Epiphany Changelog

What's new in Epiphany 3.34.3.1

Jan 7, 2020
  • Try harder to avoid session data loss (#887)
  • Reenable on-demand hardware acceleration (#932)
  • Fix localization of reader mode preferences (#994)
  • Security popover's per-website adblocker preference now actually works (!471)
  • Fix search provider crash when there are no bookmarks (!510)
  • Disable Search the Web in application mode
  • Fix crashes on web app creation dialog

New in Epiphany 3.34.2 (Nov 22, 2019)

  • Fix bookmarks import error handling (#965)
  • Prevent detaching pinned tabs (#969)
  • Exclude pinned tabs from "close other tabs" and "close tabs to left/right" (#975)
  • Adjust icon to not use clipping masks for compatibility with KDE (#979, Jakub Steiner)
  • Correctly handle zero matches in find toolbar (#984, Dimitrios Christidis)
  • Fix remember passwords setting (#993)
  • Updated translations

New in Epiphany 3.35.1 (Oct 15, 2019)

  • Reenable on-demand accelerated compositing (#932)
  • Many theme improvements specific to elementary OS (#2, #4, #69, #935, #936, #938, #940, #941, #956, Alexander Mikhaylenko)

New in Epiphany 3.34.1 (Oct 7, 2019)

  • Fix maximize state not being remembered (#1, Alexander Mikhaylenko)
  • Middle click should not close pinned tabs (#916)
  • Fix Ctrl+Shift+G for Find Previous shortcut (#918, Ting-Wei Lan)
  • Fix searching for special characters in address bar (!436, Ting-Wei Lan)
  • Fix warning about invalid signal handler when closing browser
  • Focus web view after creation in automation mode
  • Various fixes to new adblocker (Adrian Perez)
  • Separate font rows in preferences dialog (Adrien Plazas)
  • Improve about:applications on small screens (Sam Hewitt)

New in Epiphany 3.34.0 (Sep 10, 2019)

  • New improved adblocker (!178, Adrian Perez)
  • Pinned tabs (!242, Jan-Michael Brummer)
  • Web process sandbox (!348, Patrick Griffis)
  • Improved overview page design (!370, Tobias Bernard)
  • Further enhancements for mobile devices (Adrien Plazas)

New in Epiphany 3.34.0 RC (Sep 2, 2019)

  • Fix overview snapshot removal animation (Tobias Bernard)
  • Fix mistake in construction of web app icon URL (Sonny Piers)
  • Ensure adblocker is ready before loading any resources (Adrian Perez)
  • Failure to start web extension connection is now fatal

New in Epiphany 3.34.0 Beta 2 (Aug 27, 2019)

  • Partially fix regressions from overview redesign (#874)
  • Fix crash when dragging tab to new window (#875)
  • Fix load state tracking regression
  • Disable accelerated compositing again

New in Epiphany 3.32.4 (Jul 31, 2019)

  • Hide certain context menu entries from nondownloadable videos
  • Fix crash when entering application manager
  • Fix JS type error when loading forms without action attribute
  • Fix miscellaneous programming errors

New in Epiphany 3.33.4 (Jul 24, 2019)

  • Support switching spellchecker languages (#181)
  • Fix hangs when syncing bookmarks (#336)
  • Fix glitched state when closing final tab from tabs popover (#637)
  • Fix position of spinner in tabs (#796)
  • Indicate when title of pinned tab has changed (#797)
  • Fix tabs opening in strange places (#823)
  • Don't refresh history dialog when loading page from history (#831)
  • Allow loading more history dialog history using keyboard (#840)
  • Make web view infobars work properly in mobile mode (#851)
  • Add Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab to keyboard shortcuts dialog (Antoine Fontaine)
  • Fix crash when web app profile lacks .app file
  • Ensure web apps broken beyond repair crash nicely
  • Various improvements to history dialog (Adrien Plazas)
  • Major rework of the preferences dialog (Adrien Plazas)
  • Fix password manager error on forms without action attributes
  • Show number of open pages in mobile mode (Alexander Mikhaylenko)
  • Fix overview thumbnails improperly displaying placeholder icons
  • Expose mouse gesture setting in preferences dialog

New in Epiphany 3.33.3 (Jun 14, 2019)

  • More fixes for web app migration (#713)
  • More password manager fixe
  • Add mobile user agent setting

New in Epiphany 3.32.3 (Jun 12, 2019)

  • Fix preferences language button sensitivity (#279)
  • Fix crash opening preferences dialog in weird locales (#545)
  • Fix manage additional URLs web apps preference (#558)
  • Fix blob and data URIs in web apps (#593)
  • Fix migration permanently corrupting web apps if migrated before main profile (#713)
  • Fix crashes when safe browsing database is recreated
  • Fix crash in downloads code
  • Fix critical when starting web apps

New in Epiphany 3.33.2 (Jun 10, 2019)

  • Fix password manager for pages in iframes (#25, #26)
  • Search engines now have favicons in address bar dropdown (#128)
  • Allow searching for open tabs with address bar (#153)
  • Show error message for moved or deleted downloads (#155)
  • Fix preferences language button sensitivity (#279)
  • Continue downloads in background when last window is closed (#322)
  • Add custom error page for missing files when loading file URIs (#444)
  • Add visual feedback for importing Firefox bookmarks (#484)
  • Fix crash opening preferences dialog in weird locales (#545)
  • Fix manage additional URLs web apps preference (#558)
  • Fix downloading blob URIs in web apps (#593)
  • Add search match counter (#639)
  • Pages popover should not exceed window size in X11 (#656)
  • Fix HTTP auth dialog losing focus when switching tabs (#750)
  • Fix tab order reversing in session if tab is pinned (#777)
  • Fix issues with ordering of pinned tabs (#780)
  • Pinned tabs should not have a close button in tabs popover (#792)
  • Add tooltips to items in address bar (#807)
  • Log message to inspector console when adblocker blocks a resource
  • New redesigned cookies dialog

New in Epiphany 3.32.2 (May 5, 2019)

  • Fix remembering printer settings (#138)
  • Fix fuzzy incognito mode icon in hidpi (#257)
  • Add search button and allow type to search on history dialog (#632)
  • Fix critical deleting URLs from history dialog (#691)
  • Fix crash changing reader mode preferences (#706)
  • Fix many actions being disabled by mistake in incognito mode (#724)
  • Fix password manager asking to remember passwords when disabled (#725)
  • Close history dialog on Escape (#728)
  • Fix crash during Safe Browsing update (#736)
  • Unfullscreen automatically when web process crashes (#752)
  • Fix markup appearing in search provider results
  • Fix a search provider crash
  • Fix password manager crash on certain websites
  • Fix password manager autofill when form has no username
  • Fix tab bar context menu reopen closed tab action crash and sensitivity
  • Fix websites opening file choosers under flatpak
  • Fix searching for bookmarks in top bar

New in Epiphany 3.33.1 (May 5, 2019)

