@fedora@gnome Bug report: GNOME Web cannot display emoji in the URL bar. The URL shown in the video below contains 💕.
@Mastodon Note: video cannot be uploaded due to 422 1000fps videos are not supported error when trying to upload video using standard GNOME screen recorder.]
OS: Fedora Linux 40.20240424.0 (Silverblue) x86_64
DE: GNOME 46.1 (Wayland)
"Modern" bloated news sites typically load 200 to 900 resources per #web page 🤮️ (I wish I was kidding). They are the bane of #GNOMEWeb (Epiphany), causing unpredictably slow loading and intermittent hangs in its web engine. If you are interested in helping figure out the cause, https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=251336 is the corresponding #WebKitGTK bug report for what you can see below: https://youtu.be/bfX_5xGaC8c?t=40
I cannot move it closer to the top of the screen on either of my monitors, unless I first maximize the window. When I restore it, the problem goes away.
I assume it's a problem with some shared display thing both of them use, but I haven't the faintest idea what it is or how to fix it. Relatively minor annoyance in the grand scheme of things, but it is still an annoyance.
lol, I got impatient and installed #GnomeWeb to try it out, and it works fantastic on regular web pages. Very fast and snappy. Blocks ads very well, not seeing them at all, even on news sites.
Problem is, no video whatsoever. YouTube, Twitch, the aforementioned news sites, TikTok, Twitter embeds. Nothin'.
I think there's some complicated process to fix it, but it's not immediately clear and will DEFINITELY frustrate me. Oh well, so much for that.
Anyone with recent experience with #GnomeWeb / #Epiphany browser? Is it any good for someone who doesn't want to get lost in technical stuff? And maybe isn't all that bright to start with?
Restarting your apps while the network is offline makes you realize some things are silly… like needing to click the Reload button in #web#browsers' error pages, when they very well know when the operating system is fully back online anyway.
Therefore, I filed a request for #GNOMEWeb / #Epiphany to do that for me when #GNOME / #NetworkManager signals that online connectivity has been restored: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/-/issues/2230
There is such a unique issue with Firefox's inertial scrolling on Linux that's super hard to explain.
With normal inertial scrolling you kinda "fling" the page, right? Like, a hard two finger swipe up followed by lifting your fingers off the trackpad leads the page to keep scrolling. Normally with that kind of system you can put your fingers back onto the trackpad and "catch" the page so it stops scrolling.
Firefox on Linux doesn't do that, and will only cancel the "fling" when you scroll again. So, instead of just needing to rest my fingers on the trackpad again, I need to put them on the trackpad then scroll up or down to cancel the fling. It's a really subtle issue, so I'm not exactly sure how to look it up to see if it's been reported or how to report it as an issue.
@Rusty If you're looking for a Safari-like experience on Linux, you might be pleased to hear that #GNOMEWeb (#Epiphany), by virtue of being GTK4 native, already has kinetic touchpad scrolling that stops on tap like you want it to.
@Akzel I want to love #GNOMEWeb so much, but performance is just so bad. It's not even the features. It's actually the lack of features that draws me to it.
Jokes aside, this is likely better than #GitLab's search in many respects, when you're looking for a bug globally; unfortunately #DuckDuckGo as the search provider doesn't seem to work as accurately there, you get results from other sites and "exact expressions" are not respected.
Also, I could have searched specifically for gitlab.gnome.org, but want wiki too.
Let's try to have better #browsers engines representation in the CanIUse.com website, as most #webdev#developers use it as reference to consider whether to use a particular feature or not in their website, framework or #web application.
Requesting the addition of @WebKitGTK (for #WebKitGTK based browsers like #Epiphany / #GNOMEWeb) to that website, to clearly represent the state of supported features compared to @webkit
Added a 16 GB RAM stick to my #ThinkPad T480 this morning, raising it from 8 GB to 24 GB of RAM.
Now I'll be able to safely run #Firefoxand#GNOMEWeb at the same time 😂️
@valpackett
STG has been an integral part of my daily workflow for the past 5 years, and it is a non-negotiable #productivity tool for me (I have about 70 tab groups, as I work across many long-term projects).
i use #epiphany / #gnomeWeb as a browser. i need to make a custom CSS. epiphany has a buton for that in the settings. the button is supposed to open a text editor. it does nothing. presumably because it does not know which text editor to use. because i do not have a way to set this through gnome settings or otherwise. because i do not have gnome.
Trying out GNOME Web and damn I actually really like it. It's not my primary browser or anything (at least not until WebExtension support is finished), but I'm still going to be using it quite a lot. Web's performance and design are just incredible, and the Firefox Sync support is really neat to see outside Firefox.