I tried it on my Asus Eeepc last week.
It's still unstable and I could not get flash to work.
It was pretty fast, but not usable yet.
I use Epiphany as light weigth browser, with adblock .
I tried it on my Asus Eeepc last week.
It's still unstable and I could not get flash to work.
It was pretty fast, but not usable yet.
I use Epiphany as light weigth browser, with adblock .
You guys gave me an idea to try out the available webkit browsers instead of waiting out on how Google Chrome might appear on GNU/Linux. I got Midori and Epiphany from this ppa: https://launchpad.net/~webkit-team/+archive and I'm trying both browsers now. So... I'm checking out how to enable flash support on both.
Edit:
Ok, both browsers crashed whenever I tried to play a youtube video. I'm using 8.04 and I've recently upgraded my flash plugin to version 10 from Adobe's website. I thought of reverting back to version 9 and so far flash worked on both browsers.
I'm liking Midori more so far over Epiphany. (I found it annoying that I had to install extensions for Epiphany to be able to open links in a new tab.)
Last edited by the yawner; November 23rd, 2008 at 07:40 PM.
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@the yawner : I'm currently uploading midori 0.1.0 and webkit r38688 into the webkit-team ppa for Hardy. Flash should not crash anymore
I only test it in Intrepid, so any feedbacks will be nice.
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midori 0.1.1 is out \o/ (and Webkit 38850)
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The Flash plugin killed Epiphany again (this time the Flash 10 64bit beta), so I eradicated Flash completely. Everything is way nicer now, for me. Now I can complain whenever clueless web developers build Flash-only content, and I can be way more productive in the absense of that awful proprietary thing. It's just like the good old days!
I also have a growing temptation to switch to Konqueror, although Epiphany's newly improved address bar autocomplete is holding me back for now. Midori is a decent alternative...
But is it only me for whom both epiphany-webkit and midori won't open links in new tabs?
That means that clicking on a google result won't work, as it should open a new tab...
Epiphany-webkit presently has broken tab handling, and does not do cookies correctly. It's a known bug
The Gecko version does tabs just fine, and the webkit version will probably not be considered stable until it does.
In the mean time, Do Not open tabs in the epiphany-webkit because there is a good chance the browser will then crash somehow.
I don't know about epiphany-webkit (thanks to Mr. Picklesworth for the info) but no problems with midori.
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Uhm weird: in midori, if I right-click and select open in new tab, it opens fine. However if I click on a link that automatically would open up in a new tab/window, nothing at all happens. So to open up Google search results, I have to manually right-click and select open in new tab.
Btw, I come from Opera, so I never new that Google results open up in new windows... annoying. They should open in new tabs!
So if no one else is seeing this do i report a bug? I'm using the webkit repo..
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