Developper blog
I updated my Debian lenny today and therefore, updated epiphany from 2.26 to 2.28. After only a few hours using this new version, I can observe three main flaws that reduced drastically my user experience.
First, a switch from Gecko to Webkit: I can't read any Flash video anymore. Please, don't argue that it is the fault of Adobe. It is also the responsability of Epiphany to ensure that the user experience is not reduce accross versions. It seems that I must use an other browser to watch video.
The second major flaw of this upgrade is that the <select> widget inside HTML pages are not rendered properly: no arrow and with a very small height. You barely can identify those boxes and sometimes wonder what those fields represents.
The third flaw is that often (but, very often) Epiphany answers that the page is not loadable even if it is. Open a different browser and you can navigate through the website, but not with Epiphany. It also happen on famous website like Google, so I do not think it is due to the network latency.
I understand that a switch of rendering engine may cause regression but I wonder if those regression does not hide the benefits of Webkit in Epiphany. Hope that those flaws will be fixed as soon as possible but I doubt...