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@jeang3nie@social.linux.pizza

2026-02-22 17:07 UTC

I've started dogfooding this browser as I work on it now that I've got downloads working. I'm not going to say it's all that nice yet because it really feels unfinished, but it covers what I need it to do for personal use and for my online classes already. I'm also loving that I can hide every bit of the interface and just control it via keyboard shortcuts. Ctrl/g pops up and focuses the address bar so I can just hit that keycombo and start typing where I want to go. The huge space taken by interface has been my biggest complaint about most browsers for a long time so that's already an improvement for my needs. I don't think most browser devs realize how many people are using small, low resolution screens. The space issue gets really exacerbated when you're using an online application that has toolbars of its own, and you just want to see more of your work instead of the controls that you're not planning to touch in the next hour or so. Firefox at least let's you move the tabs to the side, but Epiphany won't let you customize the interface at all. My only real problem right now is some sites definitely use up all of the available ram and everything gets slow. My guess is that the JavascriptCore engine that ships with WebKit is the part that plays behind what you get with Chrome or Firefox a lot more than the page rendering does. It's not a problem that I can fix in any event.

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