of-global-menu combined with another menu inside the window) how will this affect other desktops like Unity, XFCE, LXDE, KDE, etc. for the apps adopting it?
I can think of a solution for Unity: put the new “global menu” under the name of the app, and the “windows menu” where the global-menu is now. That would have the advantage of removing that horrifying cropped app name when the menu is showing.

http://twitter.com/di0nysys Andrew Smith
this is the reason why I disabled the global menu and unity. I use chrome maximized the majority of the time I’m on my computer and the extra bar at the top was a waste of space. They say Unity saves screen real estate, but for me it decreased the amount of screen real estate.

http://twitter.com/ottorobba Otto Robba
Now that is a nice evolution of Epiphany’s design. :D

José Antonio
I hope that it’s now only better looking but also faster, I would love to have a web browser that blends in great with my DE without sacrificing by a bit the browsing experience, epiphany 3.2 isn’t still stable enough for me :(

http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ Joey-Elijah Sneddon
I’m going to run some speed/stability comparisons with stock epiphany in 12.04 (although offer a big fat disclaimer that these are no indicative of final quality etc) and post them up later.

José Antonio
thanks! :D
http://twitter.com/marcusklaas MarcusKlaasDeVries
Heavy javascript used to slow down the browser. Couldn’t switch tabs etc. Please check if this is still the case. About the design: it looks TIGHT! Appmenu is amazing. I hope they remove titlebar when maximized in Gnome Shell 3.4, that would make it even more minimal. I heard they had plans to do this, so fingers crossed!!!

Aldo Mann
Those are precisely the plans. http://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/WindowStates
Gustavo Jasso
You can achieve this using Maximus, (use gconf-editor to change key /apps/maximus/no_maximize to true if you don’t want all windows maximized) and combine with gnome-globalmenu and this extension (to have the title of the window in the top panel) https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/59/status-title-bar/ so you don’t lose any functionality. Sounds a bit of a hassle, but it shouldn’t take more than 10 minutes and it is really worth it IMHO
Gustavo Jasso
Bummer, I just tried it my self and globalmenu + status bar ext. gives you duplicate icons on title bar. I guess for now you lose either global menu or the window title if you try what I said

Anonymous
Seriously, speed stopped being an issue many years ago. What’s the difference between a page loading in 0.2s and 0.4s or whatever?

http://twitter.com/cedr cedr
Agreed, but remember, in recent years the top browsers have optimized their javascript engines, and websites have taken advantage of that. Even the current Midori browser, for example, becomes unresponsive for half a minute when it’s overwhelmed by javascript. Hopefully Epiphany can avoid that.
José Antonio
Scrolling through some webpages feels rather slow, also epiphany tends to crash way too often for me :(

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4LXTMAC7KVMD7JBKWBCCBU4HSU inner_turbulence
I have a slow netbook and epiphany is the fastest feeling browser on it. If it wasn’t wasting a lot of space, I would definitely go with it and there is the god damn ctrl+enter thing, I CAN’T live without it!

Anonymous
even better other apps and nautilus will also follow the nice revamped design soon

http://twitter.com/valdano113 valdano113
I wish that all the applications make use of GNOME Shell’s “App Menu”.

http://profiles.google.com/krnekhelesh Nekhelesh Ramananthan
That’s the plan as stated in live.gnome.org. For this Gnome 3.4 release they are focussing on Global menu, jump lists etc.
Gustavo Jasso
You can try it http://code.google.com/p/gnome2-globalmenu/
http://profiles.google.com/mpnordland Micah Nordland
If you install it like @google-3bd26cbd54b34b008f1e559aa3c5b0f2:disqus recomends, all gtk (2 and 3) apps will work with it.

Anonymous
Looks a lot like Midori as seen in Elementary OS :p
Satchit Bhogle
Paragraph 3 should read “Epiphany” and not “Epiphant”. As awesome a name as “Epiphant” is, it is sadly incorrect.

http://profiles.google.com/mpnordland Micah Nordland
Please create a bug report for this.

http://twitter.com/karolbe karolbe
I am not buying this. Just like that whole new Gnome 3.

