Gritti ended his work on Epiphany and a GNOME team led by Xan Lopez, Christian Persch and Jean-FranГ§ois Rameau now direct the project. Galeon development stalled and the developers decided to work on extensions to bring Galeon's advanced features to Epiphany. Galeon continued after the fork, but lost momentum due to the remaining developers' failure to keep up with changes in the Mozilla platform. For example: Making people happy that don't have control center installed is not a good reason to have mime configuration in Epiphany itself. If someone will like to use it anyway, it's just a plus. We don't aim to make Epiphany usable outside Gnome. The Unix philosophy is to design small tools that do one thing, and do it well.Д®piphany's main goal is to be integrated with the gnome desktop. Epiphany addresses simplicity with a small browser designed for the web-not mail, newsgroups, file management, instant messaging or coffee making. We believe the commonly used browsers of today are too big, buggy, and bloated. Keep in mind that simple does not necessarily mean less powerful. Furthermore, on slower processors even trivial tasks such as pulling down a menu is less than responsive.Д®piphany aims to utilize the simplest interface possible for a browser. While Mozilla has an excellent rendering engine, its default XUL-based interface is considered to be overcrowded and bloated. As such, Epiphany used the global GNOME theme and other settings from inception. He intended Epiphany to comply with the GNOME HIG. As a result, Gritti created a new browser based on Galeon, with most of the non-critical features removed. As Galeon was oriented towards power users, most developers disapproved. ДЄround the same time, the GNOME project adopted a set of human interface guidelines, which promoted simplification of user interfaces.

While Gritti regarded Galeon's monolithic design and the number of user-configurable features as factors limiting Galeon's maintainability and usability, the rest of the Galeon developers wanted to add more features.

The fork occurred because of the disagreement between Gritti and the rest of Galeon developers about new features. Marco Pesenti Gritti, the initiator of Galeon, originally developed Epiphany in 2002 as a fork of Galeon.

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