Re: What is Epiphany's role now?

[Christopher Aillon <caillon redhat com>]

Murray Cumming wrote:
> Unfortunately, I think we have lost the battle to get Epiphany installed
> as the default browser on popular Linux distributions. The Firefox brand
> was just something that they couldn't do without.
>
> So, how do the Epiphany developers see their role now? Is Epiphany now
> just a way to show what Firefox should do, or are you motivated by the
> needs of the few users who do use it, via the few distros that default
> to it?
>
> Personally, I think it's time instead to fix Firefox as much as
> possible, as difficult as that is.

Epiphany has been ousted by Firefox in distros.  Yet so has Firefox, in 
a manner of speaking.  The Mozilla Corporation produces binaries, but 
they go unused as distros ship their own binaries, and our install base 
far outnumbers theirs.

So, as a result of this, Firefox has now extended to the Linux community 
an olive branch, or a carrot so to speak.  We now have a very strong say 
in what goes into the linux versions of Firefox.  But we do need 
manpower as there is a lot of work to be done.  While I am not going to 
tell anyone to give up on Epiphany and move to Firefox, I very strongly 
believe that the changes people want for integration with Firefox will 
get into Firefox if people do the work.

I have been personally involved with the Mozilla Corporation and have 
been making headway in this field.  I'll be giving a presentation on 
this topic at the upcoming Red Hat Summit in San Diego in May.  I 
encourage anyone who is sincerely interested in this to do so.  I'll be 
glad to review patches in upstream Firefox, or to help out in any way 
possible.