  • Change Tech Preview app ID to org.gnome.Epiphany.Devel (#20)
  • Improve tab order when opening links in new tabs (#49)
  • Use elementary-style headerbar icons in Pantheon (#67)
  • Remember zoom state for file URIs (#102)
  • Prompt to set as default browser (#112)
  • Add preference to ask where to save downloads (#147)
  • Fix yellow search highlight disappearing when repeating search (#166)
  • Allow pinning tabs (#248)
  • Expose saving pages as HTML or PNGs in addition to MHTML (#259, #412)
  • Warn user when closing window with multiple tabs (#276)
  • Comprehensively update user help (#293)
  • Add preference to always start in incognito mode (#300)
  • Add open in new incognito window to web app context menu (#313)
  • Allow setting per-site permissions from security popover (#331, #467)
  • Allow writing HTTP and HTTPS URLs without slashes (#377)
  • Fix tab list alignment with tabs not on top (#456)
  • Fix low-resolution overview thumbnails in hidpi (#605)
  • Add Ctrl+Enter shortcut to prepend www. and append .com to URL (#645)
  • Always show tabs bar (#650)
  • Incognito mode landing page is now adaptive (#653)
  • Add drop shadow to icon in about:web (#654)
  • Add empty state to about:applications (#663)
  • Keep URL entry centered (#666)
  • Fix icons overlapping with URL entry in right-to-left locales (#686)
  • Adjust margins of suggestions popover (#692)
  • Allow Ctrl+click to open new tab in back/forward lists (#727)
  • Remove process model and process count settings (Spectre mitigation)
  • Use page instead of popover for mobile tab menu (Christopher Davis)
  • Always try saved HTTP auth credentials before prompting user
  • Use WebKit's code for processing punycode and IDN
  • Add swipe gesture to keyboard shortcuts dialog
  • Update reader mode to latest readibility.js
  • libdazzle is now required as a system dependency

New in Epiphany 3.32.1.2 (Mar 25, 2019)

  • Recreate Safe Browsing database when it might be corrupted (#57)
  • Update libdazzle subproject to improve compatibility with new meson versions (#699)

New in Epiphany 3.32.0 (Mar 13, 2019)

  • Redesigned address bar dropdown with new dazzling
  • Redesigned open tabs menu, now displays tab favicons and allows closing tabs
  • Greatly improved adaptive mode support for small displays
  • Three-finger swipe touchpad gesture now available for back/forward navigation
  • Automation mode, for running WebDriver tests (useful for website developers)

New in Epiphany 3.32.0 Beta 2 (Feb 20, 2019)

  • Fix test failure when not installed (#675)
  • libhandy and libdazzle now use git submodules (#676)
  • Improve tab bar style in incognito mode (Alexander Mikhaylenko)

New in Epiphany 3.32.0 Beta (Feb 10, 2019)

  • Hide new tab button in app mode (#19)
  • Move all stored data to appropriate locations (#182, #477, Patrick Griffis)
  • Middle-click on new tab button now loads URL from clipboard (#203)
  • Animate to web app in GNOME shell overview after installing (#206)
  • Fix next/previous accelerators in right-to-left locales (#239)
  • Rename "New tab page" homepage option to "Most visited pages" (#394)
  • Animate downloads button instead of intrusively opening popover (#395)
  • New three-finger swipe gesture for back/forward navigation (#435)
  • Don't close menu when changing zoom (#462)
  • Fix zoom in internal pages (#539)
  • Fix some tests (#617)
  • Fix crash setting web app title without hostname (#618)
  • "Search the Web" -> "Search the web" (#635)
  • Tab menu is now a featureful popover (#647, Adrien Plazas)
  • Remove PDF support for now, not stable yet (#659)
  • New shortcuts for reload bypassing cache and reader mode (#661)
  • Fix crashes caused by password manager rework (Patrick Griffis)
  • Fix crash when $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP is undefined (Adrian Perez de Castro)
  • Make find toolbar adaptive (Adrien Plazas)
  • Make bookmarks import dialog adaptive (Adrien Plazas)
  • Add tab menu for narrow mode (Adrien Plazas)
  • Many CSS style improvements (Alexander Mikhaylenko)
  • Fix too-tall switch in search engines dialog (Alexander Mikhaylenko)
  • Remove process model and process count settings (Spectre mitigation)
  • New design for security popover, appropriate for small screens
  • Remove all deprecated settings and associated migrators
  • Add setting to configure hardware acceleration policy
  • Fix modified form submission warning
  • Fix opening downloads under flatpak

New in Epiphany 3.30.3 (Feb 10, 2019)

  • Fix height of new windows (#571, Jonathan Kang)
  • Add missing space to encoding dialog (#576)
  • Disallow bookmarks tags with empty names (#585)
  • Fix crash loading unexpected URLs (#590)
  • Fix remote inspector (#600, Loïc Yhuel)
  • Fix crash syncing bookmarks with Firefox Sync (#612)
  • Fix saving changes to web app icons

New in Epiphany 3.31.4 (Jan 10, 2019)

  • Add default zoom level option to preferences dialog (#8)
  • Double click on reader mode icon should not maximize window (#44)
  • Move new tab button to start of the header bar, always (#69, #447)
  • Hide Help and About when running in Pantheon (#71, #72)
  • Reenable address bar DNS prefetch (#79)
  • Add hidden setting to keep window open on Ctrl+W (#80)
  • Fix file extension when saving a View Source page (#98)
  • Add reload all tabs to tab context menu (#118)
  • Remember last upload/download directory (#133)
  • Highlight matching text in address bar dropdown (#164)
  • History dialog should respect desktop 12/24 hour clock setting (#197)
  • Add reload tab and reopen closed tab to tab context menu (#199, #226)
  • Convert all hostnames to lowercase (#230)
  • Add support for viewing PDFs using libevince (#264)
  • Add application manager to window menu (#267)
  • Fix passwords dialog expanding after deleting password (#285)
  • Hide various menu items from app mode (#309)
  • Remove MIME type restrictions (#310)
  • Remove broken bookmarks command line options (#338)
  • Reenable some tests that were broken (#341, #419, #494)
  • Open in new tab when middle clicking homepage button (#368)
  • Monitor for changes to user CSS file (#370)
  • Fix Ctrl+Shift+Page[Up,Down] (#399)
  • Remove obsolete shortcuts documentation (#407)
  • 127.0.0.1 and ::1 are now always considered secure (#410)
  • Floating status bar no longer blocks clicks (#428)
  • Add experimental support for mouse gestures (#430)
  • Allow search the web context menu item in text fields (#438)
  • Improve documentation of command line options (#440)
  • Allow more zoom levels (#492)
  • Adopt standard behavior for clicks with modifier keys pressed (#493)
  • Add preference to disable smooth scrolling (#577, Sharaz Ali)
  • Use /etc/os-release to set distributor name (#586)
  • Fix remote inspector (#600, Loïc Yhuel)
  • Alt-number tab switching can no longer be intercepted (#606)
  • Fix crash after bookmark sync (#612)
  • Add --automation-mode, for control by WebKitWebDriver
  • Use libhandy for improved narrow mode (Adrien Plazas)
  • Make history and encoding dialogs responsive
  • Don't show new fullscreen header bar for fullscreen videos
  • Move copy/search items to the top of the context menu (Jonathan Kang)

New in Epiphany 3.31.3 (Dec 18, 2018)

  • Improve padding in bookmarks view (#496, Apostol Bakalov)
  • Do not show progress bar on empty new tabs (#574)
  • Fix crash storing password on paypal.com (#575)
  • Add column spacing to encoding dialog grid (#576)
  • Fix suggestion entry not closing after Paste & Go (#581)
  • Fix suggestion entry reopening after closed with Escape (#582)
  • Tags with empty labels are no longer allowed in bookmarks (#585, Aral Balkan)
  • Fix freeze when closing window or tabs when secondary process is hung (#587)
  • Fix crash when web view has not loaded anything yet (#590)
  • Temporarily disable hardware accelerated page rendering (#595)
  • Stop lowercasing spellcheck and Accept-Langs locales
  • Locales on language selection dialog are now displayed translated
  • Locales on language selection dialog are no longer limited
  • Several miscellaneous code improvements (Thomas An)

New in Epiphany 3.31.2 (Nov 12, 2018)

