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.
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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. By default, this will enable the EasyList list.
If this does not work, close GNOME Web, then delete your filters configuration:
rm -r ~/.config/epiphany/adblock/
and restart the application.
If more than one adblock list is required, create a file named filters.list in:
~/.config/epiphany/adblock/
and populate it with URLs in a semicolon formatted list. On next startup, the application should fetch and apply the new lists.