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Epiphany ​

  • Developer: The GNOME Project
  • Development Status: Renamed to GNOME Web
  • Released: 2002
  • Platforms: Linux, BSD, Haiku
  • Type: Browser
  • Rendering Engine: Gecko (through version 2.26), WebKit (since version 2.28)

Overview ​

Epiphany, now called GNOME Web, is the web browser for the GNOME desktop.

History ​

GNOME's browser used to be called Epiphany and is now called Web. Older versions can still use Epiphany/ in their user agents.

User-Agent Examples ​

FreeBSD ​
sh
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040628 Epiphany/1.2.6

Code Example ​

js
import { UAParser } from 'ua-parser-js';
import { BrowserName } from 'ua-parser-js/enums';

const parser = new UAParser();
const ua = 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040628 Epiphany/1.2.6';

const browser = parser.setUA(ua).getBrowser();

console.log(browser);
// {name: "Epiphany", version: "1.2.6", major: "1"}

console.log(browser.is(BrowserName.EPIPHANY));
// true

UAParser.js v2 is licensed under AGPLv3 or PRO licenses.