firefox vs epiphany

[Mike A. Harris]

Callum Lerwick wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 05:38 +0100, David Nielsen wrote:
>> I use Epiphany, it does what I need without looking out of place, it
>> integrates nicely and it launches much faster. It lacks a few things but
>> it also leverages a lot of nice features (seemless integration with
>> GNOME, adopts theme, icons. Has more consistent translations which don't
>> break with version upgrades) and it has a powerful plugin system so we
>> can expand it in interesting ways.
> 
> Epiphany can't seem to block cookies like Galeon can. I have it set so
> it accepts session cookies, but blocks all long term cookies. This keeps
> most sites functional. From there I can easily white list sites that I
> *want* to be able to store cookies with a single click, i.e. all the
> sites I actually log in to.

I use the "Cookie Safe" plugin for Firefox for cookie management, which 
is pretty cool.  It puts a nice icon in the firefox status bar which you 
can use to easily allow cookies on a site temporily, for session, or 
permanently, or revoke it at any time at the click of a mouse button or 
so, as well as the ability to view/remove individual cookies, and 
various other useful things.  While Cookie Safe is very flexible and 
powerful, and is very easy to use mind you, the overwhelming majority of 
users out there probably never need this level of functionality - but 
then that's why it's an addon, and not built right in to firefox I 
guess. ;o)

Unsure how it adds up to what is available for Galeon or Epiphany though.


> Keeps my disk untainted by doubleclick bugs and whatnot, while not
> hurting usability on the sites I actually use. And I'm not constantly
> nagged about accepting cookies.

Yup, I use AdBlock Plus to get rid of all the ad-noise online, and also 
as a side effect for web browser stability because a lot of the 
advertising out there is flash based and causes browser crashes whenever 
flash does something bad.  With Cookie Safe, I have browser cookies 
totally disabled by default everywhere, and when I find a site that I 
actually *want* to set cookies on, I just click on the cookiesafe icon 
in the status bar, and then click on "Allow cookies from foo.com", or if 
it is a site that requires cookies, but which I don't want to just allow 
it always, I will choose "Allow cookies temporarily for foo.com", and 
when I'm done I usually go back and deny them again rather than waiting 
for session end.  It's much easier to do it right there while looking at 
the page, than it is to go into Firefox's default cookie management 
which is buried deep in the preferences dialog hierarchy.

I'm quite an anti-cookie junkie though too, and I suspect most users 
just accept them by default and aren't concerned about their privacy or 
whether they're being tracked by big evil advertising corporations, etc.

> Galeon is clearly the superior browser. I demand it be made default! I
> AM THE COMMUNITY!

Hehe.  I always liked Galeon.  It's small and cute and pretty quick.  I 
use it once in a while for some things, but it could never be my primary 
browser per se.


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