Epiphany (web browser)

Epiphany is a web browser for the GNOME computer desktop. It is a descendant of Galeon.

It is one of a family of web browsers that use the Gecko (layout engine) from the Mozilla project to display web pages. It provides a GNOME integrated front-end to Gecko, instead of the Mozilla XUL interface. Like many Gecko-based browsers, Epiphany supports Tabbed Document Interface, HTTP cookie management, Pop-up ad blocking and an extensions system.

Whilst most browsers feature a hierarchical folder-based Bookmark system, Epiphany uses categorised bookmarks, where a single bookmark (such as Epiphany ) can exist in multiple categories (such as Web Browsers , Gnome , and Computer Software ). Special categories include bookmarks that have been used frequently ( Most Frequent ) and bookmarks that have not yet been categorised. Another innovative concept supported by Epiphany (though originally from Galeon) is Smart Bookmarks . These take a single argument specified from the address bar or from a textbox in a toolbar.

Epiphany was developed from Galeon by Marco Pesenti Gritti (also the initiator of Galeon) with the aim of making a fully GNOME Human Interface Guidelines compliant web browser and a very simple user experience.

=See also=

*List of web browsers *Comparison of web browsers

=External links=

*[http://www.gnome.org/projects/epiphany/ Epiphany Homepage] *[http://galeon.sourceforge.net/links/history.php Galeon History homepage] covering the decision to split development