Tom Murphy
you wont have to buy it – its FOSS! ;)

Anonymous
I think he meant “buying this” in the way someone says “I’m just not buying that Salander committed those murders” and NOT in the sense of “Well, I am definitely buying my uranium from that guy … a bunch of people on Yelp say he’s an FBI agent”;P
So there ya go

http://twitter.com/zc456 Squeaks
But Gnome 3 only costs $0, and if you act now you can get for absolutely $0.

http://nicholasferber.myopenid.com/ nicholas
i have a better offer. i can give you two gnome 3 for the price of one. beat that!
ean5533
Wow! That’s an __UNDEFINED__ percentage reduction!

http://twitter.com/di0nysys Andrew Smith
no sopa protest?

http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ Joey-Elijah Sneddon
I believe it kicks in a 1pm UK time

Gustavo Jasso
As side note, in Japan, the protest is already on in Wikipedia and DuckDuckGo , but not in in Google Japan Only a Doodle of Journey to the West. Although, going to directly to google com with language set to english did show some statement.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_AT5QBXYRCQA5HXCKO54YDATF64 John M
The admins at Ubuntu Forums are currently banning people from talking about this issue. Apparently we need to be ‘nannied’

Anonymous
The Ubuntu Forums have been a police-state-like place for a long long time now.
http://twitter.com/di0nysys Andrew Smith
agreed
Anonymous
It’s because people post crap like this http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1904162&highlight=SOPA
Mustafa Kaya
What does the Ubuntu (the OS) forums have to do with a US legislation effort? You can always post in another forum. Ubuntu forums is for matters related to the operating system itself. Your point may be perfectly right, but expressing it at the right place is also an important matter of respect to others.
http://twitter.com/di0nysys Andrew Smith
there IS a general discussion area.
http://twitter.com/di0nysys Andrew Smith
the ubuntuforums staff can be really annoying. I once called bush an idiot and all hell broke loose with regards to the admins even though there were lots of posts after me and no one even blinked.
Anonymous
It is in their terms to delete your thread if its focus is primarily political.
Even the general discussion forums adhere to this (they were only meant as a “Hey, post up your customizations” or as a Loco group up)

http://profiles.google.com/peter.podgorski Piotr Podgórski
I believe it’s rather arbitrary, many websites are already blacked out, including Wikipedia, “Rock, Paper, Shotgun”, “The Oatmeal” and “Web Upd8″, among others.
Besides, AFAICS its past 1pm UK time already, if my Gnome clock is correct. Also, if you plan to join in, it would be nice to inform regular readers about the precise begin and end time. And if you plan not to join it, then shame on you.
http://wakoopa.com/xfact XFACT
There is no need for you to join SOPA unless you need to oil your American readers if they consist the majority of the audience.
http://profiles.google.com/peter.podgorski Piotr Podgórski
Apparently you have removed my post suggesting that you (same as every sane and aware site on the Internet) should join the SOPA protest (despite that you’re not in the US, like e.g. RockPaperShotgun) and that its shameful not to join.
Thank you for doing this. I appreciate the sweet irony of the situation.
http://twitter.com/di0nysys Andrew Smith
sweeet, yeah, I later saw!

Waldir Leôncio
I love the proposed cleaner look, but that integrated settings menu just feels off theme. Anyway, It’s great to see progress being made, Epiphany still feels too rough around the edges and incompatible with web standards. I just installed Arch + Gnome Shell in my netbook and decided to really try using Epiphany, but I had so many problems with Java and Flash that I just decided to uninstall it and go back to Firefox.
BTW, are there any other applications that use the App Menu? I’m still to find one!

https://login.ubuntu.com/+id/R4szkb7 Jo-Erlend Schinstad
Incompatible with web standards? Epiphany uses the same rendering engine as Chrome and Safari, right? Java and Flash are not at all web standards.

Waldir Leôncio
What I meant by that is lots of pages (at least among the ones I visit) look weird format-wise on Epiphany. Kinda like what used to happen on Firefox and Chrome before they were hip. That, together with the trouble I went through trying to make Epiphany work with flash and JRE (some websites I frequently visit simply won’t work with OpenJDK), made me give up on the browser.

Joaquin Padilla Rivero
Given that Flash is likely dead as a commercial project (Flex SDK was Apache-sourced not long ago) and that OpenJDK 7 is the new standard Java implementation , I’d say those will be non-issues in a little while.

Waldir Leôncio
Amen to that, brother!

Conner Lee
I believe you can use flash and java in Epiphany on Arch by using the 32-bit flash and java with epiphany. On another note, Midorii is not GTK3 but supports it and I find more sites incompatible with it than Epiphany. I also find that anything that works in Chrome and Firefox works in Epiphany. Do you have some website examples Waldir?

