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Watching Netflix on 0.4 Loki
Netflix's Linux support is limited to Chrome and Firefox. To watch Netflix, you could:
Install Chrome
Install Firefox from the AppCenter
Netflix now supports Firefox on Linux!
Install the chromium-...
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How to revert back to older elementary package?
Use apt-get install «pkg»=«version».
That should downgrade your application.
You'll also need to hold the package from updates with sudo apt-mark hold package_name
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Where do I find find web apps' .desktop files?
You will find your .desktop files under ~/.local/share/applications/
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Youtube homepage doesn't work
This should already be fixed now, but for the record, this was a YouTube bug that was triggered by a WebKit user agent quirk designed to make the old YouTube website work better. See https://bugs....
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Epiphany not blocking adverts
Answer pulled from here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/470040/how-to-customize-or-debug-ad-blocking-on-gnome-web-epiphany-browser
Gnome-web blocks ads on the basis of the URI of the element. The ...
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How can I turn off hardware acceleration in epiphany?
Hardware acceleration can be disabled by setting an environment variable. Run it from the terminal like this:
$ WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 epiphany
See https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/...
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How can I uninstall a site that was installed as a Web Application?
It’s a bit hidden, but you can remove added web apps in Epiphany itself. In the location entry at the top, type about:applications and hit Enter. You should see a screen like this. Find the installed ...
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Highlight text on single click - epiphany address bar
Click on the favicon next to the address (not the favicon on the tab).
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Epiphany doubled capital letters
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=764653
I think this should answer most questions.
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Epiphany "Oops! Unable to display this website."
The "Oops! Unable to display this website" message occurs when the WebKit process displaying the webpage crashes. (This happens in a secondary process to ensure the main Epiphany process does not ...
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Can the Loki version of Epiphany browser be installed in Freya?
Probably not because epiphany in Loki uses gtk3.18. Freya uses 3.14. I've run into that issue with a couple of other programs.
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How can I update the Epiphany browser flash player?
Close your browsers and remove your flash installation
sudo apt purge --remove flashplugin-installer adobe-flashplugin
sudo apt autoremove
Now install pepperflash-plugin for Chromium and Firefox (...
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Epiphany or Gnome Brower not displaying search results on late 2016 Macbook Pro running in virtual machine through Parallel Desktop Lite
This was previously reported at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1480554
Parallels is probably missing some OpenGL extension expected by WebKit. If you want to debug this further, you're ...
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Solution to make all videos properly work in Epyphany
I suspect the other videos require the media source extensions API (MSE) in order for you to receive high-quality videos. WebKitGTK+, the web engine powering Epiphany, requires GStreamer 1.14.4 to ...
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How to allow ads in some websites with Epiphany?
As of Epiphany 3.32 (maybe some earlier post-3.24 versions), you can edit the list of filter files using dconf-editor or gsettings
So, you should (haven't tested) be able to define a filter file with ...
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How to allow ads in some websites with Epiphany?
This has been requested several times, but unfortunately it's not currently possible. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/issues/268 has been reported to add this functionality.
May 2019 edit: ...
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Where can I report bugs to elementary patches of Epiphany?
Check here, I understood what you need but I really don't know if that is the place you are looking for. Either way they should help you better
https://github.com/elementary/os-patches/issues
Good ...
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Videos not playing correctly with Epiphany
Looks like a hardware-specific issue, probably related to graphics drivers. I've seen several complaints about this, but nobody has reported a bug yet, and developers won't investigate without a bug ...
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Video and other multimedia locks up and crashes Epiphany browser
If it's crashing, then you should file a bug report with a quality backtrace so it can be investigated. Crash reports are much appreciated as long as they contain a good backtrace. Nobody can assist ...
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How to find Webkit version in Epiphany
So one of the developers showed me this simple way - just enter this to the address bar:
about:
And behold your Epiphany and Webkit versions :)
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Does Epiphany/Web support profiles, and if so, where should they be stored?
edit: Figured it out myself, the solution is to go into System Settings→Applications→Permissions and give Gnome Web access to Home & System folders! Leaving this here in case anyone else has this ...
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How do I create webapps in elementaryOS?
It's no longer supported since Elementary switched from a system Epiphany to a flatpak version of Epiphany, which has never supported web apps. Sorry.
There is good news: there is some work in ...
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Epiphany keyboard shortcuts
It's a bug in elementary's patch to remove the app menu. Here is the bug report.
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Epiphany does not start (seg fault)
There's no way to debug a crash without a stack trace, so you should first get a stack trace for the crash, with debug symbols for every frame in the trace. Once you have a stack trace, you can report ...
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Where can I report bugs to elementary patches of Epiphany?
Thanks for the answers, they were quite helpful. I'm adding another one that I just found, in case somebody else is looking for it too (e.g. future me):
GNOME Gitlab
There is a elementary OS tag in ...
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Why Epiphany over Firefox?
Epiphany feels very slow compared to Firefox, even YouTube videos don't run smoothly on Epiphany(at least in my pc). The only downside to using Firefox was the UI design. By default, Firefox doesn't ...
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Why Epiphany over Firefox?
I always found Firefox to be unreasonably slow and resource demanding for basic web surfing: right now, it is using ten times the memory that Epiphany uses (I am looking at the system monitor with ...
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Where do I find find web apps' .desktop files?
You can delete Epiphany webapps completely from the browser, in the about:applications page. They also create a browser profile directory in ~/.config/epiphany in addition to the .desktop file, if you ...
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