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benton

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Registered: 2008-06-20

Posts: 13

Is epiphany using webkit now?

Hi there,

How would I know if the current epiphany (the one installed along with gnome) is using webkit? Currently I'm using FF3 on Arch but I've just discovered that speed-wise Safari runs circles around FF3 on my Windows XP box so I'd like to try a mature webkit browser on Arch and see if this is true for Linux also.

So how can one tell?

Thanks!

axion419

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Registered: 2007-04-12

Posts: 185

Re: Is epiphany using webkit now?

well a quick Google shows that the back end is supported, but from what I gleamed from the articles it isn't the default yet.  So my guess is know, this package, http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15752 is what you want.  Another way to tell, would be, if you already have the regular epiphany installed, you would have this file "webkitgtk" installed if it was using the web kit back end.  So, if you pacman -Ss webkitgtk and it doesn't say installed, you are not running the webkit version.

fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,411

Re: Is epiphany using webkit now?

The default epiphany from [extra] uses gecko, I think, but there is an epiphany-webkit package in AUR.

alex_anthony

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From: UK

Registered: 2007-09-25

Posts: 344

Re: Is epiphany using webkit now?

to tell your rendering engine in epiphany, go to Help >> About . There it will say powered by ... followed by the engine
axion's way would work, but i have midori and epiphany (gecko), so I have webkitgtk-svn installed but don't use it for epiphany
I find that epiphany is faster then ff3 even with gecko (and definitely lighter on resources)

lloeki

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From: France

Registered: 2007-02-20

Posts: 456

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Re: Is epiphany using webkit now?

although there is webkit support in epiphany 2.22 code, officially it's running gecko, and webkit full-on switch and gecko drop is scheduled for gnome 2.24.

Last edited by lloeki (2008-07-11 22:52:24)

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