Conner Lee
forgot to mention 32-bit flash/java with nspluginwrapper
Waldir Leôncio
Sure, an example that encompasses both problems I mentioned is http://www.bb.com.br, the website for the largest public bank in Brazil. At least on my machine, the text on the drop-down menus at the top panel weren’t really readable; if you click on the “ok” button to the right of it, you’ll get to a login page which uses java. With OpenJDK I couldn’t get this page to load properly on Epiphany, only on Firefox.

Bruno R. Masetto
Renaming it “Web” kinda makes me remember when Microsoft used to label IE as “Internet”. And I don’t like it.

Aldo Mann
The GNOME folks are doing this with all their apps, Web, Documents, Clocks, Contacts, Files (the brand new Nautilus possible name), Chat and a lot more. If you think about it, it makes a lot of sense; if the program does the same exact thing why name it Empahty when it can just be named Chat? It’s really intuitive to new users… and the old ones too: it’s by far easier to rename “Files” than “Nautilus” specially when you have lots of applications.

http://profiles.google.com/lilianftp Moraru Lilian
I absolutely agree with you. It doesn’t matter if the user knows gnome, anyone can start working with it from the first touch, very intuitive naming.
https://launchpad.net/~mpt mpt
Giving an application a generic name makes sense if it’s the OS default, and if it’s good enough that most people won’t bother installing a different one.
For example, Windows, OS X, and Ubuntu all ship with a calculator app, and all of them call it “Calculator”. Same for Windows with “Notepad”. Same for OS X and Ubuntu with “Terminal”. And same for Android with “Browser”. (Other fine browsers are available, but most Android users don’t use them — and if that changes, you can expect the default to be rebranded “Chrome”.)
But neither of those things are true for Epiphany. It won’t be the default browser in any serious OS, and (as the rise of Firefox, then Chrome, demonstrates) many PC users do change their browser. So calling it “Web” is, unfortunately, consigning it to irrelevance.

Anonymous
Actually, now that Epiphany is undergoing a drastic redesign with the goal to lose tabs and implement a unique reading queue, I finally have a reason to try the browser and I might even stay with it.

Anonymous
I will stay with it if it remembers my session when I close it. And if Flash will work.. These two are kind of important features in a real web browser…
Waldir Leôncio
What are you talking about? This sounds very interesting!
Waldir Leôncio
He’s talking about this, you handsome man: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2VALT-DMGU
It is indeed a very nice evolution from the good ol’ tabs.
Anonymous
Gnome is making amazing progress suddenly than Ubuntu !! I am loving the gnome3 desktop way more that unity!

Anonymous
Having a more generic name only effects users that don’t know any better. I believe the aim is to improve ease for new or inexperienced users. I.E. new user says “how do I access the internet”, that’s easily solved by typing web in the shell overview
Epiphany is getting a lot better, with the exception if any issues exist with Adobe Flash (I’ve been told there are some but I can’t verify), I don’t why it can’t become the default browser in any distro. With all the new changes, I’m half tempted to switch to it from Chrome in Gnome 3.4.
By the way, correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the default browser in debian Epiphany?

