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The web browser for GNOME, featuring tight integration with the desktop and a simple and intuitive user interface that allows you to focus on your web pages. If you’re looking for a simple, clean, beautiful view of the web, this is the browser for you.
Web is often referred to by its code name, Epiphany.
Why I think this tool should be added
This is a good browser and with new 47 update the performance is good enough to use as a normal browser
I’ve not had good experiences with GNOME Web just from a usability perspective. It renders content and runs JS differently/poorly even compared to Safari, so it isn’t just WebKit to blame for whatever’s going on with it.
True i have also used it in past and it was not that good but after 47 this is now really good they have worked on it
Now after 47 gnome web really become a good browser
It is not webkit as safari uses this is webkitgtk
This is really becoming good as you can see by the benchmarks it is actually performing now and it will be far far better in 48 when most of the sovereign tech funded work will land.
A (weak) adblocker and “Intelligent tracking prevention.” You can replace the adblocker’s blocklist but it needs to be in a WebKit specific format, of which there are not many.
I think both of those are built-in features of WebKit (just an assumption, I didn’t check) since Safari has them too , even down to the “Privacy report” that was added in Web 47:
Web has gotten a lot more performant in the last few releases but there are still a lot of rendering issues. Back when I had an Nvidia graphics card, there was a period of a few months where literally nothing WebKit-related rendered due to a bug in WebKitGTK.
It have a good tracker blocker and some adblocker which is weak does not block stuff from youtube but it blocks some from unnecessary websites ads.
Now what is the privacy benifit i cam say it is better what firefox give out of the box i know girefox is more versatile but still it is a slick little browser that can be recommended. With caution maybe.
For basic web search and stuff it is on power with chromium.
I’ve been testing the latest version and it’s actually gotten a lot better. Before, it was really slow with loading pages and watching videos would make it stutter, but most of that’s gone now. The one thing that’s still a bit of a pain is the extension support - it’s pretty bad. I think I managed to get it working in the Nightly version a few months ago, but I don’t remember how I did it.
The built-in ad blocker and tracker blocker are okay, I guess. But I did notice that it didn’t block ads in YouTube videos.
The actual stuff that has been cooking will come in 48 but yes extension support has been wip and it should have in 47 but 48 will be the version and most interesting part is gnome web is really good now i think it is a good time to include this as well.
Let us have a open-source webkit browser.
And i am waiting for 48 where the funded upgrades will be coming.
True webkit is already in macos safari
And if privacy guide is recommending only linux oses why we will give apps that are cross platform is it make sense
Most people does not in that case why you have molly listed in privavyguide remove that immediately molly is only supposed in android no ios support.
Similarly remove Safari from the list as this is only supported in ios not android so we can’t skip them right.
We can’t exclude them those using ios or android.
