14 DAY TRIAL // The release of the GNOME 3.16 desktop environment is imminent, so package maintainers are still updating their GNOME apps these days in preparation for tomorrow’s big announcement.
Today, March 24, the Epiphany web browser was updated to version 3.16.0, a release that introduces a handful of interesting new features but also addresses some of the issues discovered in the previous version of the software.
According to the release notes, Epiphany 3.16.0 adds support for HTML5 Web notifications, makes the address (URL) bar visible when running the browser in application mode, and displays a network error page on Transport Layer Security (TLS) errors.
The privacy and discoverability of the Incognito Mode have been greatly improved, and a speaker icon is now displayed on tabs where the respective web page makes noise by playing unwanted audio streams. This way, you can fast identify these annoying websites and mute them.
Lastly, the user interface of Epiphany received many improvements, various memory leaks have been plugged, lots of bugs have been squashed, the documentation has been updated, and many translations have been improved.
While you can download the Epiphany 3.16.0 sources right now from Softpedia, it is recommended to wait until all GNOME 3.16 packages are available in the main software repositories of your distribution.