2003 Patanjali Somayaji 2003 David Bordoley GNOME Documentation Project &legal; Patanjali Somayaji GNOME Documentation Project

patanjali@codito.com

David Bordoley Epiphany Development Team

bordoley@msu.edu

This manual describes version &appversion; of &fr;. Epiphany epiphany Browser &fr; is a GNOME web browser based on the mozilla rendering engine. &fr; aims to be simple to use and standards compliant. You can open a browser window in the following ways: Applications menu Choose Internet Web Browser . Command line Type epiphany, then press Return. You can open the bookmarks window in the following ways: Applications menu Choose Internet Web Bookmarks . Command line Type epiphany -b, then press Return. Browser windows enable you to browse between web pages. shows a browser window displaying the home page.

A page being displayed in a browser window. Callouts: Menubar, toolbar, address entry, bookmarks bar, view pane

describes the components of a browser window. Component Description Menubar Contains menus that you use to perform tasks in a browser window. Toolbar Contains buttons that you use to perform tasks in a browser window. Address entry Drop-down combination box that you use to enter web addresses or search terms. Bookmarks bar Contains menus, buttons and text fields that you use for highspeed access to bookmarks and web searches. View pane Displays the contents of the viewed page. Statusbar Displays status information. You can also open a popup menu from browser windows. To open this popup menu right-click in a browser window. The items in this menu depend on where you right-click. For example, when you right-click on a link, you can choose items related to the link. When you right-click on the web page itself, you can choose items related to the display of the web page. To open a new window, choose File New Window . To open a new tab, choose File New Tab . The new tab will be place to the right of any existing tabs. To open a file, choose File Open... to display the Open File dialog. Select the file that you want to open, then click OK. The file is displayed in the browser window. To save a page to a file, choose File Save As . Enter a name for the file in the Save As dialog box, then click OK. To search a page for a string, perform the following steps: Choose Edit Find to display the Find dialog. Type the string that you want to find, in the Find field. Select the Case sensitive option to only find occurrences of the string that match the case of the text that you type. Select the Wrap around option to search to the end of the page and then continue the search from the beginning of the page. Click Next to search the page for the first occurrence of the string. If the string is found, the cursor is moved to the string, and the string is selected. To find the next occurrence of the string, click Next. To find the previous occurrence of the string, click Previous. To finish the search, click Close. You can use the following methods to resize the view of a page To enlarge the view of a page, choose View Zoom In . To shrink the view of a page, choose View Zoom Out . To view the page at its actual size, choose View Normal Size . You can create new bookmarks in several ways. Browser Window To bookmark the currently viewed page, choose File Bookmark Page... . To bookmark a link in the currently viewed page, right click on the link and choose Bookmark Link... . History Window To bookmark the currently selected history link, choose File Bookmark Link... . Alternatively, right-click on the history link in the history window, then choose Bookmark Link... You can select bookmarks and topics in several ways. describes how to select items in the bookmark window. Task Action Select a bookmark or topic Click on the bookmark or topic. Select a group of contiguous bookmarks Press-and-hold Shift. Click on the first bookmark in the group, then click on the last bookmark in the group. Select multiple bookmarks Press-and-hold Ctrl. Click on the bookmark that you want to select. Select all bookmarks in a topic Choose EditSelect All. To open a bookmark in a new window perform the following steps: Select the bookmark that you want to open. Choose FileOpen in New Window. Alternatively, right-click on the bookmark, then choose Open in New Window . To open a bookmark in a new tab perform the following steps: Select the bookmark that you want to open. Choose FileOpen in New Tab. Alternatively, right-click on the bookmark, then choose Open in New Tab . To rename a bookmark or Topic perform the following steps: Select the bookmark or topic that you want to rename in the bookmarks window. Choose FileRename... . Alternatively, right-click on the bookmark or topic in the view pane, then choose Rename.... The name of the bookmark or topic is selected. Type a new name for the topic or bookmark, then press Return. To delete a bookmarks or topic perform the following steps: Select the bookmark or topic that you want to delete the bookmarks window. Choose FileDelete. Alternatively, right-click on the bookmarks or topic in the bookmarks window, then choose Delete. To copy the address of a bookmark perform the following steps: Select the bookmark. Choose EditCopy Address. Alternatively, right-click on the bookmark, then choose Copy Address. You can add a bookmark or topic to the bookmarks bar in the following ways: File menu Select the bookmark or topic you wish to add, and choose File Show in Bookmarks Bar . Drag and Drop You can drag and drop bookmarks and topics from the bookmarks window onto the bookmarks bar. You can remove a bookmark or topic from the bookmarks bar in the following ways: File menu Select the bookmark or topic you wish to remove, and choose File Show in Bookmarks Bar . Toolbar Editor You can remove bookmarks and topics from the bookmarks bar using the toolbar editor as described in the section . To open a history link in a new window perform the following steps: Select the history link that you want to open. Choose FileOpen in New Window. Alternatively, right-click on the history link, then choose Open in New Window . To Open a history link in a new tab perform the following steps: Select the history link that you want to open. Choose FileOpen in New Tab. Alternatively, right-click on the history link, then choose Open in New Tab . To delete a history link perform the following steps: Select the history link that you want to delete. Choose FileDelete. Alternatively, right-click on the history link, then choose Delete. To copy the address of a history link perform the following steps: Select the history link. Choose EditCopy Address. Alternatively, right-click on the history link, then choose Copy Address. You can show and hide browser window components as follows: To hide the toolbars, choose ViewToolbars. To display the toolbar again, choose ViewToolbars again. To hide the bookmarks bar, choose ViewBookmarks Bar. To display the bookmarks bar again, choose ViewBookmarks Bar again. To hide the statusbar, choose ViewStatusbar. To display the statusbar again, choose ViewStatusbar again. &fr; was written by Marco Presenti Gritti (marco@it.gnome.org). To find more information about &fr;, please visit the Epiphany Web page. This manual was written by David Bordoley (bordoley@msu.edu) and Patanjali Somayaji (patanjali@codito.com). This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public license as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. A copy of this license can be found at this link, or in the file COPYING included with the source code of this program.