It could be interesting to add a way to reload the current page in a completely new session, i.e. to remove all cookies and everything. Could be behind Shift+Ctrl+R or something else.

Need it for CI and AppCenter

Many GNOME apps have already done this during the development of the Purism Librem phone. So has Epiphany. Since Ephemeral is inspired by Firefox Focus, it would be wonderful to get mobile ready!

The code is hosted at Purism:
https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/libhandy

Here you can find some additional links by Adrien Plazas:
https://bytesgnomeschozo.blogspot.com/2018/10/librem-5-gnome-332.html

Since external apps might not respect privacy

Just a small convenience since you can already middle-click the icon in the dock for a new window.

Currently Firefox Focus give 4 Options for cookies.

• Yes
• Block 3rd Party cookies only
• Block 3rd Party tracker cookies only
• No

i.e. appstream://com.github.cassidyjames.ephemeral

I did something dumb there

Hey Cassidy, hope all is well. is the plan to only offer this in the elementary op-center? Or is there a PPA that other Ubuntu can leverage? I would love to add this to our browser ballot in the Ubuntu Budgie welcome app. Once it is ready for primetime that is. Once answered, feel free to close this issue.

As discussed in #4. Right now Ephemeral lets you open the page in your default browser, but eventually I'd like to support a case where Ephemeral itself can be set as your default browser. In that case, it will need to:

1. Get a list of possible browsers
2. Allow the user to select one to open in
3. Remember which one was selected last time to use next time
4. Still allow the user to choose a different browser

The app is great! I really would like to come back to a more lightweight, private WebKitGTK based browser instead of the resource-heavy firefox, however, one biggest drawbacks for me is the lacking of spoofing the user agent header, as that would make fingerprinting easier.

Artem Anufrij seems to have accomplished spoofing the user agent header in WebKit, potentially enabling the use of WhatsappWeb on Webpin (Issue)

Websites that use the default webkit controls typically don't look good inheriting the dark controls

The best experience is when Ephemeral is the default browser, and privacy becomes a habit by default. As such, on start Ephemeral should check if it's the default and offer setting itself as such. It should probably be dismissable both one-time and forever.

Should solve #5 first/at the same time to avoid weirdness

Currently the search engine is automatically DuckDuckGo, right? I don't know where they have their servers, but maybe it would be nice if it would be possible to add my own search engines and also be able to remove unpopular ones. E.g. Searx (which I can also host myself) or Startpage, which have at least server locations in Europe.

One aspect of Focus is that it offers to block trackers, much like Ghostery or Privacy Badger. I should look at some sort of similar tracking blocking for Ephemeral.

Ctrl+O? Or is that too confusing?

What it says on the tin. Need to add PO files and make the build system aware of them.

As @TingPing pointed out, this doesn't really make sense or work as intended

Ctrl+R, F5

Maybe Ctrl+E if that's not commonly used for something else?

Focus the address bar

Open the URI in Epiphany

Reset the state of the app

Requested by @ryanleesipes. Logging here for posterity.

I think when web pages are doing dynamic loading and updating the URL themselves

Need to move from valac to meson

Someone's gonna want a way to do it eventually.

For opening links in a new window

https://github.com/servo/servo

First of all it is much more speed!
And like Firefox Focus!

Probably related to #5 but since that was solved in another way I thought I'd suggest it in a new issue.

I really like the idea of using this as a default browser and opening the page in another browser from Ephemeral if I need to - but I don't think that just listing all the installed browsers is the best solution here.

For example, I have a few browsers on my system - I mainly use Chromium but some pages lag there so I use Firefox for them. But if I want to open a page from Ephemeral, I only use Chromium - having to click on the export icon and then selecting a browser is unnecessary and - especially if you are using a trackpad - might be much slower than just clicking the icon.

I would personally prefer something like this, showing the last-used browser:

This would allow both - showing a menu of all the browsers installed on the system as well as offering to just click an icon to open another browser. It would also look much more similar compared to when you have only one browser installed imo :)

I don't think there's a widget for this in GTK yet, but I guess using a Gtk.Box and embedding something like a Gtk.MenuButton would work in this case.

With reference to #6
This doesn't have to be a classical tab system. It would even be very nice if the tab system could be broken up by intelligent solutions. There are certainly creative solutions for that ;)

My concerns are that in the current version of Ephemeral I can only solve this with multiple open windows. But I really like it when not so many app windows are open. This also creates a certain peace of mind at work.

This can be shown as a Sub-Sub heading in the redesign #35 . Would also put a stop to claims of false advertising.

I can't watch any live streams on Twitch (Error Code 6000) or 1080p videos on YouTube. Missing "Media Source Extensions" and "MSE & WebM VP9".

i.e. alt left/right

Ctrl+F and maybe a context item?

I've just compiled ephemeral on FreeBSD 11.1 x64 and I can confirm that it works correctly (besides WebKit bug on FreeBSD https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=229491, so WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 is needed).
There is a small problem though, not FreeBSD related.
I use Enlightenment DE with a custom theme - windows title buttons are at the left side. Ephemeral disables the window decoration and put window control buttons on the right side. So the question is - can I restore window decoration, provided by my WM or move Ephemeral-provided buttons on the left side?

Demo url: https://www.w3schools.com/js/tryit.asp?filename=tryjs_prompt
This issue also affects epiphany. There might be a way to override them. If not I would file an upstream issue.

Instead of loading DDG, I should probably use a welcome screen of some sort. This will be handy for implementing #2 as well, as instead of closing the window, I can just go back to this page/state.

Right now these links just don't do anything. Instead, Ephemeral should probably either open them in a new window or implement a tab system.

Apparently I'm in the habit of using those, as not having them has been surprisingly annoying.

WebKit supports smooth scrolling on non-touch inputs (like mouse wheel and key presses). I should turn that on in Ephemeral.

Seems to be a common enough pattern to implement, especially if #7 is implemented without a search bar.

Could go with the Epiphany master route and use the progress behind the URL entry, or could add a spinner somewhere.

Display a welcome/error view that links to System Settings → Network

It'd be handy to be able to open a new window, i.e. with Ctrl+N