What the heck is wrong with Epiphany?

Gullible Jones · 2005-09-23 23:23:40

Isn't it supposed to be... well... light? Because the damn thing takes 10 seconds to start, when Firefox starts in less than 2! How the hell did this monstrosity become Gnome's default browser?

Vince · 2005-09-24 04:58:51

On my box, epiphany loads about the same if not faster..
I tried using time to get an exact number, but I'm not very good with that.
I'd estimate, but it took less than a second to load.

ozar · 2005-09-24 22:36:33

I wouldn't mind trying Epiphany and/or Galeon if they didn't both have a shitload of dependencies that I don't want to install. Of course, Dillo is good in that repect, and it's really fast, but then you have to look at it if you intend to use it, and it still has a bad case of the uglies.

aquila_deus · 2005-09-29 12:59:44

Gullible Jones wrote:

Isn't it supposed to be... well... light? Because the damn thing takes 10 seconds to start, when Firefox starts in less than 2! How the hell did this monstrosity become Gnome's default browser?

And you may have noticed during the middle 5+ seconds there is no CPU activity at all. It seems to be doing some idiotic DNS scanning or whatever, I have fixed it in my patch http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?d … =1&ID=2156

Cheers!

JGC · 2005-09-29 15:33:19

Seems it is broadcasting DNS-SD requests over the network. You disabled it by putting the 1 || thing in the if-statement.

Gullible Jones · 2005-09-29 19:18:30

And why would it be doing that?

JGC · 2005-09-29 20:41:11

Using dns-sd, systems can advertise services on a network. To see what this actually is:
http://0pointer.de/blog

JGC · 2005-09-30 22:02:35

Starting /etc/rc.d/mdns from rc.conf solves the slow startup problem. Epiphany tries to contact the daemon several times on startup.

Gullible Jones · 2005-09-30 23:09:56

Ahh... Is there are way to compile Epiphany without support for that, e.g. --disable-mdns or something?

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#1 2005-09-23 23:23:40

What the heck is wrong with Epiphany?

#2 2005-09-24 04:58:51

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#4 2005-09-29 12:59:44

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#5 2005-09-29 15:33:19

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