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[update] Epiphany browser continues to get worse and worse



On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 22:32 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 15:25:11 -0400 (EDT), Alan Ianson wrote:
> > 
> > I've noticed the same things. I've stuck with epiphany because it worked
> > so well for so long but there are times recently when I need to use
> > iceweasel. I think it's the switch from the gecko backend to webkit that
> > broke a lot of things that used to work well.
> >
> > I keep hoping that these problems can be resolved but time will tell. I
> > use unstable and downloading works fine but java apps that use the
> > plugin still don't work.
> 
> That's not good news.  Which plugin?  The Sun non-free one?  There is one
> site that I used to use a lot that requires that to work.  (It's a stock
> analysis site.)  I haven't been in the market lately, but I expect to be
> active again at some point.  And when I do want to use it, I want it to
> work!
> 
> 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.

After some updates pogo.com is working again with sun-java6-jre. I'm
going to try openjdk again and see how it goes. 


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