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Re: Epiphany browser continues to get worse and worse



On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 22:59:29 -0400 (EDT), Ron Johnson wrote:
>> On 2010-04-17 21:32, Stephen Powell wrote:
>>>
>>> Why did they switch from gecko to webkit anyway?  It was working so well.
>>> I still use it in Lenny.  But not in Squeeze.  Not anymore.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebKit#Origins
>
> Maybe I'm slow, Ron, but I don't follow you.  The above link appears to
> give the origins of webkit, but I didn't see anything there about why
> epiphany-browser decided to switch from gecko, which was working well,
> to webkit, which has apparently caused a lot of problems.

Couldn't say why they switched, but I find pages in Epiphany 2.29 in
Squeeze look vivid compared with the Gecko version.


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