[Galeon-user] Re: [Galeon-announce] The future of Galeon

[Honza P. <ad...@fi...>]

On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 02:03:03PM -0700, Philip Langdale wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Tommi, Crispin and I were all able to attend the GNOME summit last
> weekend, even though Crispin had to pay his own way :-) So, it was
> a good opportunity for us to sit down and discuss the future of Galeon.

[...]

> So, what does changing our approach mean? It means considering Epiphany
> in a new light; Galeon still does a lot of things, small and large, that

[...]

> Between these two approaches and the more pragmatic direction that
> epiphany is moving in these days (heirarchical bookmark support has
> just been checked in!), I believe that we can reach a point where
> Epiphany + a set of extensions will provide the same functionality that
> Galeon does today.

Philip (and other developers),

thank you for having maintained the Galeon browser for so long and
keeping it a superb piece of software. It's a bit sad seeing the
Galeon journey to slowly end and give way to Epiphany (the Galeon
name is much better, at least) but you make a good pragmatic
decision.

Could you share your thoughts on why you consider Epiphany, rather
than Firefox the natural descendant of Galeon? Galeon provides a great
set of features, adhering to its "the web; only the web" slogan since
days when a simple yet powerful browser did not exist. Sure, there
are things that I never found use for (myportal), and sometimes an
extra feature would be nice (debugging HTTP headers, anything around
the Web development). Firefox is a platform where a wealth of
extensions exists now and it seems easy to make your own mixture of
features.

What does Epiphany have (philosophy-wise, not feature-wise) that
Firefox does not?

Yours,

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