A Man and his Penguin

Because my computer is a bit old, slow, and lacking in memory, I use the GNOME Epiphany web browser instead of the standard Mozilla Firefox one that comes with Ubuntu.

After trying for the third time to get RealPlayer to actually play RealVideo files, I decided to go into Epiphany and see if the RealPlayer plugin worked any better. I didn’t have any files handy, so I went to Realguide.com.

I think I confused the computer, because Epiphany crashed. (the same page worked in Firefox - I tried it). I went back into Epiphany to look at one of my favourite web forums and it asked me if I’d like to go back to the same pages I was browsing when it last crashed.

This is a great feature that should be looked at for Firefox 2.0. I hate it when I follow a convoluted trail of links, opening several tabs along the way, only to have the browser eventually crash and me have to start again.

As Epiphany has the same rendering engine as Firefox, most of the same appealing features, and more speed; it should be the default browser for Ubuntu. Anyone else with me on this?

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