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Firefox chapter ready to review

I've finished the Firefox chapter (in Catalan) of the book I'm writing these days. You have 24h to review it and suggest changes before it falls in the designer's hands.

It's been months since I decided to leave Firefox to give a serious try to Epiphany. I'm happy with the change. Since I wasn't using extensions, nor abusing theming, I am not missing most of the extra features I could get with Firefox. However, there are 2 + 1 things I do miss:

  • The Mycroft search engine plugins, I used them all the time to quickly check word definitions, spelling and translations. Now I have to go to the web pages to perform such searches, I feel lazy, I don't do it, my writing suffers (bug 329652).
  • The Firefox feature to have multiple starting pages, not just one (bug 335331).
  • Also, since one of the advantages of using Epiphany should be a better integration with the GNOME desktop, I thought it would be simple to add real-time spell-checking à la Gedit while writing web forms, but I was wrong (bug 121711).

But hey, here I am, still working happily with Epiphany and thinking it's worth to invest time to it. And don't get me wrong: Firefox is doing great as the top hype free software tool, a lighthouse for new users joining the cool side of software. But Epiphany looks more like what I need.

Thank you to both development teams and all the contributors!

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