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# GNOME Web

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Web is the default web browser for GNOME. Web provides a simple and minimalist interface for accessing the internet. Whilst it is developed primarily for GNOME, Web works acceptably in other desktop environments as well.

Note: Web was known as Epiphany prior to version 3.4. The application was given new descriptive names, one for each supported language. The name 'Epiphany' is still used in numerous places such as the executable name, some package names, some desktop entries, and some GSettings schemas.

## Installation

Web can be installed by installing the epiphany package from the official repositories. If you want to save login passwords, install gnome-keyring.

## Configuration

### Flash

See Flash#Flash_Player.

### Web Apps

Since version 3.0, Web can add web app launchers to GNOME Shell. To manage and remove them, navigate to `about:applications` in Web.

## Troubleshooting

### Pixelated fonts

Some websites such as github.com tend to use a bitmap font from X11, named `Clean`. To disable bitmap fonts, run:

    # ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/

### Font hinting

Web does not respect GNOME hinting settings, but respects Fontconfig one. Check Font configuration for further instructions.

### Blocking advertisements

You can enable filtering by unchecking "Allow advertisements" in application preferences.

If this does not work, close GNOME Web, then delete your filters configuration:

    rm -r ~/.config/epiphany/adblock/

On next startup, application should fetch and apply new filter configuration.

## See also

- Apps/Web - GNOME Wiki!

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