Epiphany and Chromium browsers won't start

[Jimbo]

As I'm getting tired of what Opera (my preferred browser for 12 yrs) won't do (print properly, display images properly, etc), I'm looking at other browser options.  I've installed Epiphany and Chromium on my fully up to date KDE system, but when I try to start them from the Application Launcher, the icons just jump up and down, then vanish, and that's it.  Any idea what the problem may be?
Thanks.

[RobNJ]

No clue on epiphany. However, there's been talk of some chromium troubles, leading to the addition of google chrome is  to the repos, which IS working well.

[agmg]

Try launching those browsers from terminal and look for error messages.

Epiphany works fine on one of my test KDE installations... Did you also install its extensions package?

As RobNJ wrote, Chromium has not been updated for quite some time.
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,113395.0.html

You should wait for google-chrome to appear on the repos.

[menotu]

If you can't pin down the problem after doing what agmg suggests (launching those browsers from terminal and look for error messages) you may want to consider having a look at the Arora and/or Midori browsers as they are both "lightweight" and fairly nippy.

Arora is described in Synaptic as:

Cross Platform WebKit Browser
Arora is a simple cross platform web browser. Currently Arora is a very basic browser whose feature list includes things like "History" and "Bookmarks".

Midori is described in Synaptic as:

Web browser based on WebKitGtk
Midori is a lightweight GTK+ 2 web browser based on WebKitGtk. It features tabs, windows and session management, bookmarks stored with XBEL, searchbox based on OpenSearch, and user scripts support.

[Jimbo]

Thank you both for your comments.  Since I installed Gnome, Epiphany starts ok in Gnome and LXDE, but still doesn't start in KDE.  Chromium is not worth fiddling with, it seems.  Arora and Midori both look good, but I really miss tab stacking, which you have in Opera.
Oh well.