  • Add preview widgets to file choosers (#552, Que Quotion)
  • Fix window height being saved incorrectly (#571, Jonathan Kang)
  • Fix crash when right clicking on tab bar (Kieran Elmes)
  • Add Close Other Tabs tab bar context menu item (Kieran Elmes)
  • Replace Move Tab Left/Right with Close Tabs to Left/Right (Kieran Elmes)
  • Fix new tab improperly opened on Ctrl+L
  • Fix URL entry accidently loading the wrong page

New in Epiphany 3.30.2 (Oct 24, 2018)

  • Fix application mode toolbar in small windows (#544, (Adrien Plazas)
  • Fix Google Search in Russian localization (Alexandr Sidorenko)
  • Fix some critical warnings caused by a mistake in the reader mode code

New in Epiphany 3.31.1 (Oct 10, 2018)

  • Add keyboard shortcut for reader mode (#526)
  • Fix too many button being available for small windows in app mode (#544, Adrien Plazas)
  • Move password management from the web process to the UI process (Patrick Griffis)
  • Fix Google Search in Russian localization and switch to google.ru (Alexandr Sidorenko)
  • Add preferences for reader mode and improve styling (Adrián Pérez de Castro)
  • New, redesigned Epiphany icon (Jakub Steiner)
  • New fancier address bar dropdown based on libdazzle
  • Removed GNOME application menu

New in Epiphany 3.30.1 (Sep 26, 2018)

  • This release is intended to fix video playback on YouTube. We believe that YouTube began requiring media source extensions to play WebM videos on Tuesday of this week, so we have enabled it.
  • You are strongly encouraged to update to WebKitGTK+ 2.22.2 and the forthcoming GStreamer 1.14.4 to minimize video playback disruptions. It's not really reliable enough to be enabled yet, but it's a whole lot better than no YouTube.
  • Enable media source extensions
  • Don't show reader mode icon on internal pages (e.g. about:incognito)
  • Add reader mode styling for elements (#46, Adrián Pérez de Castro)
  • Fix searches using a colon in the first word (#90)
  • Fix frequent crashes, and also fix address bar with multiple windows open (#519)
  • Fix crash on homedepot.com
  • Hide homepage button in app mode
  • Ensure Firefox Sync preferences web view uses Epiphany data directories

New in Epiphany 3.30.0 (Sep 10, 2018)

  • Updated translations.

New in Epiphany 3.30.0 RC (Aug 28, 2018)

  • Ensure the correct address is displayed in security popover during loads (#503)
  • Improve bookmark tag theming for non-Adwaita themes (#504, Alexander Mikhaylenko)
  • Enable smooth scrolling by default (#508)
  • Fix location entry URI normalization on cut and copy (#513)
  • Fix features that rely on web extension message handlers (Carlos Garcia Campos)
  • Fix location entry dropdown bookmark icon
  • Improve location entry icon style (Alexander Mikhaylenko)
  • Improve reader mode icon (Jakub Steiner)

New in Epiphany 3.30.0 Beta 2 (Aug 15, 2018)

  • Fix security indicator appearing improperly in reader mode (#45, Jan-Michael Brummer)

New in Epiphany 3.30.0 Beta (Jul 27, 2018)

  • Address bar now uses GtkEntry's progress support (#78, Jan-Michael Brummer)

New in Epiphany 3.29.4 (Jul 18, 2018)

  • Add responsive action bar used at small window sizes (Adrian Plazas)
  • Add web application section to preferences dialog (Carlos Garcia Campos)
  • Move progress bar into address bar (Jan-Michael Brummer)
  • Added continuous integration configuration (Jordan Petridis)

New in Epiphany 3.29.3 (Jun 20, 2018)

  • View source now displays in Epiphany instead of text editor (#738475)
  • Add experimental reader mode (#772831)
  • Web apps now again open only in new tabs (#796204)
  • Fix crash when page does not have a URI (#795740, CVE-2018-11396/CVE-2018-12016)
  • Change color of bookmarks star to orange (GitLab #27)
  • Run internal JavaScript in isolated world to block access to websites
  • Fix overview thumbnails not appearing after Ctrl+T
  • Fix broken themeing in web app mode
  • NPAPI plugins are now disabled by default
  • Remove enable plugins checkbox from preferences dialog
  • Remove about:plugins

New in Epiphany 3.28.3 (Jun 11, 2018)

  • Fix CVE-2018-11396/CVE-2018-12016 (#795740)
  • Allow Ctrl+T in app mode again due to unintended consequences (#796204)
  • Don't remember passwords when the setting is disabled (#796219)
  • Fix password manager crash on chase.com (GitLab #11)

New in Epiphany 3.29.2 (May 23, 2018)

  • Change zoom sooner (#787486)
  • Improve incognito mode with non-Adwaita themes (#783912, Adrian Perez)
  • Add hidden setting to disable autosearch (#789776)
  • Better handle webmail when signing into Firefox Sync (#794352, Gabriel Ivascu)
  • Rewrite web process extension using JavaScript (#794395, Carlos Garcia Campos)
  • Again disallow new tab action in app mode (#795007)
  • Remove problematic adblock filters (#796245)
  • Fix crashes when signing out of Firefox Sync (Gabriel Ivascu)
  • Remove New Window menu items from hamburger menu

New in Epiphany 3.29.1 (Apr 25, 2018)

  • Speculatively fix crash related to changing search engines (#783756)
  • Clarify that blocking web trackers also blocks social media buttons (#790189)
  • Never automatically open downloads, since it can't be done safely (#794681)

New in Epiphany 3.28.0 (Mar 14, 2018)

  • Fix buffer overflow in profile migrator test
  • Updated translations

New in Epiphany 3.28.0 RC (Mar 7, 2018)

  • Add middle click close support to tab bar.

New in Epiphany 3.28.0 Beta (Feb 27, 2018)

  • Improve handling of zoom (#621067, #792949, Jan-Michael Brummer)
  • Bookmark properties button is now always visible (#772268, Jan-Michael Brummer)
  • Drop gnome-desktop dependency, copying needed thumbnailer code (#778578)
  • Save snapshot thumbnails under ~/.cache/epiphany instead of global directory
  • Delete snapshot thumbnails when clearing history
  • Fix profile migrator deleting bookmarks if run multiple times (#792683)
  • Add touch support for address bar icons (#792876, Jan-Michael Brummer)
  • Save Safe Browsing data only once, not once per web app (#792929, Gabriel Ivascu)
  • Fix crash caused by unexpected Safe Browsing data (#792930, Gabriel Ivascu)
  • Fix placement of select element with multiple monitors (#792940, Jan-Michael Brummer)
  • Long press in address bar now selects the text (#793267, Jan-Michael Brummer)
  • Hopefully fix the search provider (Bjørn Lie)
  • Fix password prompt after #742573 (Exalm)

New in Epiphany 3.27.4 (Jan 21, 2018)

  • Show desktop notification when download finishes (#722142)
  • Expand tag view in bookmarks popover (#778843)
  • Fix downloading blob URLs (#788576)
  • Fix launching WhatsApp web app (#790781)
  • Add protection against IDN homograph attacks (#791168)
  • Fix error in sync migration when migrating from 3.26.2 or earlier
  • Improved logic to avoid corrupting session state

New in Epiphany 3.26.5.1 (Dec 27, 2017)

  • Correct logic to avoid corrupting session state.

