Web (web browser)
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GNOME Web 3.22.5 running on GNOME and
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| Original author(s) | Marco Pesenti Gritti |
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| Developer(s) | The GNOME Project |
| Initial release | 24 December 2002 |
| Stable release | 3.24.0 (21 March 2017) |
| Preview release | 3.24.0 (21 March 2017) |
| Written in | C (GTK) |
| Operating system | Linux, unix-like |
| Engine | WebKitGTK (previously Gecko) |
| Platform | GNOME |
| Available in | More than 60 languages |
| Type | Web browser |
| License | GPLv2+ |
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GNOME Web (originally called Epiphany from 2003-2012) is a free and open-source web browser for the GNOME desktop environment.
The browser was forked from Galeon, after developers' disagreements about Galeon's growing complexity. Since then Web has been developed as part of the GNOME project and uses most of GNOME's technology and settings when applicable. It is part of the GNOME Core Applications. As required by the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines (HIG), Web maintains a clean and simple graphical user interface with only a required minimum number of features exposed to users by default. The browser's functionality and configurability can be extended with official and third-party extensions.
Instead of developing a custom web browser engine Epiphany originally used the Gecko layout engine until version 2.28 and WebKitGTK+ starting with version 2.20. This approach allows the relatively small developer community to maintain a sufficient level of modern web standards support. The features of Web include reuse of GNOME configuration settings, smart bookmarks and web application integration into user desktop. Web extensions add support for ad filtering, Greasemonkey user scripts support and other smaller, yet useful, options.
GNOME Web's source code is available under the GNU General Public License from the GNOME project. The binary builds of the browser are available in the package repositories of most Linux distributions and BSD releases.
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