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I've just found out that the default Web Browser in GNOME, Epiphany will move to WebKit only. Since now Epiphany had an abstraction layer that allowed it to use both Gecko and WebKit as backends, but that made development very slow.

The Epiphany user interface is built on top of an abstraction layer
above the web rendering engine, enabling us to support multiple
back-ends. Currently Epiphany supports the Mozilla browser engine
(Gecko), and the WebKit engine.

  The Epiphany dependency on Gecko creates a number of problems for us.
The Gecko release cycle is very long (e.g. Gecko 1.8 was released with
Firefox 1.5 in 2005; 1.8.1 with Firefox 2.0 in 2006 and 1.9 will be
released sometime this year with Firefox 3.0), prone to delays and not
synchronised with the unvarying 6-month Gnome release cycle.
Furthermore, it and the feature work on Gecko are mostly driven by the
Firefox browser, our main competitor on the Gnome desktop. Also the
embedding API of Gecko (GtkMozEmbed) has been unmaintained and stagnant
for a long time. Finally, the current plans for "Mozilla 2.0" bring much
uncertainty to us, as well as much work to account for their proposed
big API changes.


I can't wait to have a fully featured WebKit browser running natively in Gnome. For now i will settle for Safari ran via wine

Wohoo!