New in Epiphany 3.26.3 (Nov 28, 2017)

  • Don't require gvfsd-http for downloading adblock filters (#776682)
  • Several improvements to Sync support (including #789656, #789786, #790286)
  • Make downloads work when running in flatpak (#785655)
  • Do not add bookmarks to unrelated tag view popovers (#788584)
  • Fix middle click on forward/back buttons (#790017)
  • "Search the Web for ..." context menu option now switches to new tab (#790693)

New in Epiphany 3.26.2 (Oct 29, 2017)

  • Do not show home button if home page is set to blank page (#783299)
  • Add support for remote inspector (an advanced developer tool)
  • Various flatpak-related improvements (there's much more remaining to do)
  • Add flatpak manifest

New in Epiphany 3.26.0 (Sep 13, 2017)

  • Disable Firefox Sync except in browser mode (#787412)
  • Disable emoji chooser in location entry
  • Updated translations

New in Epiphany 3.26 RC (Sep 7, 2017)

  • Rename the meson build options
  • Switch to nontransitional IDN2008
  • Many improvements to password form detection (#666326)
  • Fix crash of bookmarks popover (#780549)
  • Don't create Mobile bookmarks tag when syncing unless needed (#786590)
  • Handle invalid input from gnome-keyring (#786811)
  • Password manager should operate on security origins (#786818)
  • Adblocker must not block main resource during redirects (#787011)

New in Epiphany 3.26 Beta (Aug 9, 2017)

  • Greatly improved Firefox Sync support, enabled by default (#777631)
  • Use new custom popup menu for HTML select elements (#783408)
  • Disable homepage shortcut in web app mode (#785996)
  • Add social media and annoyance blocking to default adblock settings
  • Fix location of icon database on disk
  • Updated translations

New in Epiphany 3.24.3 (Jul 20, 2017)

  • Fix floating status bar blocking clicks (#668493)
  • Add [Shift+]Ctrl+Tab shortcuts for switching tabs (#762631)
  • Fix crash when download fails (#778653)
  • Restore address bar search for bookmarks tags (#781746)
  • Fix notifications permissions being forgotten for web apps (#782386)
  • Fix tags with no bookmarks appearing in bookmarks popover
  • Fix crash if search engine settings get desynced
  • Updated translations

New in Epiphany 3.25.3 (Jun 24, 2017)

  • Fix formatting of year in the date column of the history dialog
  • Hide tags without bookmarks in popover
  • Updated translations

New in Epiphany 3.25.2 (May 23, 2017)

  • Floating URL bar should disappear when hovered to not block page (#668493)
  • Add [Shift+]Ctrl+Tab shortcuts for switching tabs (#762631)
  • Address bar search now again considers bookmark tags (#781746)
  • Fix notification permissions in web app mode (#782386)
  • Do not use a popover for the tab selection menu, to allow scrolling it
  • Fix incorrect choice of context menu when Ctrl key is held
  • Add hidden setting for disabling quirks mode
  • Improve wording of insecure password form warning
  • Remove libgd subproject and dependency on libgd
  • Fix race introduced during meson port that could cause build failures
  • Updated translations

New in Epiphany 3.24.2 (May 8, 2017)

  • Decode last component of URIs to determine file names for saving (#780086)
  • Disable Ctrl+T in application mode (#781440)
  • Do not use a popover for the tab selection menu, to allow scrolling it
  • Add hidden setting for disabling quirks mode
  • Updated translations

New in Epiphany 3.25.1 (Apr 29, 2017)

  • Port to meson build system and removed Autotools build. Please report bugs.
  • Add explicit New Window action to desktop file (#670929)
  • Add Alt+Home and F10 shortcuts to keyboard shortcuts dialog (#779916, #779916)
  • Decode last component of URIs to determine file names for saving (#780086)
  • Fix regression allowing Ctrl+T to work in application mode (#781440)
  • Updated translations

New in Epiphany 3.24.1 (Apr 29, 2017)

  • Fix issues with add bookmark popover (#780443, #780851)
  • Fix issues with bookmark importing (#780564)
  • Use native file choosers for Flatpak compatibility (#780468)
  • Updated translations

New in Epiphany 3.24.0 (Mar 24, 2017)

  • Updated translations.

New in Epiphany 3.24.0 Beta 2 (Mar 1, 2017)

  • Add new search engine dialog and support for search engine bangs (#776738)
  • Restore keybinding Ctrl+Shift+N for opening incognito windows (#778606)
  • Fix major data loss and safety bugs in history service (#778649)
  • Use heart icon for favorite bookmarks (#778849)
  • Fix various issues affecting the new clear personal data dialog (#779100)
  • Fix many bugs affecting the bookmark list popover
  • Disable forget actions in history dialog when in incognito mode
  • Do not show add bookmarks popover star in incognito mode
  • Fix old overview snapshots not being properly replaced
  • Delete old bookmarks files during profile migration
  • Remove the default encoding preference again due to bugs
  • Fix some critical warnings

New in Epiphany 3.24.0 Beta (Feb 14, 2017)

  • Remove the integrated view source mode, not ready for stable release (#775145)
  • Fix the search provider (#775902)
  • Rearrange bookmarks app menu items (#778280)
  • Multiple fixes to the new insecure password form focused warning (#778369)
  • Fix condition where the new tab menu could get desynced from the current tabs
  • Many settings are now stored separately for each web application
  • Updated translations

New in Epiphany 3.22.6 (Feb 6, 2017)

  • Fix minor memory leak (#682723)
  • Fix serious password extraction sweep attack on password manager (#752738)
  • Fix adblocker blocking too much stuff, breaking Twitter (#777714)

New in Epiphany 3.23.5 (Feb 6, 2017)

  • Add option to subscribe to EasyPrivacy filters and enable by default (#739631)
  • Introduce new, more powerful clear personal data dialog (#741447)
  • Fix serious password extraction sweep attack on password manager (#752738)
  • Adblock filters are now configured in GSettings (#755193)
  • Restore support for having multiple adblock filters at once (#755193)
  • Fix many bugs affecting the bookmarks popover (#772131, #777615)
  • Remember fallback window size in GSettings (#777055)
  • Prefer common_name to name when reading ISO 3166 data (#774466)
  • Fix the Stop button (#777585)
  • Fix adblocker blocking too much stuff, breaking Twitter (#777714)
  • Avoid writing anything to disk in incognito mode (#777736)
  • Change keyboard shortcut for export bookmarks to Ctrl+Shift+X (#777872)
  • Fix F6 keyboard shortcut for focusing address bar (#777873)
  • Properly set initial notification permissions (#777835)
  • Add empty state to bookmarks popover, so it looks better with no bookmarks
  • Automatically delete unused adblock filters when the adblocker is enabled
  • Renamed Privacy preferences tab to Stored Data
  • Moved do not track preference to General preferences tab
  • Improve warning text when closing tab with modified form
  • Allow saving session even if a tab has a blank URL
  • Display full security origins rather than just hostnames when appropriate
  • Fix recently-introduced critical warnings when focusing password forms
  • Do not ever use session in web app or incognito mode
  • Fix off-by-one in profile migrator -d option
  • Avoid crash if profile migrator is passed invalid -d
  • Restore preference to set default encoding
  • Updated translations

New in Epiphany 3.22.5 (Jan 17, 2017)

  • Do not offer to remember empty passwords (#771073)
  • Fix tenth webpage missing in overview (regression from 3.22.4)
  • "Press key to exit fullscreen" message is now legible
  • Fix memory leak when tab is closed before permission request info bar
  • Store permissions for hosts displayed in info bar, not the current page

New in Epiphany 3.22.4 (Dec 30, 2016)

  • Fix Alt-Left/Right keyboard shortcuts (#772437)
  • Fix crash right-clicking address bar in certain locales (#772994)
  • Fix new overview item on deletion of previous item (#775604, #775612)
  • Fix adblocker sometimes not blocking ads in new tabs (#775736)
  • Do not show the lock icon in the address bar for about:blank pages

New in Epiphany 3.23.3 (Dec 13, 2016)

