GNOME's Epiphany Web Browser Enables Firefox Sync by Default for GNOME 3.26 Beta

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

The first Beta release of the upcoming GNOME 3.26 desktop environment is upon us, currently scheduled to land today, August 9, 2017, but most probably will be delayed a day or two as not all components have been released.

During the first days of this week, the GNOME devs were pretty busy updating their apps and libraries for the GNOME 3.26 Beta release, and the maintainers of the Epiphany web browser already published the source tarball of Epiphany 3.26 Beta to enabled Firefox Sync by default.

The maintainers did a great job on improving Firefox Sync in this first Beta build of Epiphany 3.26 (technical version number 3.25.90), and they’ve also managed to implement a new custom pop-up menu for HTML select elements, as well as to add social media and annoyance blocking to built-in adblock functionality.

Homepage shortcut now disabled in Web App mode

Besides various under-the-hood improvements and updated translations, the Epiphany 3.26 Beta releas… (read more)

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