10 Facts About GNOME Web

1.

GNOME Web is a free and open-source web browser based on the GTK port of Apple's WebKit rendering engine, called WebKitGTK.

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GNOME Web is the default web browser on elementary OS and Bodhi Linux version 5.

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3.

GNOME Web was originally named "Epiphany", but was rebranded in 2012 as part of GNOME 3.

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4.

Around the same time, the GNOME Web project adopted a set of human interface guidelines, which promoted simplification of user interfaces.

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5.

Gritti ended his work on Epiphany and a GNOME Web team led by Xan Lopez, Christian Persch and Jean-Francois Rameau now direct the project.

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6.

Developers of GNOME Web maintain a complete and accurate changelog in its official repository that shows complete and detailed changes between all the releases, following table just shows arbitrarily mentioned some notable and important changes:.

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7.

GNOME Web found that the switch saved approximately 80 MiB of RAM per browser tab.

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8.

GNOME Web further explained that web compatibility requires that sites believe that Web is a major browser.

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9.

GNOME Web once supported extensions and a package was maintained containing the official ones.

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10.

GNOME Web stated, "When you check your email, you're using a web app.

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