  • Experimental HTTPS Everywhere support is now disabled by default
  • Experimental Firefox Sync support is now disabled by default
  • Restore ability to import/export bookmarks (#772423)
  • Fixes to key event handling (#772437)
  • Fix crash in certain locales when right-clicking address bar (#772994)
  • Detect new password forms after page is loaded (#773327)
  • Fix focusing the address bar when opening new tabs (#774599)
  • Fix redirect loop caused by HTTPS Everywhere (#774925)
  • Improve Firefox Sync error handling (#774940)
  • Again handle adblock and HTTPS Everywhere in the web process (#775067)
  • Warn users about insecure password forms (#775167)
  • Distribute missing icon (#775209)
  • Fix displaying new overview item when one is removed (#775604)
  • Expose homepage setting and show a home button when enabled (#775641)
  • Remove the progress bar (#775710)
  • Hide new bookmarks button in application mode (#775760)
  • Hide lock icon when visiting about:blank
  • Handle focus stealing prevention properly when opening downloads
  • Do not run Epiphany web extension in Firefox Sync login view
  • Search provider D-Bus service name now matches GtkApplication ID
  • Remove the homepage-loads-in-new-tabs setting added in 3.23.2
  • Fix tags not being created when migrating bookmarks from 3.22
  • Fix various memory safety issues
  • Updated translations

New in Epiphany 3.23.2.1 (Nov 22, 2016)

  • Add hidden homepage settings (#702435)
  • New Window action now opens non-incognito window in incognito mode (#723185)
  • Web apps now share adblock filters with the default profile (#755379)
  • Rework key event handling to fix events received twice (#764653)
  • Restored smart bookmarks functionality removed in 3.23.1 (#772407)
  • Form detection no longer requires named password field (#773327)
  • Improve permissions request handling and support webcam/mic requests (#773447)
  • Fix infinite loop in form detection introduced in 3.23.1 (#773830)
  • Consistently use proper Unicode characters in UI (#774217)
  • Restored all the plugin functionality that had been removed in 3.23.1
  • Fix "search the web" menu item name when search contains an underscore
  • Fix "search the web" truncating search results (broken in 3.23.1)
  • Actually delete history database from disk when clearing all history
  • Revert questionable attempt to sanitize passwords from displayed URIs
  • Hide bookmark page star on about pages
  • Fix overview thumbnails sometimes appearing twice
  • Add missing F1 keyboard shortcut to open help
  • Fix bogus libhttpseverywhere warning when update lock exists
  • Fix critical warnings when displaying overview introduced in 3.23.1
  • Fix critical warnings when starting in incognito mode
  • `epiphany --incognito-mode` now uses the default profile if unspecified
  • Cleanly handle SIGINT and SIGTERM
  • Miscellaneous code safety/correctness fixes
  • Updated translations
  • Fix bookmarks migration from 3.22 (#774785)
  • Fix crash starting browser with do not track mode disabled
  • Fix miscellaneous critical warnings and memory safety issues
  • Fix miscellaneous memory leaks

New in Epiphany 3.22.2 (Nov 7, 2016)

  • Improvements to password form autofill handling (#772530)
  • Fix adblocker sometimes blocking the main resource
  • Fully delete history database when clearing history
  • Again restrict web apps to their initial domain
  • Enable Accept-Language and spellchecking for current locale by default
  • Fix overview thumbnails sometimes being duplicated
  • Added session safety check to avoid saving corrupted sessions
  • Ensure error page buttons expand to fit translations
  • Miscellaneous code safety, crasher, critical warning fixes
  • Updated translations

New in Epiphany 3.23.1.2 (Oct 29, 2016)

  • Restore enable-plugins setting, hidden and off by default.
  • Fix compatibility issue with form autofill (#772530)

New in Epiphany 3.23.1 (Oct 25, 2016)

  • Epiphany has been relicensed from GPLv2+ to GPLv3+.
  • New dependency:
  • libhttpseverywhere
  • Removed dependencies:
  • avahi-client, avahi-gobject, gdk-x11-3.0, gsettings-desktop-schemas, x11
  • Address bar is once again visible at all times, except in web app mode.
  • Redesigned user interface for bookmarks management.
  • --Support for zeroconf bookmarks has been removed. (Help welcome to restore.)
  • --Support for smart bookmarks has been temporarily removed. It will return.
  • HTTPS Everywhere support added and enabled unconditionally.
  • Support for bookmarks sync between Epiphany browsers via Firefox Sync.
  • --Epiphany uses the Firefox Sync service, which can store arbitrary data.
  • --Epiphany cannot sync with Firefox. (It would be possible. Help welcome!)
  • --Epiphany is not Firefox.
  • --Epiphany is not produced or endorsed by Mozilla.
  • --Privacy Policy: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Web/PrivacyPolicy
  • Integrated source code view returns, utilizing Prism JavaScript library.
  • Overview now shows three rows of three previews each.
  • Remember password info bar now has a "never remember" option.
  • Web apps now have a basic app menu.
  • Web apps are once again confined to their original domain.
  • Disable history lockdown setting now actually disables access to history.
  • Removed enable-plugins option. NPAPI browser plugins are no longer supported.
  • Removed hidden enable-javascript option. (Help welcome to support NoScript.)
  • Removed several old settings that no longer had any effect.
  • Removed --netbank-mode command line option. Use --incognito-mode instead.
  • Updated translations
  • Thanks to Iulian Radu (port to GAction, bookmarks subsystem rewrite), Gabriel Ivascu (sync integration), and Daniel 'grindhold' Brendle (libhttpseverywhere) for their major contributions to this release.

New in Epiphany 3.22.0 (Sep 24, 2016)

  • Updated translations.

New in Epiphany 3.22.0 Beta (Aug 30, 2016)

  • Fix memory leaks (#769228)
  • Limit geolocation/notification permission request info bars (#764593)
  • Fix mistake in tracking the remember password info bar
  • Updated translations

New in Epiphany 3.21.4 (Jul 21, 2016)

  • Check for NULL SoupURI when trying to load invalid url(#768250)
  • Fix misleading ChangeLog generation code(#768218)
  • Limit side of ChangeLog file(#768218)
  • Add keyboard shortcuts dialog(#757830)
  • Update POTFILES.in(#757830)
  • Generate ChangeLog in builddir(#768218)
  • Updated translations

New in Epiphany 3.21.3 (Jun 21, 2016)

  • Require WebKitGTK+ 2.13.1
  • Allow toggling web inspector with keyboard shortcuts (#676870)
  • Activate downloads popover only for active window (#764303)
  • Allow running system web apps outside GNOME (#767101)
  • Indicate when running in web app mode in user agent (#767123)
  • Find web app names using OpenGraph site_name in name attribute (#767184)
  • Support large standard HTML icons and SVG for web app icons (#767257)
  • Increase default webapp icon size to 192 (#767407)
  • Middle-clicking the title bar doesn't send Epiphany to the background (#767585)
  • Updated translations

New in Epiphany 3.20.2 (May 30, 2016)

  • Fix snapshots sometimes not appearing in overview (#763184)
  • Add gnome.org and webkit.org default bookmarks
  • Incognito mode theme updates and fixes
  • Updated translations

New in Epiphany 3.20.1 (Apr 9, 2016)

  • Always store passwords in web app mode (#672573)
  • Allow opening WebP files with open dialog (#739934)
  • Activate downloads popover when download is started or completed (#763141)
  • Avoid stale overview snapshots (#763184)
  • Fix security popover opening above the window in Wayland (#763921)
  • Fix session saving of multiple windows (#764101)
  • Allow closing history dialog with Escape key (#764408)
  • Updated translations

New in Epiphany 3.20 Beta 1 (Feb 16, 2016)