http://openid-provider.appspot.com/TheMerkinman Merk
What “new or inexperienced user” would A. Install Linux, and B. not install Ubuntu (where ‘web’ isn’t installed by default)?
Anonymous
I think you made to two incorrect assumptions when reading my comment, that: 1) All user would have to install Linux themselves to use it and 2) All new/inexperienced users should use Ubuntu.
Well it’s all fair to say it’s likely these are the case, they are not the 100%. It’s ideas like such that make people think Linux is too complicated to use, or any other distro than Ubuntu is too advanced. Considering I have a satisfied, yet very computer unsavvy friend, that bought a Red Hat computer from a computer vendor, I would both these assumptions are untrue.
Daniel Butler
many new users are moving to mint instead of Ubuntu.
Anonymous
I installed Ubuntu for a few (non-tech-savvy) people, and I always installed Gnome Shell over it, since they found Unity too confusing (too much hiding).
Ubuntu may be the most noob-friendly OS right now, but that might change, with elementary OS Luna coming, Gnome OS taking shape, and even Linux Mint taking steps to make a great out-of-the-box experience.
Alex Robinson
The default browser in Debian is Iceweasel, but I believe Epiphany is installed with Gnome.
https://launchpad.net/~mpt mpt
Besides Merk’s excellent point (most new users will never see either Gnome Shell or “Web”), there are two problems with your suggestion that a new or inexperienced user would be “typing web in the shell overview”.
First, thinking they’d be typing anything at all. Search is useful, but geeks vastly overestimate how much non-geeks want to search rather than browse for things on their own computer. (It’s the same reason that they avoid the command line: it requires remembering too much text.)
Second, thinking that if they did type something, it would be “web”. If you ran a test on it, I predict “internet”, “browser”, “google”, and even “explorer” would be tried more often than “web” was.
Waldir Leôncio
We do overestimate the usage of using the keyboard. The average user likes to click on things, not type them. Here at work we use Vista, and one of the first things IT changes when installing a new station is to switch the Start menu to classic. As much as using the search bar at the bottom of the new menu is easier, people still feel more comfortable browsing through that huge list of installed apps. I guess we’re all keyboard shortcut junkies here, but we must keep in mind most people like the mouse better.
Anonymous
I would think if they clicked on Internet under the overview, seeing web would be the most obvious choice. I do agree that it seems to assume to much to think they would type it.
Though gnome-shell may not be the most popular, Fedora is considered the third most popular Linux distro, so I would think that says something. Even beyond that, we’re talking about Gnome’s goals, not Ubuntu’s or Fedora’s. Gnome would hope if a new or experienced users would use vanilla Gnome, it would be easier to have a more generic name.

Aldo Mann
I agree, in the current situation, your statement is correct. But you have to remember that GNOME 3 is just a prelude to GNOME 4 OS.
Anonymous
It’s the default browser for the Gnome DE… seriously man. And “good enough” is kind of subjective. Opinions my friend, opinions. Yeah sure I changed my browser… but that was with past versions. This new UI may sway myself and others as it’s a pretty drastic change. Don’t assume too much.
https://launchpad.net/~mpt mpt
Two weeks later, it looks like I was nearly right. Android’s “Browser” isn’t being rebranded as Chrome. It’s being replaced by Chrome. http://parislemon.com/post/17215781807/chrome-for-android-the-browser-for-the-1

http://twitter.com/MotionShot Heimen Stoffels
Because there are many, many web browsers?

https://launchpad.net/~mpt mpt
The browser on my old Nokia phone is called “Web”. So now, when I see a browser called that, I can’t help thinking it’s going to suck.

Anonymous
The browser on my old nokia phone actually has a lot of features that aren’t even present in IE8.

Anonymous
Same issue with webOS and Android. It seems that most platform-centric applications are starting to give themselves very obvious names these days.
I guess Rekonq and Epiphany are a bit less obvious. : As are Chrome and Firefox, but eh. I think having a codename wouldn’t be so bad.
Anonymous
It looks a lot like chrome… Even I am not very kicked about calling it the ‘web’

http://profiles.google.com/samuel.tilly Samuel Tilly
This is great! i hope that it will use flashplayer the same way firefox and chromium does.
http://twitter.com/ux92 uvazquez
I’ve been using Epiphany for a long time and it is the smoothest browser I’ve ever seen.
Might switch to GNOME-shell anytime soon. I like how this is coming.
edu ard
Would be the perfect replacement for Midori in elementary Luna!!!

Glennz NL
No way, Midori´s developer works very closely with Elementary, Gnome doesn´t care if their stuff looks alien on other desktops.

edu ard
midori just sucks, in comparance to this nice thing.

https://launchpad.net/~fabio-valentini Fabio Valentini
this is awesome!
Amir Rehman
Looks like Google Chrome to me…

http://profiles.google.com/lilianftp Moraru Lilian
Go to a doctor and check your eyes.

Samuel Orr
This makes me want to upgrade to Debian Sid. I really like Gnome 3.
http://pctonic.net/ Ashutosh Mishra
Hey look, that’s Chro…oh wait, Epiphany.

http://wakoopa.com/xfact XFACT
Chrom/ium invented the best desgin, and every other browser is somewhat following it… what can I say.

Giovanni Sarto
chrom/ium also took some inspiration from Opera…I don’t get how such a groundbreaking browser never really had as much success as ff or chrome!

