Configuration

Loading the clipboard url on middle-click like Mozilla

Yes. Use this command on a shell prompt:

gsettings set org.gnome.Epiphany middle-click-opens-url true

Setting the search URL for the location bar (keyword search)

For Epiphany 2.30 and later, you can change the search engine by e.g. by

gsettings set org.gnome.Epiphany keyword-search-url http://de.serchilo.net/?q=%s

Making Backspace the accelerator key for Back

This is not the default accelerator to go backward because of scenarios where this would lead to data loss. However you can change accelerator keys by enabling menu accelerator editing in the GNOME control center, then opening the Go menu, highlighting the Back item, pressing Backspace (Alt+left disappears) and Backspace again.

How to open links from external applications in a new tab

This option is currently not implemented within Epiphany, see bug #571593. However, it is possible to achieve this behavior from most Gnome applications (and many non-Gnome as well)

• From your Gnome panel, go to System > Preferences > Preferred Applications

• From the Internet tab, you can choose how your preferred browser should open new links. Choose Open link in new tab

• If one of your applications doesn't respect this option, it probably has it's own web browser setting. From your application's preferences you can set it to call epiphany --new-tab.

Epiphany features

Bookmark management

The traditional way of organizing bookmarks is too unnatural, so Epiphany organizes bookmarks by topic, which causes differences with traditional bookmarks systems:

• Bookmarks can be associated with multiple topics.
• The recommended way to access bookmarks is the bookmarks window, not the bookmarks menu. If you remember the title of the bookmark you're looking for, type the first few characters of it in the location bar, and matching bookmarks will be shown in a drop down menu.

Mouse gestures

Add mouse gestures to Epiphany through the epiphany-extensions package.

Does Epiphany remember the pages I was visiting before closing its last window?

Yes. If Epiphany crashes, or if you restart your GNOME session while Epiphany was open, it will offer to restore the previous state. Be aware that if you exit the application with the Close action in the File menu, or through the window manager's close window action, the state won't be saved.

Users better versed in the UNIX tools that, for some reason, need to restart Epiphany without closing their session can send Epiphany a SIGTERM with the kill command (e.g., killall epiphany, or kill pidof epiphany).