  • Session saving should save window/tab history and re-instate it on session restore (#119432)
  • overview: Display a placeholder image on empty overview (#683582)
  • Make new tabs inherit history of parent (#706731)
  • prefs-dialog: Expose restore-session-policy (#724583)
  • Remove encoding preference from preferences dialog (#734381)
  • Use GdTwoLinesRenderer to display the location entry completion (#736364)
  • Activate downloads popover when a download is started (#757753)
  • overview: Do not show local files on the overview (#758469)
  • web-overview: Do not drop thumbnail update requests (#758470)
  • Improvements to the encodings dialog (#759164)
  • Fixups for help files (#759279)
  • Revert "EphyUriTester: Drop keys/signatures logic" (#759501)
  • downloads: Value returned by ephy_download_get_content_type() should not be freed (#759200)
  • ephy-profile-migrator: Call setlocale and gettext functions in main function (#760417)
  • ephy-session: restore session state when restoring recently closed tabs (#760782)
  • Switch web extensions to using private D-Bus connections (#761009)
  • web-view: Add mnemonics for error page buttons (#761069)
  • location-entry: Encode URI before copy/paste (#761660)
  • embed: Ignore beforeunload events
  • Allow opening downloaded .tar.xz files
  • Take safetypes patch from Debian
  • downloads-popover: Disappear more smoothly
  • web-view: Fix security level of error pages
  • Various fixes for compatibility with GTK+ 3.20
  • Various code cleanups
  • Various improvements to the appdata file
  • Updated translations

New in Epiphany 3.18.3 (Jan 8, 2016)

  • Fixes to the adblocker (#759501)
  • Other code fixes.
  • Updated translations.

New in Epiphany 3.18.2 (Dec 17, 2015)

  • Allow notification requests in web applications (#759176)
  • Minor fixes to the about:applications page.
  • Fix a crasher (#759235)
  • Updated translations.

New in Epiphany 3.19.1 (Dec 10, 2015)

  • Enable WebGL and WebAudio by default.
  • Add a new downloads manager.
  • Properly propagate key-bindings to pages (#113449)
  • Only warn about unsubmitted changes if form has text (#668260)
  • Use x-scheme-handler to get default browser (#750275)
  • Add search to cookies dialog (#720978)
  • Add categories to web apps (#672574)
  • Many cleanups to the application dialogs (history, cookies, passwords, etc)
  • Several fixes to the ad blocker (#754954)
  • Add support for system-wide installed web applications.
  • Hide floating bar on mouseover (#742590)
  • Allow notification requests in web applications (#759176)
  • Fixes to the about:applications page.
  • Display insecure content warning on all insecure pages (#744064)
  • Fix builds, code fixes, etc.
  • Updated help and translations.

New in Epiphany 3.18.1 (Nov 24, 2015)

  • Fixes to the adblocker (#754954)
  • Properly propagate keybindings to webpages (#113449)
  • Do not warn about unsubmitted changes if the forms are empty (#668260)
  • Build fixes (#755814)
  • Updated translations.

New in Epiphany 3.18 Beta 2 (Sep 10, 2015)

  • Remember passwords for French tax office (#750024)
  • Inhibit logout and suspend while downloading files (#339809)
  • Display decoded URIs in the UI (#710004)
  • Enable Do Not Track and the ad blocker by default (#754273)
  • Several code fixes, memory leaks plugged, UI and code improvements.
  • Updated translations.

New in Epiphany 3.17.2 (Jul 23, 2015)

  • Navigation improvements to web applications.
  • Do not leak data in private instances (#751307)
  • Fix a critical crasher (#747422)
  • Theming fixes for latest Adwaita (#736363)
  • Display page titles in tabs tooltips (#752606)
  • Code fixes, build system improvements.
  • Updated translations.

New in Epiphany 3.16.3 (Jul 13, 2015)

  • Web applications fixes.
  • Fix translations in the search provider.
  • Crashers fixed (#747422, #751858)

New in Epiphany 3.17.1 (Jun 23, 2015)

  • Allow opening links in a new incognito window (#749454)
  • Add option to search selected text in user-preferred search engine (#663545)
  • Theme fixes and improvements (#728874, #746778)
  • Fix regressions in the form filler (#750842)
  • Fixes to internationalization in search provider (#737085)
  • Other code fixes and minor improvements.
  • Updated translations.

New in Epiphany 3.16.1 (May 12, 2015)

  • Improvements to the HiDPI support (#744796)
  • Updated help and translations.

New in Epiphany 3.16.0 (Mar 24, 2015)

  • Multiple fixes to improve incognito mode's privacy and discoverability.
  • Show a speaker icon in tabs playing audio.
  • New support for HTML5 Web notifications.
  • Make the URL bar visible in application mode.
  • Show network error page on TLS errors.
  • Many UI improvements, code fixes, memory leaks plugged.
  • Help updated, translations updated.

New in Epiphany 3.16.0 RC (Mar 20, 2015)

  • Make F6 focus the address entry (#729060)
  • Toggle the search bar with Ctrl+F (#734316)
  • Fix DOM-binding related crashers with some websites (#745306)
  • Other crashers fixed (#744896)
  • Build fixes (#745247)
  • Updated translations.

New in Epiphany 3.16.0 Beta 1 (Feb 25, 2015)

  • Make sure that locale changes do not lose search engine.
  • Add a new Incognito Window desktop action.
  • Allow access to the URL bar in application mode.
  • Show a speaker icon in tabs playing audio.
  • Show a network error page on TLS errors.
  • Remove unused cache size preference.
  • Handle notification permissions.
  • Fix cookies policy values.
  • Fix memory leaks, segfaults, code improvements, ui fixes.
  • Help updates, updated translations.

New in Epiphany 3.14.2 (Nov 10, 2014)

  • Open web pages source in default text editor (#738475)

New in Epiphany 3.14.1 (Oct 15, 2014)

  • Fix download failure when overwriting file (#737329)
  • Style fixes with GTK+ 3.14 (#737688)
  • Add mhtml to supported mimetypes (#737738)
  • Do not keep visited pages in incognito history.
  • Remove unused contextual-menu options from application mode (#699584)
  • Use single-process model in application mode.
  • Make sure that external links in application mode open in the default browser (#658395, #712402)
  • Updated translations

New in Epiphany 3.14.0 (Oct 4, 2014)

  • Block pages with invalid SSL certificates and warn users about mixed content, for improved security.
  • Important improvements to the security lock icon and certificates dialog.
  • Improvements to the history dialog.
  • Performance improvements to the AdBlocker.
  • Better integration with the GNOME Shell dock.
  • UI improvements all over the place, many bugs fixed, and polishing all around.
  • Updated translations and docs translations.

New in Epiphany 3.14 Beta 2 (Sep 17, 2014)

  • Fixes to the title box (#732713, #734952)
  • Fix multiple external uri loads (#735577)
  • Incognito mode message text improvements (#736065)
  • Do not accidentally empty the adblocker filters (#697329)
  • Fix integration with GNOME Shell dock (#736332)
  • Open search provider results in default browser (#720245)
  • UI cleanups, code fixes, etc.

New in Epiphany 3.14 Beta 1 (Aug 30, 2014)

  • AddBlocker: performance improvements (#730129)
  • Documentation updated and improved (#730503)
  • Allow sorting history by title and URL (#699519)
  • Clean the certificates dialog (#699519)
  • Improvements to the security lock icon (#666808)
  • Many other UI polishing and code fixes.
  • Updated translations and docs translations.

New in Epiphany 3.12.1 (May 12, 2014)

  • Fix a crasher with password forms (#723909)
  • Fix Ctrl+L when completion menu is shown (#611435)
  • Fix leak in Downlodas button.
  • Do not clear typed address on first page load (#728143)
  • Updated translations.

