epiphany-browser

[nitram]

In dCore-jessie  epiphany-browser  appears to require loading  gnome-icon-theme-symbolic  for proper function. The interface is new-age icons, barely usable without proper icons. On my old hardware anyway the browser is very unstable with lots of 'Ooops something went wrong' messages when loading web pages. For whatever reason, some increased stability noted when setting Bing as default search engine. The terminal still spits out lots of error messages though. If someone has an SSE2 equipped processor and wants to test in dCore-jessie that may aid in stability troubleshooting. Regardless, the proper icon dependency will at least get any future users one step closer to making this a functional browser in dCore. Thanks.

[nitram]

As per Message #89:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=783293

Entered  export JavaScriptCoreUseJIT=0  into terminal, restarted epiphany-browser and appears to be working normally. During yesterday's testing could barely load a web page or two before the 'Ooops error message'. Will continue to play around with this, as several other browsers, such as surf, were also problematic for me. If anything more definitive i will submit READMEs and/or update wiki for specific browsers, as other *Core users also likely use older hardware. Thanks.

[Juanito]

epiphany works fine for me in corepure64 with an intel i7

Does it need adwaita as the gtk default and adwaita-icon-themes maybe?

[nitram]

Hi Juanito. Based on your input double-checked, adwaita-icon-theme installed by default during the import. Based on that i deleted all relevant cache and configs, rebooted and icons automagically loaded. Thanks.

Still got frequent 'Oops' error messages browsing even with the JavaScript JIT tweak noted above. Installed dCore-jessie on a newer system. Primary differences newer system has SSE2, 1.8Ghz vs 800MHz and runs Nvidia instead of Intel. Low and behold epiphany-browser runs okay on the newer hardware. Terminal spits out messages but actual browsing okay, no crashes or 'Oops' messages.

My conclusion is old hardware (ie. non-SSE2) is no longer supported by either the Gnome project in general or epiphany-browser specifically. Only thing worth mentioning is ca-certificates was not installed during the import, could this be added as a dependency please Jason. I will make a wiki note that epiphany-browser is not suitable for older hardware but otherwise runs okay. Thanks.

[Jason W]

ca-certificates added as a dep of epiphany-browser.