Alex Robinson
Weird that the proprietary browser out of the 3 is the one with ~1% market share. Too bad IE isn’t the same way.
Anonymous
I’m happy it didn’t. Open-source FTW :)

http://twitter.com/EROTIK_666 ✞ SWAG ✞
do AWN work in gnome3?

http://profiles.google.com/mpnordland Micah Nordland
Yes, it works quite well
Chad Germann
AWN works well in Gnome 3 in fact it makes gnome 3 almost useable (unlike unity witch there is no help for)

Basile Déplante
Since no one asked yet, I will: Can we please have a link or a name to that beautiful wallpaper as seen on the screenshot?
Thank you :-)
Anonymous
Since no one asked yet, I will: Could we please have a name or a link to the beautiful wallpaper shown on the screenshots?
Thank you :-)

Stephen Gantenbein
It’s the OS X Lion wallpaper. And it’s sad that it’s shown on a Linux blog.

Chad Germann
Better than showing a Microsoft Walpaper.
Fun fact, Apple has a better open source track record than Microsoft.
For example all of you chrome/miun loving, Android useing people are using Apple’s LGPL Webkit

buba
and we have a biiiig title bar :D

Anonymous
And there will be no tittle bars for maximized windows (if the applications want it).

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_37EVLRX5KHSP7CQ6DBU2NFKZJI Carlo
another browser? I see no need

Anonymous
It’s not a new project… Epi[hany has been around for ages as Gnome’s web browser. This is just a new version for Gnome 3.
It’s been around a hell of a lot longer than Chrome for example.
http://profiles.google.com/lilianftp Moraru Lilian
It’s not another, it’s the same.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_37EVLRX5KHSP7CQ6DBU2NFKZJI Carlo
You’re right, but I prefer Chromium or FF!

Chad Germann
Funny I still prefer the original Mozilla Suite (Sea monkey) but I don’t go looking down at other browser projects

Michael Lucky Ilagan
reminds me alot of rekonq in KDE
Rodislav Moldovan
is there a way to put forward/backward buttons near refresh button ?
http://clozed2u.com/ Lattapon Yodsuwan
Look nice but I prefer Chrome :)
http://twitter.com/doseofsyanide Simo
Question: How is the App Menu handled in other DEs (KDE, Xfce, LXDE…).
That’s my main gripe with it.
Anonymous
I must say that I am really starting to like the direction Gnome is taking. It is very clean and smooth in operation. On it’s first run, Gnome Shell was virtually unusable. Now that the extension community has sprung up, so much of the missing functionality has come back to Gnome. It isn’t perfect yet, but I have started using it as my full time DE lately with a few extensions mixed in, such as the bottom panel extension.
I really like the integration and consistency of the apps. I also like some of the global menu stuff that Unity is doing and don’t mind seeing a variant of it brought to Gnome.
This is by no means a Unity bashing comment, it’s just that despite it’s name I don’t feel Unity has the same level of coherence as Gnome Shell. I don’t know that Epiphany will ever replace Chrome/FIrefox for me, but I like seeing how it works in the context of the Gnome vision.
Anonymous
looks great I hope all gnome apps looks this good in the future
http://jeremy.bicha.net/ Jeremy Bicha
Epiphany 3.3.4 is available in the GNOME3 PPA. Standard disclaimer applies that the PPA includes GNOME 3.3 stuff that
doesn’t currently meet the stability or other requirements for inclusion
in the normal Ubuntu archives.
By the way, Unity doesn’t yet
support the new GNOME menus so you’ll want to use something else like
GNOME Shell or GNOME Fallback. The GNOME game Textravex also uses the
new GNOME menu and that is in the normal repositories.
http://www.mypurebb.com euantor
Pity Epiphany as is just dies every time I attempt to load any web page in it.
http://twitter.com/ClickOpen ClickOpen
So how do I bookmark the current page. Also how do I go to my ‘home’ page. Can’t see any menu item or button to do either of those things anywhere?
http://twitter.com/mtc mike_ch
Really dislike the global menu. It doesn’t work well with apps that have many heavily nested menus like GIMP. Having to fit everything into that one ‘bubble’ is very inconvenient.
I’m using a distro that more or less hacks that into all applications by default, and I’m not sure how to remove it (I’m a novice and it’s not a GNOME extension), so I plan to go back to Ubuntu + GNOME Shell whenever I stop being lazy about it. Apple is the only global menu I’ve been able to stand, simply because it isn’t hidden nor requires any action on the user’s part to simply see the first tier of available menus.It appears to be inoffensively implemented in Epiph- I mean, Web. I wouldn’t want to use something as heavily menu driven that way, speaking as someone who presently does and dislikes it.