New in Epiphany 3.12.0 (Mar 25, 2014)

  • New title and location bar.
  • Revamped 'Most visited' homepage.
  • One process per tab model for improved stability and performance.
  • A new and simple history dialog.
  • Most dialogs brought up to GNOME 3.12 style.
  • Improved style of Incognito mode.
  • Improved style of the Downloads bar.
  • Run the gnome-shell search provider as its own, separate process.
  • Added preference setting to change the search engine.
  • Use HTTPS with the search engines by default.
  • Style cleanups to the about: pages.
  • Many, many, many bug fixes, and code improvements.
  • Updated user help manual to reflect new UI.
  • Updated translations and user help translations.

New in Epiphany 3.12 RC1 (Mar 18, 2014)

  • A few more fixes to the HTML overview (#724652, #725190)
  • Fix download on Shift+click (#725818)
  • Several code-cleanups.
  • Fix a crash when opening new windows from the application menu (#725953)
  • Fixes to the snapshot service (#725815)
  • Updated translations, user help, and user help translations.

New in Epiphany 3.12 Beta 2 (Mar 4, 2014)

  • Further improvements to the new html overview (#723950, #724697)
  • Performance optimizations to about: pages (#724862)
  • Other optimizations to tab creation.
  • Some fixes to the DoNotTrack mode (#724724)
  • Other minor code fixes.
  • User help updated for 3.12.
  • Updated translations and user help translations.

New in Epiphany 3.12 Beta 1 (Feb 27, 2014)

  • New and revamped title/location bar (#711408)
  • New and improved HTML-based overview page (#723950)
  • Fix popup windows in multiprocess mode (#724052)
  • Make the find-toolbar work again (#724230)
  • Do not spawn the profile migrator unnecessarily
  • Move the new tab button to the left of the toolbar (#724664)
  • Bump WebKitGTK+ requirements to 2.3.90
  • Many other code cleanups and fixes.
  • Updated translations.

New in Epiphany 3.11.4 (Feb 10, 2014)

  • New history window (#721415)
  • Add one-process-per-tab multiprocess suport (#723302)
  • Make sure popup windows respect window properties (#723238)
  • Use header bars in dialogs (#723803)
  • Do not open an additional empty window when started with arguments in private mode (#723022)
  • Other many code fixes.
  • Updated translations.

New in Epiphany 3.11.3 (Jan 14, 2014)

  • Add preference option to change the search engine (#709459)
  • Clean up the style of about: pages (#721288)
  • Use a custom style for the incognito mode (#696078)
  • Reset the language setting when all languages are removed from the UI (#720896)
  • Don't open downloads automatically (#675854)
  • Improved looks of the location entry (#721285)
  • Improved looks of the downloads bar (#720941)
  • Use HTTPS for DDG and Google searches by default (#707694)
  • Improve filename suggestion for downloads (#674291)
  • Remove analytics from browsed urls when using 'Do Not Track' (#720520)
  • Many other code fixes
  • Updated translations

New in Epiphany 3.11.2 (Dec 21, 2013)

  • Center and expand tabs (#709444)
  • Show a different Search bar in each tab (#710542)
  • Port the toolbar to GtkHeaderBar (#711668)
  • Do not lock when resizing history window columns (#696653)
  • Fix critical warnings and other adblocker fixes (#719405, #719399)
  • Change default charset to iso-8859-1 for greater web compatibility (#720247)
  • Improve phrasing of the save password infobar (#615742)
  • Cookies dialog revamp (#720113, #703492)
  • New passwords dialog (#720239)
  • Several dialogs cleaned up (#720098, #720113, #703825, #681552, #671424)
  • Close automatically tabs created only for downloads (#607233)
  • Move the GNOME Shell search provider to a separate binary (#711409)
  • Drag 'n Drop fixes in the URL bar (#171180)
  • Use suggested filename for images (#572819)
  • Oops screen improvements (#692336)
  • Remember mailman passwords (#671424)
  • Fix glow of Download buttons (#720531)
  • Remove all WK1 dependent code.
  • Many help fixes and updates (#711176)
  • Wayland fixes (#708955)
  • Many other code fixes.
  • Updated translations

New in Epiphany 3.10.3 (Dec 13, 2013)

  • Do not lock when resizing columns in history window (#696653)
  • Fix critical warnings (#719405)
  • Fix text encoding dialog (#703825)
  • Change default charset to iso-8859-1 for greater web compatibility (720247)
  • A few performance fixes.
  • Updated translations.

New in Epiphany 3.11.1 (Nov 22, 2013)

  • Expand the list of languages in preferences dialog (#710664)
  • Update EasyList filter rules URL for ad blocker (#710661)
  • Set default size and allow to reduced the entry (#708994
  • Detect .xz as compressed too to avoid filenames like "filename.tar(1).xz" (#711750)
  • Restore undo/redo in editable content (#698703)
  • Work again / and ' to activate the find bar (#708550)
  • Some code fixes
  • Documentation updates
  • Updated translations

New in Epiphany 3.10.2 (Nov 16, 2013)

  • Expand the list of languages in preferences dialog (#710664)
  • Update EasyList filter rules URL for ad blocker (#710661)
  • Set default size and allow to reduced the entry (#708994
  • Detect .xz as compressed too to avoid filenames like "filename.tar(1).xz" (#711750)
  • Restore undo/redo in editable content (#698703)
  • Documentation updates
  • Updated translations

New in Epiphany 3.10.1 (Oct 16, 2013)

  • test-ephy-web-view: fix test cases for autosearch
  • Added hu to HELP_LINGUAS
  • Added initial Hungarian translation
  • L10N: Updated Persian translations
  • Corrected Galician translation
  • [l10n] Updated Catalan (Valencian) translation
  • Tajik translation updated
  • ephy-find-toolbar: Work again / and ' to activate the find bar
  • Updated Traditional Chinese translation(Hong Kong and Taiwan)
  • [l10n]Updated Turkish translation
  • Updated Czech translation
  • ephy-navigation-history-action: fix missing return value
  • Updated Portuguese translation

New in Epiphany 3.10 Beta 1 (Sep 3, 2013)

  • Switch to DuckDuckGo for search results.
  • Add a search provider for the GNOME Shell (#694943)
  • Renewed toolbar style using GtkHeaderBar (#706050)
  • Renewed search bar style using GtkSearchBar (#707086)
  • Display favicons in the overview thumbnails.
  • Display a popup with available usernames in login forms (#675060)
  • Warn upon closing when there are pages with modified forms (#695642)
  • Code cleanups, removal of deprecated GTK+ API usage, and other code improvements.

New in Epiphany 3.8.2 (Aug 15, 2013)

  • Do not load crash page for unrestored pages (#699211)
  • Do not save error page titles in history.
  • Do not create page thumbnails for error pages.
  • Translation updates.

New in Epiphany 3.9.3 (Aug 15, 2013)

  • New user manual.
  • Avoid poking at remote websites on external load (#703772)
  • Many fixes to application mode.
  • Pre-fill password fields with username field updates (#699606)
  • Avoid new windows popping up in the wrong workspace (#705811)
  • Many other minor fixes and code clean-ups.

New in Epiphany 3.9.2 (May 31, 2013)

  • Remove WebKit1 support, epiphany is now WebKit2 only.
  • Fix the encoding dialog, it was broken.
  • Compile template pages as GResources (#696792)
  • Allow running a standalone instance with a custom profile (#699602)
  • Make ephy startup with Wayland
  • Lots of minor fixes

New in Epiphany 3.8.1 (Apr 29, 2013)

  • Restore zoom on load started (#693951)
  • Fix memory leaks and other small bugfixes.
  • Translation updates.

