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November 14th, 2008, 04:05 PM
Allright! As much as I like Firefox, I also like Epiphany as a low-resource browser on my low-spec macs. Unfortunately, the gecko-based version crashes, whereas the webkit version works just fine.
With Intrepid, you now have the choice of using the Gecko-based version or the Webkit-based version, whereas previously it only used gecko, the same engine that firefox uses.
With Intrepid, I found that for some reason, the standard gecko-based version just crashes. I don't know if there is an interaction between it and firefox or just what the story is.
The good news is that I had no trouble with the webkit-based version, but here are some notes about installation:
If you want to download the webkit-based version, you'll need to specify it in synaptic. Find
epiphany-webkit
If you just do a search for epiphany, you'll come up with a "boulder dash clone" game, or you might be tempted to just download the gecko-based version of the browser. Look for epiphany-webkit.
Also, after installation it didn't show up in my drop-down menus, so all I did was logout and log back in - of course you could reboot if you wanted as well.
Epiphany now shows up and doesn't crash. There are some useful extensions for Epiphany (epiphany-extensions), but the description shows them as being gecko-based, and that seemed to cause much of my troubles - so I'm too chicken to install that extension now.
There are a lot of low-resource programs for low-spec boxes, but even on my G5 iMac, I really like Epiphany, Abiword, Gnumeric, and PcmanFM for their low footprints as compared to say OpenOffice or Nautilus or Firefox.
With Intrepid, you now have the choice of using the Gecko-based version or the Webkit-based version, whereas previously it only used gecko, the same engine that firefox uses.
With Intrepid, I found that for some reason, the standard gecko-based version just crashes. I don't know if there is an interaction between it and firefox or just what the story is.
The good news is that I had no trouble with the webkit-based version, but here are some notes about installation:
If you want to download the webkit-based version, you'll need to specify it in synaptic. Find
epiphany-webkit
If you just do a search for epiphany, you'll come up with a "boulder dash clone" game, or you might be tempted to just download the gecko-based version of the browser. Look for epiphany-webkit.
Also, after installation it didn't show up in my drop-down menus, so all I did was logout and log back in - of course you could reboot if you wanted as well.
Epiphany now shows up and doesn't crash. There are some useful extensions for Epiphany (epiphany-extensions), but the description shows them as being gecko-based, and that seemed to cause much of my troubles - so I'm too chicken to install that extension now.
There are a lot of low-resource programs for low-spec boxes, but even on my G5 iMac, I really like Epiphany, Abiword, Gnumeric, and PcmanFM for their low footprints as compared to say OpenOffice or Nautilus or Firefox.