firefox vs epiphany vs galeon

[seiflotfy]

so whats ur opinion on those 3
firefox
epiphany
galeon

[kirillrdy]

so whats ur opinion on those 3
firefox
epiphany
galeon

I prefere Firefox, nice small, and lots of usefull extensions you can use,
Epiphany is wirtten by Gnome foundation, also nice browser, usgin same Gecko(actually all 3 of them using that :)) engine as Firefox.
Havent used galeon, but the screen shots looks alright.

actually some people claim that epiphany or galeon is/are faster than firefox, doest make sence:confused: Haha, still Firefox :D

[David Marrs]

On a security note, if a security hole gets discovered in Firefox, is it likely to also affect Galeon, Epiphany, Netscape or any other Gecko browser?

I like Epiphany because it behaves like a Gnome app. Firefox has some indispensible extensions, though, and I use it on Windows, so I tend to stick with that.

[Glut]

Quick Answer: Yes with a but
Long Answer: No with an if
:)
Basicailly, it depends where the vulnerability is. If it's a gecko specific vulnerability, yes. Otherwise No.

[Foaming Draught]

After using Firefox since its very early alphas, I switched to Epiphany for these reasons:
1 It just looks better under GNOME (although I gave Firefox a whirl today 'cos a 1.0.7 ubuntu 5.10 GNOME update appeared this morning. Much improved, but by now I'm Epiphanised :) )
2 Loads first and subsequent pages much faster (but see above)
3 I love the smart bookmark feature
4 I need JRE and RealPlayer plug-ins, and I don't want to fiddle with incomprehensible terminal dialogues to get what should already be in the package. They both work with Epiphany.

[ghostintheshell]

Galeon is just THE browser for Gnome.
He's based on Epiphany.
I really love it.
I switch between Galeon and Firefox.
I love Firefox for the AdBlock extension.
But I prefer Galeon for speed and lightness.
Try them all!

[liquidtenmillion]

It depends on the year. A few years ago it was galeon or nothing(well actually it was galeon or mozilla or netscape, which equated to galeon or everything ) I used galeon because netscape and mozilla were far to large to be usable.(this was pre firefox and pre epiphany)

Eventually galeon developers started adding in every single feature imaginable to mankind (yet it STILL was much much smaller than mozilla and netscape) When gtk 2 and gnome 2 game out galeon needed to port itself over to gtk 2, and the original author thought a complete rewrite would be easier. He wanted to create a very small browser, so galeon 1.3 had MANY fewer features than 1.2. The other developers of galeon wanted those features 1.2 had, and after quite a lot of arguments the original galeon creater left and formed epiphany, which is what he wanted galeon to be.

It used to be Galeon if you were on gnome, Konqueror if on kde(and sometimes Galeon too) or Mozilla if you were crazy. Now with Firefox galeon has died down considerably from it's height in the early 00s.


I'd recommend all 3 actually. GAleon and Epiphany are very similar in function and appearance(they are created by the exact same person after all) but considerably different in principle(galeon=advanced browser with every feature anyone could want, epiphany=simple browser that aims to provide the best defaults and little configuration)

But currently galeon doesn't offer nearly as many features as it used to, and i confess that i still use galeon 1.2 on my slack box.

Galeon is the fastest on my machine(followed by firefox and then epiphany is the slowest)

However firefox seems to have the best tabbed browsing, and the most tabbed browsing preferences.