New in Epiphany 3.8.0 (Mar 26, 2013)

  • Fix encoding menu and dialog (#696548)
  • Sync reload/stop button with load state (#696301)
  • i18n updates

New in Epiphany 3.7.92 (Mar 21, 2013)

  • We now use WebKit2 by default.
  • Fix all the remaining WebKit2 feature regressions that were on track for 3.8. See bug #678610
  • Other bugfixes and cleanups.

New in Epiphany 3.7.91 (Mar 8, 2013)

  • Add a setting to control delayed tab loading on startup (#694470)
  • Port Web to libsecret for password storage (#679918)
  • New startup page for Incognito mode (#694200)
  • More missing features and bug fixes in the WebKit2 backend.
  • Other bugfixes and cleanups.

New in Epiphany 3.7.90 (Feb 22, 2013)

  • Add "undo closed tab" functionality (#128184)
  • Remove installed headers, API doc and pc files, since we don't have extensions anymore.
  • Only load pages when their tab is switched to on session restore (#675302)
  • Support notification filtering (#690996)
  • Add a New Tab button in the toolbar (#684616)
  • More bugfixes and missing functionality for the WebKit2 backend.
  • Other bugfixes and cleanups.

New in Epiphany 3.7.5 (Feb 7, 2013)

  • Remove ability to open URIs in the clipboard through middle click. This option was disabled by default since a long time ago, and broken in WK2.
  • Load and save the session asynchronously. Should make the UI more responsive! (#681782)
  • Remove spaces in Accept-Language header for compatiblity (#671652)
  • Smarter copy email address action (#688166)
  • A bunch of WebKit2 improvements. The WebKit2 version is now really close to feature-complete.
  • Other bug fixes and cleanups.

New in Epiphany 3.7.3 (Dec 27, 2012)

  • Vastly improve the icon generation for Web Applications (#657755)
  • Allow to zoom images, since this is actually supported by WebKit now
  • New design for the find bar (#689929)
  • Add an 'Incognito window' mode in the UI (#676914)
  • Support back/forward mouse buttons (#337852)
  • Improve heuristics to decide whether to open new windows or where to append new tabs when Web is invoked from other applications (#685976)
  • Add zoom controls to the gear menu (#683625)
  • Use GtkSearchEntry all over the place instead of our own version (#687744)
  • Tidy up the application menu to be more in sync with other core apps (#678962)
  • Add support for favicons in WebKit2.
  • Tons of cleanups and other bugfixes.

New in Epiphany 3.7.1 (Oct 24, 2012)

  • *NOTE* this release removes support for traditional extensions (as found in the 'epiphany-extensions' module and elsewhere). They will *not* work anymore, and won't be loaded on startup. See https://mail.gnome.org/archives/epiphany-list/2012-October/msg00006.html for a longer explanation. (#685630)
  • Adblock is now imported into the core browser, disabled by default. See Preferences->Privacy to enable it (#681657)
  • Remove JavaScript preference from the UI. Pretty much every single page the average user visits needs JavaScript, so this is a "Please break my web" preference in disguise. For those concerned about security and/or privacy the GSetting remains available. (#685393)
  • Merge the application menu in the gear menu when not running under the Shell. (#673054)
  • Do not automatically load resources we cannot handle unless they are the main resource in the page. (#683635)
  • Many other bugfixes.

New in Epiphany 3.6.1 (Oct 16, 2012)

  • Do not replace envirornment when spawning ephy-profile-migrator (#683538)
  • Merge the app menu into the gear menu when the system does not support global application menus (#673054)
  • Add F10 as accel for the gear menu (#673878)
  • Make sure windows are properly closed when using the 'Quit' option in the app menu (#679844)
  • Do not automatically download embedded objects (#683635)
  • Translation updates.

New in Epiphany 3.3.4.1 (Jan 19, 2012)

  • Remove Find Next/Previous from the super menu.
  • Remove Print Preview and Print Setup from the super menu.
  • Remove "Send link by mail..." from the super menu, move it to the document context menu.
  • Hide EphyWindow's titlebar when maximized.
  • Fix crash when updating the EphyEmbed statusbar after dispose (#668171)

New in Epiphany 3.3.2 (Nov 29, 2011)

  • Use GNetworkMonitor to monitor network changes (#664096)
  • Remove use of deprecated GTK+ APIs (#664120)
  • Fix icon in PDM's "Clear All" button (#663159)
  • Show the WebKit version in the about dialog
  • Other minor fixes

New in Epiphany 3.1.3 (Jul 27, 2011)

  • Port to GtkApplication
  • Do not use GNOME font settings as our default, just rely on more generic system config ("sans", "serif")
  • Port to GDBus
  • Assume NetworkManager is present. This is not a hard dependency since we only require it at runtime, as we use it through dbus.
  • Fix "Use picture as background" (#647604)
  • Implement a basic about:memory page with memory usage data
  • Respect gtk-keynav-wrap-around in our page-change handler
  • Fix removal of items by DnD in toolbar editor (#647265)
  • Many other cleanup and fixes

New in Epiphany 3.0.2 (May 2, 2011)

  • Fix overly zealous tab grouping.
  • Fix compiler warnings.

New in Epiphany 2.91.92 (Mar 22, 2011)

  • Fix pages opening in the wrong tab when a session has been resumed. (#625116)
  • Cleanups in autotools setup. (#609498)
  • Other bugfixes.

New in Epiphany 2.91.91 (Mar 8, 2011)

  • The downloads UI has been totally revamped. It is very similar to how Chrome works, and should fit much better in the overall GNOME 3.0 design (#618443)
  • Add a border and some padding around the floating statusbar.
  • Do a DNS prefetch on the completion items when the cursor is set over them more than a 1/4th of a second. Should speed-up page loading. (#606087)
  • Other minor bugfixes.

New in Epiphany 2.91.90 (Feb 23, 2011)

  • Port statusbar to GeditOverlay; fixes a bunch of bugs and should be more efficient.
  • Group new tabs by default when opened from another page; this obsoletes the tab-group extension.

New in Epiphany 2.91.6 (Feb 3, 2011)

  • Use libsoup's cache implementation instead of WebKit's, which has
  • been removed now.

New in Epiphany 2.91.5 (Jan 11, 2011)

  • Compilation fixes for GTK+ 2.99.0
  • Fix potential dataloss in topic selection dialog (#518727)
  • Fix color setting in location bar (#636501)

New in Epiphany 2.91.4 (Dec 21, 2010)

  • Blacklist Flash plugin, since it will just crash in our GTK+ 3.x process.
  • Use custom (and nicer) error pages (#592667)
  • Fix minimum font size setting, add custom setting for font sizes (#636761)
  • Separate migration code into another binary, makes the main ephy binary not link with NSS (#636685)
  • Fix errors properly, particularly do not clobber the global error state for errors not happening in the main frame (#623012)

New in Epiphany 2.91.3 (Nov 30, 2010)

  • Fix WebKitSoupCache size setup (#635066)
  • Fix some leaks in the GObject DOM using code.
  • Other small changes.

New in Epiphany 2.31.5 (Jul 14, 2010)

  • Changes:
  • Show All files in Save dialogs, not only "supported" ones (eg, HTML).
  • Fix epiphany .pc files to have the correct dependencies.

New in Epiphany 2.31.4 (Jun 29, 2010)

  • Port to GTK+ 3.x. GTK+ 3.x is now required to build, 2.x support is dropped.

New in Epiphany 2.31.3 (Jun 8, 2010)

  • Remove encoding breaking translations of '...' strings (#613119)
  • Fix URL entry eating up your manually entered URLs in some cases (#620129)

New in Epiphany 2.30.2 (Apr 8, 2010)

  • Correct extensions dir definition in lib/ too.