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restante artigoFor those that don’t know, GNOME has an official web browser, and it isn’t Firefox:
Epiphany is the official browser of GNOME.
For a while I ignored it largely because Firefox *does* work, but it’s been quite obvious for a while that Linux is an afterthought for them. Debian fixed up a lot of the more patently Windows-centric crap including the broken Extensions manager. Their reward? Mozilla’s legal department started harassing them about modifications to make it work better (at all in some places) on Linux, and rather than get into a fight, Debian renamed theirs IceWeasel. (Ubuntu still gets preferential treatment even though they have all of Debian’s modifications and some of their own.)
But after doing some benchmarks a while back comparing Firefox 3 in Ubuntu with Firefox 3 for Windows in Wine, and finding out the Windows binary was still better than the Linux native (Someone else came to the same conclusion), I decided to go shopping. What are our options?