Chad Germann
Xerox PARC (The guys apple took the Global menu Concept from) as well as the whole idea of the GUI were brilliant individuals.
Sticking to the old PARC design over the years as a brilliant move by apple
Unity should take more hints from Xerox PARC as well and make unity more usefull

http://profile.yahoo.com/VAGGEZVFTEYUOH2WNT54U3RWYE SQL FM
please design it in this look:
top tool bar from left to right:
[1] – appIcon: right click to have app menu eg max, min, move, resize …
2 – close window button
3 – min window button
4 – max window button
[5] – move window button
* window tabs: dark grey, white [current open]
+ open a new tab
. some text you wish to print when there is enough space
v – click to view a list of tabs on this browser
in this way , you do not need 2 lines of tool bar.
next line:
back button
next button
url box
bookmark button
refresh/stop button
other tool icons to add in [customizeable]
search box
home
please make the scrollbar always on, OR please improve mouse-click-drag on unity
tab – firefox style looks nice and loveable
tab – chrome style looks sharp and killing — however it is upto you to pick up which style
Thank you very very very much
Justin Beaird
why does no one like having their homepage button and bookmarks handy and easy to get to anymore?
super menu’s annoy the crap out of me

Anonymous
Because, you just type a few letters in the address bar, and boom; all your bookmarks, history etc shows up.. It’s just an “enter” away.
Much simpler than browsing through menus :)

http://twitter.com/ClickOpen ClickOpen
Still need a simple button to go to your homepage though, and another to bookmark the current page.
Also, the Firefox sidebar is great for grouping and viewing lists of bookmarks (while not interrupting or covering the page I am looking at), which is handy when I want to browse several sites on a certain subject or visit a page I can’t remember the name of. The sidebar is one of the reasons Firefox is still my fave browser.

Anonymous
it’ll never work – no private browsing!?
http://twitter.com/sionmnt Teddy Mutombo
Sorry to go OFF topic But it still about Gnome 3.2, i have tried everything and still have problem with my AMD Catalyst 11.12 in Ubuntu 11.10
Any body have an idea how to make it work.
Unity work like charm and Cinnamon work but with some little glitch
Than you!!!
Anonymous
just look at those tabs! look how huge they are !! why are they uselessly large ?
Forget the tabs ! look at the padding on all of GNOME3. Everything is needless fat. It all makes my screen feel cramped and tiny.

Anonymous
Your rant about the tabs size is pointless because Epiphany is going to drop the tab bar.

http://dannyboyt.myopenid.com/ Dan
Will it have a decent adblock and lastpass extensions? If so, then I won’t need to use another browser.
http://twitter.com/di0nysys Andrew Smith
get rid of the title bar when maximized like chrome and I might be in.
http://profiles.google.com/mwilkes512 Matt Wilkes
Is there a “lens” in Unity for web browsing? Don’t think I’ve seen this yet.
bamdad khan
well, until there’s no easy way to install flashblock (iirc there already is an option for adblocking), i can give it no love..
nrundy
One of the primary reasons I stopped using GNOME-Shell was because it wastes screen space. Having titlebars on maximized web-browser windows is a great example of it.
Microsoft Windows web-browsers put TABS over the titlebar. And Unity doesn’t have a titlebar when maximized. Unless GNOME is doing this in its browser, I won’t be calling the browser “minimal.”
One thing GNOME-Shell is NOT is frugal with vertical space.

http://profiles.google.com/harveycabaguio Harvey Cabaguio
They are planning to not have titlebars when a window is maximised.

Marc Santos
Looks like the dev team for Epiphany wants to breath some life back into it’s browser, will have to try it out. That is the best way to know for sure how it is. :-)
https://launchpad.net/~grzesiek1e5 Grzegorz G.
Just add the possibility to move refresh/stop button to left side of adress bar.
http://hathix.com/ Neel Mehta
Looks a lot like Chrome. Not bad though.
http://7quran.com/ Mohammad Alhobayyeb
I do not know why you want to waste time, effort on repetition?!
We have Firefox, Chrome, Chromium, Opera. Save the effort and time for other projects!!
Anonymous
I totally agree.. I _really_ hate Adobe products myself, but it is still (sadly) necessary for many video/audio elements on the web and some polls even… I will also state that I really like Epiphany’s approach to user interface and usability :)
But hey, the web is really going the right direction, and hopefully in a few years, the horrible memories of adobe’s flash mess will be buried deep in our minds…

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