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Featured Epiphany Plugins

My two plugins – extensions – for the Epiphany web browser, Tab-Session-Management and Tab-Links, have been featured on the official Epiphany blog. Thanks Dieguito! ;-) By reading all the entries on the blog, it is quite clear that the people behind this project are very happy to be involved. I assume this is a determinant [...]

Fixed: tab-session-management.py now works with Python 2.5

This is a notice that I have updated the tab-session-management extension for Epiphany, so to make it work in environments that use Python version 2.5. This mainly involves the newest Fedora and Ubuntu distributions – at the time of writing. The plugin makes use of the cElementTree module, which has been moved into Python’s Standard [...]

Some thoughts about Epiphany extensions

Many GNOME users have not realized that the Epiphany browser, apart from the official extensions package, can be further extended by third party extensions, which haven’t made their way into the official package yet. A good place to start checking what else is available for your favourite browser is the Third Party Extensions for Epiphany [...]

Smart Bookmarks in Epiphany

Smart Bookmarks is an extension for the Epiphany browser. Admitedly, its name or description in the browser extensions panel does not help the user understand what exactly it is about. What is a smart bookmark after all?

Tab Links extension for the Epiphany browser

If your web browser of choice is Epiphany and you always wanted to copy all of the open tabs’ links to the clipboard in various formats with one click of the mouse, then this plugin might be what you were looking for…

Use Python to get the web page data in Epiphany

Sometimes, things are not that straightforward as one might think. Yesterday, I spent over two hours on the Epiphany Python Console checking almost all of the available functions in order to find a way to store the displayed page’s HTML data in a variable. Before quitting, I decided to get some help over at the [...]

Epiphany Python Console – Open New Tab

This is a quick tip about how to open new tabs with Python code in Epiphany.

Epiphany Python Console – Documentation

The availability of good and complete documentation for an API is one of the most important factors in order someone to be able to effectively use that API for application programming. Good API documentation saves time and effort. It provides all the needed information a programmer, either professional or amateur, would need in order to [...]

A Note About The Epiphany Extensions on Fedora

This is just a quick note for Fedora users who use Epiphany as their main web browser. As you have probably noticed, there is an epiphany-extensions package in Fedora-Extras. These extensions add some more functionality to Epiphany. If I recall correctly, this package does not contain all of the extensions that are available for this [...]