The & things are from firefox (you can see that it asks if "Firefox" should save your password, not Epiphany). These are small issues that don't affect the functionality. The problem is known upstream at mozilla and until a patch appears in bugzilla, it won't get fixed or isn't fixable. upstream bugzilla ID: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=319901

About the testing stuff: yes, I noticed this problem on first load of epiphany. Solution: build against firefox 1.0.7, use mozilla 1.7... but this would downgrade functionality of firefox and/or epiphany, which is a no-go. Another thing on testing: nobody seems to use it or reports bugs in it. Epiphany and Firefox in the current state have been in testing as long as 1.5 was released, nobody complained (except about the slow font rendering using pango), so after you complained that it takes too long to get these in, I moved them to current/extra (hey, it worked for me, no bugs reported, etc). Looking at the -3 revision we have of firefox now, I guess nobody tests or reports bugs when something hits testing. The -2 and -3 revisions were made while firefox was in current. I could stuff such a package for a year into testing, but at the moment I move it to current, people report bugs for it, no matter what.

It looks like mozilla doesn't support building against firefox gtkmozembed (why do you provide it then...), but XULRunner 1.8 should be released together with firefox 1.5.0.1. If all works well with XULRunner, we'll jump on it and build all our applications that require gtkmozembed against XULRunner: this way you're not forced to have 2 browsers on your system when running epiphany/galeon, neither do we have the huge API instabilities between various firefox releases :)

I will put XULRunner and Epiphany 1.8.5(prerelease though) in the repositories tomorrow, solving the bad "Do you want Firefox to save the password" and the bad & signs in it. This will cause epiphany to be a standalone browser instead of one that depends on firefox. Doing so, it will also move from the gnome-extra group to the gnome group, as it is a good candidate for our default gnome browser.

About the ugly font selection: this bug is a feature from GTK. Please look at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129463 if you want to have these things fixed, it's not epiphany's problem.

There is a patch for it, so it would be nice if it's included.