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Epiphany Manual &manrevision; 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 Introduction &fr; is a GNOME web browser based on the mozilla rendering engine. &fr; aims to be simple to use and standards compliant. Getting Started To Open a Browser Window You can open a browser window in the following ways: Applications menu Choose Internet Web Browser . Command line Type epiphany, then press Return. To Open the Bookmarks Window 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 Browser windows enable you to browse between web pages. shows a browser window displaying the home page.
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. Browser Window Components 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. Browsing the Web Using the Address Entry Using the Toolbar Using the Bookmarks Bar Using Fullscreen Mode To Open a New Window To open a new window, choose File New Window . To Open a New Tab 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 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 Open a Link To Open a Link in a New window To Open a Link in a New Tab To Download a Link To Bookmark a Link To Bookmark a Page To Save a Page To Print a Page To Search for Text in a Page To Change the Zoom Factor 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 . To View the Source of a Page To Switch in Between Tabs To Move Tabs Managing Your Bookmarks Overview of the Epiphany Bookmarks System To Create a New Bookmark To Select Bookmarks To Open a Bookmark in a New Window or Tab To Create a New Topic To Add a Bookmark to a Topic To Remove a Bookmark From a Topic To Rename a Bookmark or Topic To Delete a Bookmark or Topic To Edit a Bookmark's Properties To Search Your Bookmarks To Copy the Address of a Bookmark To Add a Bookmark or Topic to the Bookmarks Bar To Remove a Bookmark or Topic From the Bookmarks Bar Smart Bookmarks Managing Your History Link Overview of the Epiphany History System To Select History Links To Open a History Link in a New Window or Tab To Delete a History Link To Search Your History Links To Copy the Address of a History Link To Bookmark a History Link Managing Your Passwords and Cookies Using the Download Manager Customizing &fr; Setting Your Preferences To Show and Hide Browser Window Components 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. To Edit Your Toolbars About &fr; &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.