Re: The future of Galeon

Hi,

On 10/24/05, Adam Hooper <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 17:29 -0700, Rob Reid wrote:
> > I've never used epiphany, but is its extensions framework radically
> > better than firefox's?
>
> The main technical difference is that Epiphany extensions can take advantage of
> system libraries.

That's good, but you could argue that XUL is a sort of system library.
 Let's chalk that up to firefox being platform independent while
galeon and epiphany are not.

> Also, there's a different distribution mechanism. Firefox has zillions
> of extensions; there's no quality control, nor is there any way to know
> without trying an extension whether it's a shoddy mess or a work of
> genius (indeed, some extensions spring to mind which are clearly both).

It is possible to look at the code before installing, but to say it's
unreasonably difficult to do so would be an understatement.

> Epiphany extensions, so far, don't have the same problem. Most of the
> extensions I've discovered are developed by people who chat on #epiphany
> on irc.gnome.org and read the mailing list and ask for peer review. The
> epiphany-extensions package is maintained by the Epiphany maintainers,
> and it strives for the same level of quality. An extension in the
> epiphany-extensions package is guaranteed to be simple and intuitive,
> with attention to details (for instance, no Epiphany extension requires
> a browser restart).
>

It's good to hear that there's a human team paying attention to
details.  A big problem with firefox is that with all the extensions I
use, the right context menu is too long (often runs either above or
below the screen) and I haven't found a way to tidy it up, or even
shorten it without removing extensions.


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