Epiphany 3.25.2 is now available for public testing

May 24, 2017 00:34 GMT  ·  By

Ahead of today's GNOME 3.25.2 desktop environment development release, the team of developers behind the Epiphany web browser have released the second milestone towards the Epiphany 3.26 stable series, due out later this year.

Epiphany 3.25.2 is here three weeks after the first milestone in the new development series targeting the upcoming GNOME 3.26 desktop environment, and it comes with a bunch of goodies that may interest some of you out there who don't want to use Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Vivaldi, or Chromium browsers.

Among the new changes implemented in Epiphany 3.25.2, we can mention new keyboard shortcuts (Shift+Tab and Ctrl+Tab) for switching tabs, support for the address bar to consider bookmark tags, better notification permissions when using the browser in Web App mode, and a new, hidden setting for disabling quirks mode.

To allow scrolling of the tab selection menu, Epiphany now no longer uses a popover. Moreover, this development release also improves the floating URL bar to automatically disappear when hovered with the mouse cursor so that it won't block the current web page, and improves the wording of the recently implemented non-secure password form warning.

Epiphany no longer depends on the libgd graphics library

Another interesting change of the Epiphany 3.25.2 release is that the dependency on libgd graphics library has been removed, along with the libgd subproject. A couple of bugs were also patched, such as build failures that could occur during Meson port and the wrong choice of context menu when holding the Ctrl key.

Several language translations have been updated in Epiphany 3.25.2, whose source tarball you can download right now from our website if you fancy compiling it on your favorite GNU/Linux distribution to get an early taste of the new features coming to Epiphany 3.26 later this year as part of the GNOME 3.26 desktop environment.

Epiphany 3.25.2 Changelog