Just a few things from my experience, 1) Epiphany is a good browser over-all.. it's fast, I've been using it as my main browser on my eeepc 701 and it's good for the most part.
2) I had one of the schools I work with test out Epiphany since Firefox was giving us some grief... I didn't get into too much detail, but I'll note that the teacher told us Ephiphany performed even worse than Firefox. So in any case we'll want to do some testing with a recent version (I'm still on 8.04 atm) and a moderately sized LTSP lab. 3) We're going to want to extensively test all of the plugins for Epiphany (which I haven't done yet myself).. Flash, Java being the most noteable ones. All of the people I've worked with with Linux/LTSP seem to really show that the plugins are the most important thing since so many sites use them so much. I just installed epiphany-browser on my Ubu 9.10 AMD64 machine at home and Java doesn't work ootb. Not really sure how to get it going right now actually. Last I heard Webkit and Java weren't very good friends. 4) 100% agree on gconf == good. I've always envied Epiphany because of what you can do with it in gconf, and the lack of support Firefox has for it. All in all I'm for testing and making it a goal.. I'm not really happy with the direction Firefox is going in, anyway. If Epiphany can smooth out the rough edges I think we'd have a good candidate for a replacement default browser. Jordan Scott Balneaves wrote: > After a few weeks of testing, I'd like to make a, err... Possibly > controversial > suggestion. :) > > Certainly not for Lucid, but say, for 12.04, it might be interesting to switch > to Epiphany for Edubuntu's "Default" web browser. Here's why: > > 1) It's based on WebKit, which, with my initial testing, works MUCH better on > thin clients, with much less X server ram usage. > 2) It integrates very well into Gnome, being the default Gnome browser. > 3) (A biggie) it speaks gconf, and you can do lockdown on it in Pessulus and > Sabayon. > 4) With my newfound idears gained from playing with evoldap, getting som gconf > setting via an LDAP backend shouldn't be too hard. > > Not saying we should. Just saying it might be worth... examining, post lucid. > > Cheers, > Scott -- edubuntu-devel mailing list edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel
