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Vladman

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Registered: 2009-01-28

Posts: 118

Epiphany broken after gnome update

It seems that epiphany lost some functions after I updated the system the other day.
It no longer asks if I want to save passwords and if I right click on a link there is no more option to open it in a new tab.
Same thing across 2 different computers.

Anybody see the same thing or know how to fix it?

descendent87

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Registered: 2009-07-23

Posts: 105

Re: Epiphany broken after gnome update

It's the new webkit backend. As far as I know it can't save passwords yet, no idea about the opening in new tabs though

AndyRTR

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From: Magdeburg/Germany

Registered: 2005-10-07

Posts: 1,641

Re: Epiphany broken after gnome update

Java plugins are also not working.

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: Epiphany broken after gnome update

opening new tab by clicking middle button or if you have a touchpad both buttons on the same time

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Vladman

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Registered: 2009-01-28

Posts: 118

Re: Epiphany broken after gnome update

opening new tab by clicking middle button or if you have a touchpad both buttons on the same time

That does not work for me... do I need to set that up, if so how?

Thank you all for your replys guys.

kwebb1

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Registered: 2009-08-19

Posts: 23

Re: Epiphany broken after gnome update

Yeah middle clicking only worked for me when i didn't use the auto scroll extension in epiphany extensions. I do know things can only get better since they switched to webkit . I just have to keep the mindset that this is the first release with the webkit backend:)

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

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Re: Epiphany broken after gnome update

It seems that epiphany lost some functions after I updated the system the other day.
It no longer asks if I want to save passwords and if I right click on a link there is no more option to open it in a new tab.
Same thing across 2 different computers.

Anybody see the same thing or know how to fix it?

password problem: http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.28/

""One bug users may experience in Epiphany, due to the change to WebKit, is not being able to save logins and passwords in forms. This bug will be fixed during the 2.30 development cycle.""

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Nezmer

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Registered: 2008-10-24

Posts: 559

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Re: Epiphany broken after gnome update

You can chose opening in new tabs by default in gconf . So when you click open new window It will actually open a new tab .

I really like Epiphany with the Webkit backend . I've been using unstable and git versions for months . It's very stable too . It's the best choice IMHO for a relatively old or a low-end machine (512MB to 1GB ram) were Firefox would crawl .

Last edited by Nezmer (2009-10-15 11:07:25)

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lefallen

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2006-07-06

Posts: 36

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Re: Epiphany broken after gnome update

Arh that is unfortunate   I already use uzbl and midori for my webkit browsers and epiphany was my gecko one.  Anyone know of a even half decent browser that uses gecko (other than Firefox)?

EDIT: I've added the last gecko version to AUR (though I'm sure it won't work forever).  Hopefully there'll be a fork one day or something... http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31242

Last edited by lefallen (2009-10-16 14:20:14)

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alex_anthony

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From: UK

Registered: 2007-09-25

Posts: 344

Re: Epiphany broken after gnome update

kazehakase?
The git branch of epiphany 2.26?

Other things the epiphany devs haven't finished:
Customising the right click menu (currently just uses webkitgtk standard)
caching
flash plugin goes on top of everything

jpalan

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Registered: 2006-10-16

Posts: 28

Re: Epiphany broken after gnome update

After the upgrade to 2.28, some of the images on different web sites won't show, including some of the smileys. For example, while writing this, two smilies above the texbox, third from the left and third from the right,  show only a blank square.